was an excellent way to experience the change in Utada's sound between Ultra Blue and Heart Station. Similarly, Hiroki Yokuyama of Rockin' On Japan remarked that the album was a rare pathway showing Utada's expression. Many critics commented that all of the new songs were of high quality. Kondō described them as "perfect", and that they "rise and flood with a powerful energy". Yanagisawa singled out "Show Me Love (Not a Dream)" as the best of the new tracks. Hiraga felt her performance in the music video for "Goodbye Happiness" was thrilling, also called the song a "lovely masterpiece" that was "like a fight towards loneliness". Yokuyama had an appreciation of "Can't Wait 'Til Christmas", feeling that it was much more universal and original than most Christmas songs. Commercial performance The album debuted at number one on Japan's Oricon daily albums chart, with 22,000 copies sold. It later debuted at number one on Oricon's weekly charts with 231,000 copies sold, her seventh successive Japanese language number one album. It outsold albums by Kara, Masaharu Fukuyama and Ikimonogakari that week but the figure was less than half of that of the first week of her 2008 studio album, Heart Station, which had sold 480,000 copies. The album has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for more than 500,000 physical copies shipped to music stores. According to ''Oricons sales data, the album was the 20th most sold album in Japanese CD stores in 2010. However, with 441,000 copies sold, it is currently Utada's lowest selling Japanese album. However, including her entire discography, it is her third worst selling album, after Universal English-language albums This Is the One (2009) and Utada the Best (2010). In South Korea, the album debuted at the #1 spot in the Gaon International Albums Chart in the week of December 5–11, 2010, but the album only charted for a week. In Taiwan, the album debuted at the sixth spot on the G-Music Combo album charts, having 1.54% of total album sales in the week of December 10–16, 2010 but it quickly dropped to the #19 spot, contributing to 0.81% of the total album sales for the week of December 17–23, 2010, charting for only two weeks, selling almost 8,000 copies in total, but behind other Asian acts which sold above the 8,000-mark in the said chart like Ayumi Hamasaki, Namie Amuro, Wonder Girls