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"Moon/Blossom"
"Moon/Blossom"
Single by Ayumi Hamasaki
from the album Love Songs
B-side	"Don't Look Back (Reggae Disco Rockers Remix)"; "Last Links (Orchestra version)"; "Meaning of Love (Piano version)"; "Microphone (The Lowbrows Remix)";
Released	July 14, 2010
Recorded	2010
Genre	Pop rock
Label	Avex Trax
Songwriter(s)	Ayumi Hamasaki (lyrics); Yasuhiko Hoshino (music)
Producer(s)	Max Matsuura
Ayumi Hamasaki singles chronology
Official Music Video
	"Moon" on YouTube
Official Music Video
	"Blossom" on YouTube

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"Moon/Blossom" is Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki's forty-eighth (forty-ninth overall) single, released on July 14, 2010.^[1] The first song on the single "Moon" is used to promote Honda's Zest Spark Kei car^{[citation needed]} while the second song "Blossom" is used to promote Zespri kiwifruit.^[2]

The song "Moon" was first released as a Chaku-Uta sample for members of Ayu's official fanclub Team Ayu with the release of the album Rock 'n' Roll Circus; the announcement of the single was publicly released first on Twitter, first by Ayu's producer Max Matsuura and then relayed into the "Ayu News" Twitter account, which was officially managed by Avex Group.^[3]^[4]

This single is her first of three singles in the "road to fiftieth (50th) single", which would be followed by Crossroad and L, and it is expected that there will be a preview for the 49th single in Chaku-Uta form, though that can only be accessible through a serial number that will be released in limited first press editions of the release, with the forty-ninth (49th) and fiftieth singles also having its own serial numbers for users to access special content, which include never-before-released pictures sent to Japanese cellphones as well as PC wallpapers, though that site is not in operation until as late as late 2010/early 2011.

A month before its release, the music video for Blossom was cancelled, and as such, the other CD/DVD version (AVCD-31892/B) was cancelled.^[1] The music video for Blossom was later released on her 49th single, Crossroad.

The single is certified Gold for shipment of 100,000 copies.^[5]

Music video

A 2:56 minute clip for Moon was released on June 9, 2010 in Ayumi Hamasaki's YouTube channel. The full PV was released on July 13, 2010, a day before the single was available in stores. The video featured Ayumi singing in a European aristocratic room setting. As the video progresses a strange, black, tar-like liquid begins dropping in the room, on random furniture. The video is also inter-cut with scenes of Ayumi smiling while holding one of her pet dogs, in her second verse it shown ayumi with the black liquid falling down all over her face, near chest and going to her hands. Depicting sorrow or despair, presumably of the dog shown towards the end of the video.

On YouTube, the music video of Moon now has approximately 1,400,000 views. The full music video runtime of moon is 05:50. The music video of Moon was directed by Masashi Muto.

The music video of Blossom was cancelled, but a music video appeared for Crossroad.

Ayumi does not appear in the video, but it features Kim Jaejoong (of JYJ). The MV's plot starts out with Jaejoong enjoying time with his girlfriend at the beach, etc. However, in the middle of the video, Jaejoong visits to a doctor, and finds out that he is diagnosed with terminal cancer (3rd stage) and has only two weeks left to survive. Later, Jaejoong goes to meet his girlfriend to celebrate the birthday. Then, when Jaejoong's girlfriend is bringing the cake he faints. The ending scene shows Jaejoong's girlfriend a few weeks later, alone, (which means that he died the day he fainted) looking at a painting of them both, what Jaejoong was trying to paint in the beginning of the MV. The paint was her and Jaejoong as an angel. There is a director's cut of the MV as well. The running time of "Blossom" is 6:53. This music video was not uploaded to Ayumi Hamasaki's YouTube account until October 2019.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Ayumi Hamasaki.

CD-Only - Version A (AVCD-31891)
No.	Titel	Music	Length
1.	"Moon (Original Mix)"	Yasuhiko Hoshino	5:47
2.	"Blossom (Original Mix)"	Hoshino	4:07
3.	"Microphone (The Lowbrows Remix)"	Yuta Nakano	3:47
4.	"Last Links (Orchestra Version)"	Tetsuya Yukumi	4:43
5.	"Moon (Original Mix - Instrumental)"	Hoshino	5:47
6.	"Blossom (Original Mix - Instrumental)"	Hoshino	4:05

CD-Only - Version B (AVCD-31893)
No.	Titel	Music	Length
1.	"Blossom (Original Mix)"	Yasuhiko Hoshino	4:04
2.	"Moon (Original Mix)"	Hoshino	5:44
3.	"Don't Look Back (Reggae Disco Rockers Remix)"	Yuta Nakano	4:39
4.	"Meaning of Love (Acoustic Piano Version)"	Tetsuya Yukumi	5:19
5.	"Blossom (Original Mix - Instrumental)"	Hoshino	4:04
6.	"Moon (Original Mix - Instrumental)"	Hoshino	5:44

