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Singer, songwriter, and pop icon Ayumi Hamasaki is the best-selling solo artist in Japanese history. Debuting in the late '90s, she dominated the charts through the 2000s with Loveppears, Duty, and I Am.... Her pop sound also began to incorporate rock (Memorial Address and My Story) and R&B ([Miss]understood) edge. With 2006's Secret, she notched the most number-one singles by a solo female artist and the only artist to have eight chart-topping albums on the Japanese charts to date. Despite a decline in sales, she remained at the top of the charts into the 2010s. The Top Five albums A One and M(a)de in Japan closed out the 2010s as Hamasaki shifted focus to shorter releases, live shows, and career retrospectives. In 2023 -- seven years after her previous studio album, a relative lifetime in her discography -- she returned with her 18th full-length, Remember You. Wikipedia