''Smap Vest'' is the third

greatest hits album A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be creat ...

by Japanese boy band

SMAP SMAP was a Japanese boy band, composed of Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and Shingo Katori. The group was created in 1988 by music producer Johnny Kitagawa, founder of Johnny & Associates, originally as a ...

. It was released on 23 March 2001 through

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. It includes all of the band's singles from 1991 through 2000. The album debuted at number one on the

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, selling 1,005,000 copies in its first week. In April 2001, it was certified Quadruple Platinum by the

Recording Industry Association of Japan The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include p ...

for shipments of 1,600,000 units. ''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. It is the band's highest-selling album. As of December 2016, the album has sold 1,827,000 copies in Japan. The album won the Japan Gold Disc Award for Pop Album of the Year at the 16th

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