Best! Morning Musume 1

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Released January 31, 2001

Genre J-Pop

Format CD Album, Limited Edition DVD

Recorded 1997-2000

Label Zetima

Producer Tsunku

Morning Musume Albums Chronology

Previous: 3rd -LOVE Paradise- 3rd Album

(2000)

Next: 4th Ikimasshoi! 4th Album

(2002)

]] '''Best! Morning Musume 1''' (ベスト！モーニング娘. １) is the first "best of" compilation from the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, and was released January 31, 2001. It is currently the largest selling album of their career and sold a total of 2,259,510 copies. It contained their first eleven singles in non-chronological order (with their biggest single to date, "Love Machine", starting off the track sequence) and some other album and single favorites; it also included a new song, "Say Yeah! ~Motto Miracle Night~."

The album is the best selling Hello! Project release to date with 1,218,990 copies sold in the first week and 2,259,510 copies in total.

Track listing

 * 1) LOVE Machine (LOVEマシーン)
 * 2) Daite HOLD ON ME! (抱いてHOLD ON ME!)
 * 3) Koi no Dance Site (恋のダンスサイト)
 * 4) Summer Night Town (サマーナイトタウン)
 * 5) Happy Summer Wedding (ハッピーサマーウエディング)
 * 6) I WISH
 * 7) Ren'ai Revolution 21 (恋愛レボリューション21)
 * 8) Memory Seishun no Hikari (Memory青春の光)
 * 9) Manatsu no Kousen (真夏の光線)
 * 10) Morning Coffee (モーニングコーヒー)
 * 11) Furusato (ふるさと)
 * 12) Say Yeah! ~Motto Miracle Night~ (Say Yeah! ～もっとミラクルナイト～)
 * 13) DANCE Suru no da! (DANCE するのだ!)
 * 14) Never Forget
 * 15) Ai no Tane (愛の種)

Members on this release

 * 1st gen: Iida Kaori, Nakazawa Yuko, Abe Natsumi, Fukuda Asuka (uncredited), Ishiguro Aya (uncredited)
 * 2nd gen: Yaguchi Mari, Ichii Sayaka (uncredited), Yasuda Kei
 * 3rd gen: Goto Maki
 * 4th gen (Debut Album): Ishikawa Rika, Yoshizawa Hitomi, Kago Ai, Tsuji Nozomi

Concert Performances

 * 1) Say Yeah! ~Motto Miracle Night~
 * 2) *Morning Musume Concert Tour 2003 "15nin de NON STOP!"

Oricon Chart Positions
Total Reported Sales: 2,259,510

Trivia

 * This was Nakazawa Yuko's fourth and last album as leader of Morning Musume