Hamasaki Ayumi’s 12th original album, “Love songs” (released on December 22nd), sold 180,000 copies during the first week and topped the Oricon Weekly Album Chart for January 3rd.
Hamasaki also released a collaboration single, “Dream ON“, with AAA’s Urata Naoya under the name of “URATA NAOYA feat. ayumi hamasaki” on the same day, and it topped Oricon weekly single chart as well. 
Hamasaki has been on top of Oricon charts four albums in a row (total 17 albums) since “A COMPLETE ～ALL SINGLES～” (released on September 2008), and with this album, she has broken her own record for having a #1 album in 13 consecutive years since the release of her first album in 1999.
Moreover, it’s been a year and eight months since a collaboration single has topped the Oricon single chart, after the single “It’s all Love!” last accomplished the feat as a collaboration between Koda Kumi and her sister, misono.
source : tokyohive
