is the eighth studio album by Japanese rock band Radwimps and the soundtrack for the 2016 Japanese animated film ''

Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. The film was commis ...

'', released on August 24, 2016, by EMI Records and

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. It debuted at #1 on

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's weekly album rankings on September 5, 2016, with 58,000 copies sold. It received an

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of Double Platinum from the

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for sales of 500,000 in 2017. The album also charted on US ''Billboard''. It peaked at #16 on ''Billboard'' Heatseekers Albums, #15 on ''Billboard'' Soundtracks Albums, and #2 on ''Billboard'' World Albums chart. The vocal tracks were re-recorded in English and became available digitally on January 27, 2017, with a CD release on March 10, 2017.

Background

According to vocalist Yojiro Noda, it took almost a year and a half to make the entire score for ''Your Name'' movie. Director

Makoto Shinkai , known as , is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, author, and manga artist. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) ' ...

, who is also a fan of the band, approached Noda through producer Genki Kawamura as soon as the production of movie was confirmed. When recording the soundtrack, the band was not able to see the actual animation until it was all finished, so they wrote music based on the script and words of the director, which caused many compositions to be adjusted to fit the animation. "It was really difficult to arrange music to fit the animation by the second," said guitarist Akira Kuwahara. "The songwriting process was moving forward at the same time with the animation so it influenced each other. The music changed the story, the lines, and if the new scene was created, we changed the music. It was a creative process," added Noda.

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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