Why was Startin'/Born To Be and BLUEBIRD ignored for A BEST 2?
 

Was there any reason? I think I only just realised they were released before A BEST 2. I just it odd they only considered releases from evolution to Bold & Delicious/Pride, snubbing (miss)understood and Secret albums altogether.

Perhaps to make the songs included from (miss)understood and Secret exclusive to those albums and A COMPLETE. No other idea really...

Cause Secret was out just few monts before BEST and it will makes Secret sales worst to include those songs
BB & BF was out also

Actually it only left out the Secret album which will probably be in the next Best album whenever that comes out. Bold & Delicious/Pride is the last single from (m)u. Fairyland, STEP you, Heaven, and Is This Love? from (m)u is on the A Best 2 albums.

They always said it, from the date A best 2 were announced: the 2 bests include songs from I am... to (miss)understood.
Secret's songs will be in A best 3 ^^

A Best 2 includes everything she did between the singles evolution and Bold & Delicious/Pride...

All the songs u pointed were released after b&d/pride... Her next A Best will cover everything from (miss)understood album tracks to some unreleased single/album...

yup! it was mentioned that A BEST 2 will only contain songs from evolution to Bold & Delicious/Pride.

A BEST 3 is confirmed or what?

^NOT AT ALL.

You definitely would have seen something about it here if it were.

People are just talking about it... The whole 50th single thing is making people over here to overthink xD

Conspiracy theorists getting excited about nothing, not going to happen for awhile...

I hope it doesn't!!

Secret, GUILTY, NEXT LEVEL and RnRC aren't enough :/

A Best 2 covered 20 singles and 3 albums (+ memorial address)

we have 5 albums and 13 singles since it...

(miss)understood was in a best 2 too...

^Nops, A Best 2 covers only (miss)understood singles, not the album tracks (I said that 5 times today? xD)

I'm glad Secret's tracks weren't included. Don't you think people would've been like, "Hey didn't I just buy these songs twice?"

Assuming A BEST 3 were to come out at some point, at least it'll have songs that were actually well-known and popular like JEWEL and BLUE BIRD to back it up instead of, say, the likes of glitter and fated.

I was about to say WOW A BEST 2!!!! but then I remembered Black and White -.-

what makes a song "best"? she left some single songs out, and included some album tracks? something to do with fan favorites and single sales maybe?

Fan favorites and her favorites