Blue Bird (Ayumi Hamasaki song)

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"Blue Bird"
Single by Ayumi Hamasaki
from the album Secret
B-side	"Beautiful Fighters"
Released	June 21, 2006
Recorded	Prime Sound Studio Form (Tokyo)
Genre	Pop rock electronic rock
Length	29:20
Label	Avex Trax
Songwriter(s)	Ayumi Hamasaki (lyrics) DAI (music) Kazuhito Kikuchi (music)
Producer(s)	Max Matsuura
Ayumi Hamasaki singles chronology
"Startin'/Born to Be..." (2006) "Blue Bird" (2006) "Glitter/Fated" (2007)
Official Music Video
"Blue Bird" on YouTube
Official Music Video
"Beautiful Fighters" on YouTube

"Blue Bird" is a song by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released as her 40th single under Avex Trax on June 21, 2006. "Blue Bird" was Hamasaki's 15th consecutive single to top the Oricon Singles Chart and 27th number one single in total. Initially planned to be a triple A-side single, it features two new songs, "Blue Bird" and "Beautiful Fighters". "Blue Bird" was the CM song for Zespri Gold Kiwifruit while "Beautiful Fighters" is featured on a Panasonic D-snap and D-dock commercial. A rearrangement of "Ladies Night", featured in her (Miss)understood album, called "Ladies Night (Another Night)" (which was featured in an earlier Panasonic Lumix commercial) is also featured on this single. A trance remix to "Blue Bird" is also on the single. On her official website, she describes "Blue Bird" as being a summer song, and "Beautiful Fighters" as being a song praising women.^{[citation needed]}

"Blue Bird" also reunited Hamasaki with the composer Dai. "Blue Bird" was the first time he composed a song for Hamasaki since "Will" (2005), which she co-composed under the name Crea. "Blue Bird" was Hamasaki's first single to be certified platinum since 2005's "Heaven" and was her last single to achieve platinum status until "Mirrorcle World" (2008). The sales of "Blue Bird" made Hamasaki the first solo artist in Japan to sell over 20 million singles.^[1]