I am still waiting for local stores to bring in... Lazy to order from online this time round...

Wow, Ballada sales like the end of the world is coming. Awesome. :) Her team really knows what they're doing, and that's just great. I'm really curious to see the final sales numbers for this album. It looks like it's gonna sell more than LOVE ENCHANTED did. :3

from Sweet magazine:

http://i.imgur.com/GH4o9cW.png

credits: Amurofocus

Does someone have/Could someone make a gif of Namie taking her earphones off, walking and looking at the camera in the new S19B pv, I just love that scene :) ?

How do the videos look on bluray? Just upconverted I assume?

Does anyone have photos of Ballada CD+BluRay version? :)

LOL I read Coquette as Croquette which is a phallic shaped snack in the Netherlands...

I LOVE THIS! :heart

Is there a ballada unboxing video or something of the sort floating aroun on the interwebs?

I love her dress in that pic!

My CD arrived <3 love the first press poster and the cover that changes!

TSUKI is literally flaw-free ugh

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...62379691_n.jpg

love this cover magazine <3

Not that I know of. Personally I'm still waiting for scans.

You can find scans for CD+DVD version here: http://socuriouscacx.blogspot.fr/201...4eme-jour.html

Can you guys help me with a few questions I have on Ballada

1.) What version of HimAWArI is on the CD? It's definitely not the "break the rules" version so I assumed it was the LOVE Enhanced version (never listened to LOVE Emhanced)

2.) Is NEVER END supposed to have that really annoyng low frequency noise in the background of it's music? I know the original on "break the rules" doesn't have that annoying noise. It sucks because that noise makes the song unlistenable to me.

^ The version is the LOVE Enhanced one, but I can hear it's remastered.

If you ask me it kinda seems like she resung a majority of this release, not really the more recent songs from the past few years but definitely sounds like a difference vocally, and musically you can definitely tell they remastered the tracks.

P.S. - Do the credits in the booklet say anything other than them being remastered?

Is that it? 5 pictures? The release didn't come with a full booklet or a photobook or anything? hm...

5 pictures is 4 more than we usually get from Namie though

Not sure if anyone posted this, but BALLADA nabbed the number 1 spot for the week, with an astounding 254,944 copies sold.

The number 2 spot (which was also a new release) sold 43,146 copies. o_O