is the second greatest hits album of Japanese singer Chara, which was released on November 11, 2000. It features material from her most commercially successful studio albums: Montage, Junior Sweet and Strange Fruits. It debuted at #2 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 200 for 12 weeks. It eventually sold a total of 520,000 copies.
Two singles were released prior to the album. , the first, was used as the theme song for the drama . This was the first time that Chara was offered to perform the theme song for a drama. was used in a Kirin commercial advertising black tea drinks. The music video and the booklet illustrations were done in collaboration with Chara's then husband, Tadanobu Asano. VIBE-NET>COM CHARA シングルのジャケ写&PVを夫浅野忠信が手掛ける 参考。
The album features all of Chara's solo singles released in the 1996-2000 period, however, it does not feature Chara's collaboration song with Yuki of the band Judy and Mary, . This single was extremely successful, selling over 200,000 units in 1999 and 2000.
A song titled Caramel Milk would later appear on Chara's forthcoming 2001 studio album, Madrigal.
Track listing
Singles DateTitlePeak positionWeeksSalesAugust 23, 2000"Tsuki to Amai Namida"12 (Oricon)558,910October 12, 2000"Taisetsu o Kizuku Mono"14 (Oricon)551,150
Japan Sales Rankings ReleaseChartPeak positionFirst week sales Sales totalChart runNovember 11, 2000Oricon Daily Albums ChartOricon Weekly Albums Chart2216,970520,00012 weeksOricon Yearly Albums Chart51
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