Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You

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Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
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Standard edition cover
Compilation album by
ReleasedDecember 25, 2019 (2019-12-25)
Recorded1999–2019
Genre
Length4:39:26
Label Northern Music
Producer
Mai Kuraki chronology
Let's Goal!: Barairo no Jinsei
(2019)
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
(2019)
Unconditional Love
(2021)
Singles from Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
  1. "Eien Yori Nagaku"
    Released: March 3, 2010

Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You is the fifth compilation album and first single collection by Japanese singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki. It was released on 25 December 2019 by Northern Music, in commemoration of Kuraki's 20th anniversary since her debut. The album features all the singles and some promotional singles Kuraki has released, since her debut "Love, Day After Tomorrow" (2000) to "Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai"/"Barairo no Jinsei" (2019). [1] [2] [3] The four-disc single collection was mastered by the Grammy-nominated/winning engineers, Ryan Smith, Chris Gehringer, Randy Merrill, Joe LaPorta, and Ted Jensen.

Contents

Release and promotion

Meet and greet tour

In support of the album, Kuraki embarked on the meet and greet tour. [4]

DateCityCountryVenue
December 24, 2019 Ikebukuro, Tokyo Japan Sunshine City, Tokyo
December 28, 2019 Funabashi, Chiba LaLaport Tokyo-Bay
December 29, 2019 Hirakara, Osaka Kuzuha Mall

Charting performance

In Japan, the album debuted at number six on the Oricon Daily Albums Chart, becoming her weakest debut since One Life (2008). [5] On the following day, it climbed to number three, selling 4,378 physical copies in its second day. [6] Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You debuted at number six on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, selling 18,171 physical copies in its first week. In the following week, the album fell from number six to fifteen, with the sales of 3,023 copies.

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Love, Day After Tomorrow"Mai Kuraki Aika Ohno Cybersound 
2."Stay by My Side"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
3."Secret of My Heart"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
4."Never Gonna Give You Up"
  • Africk
  • Miguel Sá Pessoa
  • Perry Geyer
Cybersound 
5."Simply Wonderful" (Radio Edit)KurakiOhnoCybersound 
6."Reach for the Sky"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
7."Tsumetai Umi" (冷たい海)KurakiOhnoCybersound 
8."Start in My Life"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
9."Stand Up"Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga Tokunaga 
10."Always"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
11."Can't Forget Your Love"KurakiOhno
  • Tokunaga
  • Cybersound
 
12."Perfect Crime" (Single Edit)KurakiTokunaga
 
13."Winter Bells"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
14."Feel Fine!"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
15."Like a Star in the Night"KurakiOhnoTokunaga 
16."Make My Day"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
Disc 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Time After Time (Hana Mau Machi de)" (Time after time ~花舞う街で~)Kuraki Aika Ohno Cybersound 
2."Kiss"Kuraki Yoko Blaqstone Cybersound 
3."Kaze no La La La" (風のららら)Kuraki Michiya Haruhata Cybersound 
4."Ashita e Kakeru Hashi" (明日へ架ける橋)Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga
  • Tokunaga
  • Daisuke Ikeda
 
5."Love, Needing"KurakiOhno Hiroshi Asai  
6."Dancing" (ダンシング)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
7."P.S My Sunshine"Kuraki Hitoshi Okamoto Okamoto 
8."Growing of My Heart"KurakiOhno Takeshi Hayama  
9."Best of Hero" (ベスト オブ ヒーロー)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
10."Diamond Wave"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
11."Shiroi Yuki" (白い雪)KurakiOhnoIkeda 
12."Season of Love"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
13."Silent Love (Open My Heart)"Kuraki
  • Daisuke Miyachi
  • Yuichi Ohno
  • Miyachi
  • Ohno
 