CD+DVD Version - CD (AVCD-31890)
No.	Titel	Music	Length
1.	"Moon (Original Mix)"	Yasuhiko Hoshino	5:47
2.	"Blossom (Original Mix)"	Hoshino	4:07
3.	"Microphone (The Lowbrows Remix)"	Yuta Nakano	3:48
4.	"Moon (Original Mix - Instrumental)"	Hoshino	5:47
5.	"Blossom (Original Mix - Instrumental)"	Hoshino	4:07

CD+DVD Version - DVD (AVCD-31890B)
No.	Titel	Length
1.	"Moon" (Video Clip)	5:55
2.	"Moon" (Making Clip)	3:55

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart

Release	Chart	Peak Position	Debut Sales	Sales Total	Chart Run
July 14, 2010	Oricon Daily Singles Chart	1	33,974
	Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	1	70,568	96,490	13 weeks
	Oricon Monthly Singles Chart	6	87,558
	Oricon Yearly Singles Chart	70

References

External links

[1] - Moon Full PV on trilulilu website.
[2] - Blossom (Director"s cut) on trilulilu website.
[3] - Blossom Full PV on trilulilu website.

[announcement-1] (in Japanese) ayumi hamasaki official website: 【リリース情報】7月14日（水）NEW SINGLE「MOON / blossom」発売決定!!

[2] (in Japanese)藤原紀香：再婚「まだいいかな」　「ゼスプリ　キウイ」イメージキャラに Archived 2010-05-13 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Max Matsuura's Twitter page

[4] Ayu News Twitter page (officially managed by Avex Group)

[5] "一般社団法人日本レコード協会".

