Best: Second Session

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Best ~second session~ is the second compilation album by Japanese artist Koda Kumi. It became her second album to chart at #1 on Oricon and became her second longest-charting album. It contained every song from her 12 Singles Collection, causing there to be little room for new material. The two new songs on the album were Love goes like... and the bonus track A Whole New World featuring famed singer Peabo Bryson. This was a cover of the song from the Disney film Aladdin.

The first DVD portion of the album carried all of the music videos released for the singles. Limited editions also included the ...and "Wish your happiness and love", which was the story line music videos of Candy feat. Mr. Blistah, you, feel, Lies and Someday strung together in order.

The special CD+2DVD editions contained the first leg to Kumi's Live Tour 2005 ~first things~. The concert DVD for her Best ~first things~ album would later be released in September 2006.

Within the first week, Best ~Second Session~ sold nearly a million copies, bringing in a total of 983,353, making it her highest first-week sales, and has since sold over two million. It stayed #1 on the charts the following week, making it her first album to stay at the spot for two consecutive weeks.

The album became the second highest selling album in Japan and the highest selling for a female artist in 2006.

According to IFPI the album was the forty-first best-selling album worldwide in 2006.

Editions

Best ~Second Session~ came in three editions:

The limited editions of all editions contained the bonus track A Whole New World, which Kumi performed with singer Peabo Bryson. The limited editions of the CD+DVD contained the bonus footage ...and "Wish your happiness & love". The CD+2DVD editions was of limited release and contained all of the bonus features.

Special Single: Get It On

Get it On (stylized as Get It On) is Kumi Koda's special limited single released as a digital download through mu-mo to those who purchased all twelve singles in her 12 Singles Collection. The song was released as a "short version" on her Best ~Second Session~ album.

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Get It On was released as a special, limited "00" single in her 12 Singles Collection to those who purchased all of the singles. After the released of Someday/Boys & Girls, on February 28, 2006, buyers were presented a code, which they would type into mu-mo to be taken to a separate page to download the song. This was used in a similar way for fans to download Kumi's first remix album, Koda Kumi Remix Album, which was also released to those who had purchased all twelve singles from the collection.

Get It On was given its own album artwork and promotional artwork, despite being only a digital release. On March 1, 2006, mu-mo released a fifteen-second commercial for the song, encouraging those who had the code to download the song prior to it being removed from the market.

The song would later be placed on her compilation album Out Works & Collaboration Best as track #1, which was released three years later on March 25, 2009.

Cover

Keeping inline with the twelve singles' theme of a different culture on each cover, Get It On carried a Southeast Asian theme, most notably from Indonesia and the style of the belly dancers.

Track listing

Digital Single

1. "Get It On" - 3:35 Lyrics: Kumi Koda Music: Daisuke "D.I" Imai

Promotional Advertisements

To help promote Best ~second session~, Kumi made several appearances on radio shows and television shows, including performing A Whole New World live with Peabo Bryson.

Music Videos

While all of the music videos had been shown on music networks during the singles' initial releases, on the album, they were all placed on the first DVD in the order of their initial release, beginning with You and ending with Someday. Limited editions contained the bonus footage ...and "Wish your happiness & love, which strung together the five interconnecting videos to create one coherent story.

There would later be a video for the new song on the album, Love goes like.... The music video for this song would be released on her DVD for the album's corresponding concert tour, Live Tour 2006-2007 ~Second Session~.

DVD1: Music Video

1. "you"
2. "Candy feat. Mr. Blistah"
3. "Ima Sugu Hoshii"
4. "Birthday Eve"
5. "feel"
6. "D.D.D. feat. SOULHEAD"
7. "KAMEN feat. Tatsuya Ishii"
8. "WIND"
9. "Lies"
10. "No Regret"
11. "Shake It Up"
12. "Someday"
    

"…and「Wish your happiness & love」"

DVD2: LIVE DVD (Limited Editions)

0. Opening movie at OSAKA

1. Butterfly
2. Cutie Honey
3. Chase
4. Gentle Words
5. Heat feat. MEGARYU
6. Hot Stuff feat. KM-MARKIT
7. Crazy 4 U
8. hands
9. No Tricks
10. Rain [Unplugged Version]
11. Take Back
12. m・a・z・e
13. Selfish
14. Promise
15. Star
16. Trust Your Love
17. Come With Me
18. real Emotion
19. the meaning of peace
20. flower
21. walk

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)