Hitotsu

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"ひとつ"
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Single by Alan
from the album Voice of Earth
ReleasedMarch 5, 2008
Genre J-pop
Length33:40
Label Avex Trax
Songwriter(s) Kikuchi Kazuhito, Yoshimoto Yumi
Producer(s) Kikuchi Kazuhito
Alan singles chronology
"Ashita e no Sanka"
(2007)
"ひとつ"
(2008)
"Natsukashii Mirai (Longing Future)"
(2008)
Voice of Earth track listing
16 tracks
  1. "Tennyo (Interlude)"
  2. "Ashita e no Sanka"
  3. "Sora Uta"
  4. "Natsukashii Mirai (Longing Future)"
  5. "Hitotsu"
  6. "Kaze no Tegami"
  7. "Brave"
  8. "Yume no Garden"
  9. "Gunjou no Tani"
  10. "My Friend"
  11. "Liberty"
  12. "Tsuki ga Watashi"
  13. "Red Cliff (Shin-Sen)"
  14. "Megumi no Ame"
  15. "Together" *
  16. "Red Cliff (Shin-Sen) (Modern Rock Version)" **
* First press bonus track
** Tower Records bonus CD

"Hitotsu" (ひとつ) is a Japanese-language song by Chinese singer Alan, from her debut studio album Voice of Earth (2009). The single was released on March 5, 2008, and peaked at number one hundred on the Oricon charts. [1]

Alan Dawa Dolma Tibetan singer

Alan Dawazhuoma, professionally known as Alan, is a female Tibetan Chinese singer active in both the Chinese and Japanese music industries. She is of Tibetan ethnicity.

<i>Voice of Earth</i> 2009 studio album by alan

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.

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.

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"Hitotsu" was later re-recorded in Mandarin Chinese and placed on her debut single "Xin Zhan: Red Cliff" as "Yige" (一个); along with a Chinese version of "Tokyo Mimei", re-titled as "Mishi De Zhufu" (迷失的祝福). "Sign", sung in her native Tibetan language, was re-included on her second Chinese album Xin De Dongfang (2009).

Mandarin Chinese major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China

Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese. Because Mandarin originated in North China and most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as the Northern dialects. Many local Mandarin varieties are not mutually intelligible. Nevertheless, Mandarin is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers.

<i>Xin Zhan: Red Cliff</i> 2008 extended play by Alan Dawa Dolma

Xin·Zhan ~RED CLIFF~ is the first Mandarin-language EP released by alan in Mainland China.

Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages. It is based on the speech of Lhasa, an Ü-Tsang dialect. For this reason, Standard Tibetan is often called Lhasa Tibetan. Tibetan is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The written language is based on Classical Tibetan and is highly conservative.

Track listing

All music composed by Kikuchi Kazuhito.

CD single: [2]
No.TitleLyricsArrangementLength
1."Hitotsu" (ひとつ; One)Yoshimoto YumiNakano Yuuta5:12
2."Kimi Omou Sora" (君想フ空; The Sky that You Think About)Safari Natsukawaats-4:59
3."Tokyo Mimei" (東京未明; Tokyo Daybreak)Okachimachi DakoKyoda Seiichi5:09
4."Sign"  3:06
5."Hitotsu" (Instrumental)  5:12
6."Kimi Omou Sora" (Instrumental)  4:59
7."Tokyo Mimei" (Instrumental)  5:06
Total length:33:40

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
Japanese Singles Chart [1] 100

References

  1. 1 2 "alanのCDシングルランキング、alanのプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE". Oricon Style. Oricon Inc. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. "ひとつ : alan : avex network". avex network. avex marketing Inc. Retrieved 1 August 2012.