E Album

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E Album
E Album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 25, 2001 (2001-07-25)
Genre J-pop
Length65:14
Label Johnny's Entertainment
JECN-0020
KinKi Kids chronology
D Album
(2000)
E Album
(2001)
F Album
(2002)
Singles from E Album
  1. "Boku no Senaka ni wa Hane ga Aru"
    Released: February 7, 2001
  2. "Jōnetsu"
    Released: May 23, 2001

E Album is the fifth studio album of Japanese group KinKi Kids. It was released on July 25, 2001. Debuting at the top of the Oricon charts, the album sold 400,480 copies in its first week. [1] The album was certified platinum by the RIAJ for 400,000 copies shipped to stores in Japan. [2]

Contents

Track listing

CD
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Lovesick"Masami Togawa (戸川暢美)Face 2 Fake 
2."Boku no Senaka ni wa Hane ga Aru" (ボクの背中には羽根がある, E edit) Takashi Matsumoto (松本 隆) Tetsurō Oda (織田哲郎) 
3."No Control"Maki Hoemi (牧穂エミ)Seikō Nagaoka (長岡成貢) 
4."Hyakunen No Koi" (百年ノ恋, Tsuyoshi Domoto solo)Tsuyoshi DomotoTsuyoshi Domoto 
5."Father"Ryūichi Shinozaki (篠崎隆一) Kaori Kishitani (奥居 香) 
6."Te Wo Futte Sayonara" (手を振ってさよなら)Hirō Ooyagi (オオヤギヒロオ)Ooyagi 
7."Broken Reizouko" (Broken冷蔵庫)Masami Tozawa (戸沢暢美) Ayumi Miyazaki (宮崎 歩) 
8."Jōnetsu" (情熱 Passion)SatomiBoris Durdevic 
9."Love U4 Good"Double SRyoki Matsumoto (松本良喜) 
10."So Young Blues" (Koichi Domoto solo)Mitsuru Matsuoka (松岡 充)Koichi Domoto 
11."Honey Rider"Takeshi Aida (相田 毅)Hara Kazuhiro (原 一博) 
12."Gekkō" (月光)Shinichi Asada (浅田信一)Takehiko Iida (飯田建彦) 
13."Jōnetsu" (Acoustic version)SatomiBoris Durdevic 

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References

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  2. "GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 2001年7月度" [Gold Albums, and other certified works. July 2001 Edition](PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese). Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan. 502: 8. September 10, 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2014.