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Globe (album)
''Globe'' (stylized as ''globe'') is the debut studio album by Japanese band Globe. Released by Avex Trax on March 31, 1996, the album features the singles " Feel Like Dance", "Joy to the Love", "Sweet Pain", " Departures, and "Freedom". "Departures" sold over two million copies, becoming the second highest-selling single in Japan (behind Mr. Children's "Namonaki Uta"). The album hit No. 1 on Oricon's weekly albums chart. It sold over 4,136,000 copies and was certified as a 4 Million seller by the RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include p .... Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certification References External links Official website* * {{Authority control 1996 debut albums Japanese-language albums Albums produced by Tetsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Globe (band)
is a dance-oriented Japanese pop band, formed in 1995 by producer and songwriter Tetsuya Komuro. Originally consisting of Komuro, Keiko Yamada and Marc Panther, the group's singles consistently hit the charts. In late 2002 Yoshiki, drummer and pianist for X Japan, joined the group, but he left the band about a year later. Their 1996 debut album, ''Globe'', sold over 4 million copies, and their 1998 single "wanna Be A Dreammaker" won the grand prix award at the 40th Japan Record Awards, the Japanese record industry's highest honor. Komuro also mentioned there will be some collaboration work with other artists with the artist title of ''Globe Featuring'', and ''Globe Extreme'' for collaborations with Yoshiki. Members ; Globe * Tetsuya "TK" Komuro – The ex-pianist, producer and mastermind of the band. In the Globe Extreme era he played the guitar instead of keyboards. * Keiko – The main vocalist of the band. Sings in Japanese and English. * Marc Panther (real name ) – The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recording Industry Association Of Japan
The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include promotion of music sales, enforcement of copyright law, and research related to the Japanese music industry. It publishes the annual ''RIAJ Year Book'', a statistical summary of each year's music sales, as well as distributing a variety of other data. Headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, the RIAJ has twenty member companies and a smaller number of associate and supporting members; some member companies are the Japanese branches of multinational corporations headquartered elsewhere. The association is responsible for certifying gold and platinum albums and singles in Japan. RIAJ Certification In 1989, the Recording Industry Association of Japan introduced the music recording certification systems. It is awarded based on shipment figures of com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese-language Albums
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Debut Albums
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38th Japan Record Awards
The 38th Annual Japan Record Awards took place on December 31, 1996, starting at 6:30PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS. Award winners *Japan Record Award: **Tetsuya Komuro (producer) & Namie Amuro for "Don't Wanna Cry" *Best Vocalist: **Yoshimi Tendo *Best New Artist: **Puffy AmiYumi *Best Album: **globe for "globe" External linksOfficial Website {{Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Until 2005, the show aired on New Year's Eve, but has since aired every December 30 on TBS Japan at 6:30 P.M JST ... 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glay
Glay (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese rock band, formed in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, in 1988. Glay primarily composes songs in the rock and pop genres, but they have also arranged songs using elements from a wide variety of genres, including progressive rock, punk, electronic, R&B, folk, gospel, reggae, and ska. Originally a visual kei band, the group slowly shifted to less dramatic attire through the years. As of 2008, Glay had sold an estimated 51 million records; 28 million singles and 23 million albums, making them one of the top ten best-selling artists of all time in Japan. History 1988–1994: Indies era Glay formed in 1988 as a high school band when Takuro asked Teru, a schoolmate, to play the drums. They found a bassist but had difficulty finding a vocalist. When Teru made a tape of his singing and gave it to Takuro he was immediately recruited for the part, leaving the drums part to be filled by another person. On the search for a second guitarist, Hisashi w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beloved (Glay Album)
''Beloved'' is the fourth album by Japanese rock/pop band Glay. It was released on November 18, 1996, and peaked at #1 at Oricon charts, with 1,522,540 copies sold. The album was certified "Million" by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Track listing #Groovy Tour - 6:12 #Lovers Change Fighters, Cool - 3:59 #Beloved - 4:45 # - 3:26 #Fairy Story - 4:06 # - 6:52 #Hit the World Chart! - 5:29 # - 4:52 # - 5:02 # - 5:34 # - 5:03 #Rhapsody - 5:18 References Beloved page at Oricon External links Glay Official Site {{Authority control 1996 albums Glay albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Record Award For The Best Album
The Japan Record Award for the Best Album ("最優秀アルバム賞") is awarded annually, but was suspended in 2006, 2007, 2020 to 2022. The top honor for albums was named the Album Grand Prix Award ("アルバム大賞") until 2001, when it was replaced by the Best Album award ("ベストアルバム賞"), and underwent another Japanese name change in 2008. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ..., the Best Album award was not presented from 2020 to 2022. References External links Japan Composer's Association {{Japanese Music Award Shows Japanese music awards Album awards ... [...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] |
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] |
Namonaki Uta
"" is the tenth single by Mr. Children, released by Toy's Factory on February 5, 1996. The cover of the single is Kazutoshi Sakurai's face whose tongue was written "no name". "Namonaki Uta" was used as the theme song of Japanese television drama ''Pure''. On the Japanese Oricon weekly chart, the single "Namonaki Uta" opened at number-one with the first week sales of over 1.208 million copies, establishing the Japanese highest first-week single sales record. It topped the 1996 Oricon yearly single charts and sold over 2.308 million copies in total. It is the second best-selling song for the band behind their 1994 single "Tomorrow Never Knows (Mr. Children song), Tomorrow Never Knows." The song was covered by Kohmi Hirose on her 2010 album ''Drama Songs''. Track listing References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departures (Globe Song)
is the fourth single by Japanese band Globe. Written by Tetsuya Komuro, the single was released on January 1, 1996, by Avex Globe. Background and release "Departures" was written by Komuro as a tie-in for JR East's "JR Ski Ski" campaign of 1996. The jacket photo was taken at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The single became Globe's second No. 1 on Oricon's weekly chart. It went on to become the second best-selling single in Japan in 1996 and it is the 15th best-selling physical single in Japan, having sold a total of 2.288 million copies. Music video To celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, a new music video for "Departures" was released on May 3, 2016 as part of the "Music Video Drama Project." Directed by Shogo Yabuuchi and starring Ayaka Miyoshi, the video's theme is "breaking away from tragedy caused by love". In the video, Miyoshi plays a grief-stricken woman who exits a train and climbs a snowy mountain with a rifle in hand. Overwhelmed by her sadness, she fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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