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| "Ashita e no Sanka" | ||||
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| Single by Alan | ||||
| from the album Voice of Earth | ||||
| Released | November 21, 2007 | |||
| Genre | J-pop | |||
| Length | 20:30 | |||
| Label | Avex Trax | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Nojima Shinji, Kikuchi Kazuhito | |||
| Producer(s) | Kikuchi Kazuhito | |||
| Alan singles chronology | ||||
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 CD + DVD Cover | ||||
| Voice of Earth track listing | ||||
16 tracks
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"Ashita e no Sanka" (明日への讃歌) is the debut Japanese-language single by Chinese singer Alan. The song was produced by Kikuchi Kazuhito and written by Nojima Shinji, with arrangement by Nakano Yuuta. It was released on November 21, 2007, as the lead single from her debut studio album, Voice of Earth (2009). It was later released in Taiwan on June 20, 2008.
Alan Dawa Dolma, professionally known as Alan, is a female Tibetan Chinese singer active in both the Chinese and Japanese music industries. She is of Tibetan ethnicity.
Kazuhito KikuchiKikuchi Kazuhito is a Japanese composer. From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the J-pop duo Breath.
Voice of Earth is Chinese singer Alan's debut Japanese-language album released by Avex Trax. The album contains the eight singles alan has released from 2007 to 2009. The album was released on March 4, 2009 in Japan.
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The single peaked at number sixty-nine on the Oricon charts, [1] number twenty on the G-Music Jpop/Kpop charts [2] and number nine on the Five-Music Jpop/Kpop charts. [3]
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.
An orchestral version of "Ashita e no Sanka" was included as a b-side on her sixth Japanese single "Red Cliff: Shin-Sen", while the Chinese version, titled "Mingri Zange" (明日讚歌), was included on her second Chinese album Xin De Dongfang. A Chinese version of the b-side song "Sakura Modern", titled "San Sheng Shi San Sheng Lu" (三生石 三生路), was included on her Chinese single "Xin Zhan (Red Cliff)".
Marty Friedman covered "Ashita e no Sanka" on his instrumental album Tokyo Jukebox (2009).
Tokyo Jukebox is a studio album by the American guitarist Marty Friedman. The album is a collection of covers of 11 Japanese songs, produced and arranged by Marty Friedman himself. The songs were chosen in part by the readers of Nikkei Entertainment! and in part by Friedman himself.
