Ayumi Hamasaki 2007
 The release of Free & Easy in April saw a complete shift in the trend of Hamasaki's singles, away from multiple remix tracks. The single only featured two remixes alongside the title track. The single also threatened to break her string of consecutive number ones, as Mai Kuraki's Feel fine! single (released on the same date), briefly topped the daily charts. However, Free & Easy eventually claimed the top spot on the weekly chart. Her fifth million-seller single, H, was released in July of that year. Like A, this single featured multiple a-sides; however, unlike A, this single did not contain any remixes. Her follow-up single Voyage had an extended music video to promote it — a short film titled Tsuki ni Shizumu (or Sinking into the Moon). Voyage set a new record for Hamasaki, for it topped the Oricon Chart for a total of three weeks, making Voyage the first and only single from Hamasaki which has remained on the top of the Oricon chart for so long.
Hamasaki's next studio album, Rainbow, was released in December. Though Rainbow broke the one million mark in the first week, it was the first of Hamasaki's albums since A Song for XX that failed to sell at least two million units. The album featured more songs composed under the pseudonym CREA, and became her first album released under Avex to feature English in her songs. (Her song Limit on her first album Nothing from Nothing, incorporated English, but was neither released by Avex nor was written by Hamasaki herself.) The album had a promotional campaign in which the buyers of the more-expensive initial pressings could access a password-protected website that featured a part of the instrumental version of the title track Rainbow, which did not appear on the album. Once accessed, fans could submit their own lyrics and suggestions for the song. Over 100,000 people accessed the website.[citation needed] Rainbow later appeared on her ballad compilation/remix album A Ballads, which was released on March 2003.
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