14."Be with U"KurakiTokunagaCybersound 
15."Yume ga Saku Haru" (夢が咲く春)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
16."You and Music and Dream"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
Disc 3
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Ichibyōgoto ni Love for You" (一秒ごとに Love for you)Kuraki Aika Ohno Cybersound 
2."24 Xmas Time"KurakiAll the Rage
  • All the Rage
  • JJ
  • Carol H
 
3."Puzzle"Kuraki
  • Yue Mochizuki
  • Takahiro Hiraga
Masazumi Ozawa  
4."Revive"KurakiOhnoMiguel Sá Pessoa 
5."Beautiful"KurakiSong Yang HaDaisuke Ikeda 
6."Eien Yori Nagaku" (永遠より ながく)KurakiKazuo Zaizu
  • Makoto Sasaki
  • Ken Harakawa
 
7."Drive Me Crazy"KurakiSilver StreamSilver Stream 
8."Chance for You" (Cinema version)KurakiOhno Yoshinobu Ohga  
9."Summer Time Gone"KurakiOhno Takeshi Hayama  
10."1000 Mankai no Kiss" (1000万回のキス)KurakiOhnoHayama 
11."Anata ga Irukara" (あなたがいるから)
  • Kuraki
  • Mochizuki
MochizukiAkira Onozuka 
12."Mō Ichido" (もう一度)KurakiJinichi TajiriTajiri 
13."Your Best Friend"
  • Kuraki
  • Giorgio 13
Giorgio CancemiCancemi 
14."Strong Heart"
  • Kuraki
  • Giorgio 13
CancemiCancemi 
15."Koi ni Koishite" (恋に恋して)
  • Kuraki
  • Giorgio 13
CancemiCybersound 
16."Special Morning Day to You"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
Disc 4
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Hakanasa" (儚さ)Kuraki Ikurō Fujiwara Fujiwara 
2."Try Again"Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga Cybersound 
3."Wake Me Up"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
4."Muteki na Heart" (無敵なハート)Kuraki
  • Takahiro Hiraga
  • Yue Mochizuki
  • Hirokazu Tajiri
  • Shun Sato
 
5."Stand by You"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
6."Serendipity"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
7."Sawage Life"Kuraki
Taito 
8."Yesterday Love"Kuraki
Yumeto Tsurusawa 
9."Togetsukyo (Kimi Omou)" (渡月橋 ~君 想ふ~)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
10."We Are Happy Women"KurakiOhnoTokunaga 
11."Do It!"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
12."Light Up My Life"KurakiShiloShuho Mitani 
13."Koyoi wa Yume wo Misasete" (今宵は夢を見させて)KurakiSairenjiMine Kushita 
14."Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai" (きみと恋のままで終われない いつも夢のままじゃいられない)KurakiDaisuke NakamuraNakamura 
15."Barairo no Jinsei" (薔薇色の人生)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
Rainbow edition bonus track
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
16."Chance for You"KurakiOhno Hiroshi Asai  
Standard edition bonus track
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
16."Chance for You" (20th Anniversary version)KurakiOhno 
Merci edition bonus disc
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Chance for You" (Merci version)Kuraki Aika Ohno  
Rainbow edition bonus DVD disc 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Love, Day After Tomorrow"Mai Kuraki Aika Ohno Cybersound 
2."Stay by My Side"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
3."Secret of My Heart"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
4."Never Gonna Give You Up"
  • Africk
  • Miguel Sá Pessoa
  • Perry Geyer
Cybersound 
5."Simply Wonderful" (Radio Edit)KurakiOhnoCybersound 
6."Reach for the Sky"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
7."Tsumetai Umi" (冷たい海)KurakiOhnoCybersound 
8."Stand Up"Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga Tokunaga 
9."Always"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
10."Can't Forget Your Love" (Live version)KurakiOhno
  • Tokunaga
  • Cybersound
 
