1st CONTACT is ORANGE RANGE's first major label album. It features remade versions of two songs from their indies mini-album, Orange Ball, Kirikirimai and Velocity. This album reached #2 on Oricon charts and charted for 92 weeks. Because it sold 589,229 units in 2004, it became the #15 album of the year. The most recent figures (2005.08.11) show that this album has sold 690,282 copies.