| Arisa's Favorite: T.K. Songs | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by Arisa Mizuki | ||||
| Released | November 27, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1991–96 | |||
| Genre | Pop, dance | |||
| Length | 63:28 | |||
| Label | Nippon Columbia | |||
| Producer | Tetsuya Komuro, Johny Taira (exec.) | |||
| Arisa Mizuki chronology | ||||
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Arisa's Favorite: T.K. Songs is the second compilation album by Japanese recording artist Arisa Mizuki, released through Nippon Columbia on November 27, 1996. The twelve-track set is a collection of songs written and produced by Tetsuya Komuro, selected from Mizuki's past albums and singles. The compilation is Mizuki's last album on which she is credited as Arisa Mizuki.
A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology.
Alisa Mizuki is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. Mizuki is represented by the talent agency Vision Factory. Born in Nerima, Tokyo to Japanese-American parents, Mizuki began modelling for magazines and appearing in commercials at the age of four.
Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd., often pronounced Korombia, TYO: 6791, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd.. It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until October 1, 2002, when it became Columbia Music Entertainment, Inc.. On October 1, 2010, the company returned to its current name. Outside Japan, the company formerly as the Savoy Label Group, which releases recordings on the SLG, Savoy Jazz, and continues to operate as Denon. It also manufactured electronic products under the Denon brand name until 2001. In 2017, Concord Music acquired Savoy Label Group.
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The Komuro-produced "Promise to Promise," which was released four months prior to the compilation was included on the album in the form of a remix. The original version, which peaked at number 17 on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart, selling over 140,000 copies and becoming Mizuki's first single to enter the top twenty since "Dakishimete!" (1995), was later included on Mizuki's third compilation album Fiore II .
"Promise to Promise" is the twelfth single by Japanese recording artist Arisa Mizuki. It was released on July 24, 1996 as the first and only single from Mizuki's second compilation album Arisa's Favorite: T.K. Songs, which features the "Urban Street Mix" version. The "Straight Run" version was included on Mizuki's third compilation album Fiore II. The title track served as theme song for the first season of the Fuji TV drama Nurse no Oshigoto, starring Mizuki herself. "Promise to Promise" was written by Tetsuya Komuro and Takahiro Maeda, and composed and produced by Komuro, making it Mizuki's fourth single to be produced by Komuro. Komuro wrote the song after having read the script for the drama.
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.
"Dakishimete!" is the ninth single by Japanese recording artist Arisa Mizuki. It was released on May 24, 1995 as the second single from Mizuki's fourth studio album Cute. Both the title track and B-side, "Zutto Soba ni Ite," were written by Masanori Nagaoka, and composed by Yasuhiko Hoshino. "Dakishimete!" was used in commercials for Umi to Taiyō no Megumi de Arau Body Soap by Shiseido, starring Mizuki herself.
CDJournal described the Arisa's Favorite: T.K. Songs as an album that "traces the growth of Mizuki and the evolution of Komuro's sound." [1] The compilation debuted at number 19 on the Oricon Weekly Albums chart with 21,950 copies in its first week, becoming her first album in three years to debut in the top twenty, since Fiore , and overall fourth and last album to do so. [2]
Fiore is the first compilation album by Japanese recording artist Arisa Mizuki, released through Nippon Columbia on October 1, 1993. The eleven-track set features a selection of songs from Mizuki's first two studio albums, Arisa and Arisa II: Shake Your Body for Me, as well as two original songs. It is Mizuki's first album to include the original versions of both "Densetsu no Shōjo" (1991) and "Too Shy Shy Boy!" (1992).
