Butterfly is the sixteenth studio album by Japanese
pop band
Deen. It was released on 1 June 2016 under the
Epic Records Japan
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Between 1978 and 1988 the label operated as a wholly owned subsidiary: Epic/Sony Inc. () was established in August 1978 label.
Background
This album doesn't consist of any single. The single ''Zutto Tsutaekatta I love you'' didn't make it in this album, instead it will be included in their seventeenth studio album ''
Parade'' which released in August 2017.
According to official website, it's the continuation of their studio album
Crawl
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as the ''Summer Special Album Vol.2''.
This album includes completely new tracks with several tracks of their big hits such as ''Hitori Janai'', ''Smile Blue'' and ''coconuts feat.kokomo'' with completely new arrangement of the summer feeling.
Shinji and Kouji in this album performs their own original songs ''Climb High'' and ''Walking on Sunshine''. The album includes as well the covers of
Yumi Matsutoya
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's song ''Mannatsu no Yoru no Yume'' and
The Boom
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's song ''Kaze ni Naritai''.
This album was released in three formats: regular CD edition and limited A/B CD+DVD edition. The limited A edition includes DVD footage of their live performance ''Deen Live Joy - Break19 ~Zenkai Koigokoro!!~''. The limited B edition includes CD with seven live recordings from their live performance ''Deen AOR Night Cruisin' ~3rd Groove~''
Charting
The album reached #23 in its first week and charted for 3 weeks, selling 5,000+ copies.
Track listing
References
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Sony Music albums
Japanese-language albums
2016 albums
Deen (band) albums