"Message" / "Personal" is a
double A-side single by Japanese singer
Aya Ueto off her second studio album, ''
Message
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A ...
''. It was released by
Flight Master on May 14, 2003.
Background
"Message" was written by Yuho Iwasato, composed by
Hal, and arranged and produced by Sin.
The song was used in commercials for
Kao deodorant 8×4, starring Ueto herself.
Ueto has stated that "Message" is one of her personal favorite songs of hers.
The release of the single coincided with the start of Ueto's first concert tour, Ueto Aya First Live Tour Pureness 2003, and the premiere of her first feature film, ''
Azumi
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''.
"Personal" was written, composed, arranged and produced by
T2ya
T2ya, born , is a Japanese songwriter and keyboardist from Gunma Prefecture. In the 1990s, he supported the agency Rising Production, which was later renamed Vision Factory. He wrote both the music and the lyrics of Olivia Lufkin's " I.L.Y. (Yokub ...
.
The song is composed in the key of
B minor
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:
Changes neede ...
and set to a tempo of 92
beats per minute
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. Ueto's vocals span from A
3 to D
5
Chart performance
"Message" / "Personal" entered the daily
Oricon Singles Chart
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at number 5,
where it also peaked.
The single debuted at number 10 on the weekly chart, selling 18,000 copies in the first week,
and at number 9 on the
SoundScan
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singles chart.
"Message" / "Personal" charted on the Oricon Singles Chart for six weeks, selling a reported total of 28,000 copies during its run.
Track listing
Credits and personnel
"Message"
* Sin – producer,
keyboards
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Music
* Musi ...
and programming
* Yūho Iwasato - songwriter
*
HΛL - songwriter
* Hideyuki Fukasawa - synthesizer
* Kenji Suzuki - guitar
* Chieko Kinbara - strings
* Kumiko Yoshida - chorus
* Hironobu Asano –
engineering
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,
audio mixing
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* Nao Yoshida - production coordinator
"Personal"
*
T2ya
T2ya, born , is a Japanese songwriter and keyboardist from Gunma Prefecture. In the 1990s, he supported the agency Rising Production, which was later renamed Vision Factory. He wrote both the music and the lyrics of Olivia Lufkin's " I.L.Y. (Yokub ...
– songwriter, producer, keyboards and programming
* Naoki Hayashibe - guitar
* Yumi Kawamura - chorus
* Yasuyuki Hara – engineering
* Jun'nosuke Sato – engineering
* Hironobu Asano – audio mixing
Credits adapted from ''
Best of Uetoaya: Single Collection'' album liner notes.
Charts
Sales
Release history
References
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2003 songs
2003 singles
Aya Ueto songs
Songs used as jingles
Songs with lyrics by Yuho Iwasato
Song recordings produced by Sin (music producer)