Two days later, on November 24, Avex officially announced details of Hamasaki's winter project album, titled Winter diary A7 Classical, and that it would be released on December 23.[5] The tracklist of eleven songs was also revealed, with four songs taken from sixxxxxx ("Step by step", "Sorrows", "Summer diary" and "Sky high"), six songs taken from A One ("Warning", "Last Minute", "NO FUTURE", "Out of control", "The GIFT", and 'The Show Must Go On"), and the final track being the song she had teased only days prior and the album's namesake, "Winter diary", written as a companion or sequel to "Summer diary". It was also disclosed that popular violinist Okabe Machi featured on three of the tracks, "WARNING", "NO FUTURE", and "The Show Must Go On".
"Shall I cast a spell on the pure white snow and go tell you now the words I couldn't tell you? Blaming it on the white season I'll say, 'Let me stay by your side' like in that summer" -ayumi hamasaki, "Winter Diary" A/N: I got the English Translations from here