"You Were.../Ballad" is Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki's forty-seventh (forty-eighth overall) single, released on December 29, 2009.
During December 2009, Hamasaki performed live on Japanese TV shows seven times.
As of early December, there have been many promotional pictures posted around Shibuya, Shinagawa and Harajuku in Tokyo.
The video is also inter-cut with scenes of models posing in haute couture outfits.
The video for Ballad featured an elaborate storyline where Ayumi and her boyfriend get in a motorcycle accident.