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+{{External music video | header = Official Music Video |1={{YouTube|xezoEe9FDjA|"Blossom"}}
-"'''Moon/Blossom'''" is Japanese singer [[Ayumi Hamasaki]]'s forty-eighth (forty-ninth overall) single, released on July 14, 2010.<ref name=announcement>{{ja icon}} [http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/100520a.html ayumi hamasaki official website: 【リリース情報】7月14日（水）NEW SINGLE「MOON / blossom」発売決定!!]</ref> The first song on the single "Moon" is used to promote [[Honda]]'s [[Honda Zest|Zest Spark]] [[Kei car]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} while the second song "Blossom" is used to promote [[Kiwifruit industry in New Zealand|Zespri]] [[kiwifruit]].<ref>{{ja icon}}[http://mainichi.jp/enta/geinou/news/20100510mog00m200009000c.html?link_id=REH03 藤原紀香：再婚「まだいいかな」　「ゼスプリ　キウイ」イメージキャラに]</ref>
+}}
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+"'''Moon/Blossom'''" is Japanese singer [[Ayumi Hamasaki]]'s forty-eighth (forty-ninth overall) single, released on July 14, 2010.<ref name=announcement>{{in lang|ja}} [http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/100520a.html ayumi hamasaki official website: 【リリース情報】7月14日（水）NEW SINGLE「MOON / blossom」発売決定!!]</ref> The first song on the single "Moon" is used to promote [[Honda]]'s [[Honda Zest|Zest Spark]] [[Kei car]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} while the second song "Blossom" is used to promote [[Kiwifruit industry in New Zealand|Zespri]] [[kiwifruit]].<ref>{{in lang|ja}}[http://mainichi.jp/enta/geinou/news/20100510mog00m200009000c.html?link_id=REH03 藤原紀香：再婚「まだいいかな」　「ゼスプリ　キウイ」イメージキャラに] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513061808/http://mainichi.jp/enta/geinou/news/20100510mog00m200009000c.html?link_id=REH03 |date=2010-05-13 }}</ref>
-The song "Moon" was first released as a Chaku-Uta sample for members of Ayu's official fanclub ''Team Ayu'' with the release of the album ''[[Rock 'n' Roll Circus]]''; the announcement of the single was publicly released first on Twitter, first by Ayu's producer [[Max Matsuura]] and then relayed into the "Ayu News" Twitter account, which was officially managed by [[Avex Group]].<ref>[http://twitter.com/masatomatsuura Max Matsuura's Twitter page]</ref><ref>[http://twitter.com/ayunews Ayu News Twitter page (officially managed by Avex Group)]</ref>
+The song "Moon" was first released as a Chaku-Uta sample for members of Ayu's official fanclub ''Team Ayu'' with the release of the album ''[[Rock 'n' Roll Circus]]''; the announcement of the single was publicly released first on Twitter, first by Ayu's producer [[Max Matsuura]] and then relayed into the "Ayu News" Twitter account, which was officially managed by [[Avex Group]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/masatomatsuura Max Matsuura's Twitter page]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/ayunews Ayu News Twitter page (officially managed by Avex Group)]</ref>
-This single is her first of three singles in the "road to fiftieth (50th) single", which would be followed by ''[[Crossroad (song)|Crossroad]]'' and ''[[L (EP)|L]]'', and it is expected that there will be a preview for the 49th single in Chaku-Uta form, though that can only be accessible through a serial number that will be released in limited first press editions of the release, with the forty-ninth (49th) and fiftieth singles also having its own serial numbers for users to access special content, which include never-before-released pictures sent to Japanese cellphones as well as PC wallpapers, though that site is not in operation until as late as late 2010/early 2011.
+This single is her first of three singles in the "road to fiftieth (50th) single", which would be followed by ''[[Crossroad (song)|Crossroad]]'' and ''[[L (Ayumi Hamasaki EP)|L]]'', and it is expected that there will be a preview for the 49th single in Chaku-Uta form, though that can only be accessible through a serial number that will be released in limited first press editions of the release, with the forty-ninth (49th) and fiftieth singles also having its own serial numbers for users to access special content, which include never-before-released pictures sent to Japanese cellphones as well as PC wallpapers, though that site is not in operation until as late as late 2010/early 2011.
 A month before its release, the music video for Blossom was cancelled, and as such, the other CD/DVD version (AVCD-31892/B) was cancelled.<ref name=announcement/> The music video for Blossom was later released on her 49th single, Crossroad.
-The single is certified Gold for shipment of 100,000 copies <ref>[http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201008.html]</ref>
+The single is certified Gold for shipment of 100,000 copies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201008.html|title = 一般社団法人 日本レコード協会}}</ref>
 ==Music video==
-[[File:Ayu-Moon.png|thumb|left|Screenshot of the music video for '''Moon''']]
+<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Ayu-Moon.png|thumb|left|Screenshot of the music video for '''Moon''']] -->
-A 2:56 minute clip for '''Moon''' was released on June 9, 2010 in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AF8AFhvwjQ Ayumi Hamasaki's YouTube channel]. The full [[PV]] was released on July 13, 2010, a day before the single was available in stores. The video featured Ayumi singing in a European aristocratic room setting. As the video progresses a strange, black, tar-like liquid begins dropping in the room, on random furniture. The video is also inter-cut with scenes of Ayumi smiling while holding one of her pet dogs, in her second verse it shown ayumi with the black liquid falling down all over her face, near chest and going to her hands. Depicting sorrow or despair, presumably of the dog shown towards the end of the video.
+A 2:56 minute clip for '''Moon''' was released on June 9, 2010 in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AF8AFhvwjQ Ayumi Hamasaki's YouTube channel]. The full [[Music video|PV]] was released on July 13, 2010, a day before the single was available in stores. The video featured Ayumi singing in a European aristocratic room setting. As the video progresses a strange, black, tar-like liquid begins dropping in the room, on random furniture. The video is also inter-cut with scenes of Ayumi smiling while holding one of her pet dogs, in her second verse it shown ayumi with the black liquid falling down all over her face, near chest and going to her hands. Depicting sorrow or despair, presumably of the dog shown towards the end of the video.
-* On [[YouTube]], the music video of Moon now has approximately 1,400,000 views. The full music video runtime of moon is 05:50
+* On [[YouTube]], the music video of Moon now has approximately 1,400,000 views. The full music video runtime of moon is 05:50. The music video of Moon was directed by [[Masashi Muto]].
-The music video of '''Blossom''' were cancelled, but an music video appeared on Crossroad.
+The music video of ''Blossom'' was cancelled, but a music video appeared for Crossroad.
-* It was released September 4, 2010 and fillmed the first days of August, also the music video were in magazines to promote it, ayumi does not appear in the video, but it features [[Hero Jaejoong]] (member of [[TVXQ]], now of [[JYJ]] since TVXQ"s three member split), it features Hero having times with his girlfriend, Near the end of the video, Hero goes to a doctor, the doctor says Hero has got cancer and two weeks leff, After, hero goes to meet his girlfriend, then, Hero kills himself when he makes the chair and a glass bottle smash on him, the ending scene shown hero"s girlfriend looking at a painting of them both, what he painted in the beginning. There is also an director"s cut. The runtime of blossom is 6:53. This music video was not uploaded to Ayu"s account.
+* Ayumi does not appear in the video, but it features [[Kim Jaejoong]] (of [[JYJ]]). The MV's plot starts out with Jaejoong enjoying time with his girlfriend at the beach, etc. However, in the middle of the video, Jaejoong visits to a doctor, and finds out that he is diagnosed with terminal cancer (3rd stage) and has only two weeks left to survive. Later, Jaejoong goes to meet his girlfriend to celebrate the birthday. Then, when Jaejoong's girlfriend is bringing the cake he faints. The ending scene shows Jaejoong's girlfriend a few weeks later, alone, (which means that he died the day he fainted) looking at a painting of them both, what Jaejoong was trying to paint in the beginning of the MV. The paint was her and Jaejoong as an angel. There is a director's cut of the MV as well. The running time of "Blossom" is 6:53. This music video was not uploaded to Ayumi Hamasaki's YouTube account until October 2019.
-== Tracklisting ==
+== Track listing ==
 All lyrics written by Ayumi Hamasaki.
+{{track listing
-{{tracklist
-| collapsed       = yes
 | headline        = CD-Only - Version A (AVCD-31891)
-| music_credits   = yes
 | title1          = Moon (Original Mix)
 | music1          = Yasuhiko Hoshino
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+{{track listing
-{{tracklist
-| collapsed       = yes
 | headline        = CD-Only - Version B (AVCD-31893)
 | title1          = Blossom (Original Mix)
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+{{track listing
-{{tracklist
-| collapsed       = yes
 | headline        = CD+DVD Version - CD (AVCD-31890)
-| music_credits   = yes
 | title1          = Moon (Original Mix)
 | music1          = Yasuhiko Hoshino
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+{{track listing
-{{tracklist
-| collapsed       = yes
 | headline        = CD+DVD Version - DVD (AVCD-31890B)
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 == Charts ==
 === Oricon Sales Chart ===
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+== References ==
-===Chart procession and succession===
-{{s-start}}
+{{Reflist}}
-{{succession box
-  | before = "[[To Be Free (Arashi song)|To Be Free]]" by [[Arashi]]
-  | title  = [[Oricon|''Oricon'' Weekly]] [[List of Oricon number-one singles of 2010|number one single]]
-  | years  = July 26, 2010
-  | after  = "Kokoro no Hane" by Team Dragon From [[AKB48]]
-}}
-{{succession box
- | before = "[[Gossip Candy|Lollipop]]" by [[Kumi Koda]]
- | title = RIAJ [[RIAJ Digital Track Chart|Digital Track Chart]] [[List of number-one digital singles of 2010 (Japan)|number-one song]]
- | years = "Moon"<br />July 20, 2010
- | after = "Ofutari Summer" by [[Ketsumeishi]]
-}}
-{{end}}
 == External links ==
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 * [http://www.trilulilu.ro/AngelStarHealer/c5f95a65520d4f] - Blossom (Director"s cut) on trilulilu website.
 * [http://www.trilulilu.ro/AngelStarHealer/78ae2b6d0c9a96] - Blossom Full PV on trilulilu website.
-== References ==
-{{Reflist}}
 {{Ayumi Hamasaki singles}}
+{{Authority control}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Moon Blossom}}
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-[[th:มูน / บรอสซัม]]
-[[tr:Moon/Blossom]]
-[[zh:MOON/blossom]]

