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's third Japanese studio album. The album was released on May 27, 2009, under her label

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. The album was released in two formats: CD-only and a limited

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version that contains four music videos and the making of the video. The motto of the album is: "If you can dream it, you can do it".

Overview

The release of ''Dream'' comes just over one year after Ito's second studio album, ''

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''. ''Dream'' includes the three singles that were released in order to promote the album. Also included in the album is the

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to "

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", , featuring hip-hop duo

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which was also used to promote the album.

Promotion

The first single " Miss You" was used as the background song for

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's Vitamin Fruit commercial in which Ito appeared. "

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" was used to promote the Gap's 2008 Holiday Collection "Winter Neutrals" campaign. "

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" was used as the ending theme song for the second season of

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. "Brand New World", the

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for "Trust You" was used as the background music for Hawkins Sports. Unlike the other three songs, Love Machine Gun was not released as a single but was used as the insert song for the

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Track listing

Singles

* Miss You: The first single released from ''Dream''. "Miss You" debuted at #20 on the Oricon single chart. *

: The second single from the album. It debuted at #44 on the charts. *

: The last single from the album was "

". "Trust You" debuted at #5 on the charts.

Charts and certifications

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dream (Yuna Ito Album) Yuna Ito albums 2009 albums