is the debut studio album by Japanese singer

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. It was released through A.S.A.B on December 24, 2020 for digital download and

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and on January 1, 2021 on CD. It is primarily a

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album, with ingrained influences of

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, and R&B. Eito worked with his musical mentor, Rung Hyang on several songs on the record. The singer listed Hotdogs, In-Sist, and Chinatsu Matsumoto as the guest musicians on the album. The album peaked at number nine on the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums and number eleven on the

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Weekly Albums chart. The lead single, " Kōsui" became a viral hit on the social media app

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in early 2020 before climbing the

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to number one and charting on the

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by September of the same year. "Right Now" was released in October 2020 as the singer's first single from the major label, A.S.A.B. The fourth single from the album, "

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" served as the 2020 winter campaign song for

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. In support of the album, Eito embarked on his first concert tour, ''Together Sukkarakan''.

Promotion

Package

''Sukkarakan'' was released in three physical editions, CD, CD and

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, and CD and

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disc. A small bottle of

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perfume, named "Ano Kōsui no Mini Bottle" was accompanied with the first shipments of each edition.

Tour

To promote the album, Eito embarked on his first national concert tour, titled ''Together Sukkarakan''. The singer visited four cities from February 14, 2021 to February 26 of the same year. The show in

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was originally intended to be held on January 31, 2021, however, it was later pushed back to February 26, 2021 due to the staff's

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contraction.

Singles

" Kōsui" was released independently on April 21, 2019, as the album's lead single. Since the late 2019, "Kōsui" slowly gained populatiry on the social video sharing app TikTok, where the users posted their cover videos of the song. The song eventually entered the

at number 34 in May 2020. The song topped the chart two weeks later and stayed within top ten on the charts for 27 consecutive weeks. As of December 2020, the song has been streamed over 200 million times. The second single from the album, "Hip Hop wa Utaenai" was released on January 25, 2020. "Right Now" was released on October 16, as the album's third single and the singer's first single from a major music label, A.S.A.B. The Ai cover, "

Promotion

Package

Tour

Singles

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Release history

References