''Papillon'' is the first studio album from
Japanese
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singer
Hitomi Shimatani
is a Japanese pop singer signed to the Avex Trax label.
Shimatani started her career as an Enka singer with the release of her debut single in 1999, but later decided to get into the dance/ pop style for her music. Shimatani's music has also ...
. It was released on June 27, 2001, and hit #7 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 ...
charts. Since then, it was last recorded as having sold around 147,030 copies.
The title track is a Japanese-language cover of "
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", a hit single by
American
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singer
Janet Jackson
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.
Track listing
# パピヨン:Papillon (Papiyon)
# Fantasista
# 市場に行こう (Ichiba ni Ikou, ''Let's Go to the Market'')
# Last Shooting Star
# His rhythm
# 解放区 (album version) (Kaihouku, ''Free Zone'')
# Motto...
# Splash
# Sugary
# Thanksful
# 絶対温度 (Zettai Ondo, ''Absolute Temperature'')
# Thinking of You
# パピヨン: Papillon (Eastern Butterfly) (''Bonus Track'')
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Hitomi Shimatani albums
2001 debut albums