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It's For You (U-ka Saegusa In DB Song)
"It's for You" is a song by Japanese pop rock band U-ka Saegusa in dB. It was released on 28 August 2002 through Giza Studio, as the second single from their first extended play ''Secret & Lies''. The single reached number twenty in Japan and has sold over 14,610 copies nationwide. The song served as the theme songs to the Japanese anime television series, ''Cheeky Angel''. Track listing Charts Certification and sales , - ! scope="row", Japan (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 ...) , , 14,610 , - Release history References {{authority control 2002 singles 2002 songs J-pop songs Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato Songs written by Daria Kawashima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U-ka Saegusa In DB
was a Japanese pop rock band formed in Osaka in 2002. The band consists of lead vocalist U-ka Saegusa, lead guitarist Yūichirō Iwai, lead bassist Taku Ōyabu, and drummer Keisuke Kurumatani. Signed to Giza Studio, the band released four studio albums before disbanding in 2010. They're known for performing the several theme songs for the Japanese anime series, ''Case Closed''. One of the songs, "Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho made", became the band's best-selling single, selling approximately 34,000 copies nationwide. Band members Final line-up * – lead vocals (2002-2010) * – lead guitar, backing vocals (2003-2010) * – lead bass (2003-2010) * – drums, percussion (2003-2010) Former members * (2002) History The band formed in 2002 around lead vocalist Yūka "U-ka" Saegusa, the band's first three singles were all featured in the anime ''Cheeky Angel''. Its first hit single was "Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made", a theme song of the pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akihito Tokunaga
(born 22 September 1971) is a Japanese musical composer and arranger under Giza Studio label since 2000. Biography Since college he worked as orchestrator, then start working as a bassist. For artists as Zard, Mai Kuraki, B'z and many others from Being Inc. Tokunaga provided for them music and arrangements, participate in the live support for more than 15 years. Tokunaga is working as a bassist with high technology. He also participated in many chorus parts which he makes on his own. He is member of rock band doa as vocalist and bassist. Beside of this he's doing programming, is in charge of piano, organ, guitar, mandolin and percussion. He is famous for the composer of ''Dragon Ball GT'' replacing Shunsuke Kikuchi. List of provided works as composer and arranger compositions and arrangements Band-Maid *Don't Let Me Down *Order Mai Kuraki * Feel Fine! * Winter Bells *Stand Up * Make my day *Fairy tale -my last teenage wish- *Diamond Wave * Yume ga Saku Haru Zard *Eien *Photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop Songs
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 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakuten
() is a Japanese technology conglomerate based in Tokyo, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997. Centered around Rakuten Ichiba, its businesses include financial services utilizing financial technology, as well as digital content and communications services such as the messaging app Viber, e-book distributor Kobo, and Japan's fourth mobile carrier Rakuten Mobile. Rakuten has more than 28,000 employees worldwide, operating in 29 countries and regions, and its revenues totaled US $7.2 billion with operating profits of about US$347.9 million as of 2016. Rakuten was the official sponsor of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona from 2017 until 2021,"Gross Merchandise Sales & Number of Employees" Rakuten and the |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...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] |
Nothin' But Love
Nothin' but love was Japanese pop unit under the Giza Studio label. History In June 1999 Yoshinobu has created demo tape and during music production he met in studio with Yuuya. In June 2000, the band formation began. In May 2001, they've released major debut single ''Callin' you'', as B-side track includes cover song ''My Ever Changing Moods'' by The Style Council. On 30 June 2001 they've participated in Kansai Walker Matsuri 2001 Summer's event live where the band has covered Cyndi Lauper's ''Time After Time'' and ''Earth, Wind & Fire'' 's ''Fantasy''. In November 2001, they released second and final single ''Tameiki ha Shiroku, Kimi wa Tooku''. Promotional music video was in media it was used as an :ja:ランク王国#歴代エンディングテーマ, ending theme for Tokyo Broadcasting System Television program '':ja:ランク王国, Rank Oukoku''. None of their singles didn't reach to Oricon rankings successfully and their sales were low. In December 2001, ''Callin' you' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshinobu Ohga
is a Japanese musical arranger and guitarist in distributors Being Inc., mainly in their label Giza Studio. In years 2000-2002 he was part of the Japanese soul band ''Nothin' but love'', in years 2004-2009 part of Japanese pop band ''OOM'' and since 2012 he's member of fusion band ''Sensation'' as a guitarist. List of provided works as arranger ★ album ☆ single/coupling Miho Komatsu * Kanashii Koi☆ * Kimi no Me ni wa Utsuranai ☆ * Love Gone ☆ * Miho Komatsu 4 : A Thousand Feelings ★ * Saigo no Toride ☆ * Aishiteru ☆ * Todomaru Koto no nai Ai ☆ * Dance ☆ * Gift, Comunne with you, Agaki, Demo Wasurenai, Ai no Uta ( Miho Komatsu 5 : Source)★ * Sakura ga Mau Koro ☆ *Kimi Sae Ireba ( Miho Komatsu 6 : Hanano) ★ *Hito wa Oomukashi, Umi ni Sundeta kara, Diplomacy, Kimi no Naseru Waza ( Miho Komatsu 7 : Prime Number)★ * Sugu Koi Nante Dekiru ☆ * Koi ni Nare... ☆ *My darling, Fukigen ni Naru Watashi ( Miho Komatsu 8 : A Piece of Cake) ★ Zard *Mado no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisuke Ikeda (arranger)
is a Japanese musical arranger and keyboardist in distributors Being Inc. Biography In 1990s Ikeda entered to Being Inc. agency where he provided arrangement and strings arrangement for several of famous artist including Zard, Deen, Field of View or Mi-ke. Ikeda was also involved with arranging famous Anime song Moonlight Densetsu by Dali under alias name ''Ikeda Daisuke'' (池田大輔). In 2000s he entered to Giza Studio where he provided arrangements for minor artist as Miho Komatsu. In 2002 he appeared on final live of Field of View as strings arranger. During 2000s period he composed original soundtracks for several Anime television series such as a Fighting Beauty Wulong or Saiyuki Reload. In years 2008-2013 he regularly appeared Garnet Crow live concerts as a string arranger, on final live he provided special arrangement on song ''Sora ni Hanabi wo''. In May 2016, Ikeda participated in Zard's live tour session "25th Anniversary Live" as a keyboardist. DVD footage was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret & Lies
''Secret & Lies'' is the debut extended play (EP) by Japanese pop band U-ka Saegusa in dB, released on 5 February 2003 by Giza Studio. The album peaked at number twenty on the Oricon weekly albums chart and has sold over 30,111 copies nationwide. Singles "Whenever I Think of You" was released on 12 June 2002 as the lead single. The single reached number forty-one in Japan and has sold over 6,580 copies nationwide. The song served as the theme songs to the Japanese anime television series, ''Cheeky Angel''. "Whenever I Think of You" was covered and recorded by the song's writer, Akihito Tokunaga (born 22 September 1971) is a Japanese musical composer and arranger under Giza Studio label since 2000. Biography Since college he worked as orchestrator, then start working as a bassist. For artists as Zard, Mai Kuraki, B'z and many others f ... for his first studio album, ''Route 109'' (2020). Track listing Charts Weekly charts References 2003 EPs Giza Studio albums U-ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
