Message (Aya Ueto album)
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Released | March 3, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 2003–2004 | |||
Genre | Pop, pop rock | |||
Length | 59:48 | |||
Label | Flight Master | |||
Producer | Gorō Kumagai | |||
Aya Ueto chronology | ||||
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Singles from Message | ||||
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Message is the second studio album by Japanese pop singer Aya Ueto. It was released on March 3, 2004 on Flight Master.
Background
[edit]Message includes Ueto's previous singles "Message/Personal", "Kanshō/Mermaid", "Binetsu" and "Ai no Tame ni.". The album's initial track listing included a fourteenth track entitled "Shiawase ni Naru Yō ni" (幸せになるように Wish You Happiness) but it was eventually scrapped and never released. The seventh track, "Taiyō to Tsuki", was initially called "Tonari ni Ite Hoshii" (I Want You By My Side), which is a line from the song's chorus. The second track, "Okuru Kotoba", is a cover of the Tetsuya Takeda-fronted folk band Kaientai's 1979 hit of the same name.
Chart performance
[edit]Message peaked at #4 on the Oricon Daily Albums Chart and debuted at #6 on the Weekly Albums Chart with 43,154 copies sold. The album charted for a total of eleven weeks and sold over 75,000 copies.[1][2][3]
Track listing
[edit]No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Ai no Tame ni." | Tetsurō Oda | Oda | 5:06 |
2. | "Okuru Kotoba" (贈る言葉 The Words I Send to You) | Tetsuya Takeda | Kazuomi Chiba | 4:33 |
3. | "Message (Album Version)" | Yūho Iwasato | H∧L | 4:35 |
4. | "Aozora" (青空 Blue Sky) | Shin'ichi Asada | Kosuke Morimoto | 3:56 |
5. | "Kanshō" | Pipeline Project | Pipeline Project | 4:46 |
6. | "Mermaid" | Pipeline Project | Pipeline Project | 3:58 |
7. | "Taiyō to Tsuki" (太陽と月 The Sun and Moon) | Mikio Sakai | Sakai | 5:08 |
8. | "Personal" | T2ya | T2ya | 4:53 |
9. | "Binetsu" | Hiromasa Ijichi | Miki Watabe | 4:04 |
10. | "Kiseki" (キセキ Miracle) | T2ya | T2ya | 4:52 |
11. | "Silence (Coconuts Groove Version)" | Hanano Tanaka | Nobuyuki Shimizu | 5:16 |
12. | "Steppin' Out (Complete Version)" | Naho Tanaka | H∧L | 3:07 |
13. | "Ai no Tame ni. (Lover's Splash Mix)" | Oda | Oda | 5:34 |
Total length: | 59:48 |
Charts and sales
[edit]Chart (2004) | Peak position |
Sales |
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Japan Oricon Daily Albums Chart[1] | 4 | 74,934[3] |
Japan Oricon Weekly Albums Chart[2] | 6 | |
Japan Oricon Monthly Albums Chart[4] | 26 | |
Japan SoundScan Albums Chart[5] | 9 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Oricon (2004-03-03). "21世紀は上戸彩でいこうぞね Part 44" (in Japanese). 2channel. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ a b Oricon. "上戸彩のCDアルバムランキング、上戸彩のプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE". Oricon (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ a b Oricon (2011-01-21). "ポニーキャニオン@売上データ補完スレ - 売上スレ避難所@JBBS掲示板" (in Japanese). JBBS Live Door. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Taiju']. Oricon. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
- ^ "週刊 CDソフト TOP20". SoundScan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-01-21.