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Presents (Princess Princess album)

album by Princess Princess

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ11239041 ↗
Source-derived summary

Presents (プレゼンツ, Purezentsu) is the second compilation album by the Japanese girl band Princess Princess, released on August 25, 1994, by Sony Records. It consists of B-sides and deep cuts selected by the band's fans. The album was packaged in a box designed like a shipping box, while the CD was designed to resemble an LP.

The album peaked at No. 3 on Oricon's albums chart.

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The public source identifies “Presents (Princess Princess album)” as album by Princess Princess. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Presents, Princess and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Presents, Princess and album providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11239041. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Presents (Princess Princess album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.