''First Cut'' is the first

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by Japanese recording artist

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. It was released on

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and

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on November 8, 2000 by B-Vision, simultaneously with her single "

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". The video brought a collection of Kuraki's music videos and making videos. The album became the second best-selling video album (

) of 2000 in Japan.

Commercial performance

The album sold over 99,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number one on the

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weekly video albums chart. It became the highest first-week video album sales by female singers in Japan until

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update the record with ''

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'' in 2009. ''First Cut'' has sold over 232,000 copies so far.

Track listing

References

2000 video albums Mai Kuraki albums {{japan-album-stub