Miyavi (album)

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Miyavi
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 19, 2013
Length42:00
Label EMI Records Japan,
Wrasse Records
Producer Miyavi, Yuksek, Matt Ward, Dean Gillard, The Lowbrows, Oscar Holter
Miyavi chronology
Samurai Sessions vol.1
(2012)
Miyavi
(2013)
The Others
(2015)
Singles from Miyavi
  1. "Day 1"
    Released: July 11, 2012
  2. "Ahead Of The Light"
    Released: February 20, 2013
  3. "Horizon"
    Released: June 27, 2013

Miyavi is the eighth studio album by Japanese musician Miyavi. It was released on June 19, 2013 in Japan, and on March and April 2014 in Europe and United States. It charted as number eight on Oricon and Billboard Japan. [1] [2]

Miyavi musician from Japan

Takamasa Ishihara, better known by his stage name Miyavi, is a Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor known for his finger-slapping style of playing a guitar.

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<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

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Background

The album is Miyavi's eighth studio album, and second since founded his own company J-Glam. The album was released on June 19, 2013 in Japan by EMI Records Japan, and later in March and April 2014 in Europe and United States by Wrasse Records. [3] It is also available worldwide as a digital release on iTunes Store. It includes some were previously released singles as well new ones, "Day 1", "Ahead Of The Light" and "Horizon". The music video of "Guard You" was also filmed. [4] The song was written after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, as remembrance of precious people you need to leave behind to guard them. [4] Its video features photos from "Under The Same Sky" project, with scenes of sky and hands by Miyavi's fans. [4]

EMI Records Japan was a Japanese record label which operated as a sublabel of Universal Music Japan. Established in April 2013, it is the successor of its previous entity as a company, EMI Music Japan. The sublabel's headquarters is located at Universal Music Japan's main office at Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo. On February 2014, the sublabel has been divided into two separate sublabels, EMI Records, which contains the combined Nayutawave Records and more than half of the EMI Records Japan roster, and EMI R, which consists of the remaining EMI Records Japan artists. On July 2014, EMI R was renamed to Virgin Records.

Wrasse Records is a British record label based in Ashtead, Surrey. It was started in 1998 by Ian and Jo Ashbridge. Both had been involved in the music industry prior to them starting up their own company. Its offices are based in the UK, but it distributes its CDs all around the world. In 2005, it licensed most of Universal Music's world music releases for distribution in the United States and the UK.

iTunes Store digital media store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. that opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs's push to open a digital marketplace for music.

The limited edition in CD/DVD format, features a bonus DVD with exclusive live footage of "Ahead Of The Light" tour in 2013, and documentary about making the album.

In 2014, Miyavi went on his fourth world tour "Slap the World", which started on February 22 in Malaysia, continued throughout Europe followed by the European release of the latest studio album, and will visit Mexico City and Los Angeles with United States release of the album, before returning to Japan for his longest nationwide tour so far. [3]

Release

When the album was released, it peaked at number eight on the Oricon and Billboard Japan charts in Japan. [2] [5] It is his second album in top ten, and best selling so far. The singles "Day 1", "Ahead Of The Light" and "Horizon" peaked on Japan Hot 100 at number sixty-six, [6] twenty-one [7] and forty-nine. [8] They also charted on Hot 100 Airplay, as number sixty-three, [9] twenty-one, [10] and thirty-six. [11] "Horizon" also charted as thirty-nine on Adult Contemporary list. [12]

In 2013, Miyavi and Yuksek received the Best Collaboration award for "Day 1" at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan, and in 2014 the music video of "Horizon" was nominated for the Best Male Video category.

Yuksek French musician

Pierre-Alexandre Busson better known as Yuksek, is a French electronic music producer, remixer, singer and DJ. Yüksek means "high" in Turkish.

2013 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Japan was held in Chiba on June 22, 2013 at the Makuhari Messe and was hosted by Atsuko Maeda and Nobuaki Kaneko from Rize.

Track listing

All tracks written by Miyavi and Dan Priddy.

CD
No.TitleLength
1."Justice"3:52
2."Horizon"4:07
3."Chase It"3:25
4."Secret"2:53
5."Cry Like This"4:09
6."Guard You"5:27
7."No One Knows My Name (Slap It)"4:24
8."Hell No"2:13
9."Ahead Of The Light"4:27
10."Day 1 (Album version)"4:16
11."Free World"3:14

Recording personnel

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