''Locks'' is the sixth
studio album
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by Japanese band
Garnet Crow.It was released on March 18, 2008 under
Giza Studio label.
Background
The album includes three previously released singles, ''Kaze to Rainbow/Kono Te wo Nobaseba'', ''Namida no Yesterday'' and ''Sekai wa Mawaru to Iu Keredo''. Two were remixed under the title ''album ver.'', with instrumentation 30 seconds longer and more varied in comparison to the original singles.
Locks is the group's first album which was released in three formats: regular edition, limited "A" and "B" CD+DVD edition. Limited "A" includes DVD disc with the short footage of their live ''Garnet Crow Special Live in Ninnanji'' and limited "B" includes DVD disc with three music videoclips.
Commercial performance
"Locks" made its chart debut on the official
Oricon Albums Chart
The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon originally published LP, CT, Cartridge and CD charts prior to the establishment of the Oricon Albu ...
at #5 rank for first week with 31,555 sold copies. It charted for 6 weeks and sold more than 45,000 copies.
Track listing
All tracks are composed by Yuri Nakamura, written by Nana Azuki and arranged by Hirohito Furui.
Usage in media
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Namida no Yesterday was used as opening theme for Anime television series ''
Detective Conan''
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Sekai wa Mawaru to Iu Keredo was used as ending theme for anime ''
Detective Conan''
#Mou Ichido Waratte was used as ending theme for
TBS program ''Deji@Kan''
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Kaze to Rainbow Kaze may refer to:
* KAZE, an American radio station located in Texas
* KAZe, a Japanese video game developer
* Kazé, a French publishing company
* Kaze-Forces for the Defense of Democracy, a political party in Burundi
Fiction
* ''Kaze'' (telev ...
was used as opening theme for Anime television series ''
MÄR''
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Kono Te wo Nobaseba Kono may refer to:
Geography
*Kono District, a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone
**Kono people, an ethnic group in Sierra Leone
* Kono, Nigeria, a village in Rivers State, Nigeria
*Kōno, Fukui, a village in Fukui, Japan
* Kono peopl ...
was used as ending theme for Anime television series ''
MÄR''
References
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2008 albums
Being Inc. albums
Japanese-language albums
Giza Studio albums
Garnet Crow albums
Albums produced by Daiko Nagato