Black Cherry [Jacket B / CD+DVD] Customer Reviews

Black Cherry is a debateable album. On one hand, her singles are great and all of her PVs are awesome. On the other hand, with the exception of Get Up & Move!! none of her non single songs are worth getting the album for. If you are thinking about buying this album I would suggest getting the Black Cherry Tour DVD first. It has all of the tracks on Black Cherry (with the exception of Won't Be Long and JUICY) and it is a great performance and has a great plot.

I gotta tell that I don't like Black Cherry that much, but there are some tracks that makes this album really worthy like "JUICY", "WON'T BE LONG", "Cherry Girl" and "Ningyo Hime". The promo videos for the musics are pretty good too, but nothing awesome.

She did it, yes, she did it again! She made AWESOME album, on which every song is a BIG hit! I think it's my favouite KUU's album so far! Before it was BEST ~second session~, BUT Black Cherry beat it for me. There's my favourite ballad ever - Yume no Uta, it's simply georgeous! BUT except it, there's much MORE other awesome songs in different music styles: R&B, Pop, Rock , like I'll be there, Cherry Girl, Unmei, Koi no Tsubomi, JUICY, WON'T BE LONG ~Black Cherry Version~ & etc. In this edition, there's not only one DVD with adorable PV's BUT also first Koda Kumi movie - Cherry Girl!! It's very fun comedy/drama/action. KUU did it even in her movie - combiend so many styles, like in album! I advice you to buy this edition 'cause of fun Cherry Girl Movie, just don't expect very much from the movie and you'll like it. Only one thing dissapoined me in this edition, that Cherry Girl Movie doesn't carry any subtitles & it's also impossible to find them online... P.S.: Album sales for today is almost 1 500 000 copies!! Also 90% of the songs are the main themes for TV & Movies.

Kuu's biggest album yet (not counting her bests). This sold over a million copies in Japan and there's a reason why. The CD itself contains an excellent assortment of ballads, jpop, rock, and hip-hop songs. I love how this album starts off with two great hip-hop numbers. It transitions so smoothly from the intro track into Get Up & Move. It gets even more intense going into Ningyouhime. Then it slows down with some nice ballads and picks up again with songs like Cherry Girl, Koi no Tsubomi. I think Koda Kumi did a nice job with arranging the tracks on this CD. She didn't jumble all the slow and fast tracks together. The composition and variety in this album is what makes it a must for any Kuu fan. Try and pick up the DVD as well. It comes with every singles PV for this album except Futari de. All of them were done very professionally and I was very surprised. PVs such as Juicy have the potential to blow away some of the hip hop MVs we see here in America.

I love Kumi, I really do, but... this album kind of disappointed me a little bit. The songs that were feautured in singles are excellent, but the new ones just don't have anything special. However, the pv's are great! ^_^

Barely a month after launching her fifth studio album, <i>Black Cherry</i>, she announced that she would release three projects in March: A new single, a compilation album and a concert tour DVD. Unlike her past sexy covers, Kumi has gone for a covered-up, black widow look for <i>Black Cherry</i>. But the fans don't seem to mind. More than 920,000 copies of the album sold in Japan within a month and hogged the topspot on the Oricon chart for four consecutive weeks. But her top-selling album yet is last year's <i>Best-Second Session</i>. It has sold a staggering 1.76 million copies in Japan to become the best-selling female album last year. Kumi herself seems satisfied with her achievements. She told <i>Oricon Style</i> magazine: "This is my sixth year in showbiz and also the year that I've grown the most."

This has to be Kuu's best album so far! Each one of the songs is catchy and her vocals are amazing. Plus she is one of the hottest female vocalists in Japan and the videos show her beauty. This is also one of the best albums released in 2006 and I'm looking foward to her future work. It's a must have for all Kuu fans.

Worst album I've ever bought. I've been a Ku fan for 4 years, but really...this would make most (non-baist) true fans turn against her. Just really bad songs, scratchy -n- nasly vocals, and really revealing and over-the-top sexual pvs. The movie is also horrible, focusing mainly on making Ku look sexy. Just a disaster. :( never will buy another Ku product ever again.

Another great work for Kumi-chan ! All the singles are excellent and there are other two excellent new songs such ''Get Up & Move !!'' and ''Tsuki to Tayou'', nice the songs ''Puppy and ''Candle Light'', good the new version of ''WON'T BE LONG''. This version includes a DVD with all the PVs. A must have album for every Kumi Koda fan !