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A Scenery Like Me
is a self-cover album by Chara, which was released on February 18, 2004. It debuted at #27 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 300 for 5 weeks. It eventually sold 19,000 copies. The album features new versions of material from her first four studio albums, Sweet, Soul Kiss, Violet Blue and Happy Toy; as well as two new songs, and . The new versions featured a stripped down arrangement, self-produced by Chara and performed with her band. Two songs were used as promotional tracks. The self-cover of was used as a radio single, and a music video was filmed for it. The self-cover of was used as the opening theme song for the NHK interview show . Track listing Japan Sales Rankings References {{DEFAULTSORT:Scenery Like Me Chara (singer) albums 2004 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara (singer)
, better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single ''Heaven''. She is known for her song " Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film '' Swallowtail Butterfly'' in which she starred, her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine. Early life Chara grew up in Kawaguchi, Saitama. She started learning the piano from age four, and starting composing songs in elementary school. In her first year of elementary school, she performed a song she had written, , at a school piano recital., accessed through She originally received her nickname ''Chara'' in junior high school, after a teacher called her this. She was so well known by this name that even some of her friends did not know her real name. She continues to use this name as she believes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other trends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoake Mae
is the ninth studio album by Chara, which was released on March 19, 2003. It debuted at #17 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 300 for 5 weeks. It eventually sold 47,000 copies. The entire album was produced and written by Chara. It was her last original album release on Sony. Two singles were released from the album: and . Track listing Singles Japan sales rankings References {{Authority control Chara (singer) albums 2003 albums Ambient pop albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something Blue (Chara Album)
is the tenth album by Chara, which was released on August 31, 2005. It was released independently, and only 2,000 copies were produced. These were distributed between her online fan-club, as well as at live concerts. Chara describes Something Blue's style as much darker than her other work. She self-produced the album, completely writing and arranging it, along with recording it in her own home. She created the album despite not having a music contract, as "music was her life, and something she couldn't just stop." Chara describes that time in her life as painful and depressing, and re-listening to the recordings brought back such memories. This is her rationale as to why the album has not been re-released since. Two months prior to the release of this album, Chara had released a digital single, . This was used as the theme song for the Japanese release of the movie March of the Penguins. While this was not included in the album, an extended EP of this was later released on iT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are Wa Ne
Are commonly refers to: * Are (unit), a unit of area equal to 100 m2 Are, ARE or Åre may also refer to: Places * Åre, a locality in Sweden * Åre Municipality, a municipality in Sweden ** Åre ski resort in Sweden * Are Parish, a municipality in Pärnu County, Estonia **Are, Estonia, a small borough in Are Parish * Are, Saare County, a village in Pöide Parish, Saare County, Estonia * Arab Republic of Egypt * United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code ARE) Science, technology, and mathematics * ''Are'' (moth), a genus of moth * Activated reactive evaporation * Admiralty Research Establishment, a precursor to the UK's Defence Research Agency * Aircraft Reactor Experiment, a US military program in the 1950s * Algebraic Riccati equation, in control theory * Asymptotic relative efficiency, in statistics * AU-rich element, in genetics Organisations * Admiralty Research Establishment, a precursor to the UK's Defence Research Agency * Association for Research a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet (Chara Album)
Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin and aspartame. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself. The perceived intensity of sugars and high-potency sweeteners, such as Aspartame and Neohesperidin Dihydrochalcone, are heritable, with gene effect accounting for approximately 30% of the variation. The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweetness is the multipoint attachment theory, which involves multiple binding sites between a sweetness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Kiss (Chara Album)
is the second studio album by Chara, which was released on September 1, 1992. It debuted at #14 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 200 for seven weeks. It eventually sold 65,000 copies. It was preceded by the single debut single in July. A re-cut single, , was released two months after the album's release date. It featured rock musician Rolly Teranishi in background vocals. Neither of these singles charted in the Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ... top 100 singles. In December 1992, ''Soul Kiss'' received a Japan Record Award for best rock/pop album from a new artist. In October 1993, the album was awarded the first Ryoichi Hattori Music Festival Album of Excellence Award, created in memory of Hattori, who died in January of that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Blue (album)
is the third studio album by Chara, which was released on September 9, 1993. It debuted at #4 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 200 for 8 weeks. It eventually sold 123,000 copies. After the comparative success of her last album, Soul Kiss, Chara rose in popularity. Her first single from the album, , was used in a Shiseido 'PJ Lapis' commercial campaign. It reached #66 on the singles chart: her first solo charting single. , her next single, was her first double A-side single. Both songs featured commercial tie-ups (Marui Gift Campaign CMs and Snow Brand "Icecream Vintage" CMs respectively). ''"Charlotte no Okurimono"'' literally means ''Charlotte's Present'', however this was the Japanese localisation's title of the famous 1952 children's book Charlotte's Web ''Charlotte's Web'' is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. The novel tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Toy
is the fourth studio album by Chara, which was released on October 10, 1994. It debuted at #4 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 200 for 7 weeks. It eventually sold 145,000 copies. Two singles were released from the album: in May, and in September. ''Tsumibukaku Aishite yo'', despite not having any tie-up like her former popular singles, reached #55 on the singles charts and sold more than these singles. ''Atashi Nande Dakishimetai n darou?'' was used in commercials for the Toyota Starlet car. This single sold app. 38,000 copies, and has since become one of her signature songs. Track listing ''Note: translations are official translations, as written in the album booklet. More accurate translations are listed in brackets.'' Singles Japan Sales Rankings References {{Authority control Chara (singer) albums 1994 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
