Global InformationSmap Vest information
| Smap Vest | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by SMAP | ||||
| Released | 23 March 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 1991–2000 | |||
| Length | 2:26:51[1] | |||
| Language | Japanese | |||
| Label | Victor Entertainment | |||
| SMAP chronology | ||||
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Smap Vest is the third greatest hits album by Japanese boy band SMAP. It was released on 23 March 2001 through Victor Entertainment. It includes all of the band's singles from 1991 through 2000.[2] The album debuted at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart, selling 1,005,000 copies in its first week.[3] In April 2001, it was certified Quadruple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for shipments of 1,600,000 units.[4] Smap Vest was the seventh best-selling album of 2001 in Japan, with over 1,679,000 copies sold by the end of the year.[5] It is the band's highest-selling album. As of December 2016, the album has sold 1,827,000 copies in Japan.[3]
The album won the Japan Gold Disc Award for Pop Album of the Year at the 16th Japan Gold Disc Awards.[6]
- ^ "Smap Vest (ALBUM)" (in Japanese). JVC Networks, Inc. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "Smap Vest" (in Japanese). JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ a b 【オリコン】SMAP25周年ベスト 今年最高の初週66.8万枚でロケットスタート (in Japanese). Oricon. 27 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "The Record" (PDF) (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. June 2001. p. 8. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ オリコン アルバム 2002年TOP100 (in Japanese). Yahoo! GeoCities. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ 第16回ゴールドディスク大賞 (in Japanese). The Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved 15 December 2018.