The label initially marketed Kuraki in the United States under the name Mai K, and released the single "Baby I Like" (1999).
However, the single was a commercial failure which prompted the label to send her back to Japan.
[1] In 2001, her second album Perfect Crime was released, and it became another million seller, certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAJ.
Her third compilation album Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope (2014) sold over 67,000 copies and was certificated gold.
In 2009, she was featured on the single "Sunao ni Ienakute" by Zard, a rearranged version of the band's 1991 song of the same title.