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U.Be Love
''U.Be Love'' is the third studio album and second mini album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 10 November 1993 under B-Gram Records. Album consist of two previously released singles, ''Wakaremashou Watashi kara Kiemashou Anata kara'' and ''Harlem Night''. The coupling song ''Kimi wo Aisareru Sono tame ni'' from single ''Chotto'' was included in this album as well. ''Blue Christmas'' is the first Christmas thematic song written and composed by Maki herself. The album reached No. 2 in its first week 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 Nov ... chart. The album sold 267,640 copies. Track listing All tracks arranged by Takeshi Hayama. References {{reflist Being Inc. albums Japanese-language EPs 1993 EPs Maki Ohguro a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maki Ohguro
is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter from Sapporo, Hokkaido under B-Gram Records label. Biography In 1989, she passed Being Inc.'s singers audition, the "3rd BAD". In 1992, she debuted with the single "Stop Motion" released under B-Gram Records. Her second single "DA・KA・RA" sold 1.1 million copies and won the Japan Record Grand Prix Newcomer Award of the Year. Because of her rare public appearances, she was originally known as a phantom singer, like Izumi Sakai of Zard. Her famous songs are "DA・KA・RA", "Chotto", as well as others. "Anata Dake Mitsumeteru", the first ending theme for ''Slam Dunk'', was the number 2 song for the month of January 1994, and is certified as a Million record, selling 1,087,160 copies. She joined in production of albums and singles in position of backing chorus for various artist including Field of View, Wands, Deen, Zard and many others. In 1999. she released a compilation album "Maki Ohguro Best of Best -All Singles Collection-", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese 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 tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiko Nagato
is a Japanese musical producer, musical arranger, writer and composer. He's more known as a founder of music company Being Inc., which provided million seller hits during the 1990s and with his music company provided more than 80 theme songs for anime television series Detective Conan. He was the charge recording producer for the following artist such as Boøwy, Loudness, TUBE, B'z, ZARD, WANDS, Maki Ohguro, DEEN, T-BOLAN, Mai Kuraki, Garnet Crow and Rina Aiuchi. Life and career 1978-1993 On 1 November 1978, he established music company, Being with Keisuke Tsukimitsu (later known as a main producer of band Lindberg), composer Tetsuro Oda and lyricist Tomoko Aran and others. In 1989, famous Japanese rock duo B'z debuted under Vermillion Records and by their debut as the first Being artist, he maintained his position officially in the Being Office. With the debut of band Zard in 1991 and following success of debuting and producing artist next two years, there was a temporal soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Da Da Da (album)
Da Da Da (stylized as DA・DA・DA) is the second studio album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 28 April 1993 under Emi Music Japan, on same day as the fourth single, "Wakaremashō Watashi Kara Kiemashō Anata Kara" (which is included on the next studio album U.Be Love). Background Album includes two previously singles, "Dakara" and "Chotto", which raised her popularity as singer with more than 1.84 million sold copies together and 8 newly recorded songs. Promotion Singles "Dakara" is the second single overall and her final single to be released in 1992. The single was written by coincidence meeting with the director of the television commercial for Toyo Suisan's Hot Noodles, who requested personally Ohguro to write the song within one night. The single has been her first hit song, charted on the number 2 on the Oricon Single Weekly Charts and sold in total more than million copies. In the 1992 Yearly Oricon Ranking Charts, it stayed at numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eien No Yume Ni Mukatte
is the fourth studio album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 9 November 1994 under B-Gram Records. The album consist of four previously released singles, ''Anata Dake Mitsumeteru'', ''Shiroi Graduation'', ''Natsu ga Kuru'' and ''Eien no Yume ni Mukatte''. All of these four singles become her big hits which sold more than 400,000 copies, except of Anata Dake Mitsumeteru and Natsu ga Kuru which sold more than million copies. The album reached No. 1 in its first week on the Oricon chart. The album sold 1,583,000 copies. It's her the first album which reached million sold copies. It got rewarded with Gold disc by ''Recording Industry Association of Japan''. Track listing All tracks arranged by Takeshi Hayama. In media *Anata dake Mitsumeteru: ending theme for Anime television series ''Slam Dunk'' *Eien no Yume ni Mukatte: opening theme for Tokyo Broadcasting System Television program ''Count Down TV'' *Natsu ga Kuru: opening theme for Tokyo B ... [...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] |
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] |
Being Inc
Being Incorporated, d.b.a. Being Giza Group, is a Japanese private entertainment conglomerate based in Tokyo's Roppongi district, founded on November 1, 1978 by musician Daiko Nagato. Being Inc. and its subsidiaries are the main supplier of theme music for the anime series ''Detective Conan''. As of May 2011, 77 theme tunes have been supplied to the anime by Being Inc. Labels Nowadays production-based record company are no longer a rare thing, however Being has established a dedicated record company and label in quick succession since 1991. Label companies under the label companies that are part of Being Inc. are also subsequently owned by Being Inc. It includes indies labels as well. Independent labels *Zain Records (1991,previously named as B.Jin) *VERMILLION RECORDS (1992, previously named as BMG ROOMS) - formerly a joint venture with BMG Japan (now Sony Music Entertainment Japan) *Giza Studio (1999) *B.Gram-Records (1991) - formerly a joint venture with Nippon PolyGram (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese-language EPs
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 move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 EPs
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Maki Ohguro Albums
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