11."Winter Bells"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
12."Feel Fine!"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
13."Like a Star in the Night"KurakiOhnoTokunaga 
14."Make My Day"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
15."Time After Time (Hana Mau Machi de)" (Time after time ~花舞う街で~)Kuraki Aika Ohno Cybersound 
16."Kiss"Kuraki Yoko Blaqstone Cybersound 
17."Kaze no La La La" (風のららら)Kuraki Michiya Haruhata Cybersound 
18."Ashita e Kakeru Hashi" (明日へ架ける橋)Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga
  • Tokunaga
  • Daisuke Ikeda
 
19."Love, Needing"KurakiOhno Hiroshi Asai  
20."Dancing" (ダンシング)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
21."P.S My Sunshine"Kuraki Hitoshi Okamoto Okamoto 
22."Growing of My Heart"KurakiOhno Takeshi Hayama  
23."Best of Hero" (ベスト オブ ヒーロー)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
24."Diamond Wave"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
25."Shiroi Yuki" (白い雪)KurakiOhno  
26.Untitled  Ikeda 
Rainbow edition bonus DVD disc 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Season of Love"KurakiOhnoCybersound 
2."Silent Love (Open My Heart)"Kuraki
  • Daisuke Miyachi
  • Yuichi Ohno
  • Miyachi
  • Ohno
 
3."Yume ga Saku Haru" (夢が咲く春)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
4."Ichibyōgoto ni Love for You" (一秒ごとに Love for you)Kuraki Aika Ohno Cybersound 
5."24 Xmas Time"KurakiAll the Rage
  • All the Rage
  • JJ
  • Carol H
 
6."Puzzle"Kuraki
  • Yue Mochizuki
  • Takahiro Hiraga
Masazumi Ozawa  
7."Revive"KurakiOhnoMiguel Sá Pessoa 
8."Beautiful"KurakiSong Yang HaDaisuke Ikeda 
9."Eien Yori Nagaku" (永遠より ながく)KurakiKazuo Zaizu
  • Makoto Sasaki
  • Ken Harakawa
 
10."Drive Me Crazy"KurakiSilver StreamSilver Stream 
11."Summer Time Gone"KurakiOhno Takeshi Hayama  
12."1000 Mankai no Kiss" (1000万回のキス)KurakiOhnoHayama 
13.Untitled (もう一度)KurakiJinichi TajiriTajiri 
14."Your Best Friend"
  • Kuraki
  • Giorgio 13
Giorgio CancemiCancemi 
15."Koi ni Koishite" (恋に恋して)
  • Kuraki
  • Giorgio 13
CancemiCybersound 
16."Hakanasa" (儚さ)KurakiIkuro FujiwaraFujiwara 
17."Try Again"Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga Cybersound 
18."Wake Me Up"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
19."Muteki na Heart" (無敵なハート)Kuraki
  • Takahiro Hiraga
  • Yue Mochizuki
  • Hirokazu Tajiri
  • Shun Sato
 
20."Stand by You"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
21."Serendipity"KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
22."Yesterday Love"Kuraki
Yumeto Tsurusawa 
23."Togetsukyo (Kimi Omou)" (渡月橋 ~君 想ふ~)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 
24."Koyoi wa Yume wo Misasete" (今宵は夢を見させて)KurakiSairenjiMine Kushita 
25."Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai" (きみと恋のままで終われない いつも夢のままじゃいられない)KurakiDaisuke NakamuraNakamura 
26."Barairo no Jinsei" (薔薇色の人生)KurakiTokunagaTokunaga 

Credits and personnel

Technical

Design

Charts

Release history

RegionDateVersionFormatLabelCatalog No.Ref.
VariousDecember 25, 2019Standard editionCD Northern Music VNCM-9059~9062 [9]
Rainbow edition (limited)4×CD+2×DVD VNCM-9051~9054 [10]
Merci edition5×CDVNCM-9055~9058 [11]
FC & Musing edition4×CDVNCF-9012~9015 [12]
January 8, 2020digital download [13]

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