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Discography
1990s	"Poker Face" "You" "Trust" "For My Dear..." "Depend on You" "Whatever" "Love (Destiny)" "To Be" "Boys & Girls" "Appears" "Kanariya"
2000s	"Fly High" "Vogue" "Far Away" "Seasons" "Surreal" "Audience" "M" "Evolution" "Never Ever" "Endless Sorrow" "Unite!" "Dearest" "A Song Is Born" "Daybreak" "Connected" "Free & Easy" "Voyage" "Forgiveness" "No Way to Say" "Moments" "Inspire" "Carols" "Step You" "Is This Love?" "Fairyland" "Heaven" "Bold & Delicious" "Pride" "Startin'" "Born to Be..." "Blue Bird" "Glitter" "Fated" "Talkin' 2 Myself" "Together When..." "Mirrorcle World" "Days" "Green" "Rule" "Sparkle" "Sunrise (Love Is All)" "Sunset (Love Is All)" "You Were..." "Ballad"
2010s	"Moon" "Blossom" "Crossroad" "How Beautiful You Are" "Feel the Love" "Merry-Go-Round" "Terminal" "Zutto..." "Last Minute" "Walk" "Step by Step" "We Are the Queens"
2020s	"Ohia no Ki" "Dreamed a Dream" "23rd Monster" "Nonfiction" "Summer Again"
Other	"Next Level" "Dream On" "Progress" "You & Me" "Movin' On Without You"
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