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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Fairyland
| cover = Fairylandcda.PNG
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Ayumi Hamasaki
| album = (Miss)understood
| B-side = Alterna
| released = August 3, 2005
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = J-pop, electronic
| length = 31:21
| label = Avex Trax
| writer = Ayumi Hamasaki (lyrics)
tasuku (music)
Shintarou Hagiwara + Sousaku Sasaki (music)
| producer = Max Matsuura
| prev_title = Step You/Is This Love?
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Heaven
| next_year = 2005
| misc =
}}
"'Fairyland'" is the 36th single released by Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released on August 3, 2005. It instantly shot to #1 on the Oricon charts where it stayed for the entire week. After one week of sales, "Fairyland" sold over 172,000 copies, the most any of Hamasaki's singles sold in one week in 2005. "Fairyland" is also Hamasaki's first single that featured different covers for both the CD and the CD+DVD.
Music videos
The PV of 'Fairyland' was shot in Hawaii and is one of the most expensive music videos in the world, as well as being Japan's most expensive music video in terms of production costs. The PV cost 240 million Yen (2 million in U.S. dollars). It depicts Hamasaki with her companions (dance team) on a lush tropical island, with some scenes showing a timber house with a deck. Eventually, a fallen oil lamp causes the entire structure to burn. Images from earlier sequences showing the group having fun are interspersed through the burning of the house. The video ends with the camera moving away from Hamasaki singing solemnly as she watches the house burn.
The PV of 'Alterna' depicts Ayumi as an up-and-coming star who is chased by clowns.[http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/videoclips/52.alterna.htm Ayumi Hamasaki alterna] The video also depicts her as a singing machine; this aspect of the music video (as well as the lyrics of "alterna") may be Hamasaki's response to either tabloid articles or to her record label's oppressive treatment of her at the time.[http://ayumi-hamasaki.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6954 Ayumi-Hamasaki.Net View topic - Alterna]
Track listing
# "Fairyland" 5:17
# "Alterna" 5:28
# "Step You" (DJ Taki-Shit More Step Up Remix) 4:16
# "Fairyland" (Bright Field Remix) 5:30
# "Fairyland" (Instrumental) 5:17
# "Alterna" (Instrumental) 5:28
DVD track listing
# "Fairyland" (PV)
# "Alterna" (PV)
# "Fairyland" ("making of" photo gallery)
Live performances
* June 27, 2005 Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
* July 15, 2005 Music Station
* July 30, 2005 CDTV
* August 1, 2005 Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
* August 5, 2005 Music Station
* August 5, 2005 Music Fighter
* December 31, 2005 56th Kouhaku Utagassen
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
* Total Sales : 370,000 (Japan)
* Total Sales : 388,000 (Avex)
* RIAJ certification: Platinum
See also
*List of most expensive music videos
References
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