Singer-songwriter and full-time fashionista Kato Miliyah revealed her feelings about releasing a best album nearly 7 years after �her 2004 debut with her very first single, "Never let go/Yozora".

The singer does a splendid job representing young adults and the youth generation in Japan through her music and trendy looks. �She has captured the hearts of today's youth as reflected in the release of her new best-of album, "M BEST"; which has taken the top spot on the Oricon Daily Album chart selling 100,000+ copies in just the first three days. What will likely be another weekly #1 for the singer, is more than just what appears on the surface.

To the young singer, 'M BEST' represents the end of an era: "In the future, I feel the need to say the me [on this album] is�gone now, and I want to strive to make�my new songs�different from what I've done already." Kato's drive for innovation has been apparent in many of her works, as she transformed her sound from R&B to acoustic ballads to even dance tracks like one of her latest singles, "DESIRE".

She also expressed her disdain for making her best album just a "patchwork of singles" insisting on creating new songs and album covers to add some value for her many devoted fans. "The release of a�best album is a very big thing to me... everything about it ('M BEST') was selected carefully," referring specifically to the tracklisting, which includes one of her 2011 singles, "Yuusha tachi", ("Heroes")�as the final track.

While she will move on to the next level after the release of her best album, Kato's songs will still resonate with her �generation for years to come. Kato shared the experience of looking�back on her career:�"After listening to Disc 1, I felt many different emotions and couldn't stop crying... after all these years what I've collected reminded me of my objective in writing these songs."

Source: Oricon