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Yaiko's Selection
''Yaiko's Selection'' is an album by Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...ese singer and songwriter Hitomi Yaida. It is a collection of tracks personally selected by the singer as her favourite. Originally released as part of the Single Collection/Yaiko's Selection Box Set, it was issued on its own following fan demands. Released in 2004, it peaked at No. 30 on the Japanese albums chart. Track listing References {{Authority control Hitomi Yaida albums 2004 compilation albums ...
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Hitomi Yaida
is a Japanese pop/folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She often goes by the nickname Yaiko. Her musical style is often called "heart rock" by her fans. Yaida is an established musical artist in Japan and has also had minor club hits in the United Kingdom. Career 2000 Born in Toyonaka, Osaka, Yaida first became well known when her first single ("Howling" which included the track "How?") was released in 2000 on Aozora Records, an independent label pre-dominantly distributing to the Kansai area of Osaka only, and reportedly sold in excess of 10,000 copies. Widespread airplay on Osaka's local radio stations and word-of-mouth resulted in both Yaida and Aozora Records becoming the focus of a bidding war between the larger record companies for both recording and distribution contracts, the final Japanese distributing rights being sold to Toshiba-EMI with Aozora retaining artist control and independent label status. " B'coz I Love You" was the first single released under con ...
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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 ...
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Single Collection (Hitomi Yaida Album)
''Single Collection'' is the first Greatest Hits-esque release by Hitomi Yaida, giving a selection of her singles released up to the time of issue. It was also issued as part of the Single collection/Yaiko's selection Box Set. Released in 2004, it peaked at No. 3 on the Japanese albums chart. Track listing References {{DEFAULTSORT:Single Collection Hitomi Yaida albums 2004 compilation albums ...
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Sound Drop MTV Unplugged+Acoustic Live 2005
''Sound Drop MTV Unplugged+Acoustic Live 2005'' is a live album by Hitomi Yaida. Released in 2005, it peaked at No. 29 on the Japanese albums chart. CD track listing (''MTV Unplugged'') DVD track listing (''Acoustic Live 2005'') References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sound Drop Mtv Unplugged and Acoustic Live 2005 Hitomi Yaida albums MTV Unplugged albums 2005 live albums 2005 video albums Live video albums Hitomi Yaida video albums ...
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ...
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Single Collection/Yaiko's Selection
''Single Collection/Yaiko's Selection'' is a CD/DVD Box Set release by Hitomi Yaida. It contains the albums '' Single Collection'' and ''Yaiko's Selection ''Yaiko's Selection'' is an album by Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while ex ...'' with an accompanying DVD. The DVD includes copies of her PV's and also a ''Yaiko Music History''. Released in 2004, it peaked at No. 3 on the Japanese albums chart. References Hitomi Yaida albums 2004 compilation albums 2004 video albums Music video compilation albums {{Japan-album-stub ...
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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 ...
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Hitomi Yaida 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 is a Japanese actress and singer who is affiliated with Ken Production. She sang the opening themes for ''Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu'' under the name "Miran Himemiya and Chocolate Rockers". Filmography Anime ;2003 *''Maburaho'' (Yūna Miyama) ... (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 (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 Ma ...
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