Bolero (Mr. Children album)

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Bolero
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Studio album by Mr. Children
Released March 5, 1997
Genre Pop rock, power pop, progressive rock
Label Toy's Factory
Producer Mr. Children
Takeshi Kobayashi
Mr. Children chronology
Shinkai
(1996)
Bolero
(1997)
Discovery
(1999)

Bolero, is Mr. Children's 6th studio album and was released on March 5, 1997. The album debuted at the number-one position on Oricon weekly charts, with the first week sales of over 1,734,000 copies. [1] It sold over 471,000 copies in the next week, but was ranked at No. 2 on Oricon charts, being replaced by Globe's Faces Places . [2]

Mr. Children Japanese rock band

Mr.Children, commonly referred to by their contracted nickname "Misu-Chiru" (ミスチル)) is a Japanese pop rock band formed in 1989 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. They made their major debut in 1992. As a group, they are one of the best selling artists in Japan and one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the "Mis-chil Phenomenon" (ミスチル現象) in the mid-1990s in Japan. They held the record for the highest first week sales of a single in Japan for 15 years, with 1.2 million copies of their 10th single "Namonaki Uta" (名もなき詩), have 30 consecutive number 1 singles, replaced Glay as the all-male band to have the most number 1 albums on the Oricon charts, and won the Japan Record Award in 1994 for "Innocent World" and in 2004 for "Sign". As of 2012, Mr. Children has published fifteen original studio albums and 34 physical singles, along with five compilations, a live album, and fifteen home video releases.

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.

Globe were a dance-oriented Japanese pop band, formed in 1995 by producer and songwriter Tetsuya Komuro. Originally consisting of Komuro, Keiko Yamada and Marc Panther, the group's singles consistently hit the charts. In late 2002 Yoshiki, former drummer and pianist for X Japan, joined the group, but he left the band about a year later.

Track listing

  1. "Prologue"
  2. "Everything (It's You)"
  3. "Time machine ni notte(タイムマシーンに乗って)"
  4. "Brandnew my Lover"
  5. "【es】 〜Theme of es〜"
  6. "See-Saw Game (Yūkan na Koi no Uta)"
  7. "Kasa no shita no kimi ni tsugu(傘の下の君に告ぐ)"
  8. "ALIVE"
  9. "Shiawase no category (幸せのカテゴリー)"
  10. "Everybody Goes (Chitsujo no Nai Gendai ni Drop Kick)"
  11. "Bolero(ボレロ)"
  12. "Tomorrow never knows (remix)"

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References

  1. "Oricon Weekly Album Charts for the third week of March 1997" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  2. "Oricon Weekly Album Charts for the fourth week of March 1997" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2010-03-19.