Best of Soul

Best of Soul is Korean pop singer BoA's second Japanese greatest hits album. This is her first greatest hits album to contain her Japanese songs. The album was released on February 2, 2005, under Avex Trax. The album contains singles from her debut Japanese album, Listen to My Heart to her third album, Love & Honesty. It also contains two singles that were released for the album, "Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi" and "Meri Kuri". The album was released in two versions; the regular stranded CD version and a "perfect" version, which was packaged with a DVD that contained a few of her music videos. Best of Soul is BoA's fourth album to attain the number one position and was certified million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan.[1]

Best of Soul
Greatest hits album by
BoA
ReleasedFebruary 2, 2005
Recorded2001–2004
GenrePop
Length70:37
LabelAvex Trax
ProducerLee Soo Man, Max Matsuura
BoA chronology
My Name
(2004)		 Best of Soul
(2005)		 Girls on Top
(2005)
Singles from Best of Soul
  1. "Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi"
    Released: September 1, 2004
  2. "Meri Kuri"
    Released: December 1, 2004

Overview

Best of Soul was released nearly one year after her third studio album, Love & Honesty. In order to promote the album BoA released two singles "Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi" and "Meri Kuri". The former debuted at #4 on the Oricon single chart while the latter debuted at #5.[2][3] Upon its release Best of Soul ranked number one of the Oricon album selling 489,067 copies in its first week.[4] The album later sold 1.003.000copies in May 2005 which made BoA the only non-Japanese Asian singer to have two albums that sold over a million copies in Japan. The first album to do so was her second studio album, Valenti which was released two years prior.[5]

By the end of the year Best of Soul sold a total of 1,060,039 copies making it the ninth best-selling album of 2005.[6]

Track listing
CD
No.TitleFeaturingLength
1."Listen to My Heart" (From Listen to My Heart) 3:57
2."ID; Peace B" (From Listen to My Heart) 3:54
3."Amazing Kiss" (From Listen to My Heart) 4:34
4."Feelings Deep Inside" (From Listen to My Heart) 4:24
5."Every Heart: Minna no Kimochi" (From Listen to My Heart) 4:33
6."Valenti" (From Valenti) 4:18
7."Kiseki" (From Valenti) 4:20
8."No.1" (From Valenti) 3:14
9."Jewel Song" (From Valenti) 5:27
10."Shine We Are!" (From Love & Honesty) 5:05
11."Double" (From Love & Honesty) 3:28
12."Rock with You" (From Love & Honesty) 4:15
13."Quincy" (From "Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi") 3:49
14."Kono yo no Shirushi (The Mark of Tonight)" (From "Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi") 3:47
15."Meri Kuri" (From "Meri Kuri") 5:52
16."La-la-la Love Song" (Cover of song by Toshinobu Kubota and Naomi Campbell)w/ Soul'd Out5:40
DVD
No.TitleLength
1."ID; Peace B" 
2."Amazing Kiss" 
3."Kimochi wa tsutawaru" 
4."Listen to My Heart" 
5."Every Heart: Minna no Kimochi" 
6."Valenti" 
7."Kiseki" 
8."Jewel Song" 
9."Shine We Are!" 
10."Double" 
11."Rock with You" 
12."Be the One" 
13."Quincy" 
14."Meri Kuri" 
15."The Love Bug" 
16."Making of Quincy" 
17."Making of Meri Kuri" 

Charts and sales

Singles
Title Peak
position
"Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi" 4
"Meri Kuri" 5

References
  1. "Best of Soul's certification" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  2. "Quincy / Kono yo no Shirushi Oricon page" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  3. "Meri Kuri Oricon page" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  4. "Best of Soul's rank and sales" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  5. "BoA、ベスト盤が100万枚を突破！" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  6. Note: Press ctrl+A to see the list 2005年 年間アルバムチャート (in Japanese). Oricon. December 19, 2005. Archived from the original on December 24, 2005. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  7. "BoAのリリース一覧" [List of BoA's Releases]. Oricon. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  8. "Oricon Flashback: 2005 Year End Chart". Arama! Japan. December 31, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  9. "Japanese album certifications – BoA – Best of Soul" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 2005年02月 on the drop-down menu
  10. "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Big Tree']. Oricon. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
  11. "2005년 – POP 총결산 음반 판매량" [2005 International Album Sales]. Recording Industry Association of Korea. 2006. Archived from the original on November 12, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
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