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Shanti (Hitomi Shimatani Album)
''シャンティ'' (''Shanti'') is the second studio album from Japanese singer Hitomi Shimatani. It was released on June 12, 2002, and hit #1 on 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 ... charts. Since then, it was last recorded as having sold around 438,447 copies. Thus far, it is her highest-selling studio album, and her only one to top the Oricon weekly charts. The album also contains 亜麻色の髪の乙女, Shimatani's highest-selling single to date with 375,000 copies sold. Track listing # Introduction # Shanti # Amairo no Kami no Otome, ''The Girl with the Flaxen Hair'') # Glorious Day # Interlude # A.S.A.P.: As Soon As Possible # She Is... # Remember of You # Interlude # Yasashii Kiss no Mitsukekata (Yasashii Kiss no Mitsukekata, ''How to Find an Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitomi Shimatani
is a Japanese pop singer signed to the Avex Trax label. Shimatani started her career as an Enka singer with the release of her debut single in 1999, but later decided to get into the dance/ pop style for her music. Shimatani's music has also appeared in video games and also anime series. Biography Early life At the age of seventeen, while still in high school, Shimatani attended "The Japan Audition 1997", where she was chosen as the winner out of around 200,000 people and got a recording contract with the Avex label. After this she continued her studies in high school in Hiroshima, although she started to take vocal lessons in Tokyo during the weekends. She graduated from Shimizugaoka High School. 1999–2002: Debut and mainstream success Her first single, entitled "Ōsaka no Onna" which was an enka song, was released in 1999 on the Avex Trax label. The single went to the top of the Oricon's Enka charts and much critical acclaim, but failed to chart within the Top ... [...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] |
Papillon (Hitomi Shimatani Album)
''Papillon'' is the first studio album from Japanese singer Hitomi Shimatani. It was released on June 27, 2001, and hit #7 on the Oricon charts. Since then, it was last recorded as having sold around 147,030 copies. The title track is a Japanese-language cover of "Doesn't Really Matter", a hit single by American singer Janet Jackson Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. She is noted for her innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows. Her sound and choreog .... Track listing # パピヨン:Papillon (Papiyon) # Fantasista # 市場に行こう (Ichiba ni Ikou, ''Let's Go to the Market'') # Last Shooting Star # His rhythm # 解放区 (album version) (Kaihouku, ''Free Zone'') # Motto... # Splash # Sugary # Thanksful # 絶対温度 (Zettai Ondo, ''Absolute Temperature'') # Thinking of You # パピヨン: Papillon (Eastern Butterfly) (''Bonus Track'') {{DEFAU ... [...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] |
Amairo No Kami No Otome
was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He was best known for composing the music for the ''Dragon Quest'' franchise, along with several other video games, anime, film, and television shows. Classically trained, Sugiyama was considered a major inspiration for other Japanese game music composers and was active from the 1960s until his death from septic shock in 2021. Sugiyama was also a council member of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers, and Publishers (JASRAC), board member of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, and honorary chairman of the Japanese Backgammon Society. Prior to his death, he was given the Order of the Rising Sun and was named a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government. He also engaged in politics and activism, such as the promotion of Japanese nationalism and the denial of Japanese war crimes. Career Early life and television career Sugiyama was born in Tokyo, Japan, on April 11, 1931. While growing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitomi Shimatani Albums
Hitomi may refer to:. People * Hitomi (given name), a feminine Japanese given name * Hitomi (voice actress) (born 1967), Japanese voice actress * Hitomi (singer) (born 1976, as Hitomi Furuya), Japanese singer and songwriter * Hitomi Nabatame (born 1976), Japanese voice actress * Hitomi Yaida (born 1978), also known as Yaiko, Japanese pop/folk singer * Hitomi Aizawa (born 1982), Japanese actress, gravure idol and race queen *Hitomi Honda is a Japanese singer. In 2014, she debuted as a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 as a member of Team 8, representing Tochigi Prefecture. From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One. Career ... (born 2001), Japanese singer from Iz*One and AKB48 Fictional characters * Hitomi (''Dead or Alive''), a fictional video game character * Hitomi, a fictional character in the ''Appleseed'' animated film * Hitomi Shizuki, a minor character in the anime/manga series '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
