5 Ahead

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5 Ahead
5 Ahead TOKIO album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Tokio
ReleasedDecember 5, 2001
Genre Japanese Rock/Pop
Length1:17:01
Label Universal Music
Tokio chronology
Best EP Selection of Tokio II
(2001)		5 Ahead
(2001)		 Glider
(2003)

5 Ahead is the seventh studio album by Japanese band Tokio. It was released on December 5, 2001. [1] It was the first album to be released under Universal Music Japan. The album reached eighth place on the Oricon weekly chart and charted for six weeks. [2]

Tokio (band) Japanese rock/pop band

Tokio is a Japanese rock/pop band formed by Johnny & Associates that debuted in 1994. It is made up of five men who were signed with Sony Music Entertainment from 1994 to 2001, with Universal Music Japan from 2001 to 2008, and are now signed under J Storm, a label owned by Johnny & Associates. In addition to their activities as a band, the members of Tokio also act in dozens of dramas and host variety programmes, both as a group and individually.

Oricon Inc., 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. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.

Contents

The name of the album is a pun: 5 in Japanese is pronounced Go; thus, the real name of the album is GO AHEAD.

Track listing

Disc 1

No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."5 Ahead"———0:30
2."Hey! Mr Sampling Man"Koutarou KubotaKoutarou KubotaKoutarou Kubota4:21
3."DR."Koutarou KubotaKoutarou KubotaKoutarou Kubota and KAM4:08
4."Doitsumo Koitsumo (Album Version)"Jun AbeJun AbeKaaTo4:30
5."Baby Blue"Shigeru JoshimaShigeru JoshimaTaku Yoshioka4:57
6."04515"HikariHikariHikari4:09
7."Only One Song"TwuneTwuneKanichirou Kubo4:18
8."Kanpai!!"Masato Ochi, Bill Martin、and Philip CoulterKenichi Ase, Bill Martin、and Philip CoulterMotoki Funayama and Tatsuo Nagami3:34
9."Sugarless Love"Masato OchiAkio ShimizuTomoki Ishitzuka3:44
10."T2"Taichi KokubunTaichi KokubunTaichi Kokubun and KAM3:28
11."36°C (Original Words and Music by John Peppard and Marwenna Diame)"Shigeru JoshimaShigeru JoshimaYoshihiko Chino3:44
12."Message"Koutarou KubotaKoutarou KubotaKAM4:43
13."Symphonic"HikariHikariKAM5:46
14."Hitoribocchi no Haburashi (Acoustic Version)"TsunkuTsunkuYuichi Takahashi4:46

Disc 2

No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Opening ~Talk 1"———5:30
2."The Future Is Chance of Infinity"Yasuhiro SatouYasuhiro SatouYasuhiro Satou and KAM1:34
3."Talk 2"———8:54
4."Yesterday's (Acoustic Version)"Akio ShimizuAkio ShimizuKAM4:34

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Johnny's Net TOKIO Discography - Albums" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
  2. ↑ "ＴＯＫＩＯ-リリース-ORICON STYLE ミュージック" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-02-17.
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