New Morning (Misia album)

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New Morning
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Studio album by
Misia
ReleasedApril 2, 2014 (2014-04-02)
Recorded2013–2014
Genre
Length1:02:28
Label Ariola Japan
Misia chronology
Super Best Records: 15th Celebration
(2013)		New Morning
(2014)		 Love Bebop
(2016)
Singles from New Morning
  1. "Shiawase o Forever"
    Released: September 4, 2013
  2. "Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris"
    Released: February 5, 2014

New Morning (stylized as NEW MORNING) is the eleventh studio album by Japanese singer Misia. The album was released by Ariola Japan on April 2, 2014, [1] the same day as the 77th and final date of Misia's nationwide Hoshizora no Live VII: 15th Celebration concert tour, at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall, which was broadcast live on YouTube. [2] The album yielded the singles "Shiawase o Forever" and "Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris". The lead track "Hope & Dreams" was released as a promotional single for the album.

Contents

Background and release

New Morning is Misia's first studio album in close to three years, the first since Soul Quest (2011). It was written and recorded while Misia was on tour to commemorate her 15th anniversary. [3] Misia was still recording songs two months prior to the album's release. [4] She revealed to Oricon in an interview that Gorō Matsui had reached out to her after attending one of her concerts at Yokohama Arena in February 2014, saying he would write her a song. [4] The next day he sent her the lyrics to "My Pride of Love". [4]

The gap between albums felt much shorter to Misia, who remarks that New Morning was mostly written in the previous year and created specifically to ring in the sixteenth year of her career. [3] The concept for the new album revolved around going against the mainstream digital sound and focusing on the use of live, organic instruments. [5] The title of the album is meant to represent renewal and new beginnings. [3] On the way home from shooting the album artwork, which features Misia riding a horse as a nod to her love of equestrianism and 2014 being the Chinese year of the horse, Misia, executive producer Hiroto Tanigawa and art director Mitsuo Shindō were brainstorming on a title for the record when Shindō suggested New Morning, which they all loved and ultimately settled on. [3]

New Morning was released on April 2, 2014. The record was chosen for April release to coincide with the season of spring, which is synonymous with fresh starts. [5] The album was released in two versions, one standard CD-only version and one limited CD/DVD version. [6] The limited edition features two live recordings of "Deepness" and "Back in Love Again" as bonus tracks and comes with a DVD including lives performances from Misia's Hoshizora no Live VII 15th Celebration and Candle Night Fes concert tours and the music video to "Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris". [7]

Critical reception

CDJournal described the album as "at times emotional, at times comforting" and praised Misia's "natural and breathy" vocals for "welcoming broken hearts to a sunnier place". [8] Bounce writer Taihei Kubota opined that New Morning is a "collection of diverse love songs", noting that Misia sings about simple things but does so over rich and tasteful medium-tempo and slow tracks. [9] Kubota singles out the opening "Hope & Dreams" and closing "Re-Brain" as displays of variety. [9]

Commercial performance

New Morning entered the daily Oricon Albums Chart at number 2, where it also peaked, with 10,000 copies sold in its first day. [10] It debuted at number 7 on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, with sales of 19,000 copies. [11] The album also debuted number 7 on the Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales chart. [12] New Morning charted for eleven consecutive weeks on the Oricon Albums Chart, selling a reported total of 33,000 copies during its run. [13]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Arranger(s)Length
1."Hope & Dreams"
  • Misia
  • Toshiaki Matsumoto
4:59
2."Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris"
  • Misia
  • Hiroaki Yokoyama
  • Yokoyama
5:00
3."Aoi Tsukikage" (蒼い月影, "Blue Moonlight")
  • Tohru Shigemi
4:01
4."Ai o Shiru Sekai" (アイヲシルセカイ, "A World That Knows Love")
  • Misia
  • Shusui
  • Albi Albertsson
  • Shigemi
3:51
5."Miss You Always"
  • Misia
  • Misako Sakazume
  • Shigemi
4:22
6."Mahō o Kaketa no wa Kimi" (魔法をかけたのは君, "You Put a Spell on Me")
  • Sasaki
4:27
7."Daisy"
  • Kaori Sawada
4:53
8."Jewelry"
  • Mayumi Sato
  • Zilkha
  • Shigemi
4:31
9."Especially for Me"
  • Misia
  • Sasaki
  • Sasaki
4:30
10."Shiawase o Forever"
  • Misia
  • Matsumoto
  • Shigemi
4:32
11."One Day, One Life"
  • Omiya
  • Sasaki
  • Sasaki
3:25
12."Kimi no Taiyō ni Narō" (君の太陽になろう, "I'll Be Your Sun")
  • Daisuke Mori
  • Gomi
6:02
13."My Pride of Love"
  • Ichi
3:56
14."Re-Brain"
  • Gomi
  • Jocky
3:53
Total length:1:02:28
Limited edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
15."Deepness" (from Hoshizora no Live VII: 15th Celebration - Hoshizora Symphony Orchestra @ Nippon Budokan)
  • Misia
  • Sasaki
5:29
16."Back in Love Again" (from Hoshizora no Live VII: 15th Celebration - Hoshizora Symphony Orchestra @ Nippon Budokan)
5:14
Total length:1:13:05
Limited edition DVD: New Special Morning
No.TitleDirector(s)Length
1."Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris" (Hoshizora no Live VII: 15th Celebration - Hoshizora Symphony Orchestra @ Yokohama Arena)Mitsuhiro Izuka5:18
2."Hope & Dreams" (Hoshizora no Live VII: 15th Celebration - Hoshizora Symphony Orchestra @ Yokohama Arena)Izuka5:08
3."Shiawase o Forever" (Candle Night Fes @ Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater)
5:16
4."Daisy" (Candle Night Fes @ Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater)
  • Shindō
  • Muramatsu
4:53
5."Shiawase o Forever" (Candle Night Fes @ Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater)Ukon Kamimura4:59
Total length:25:34

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Japan Daily Albums (Oricon) [10] 2
Japan Weekly Albums (Oricon) [11] 7
Japan Monthly Albums (Oricon) [13] 21
Japan Top Albums Sales ( Billboard ) [12] 7
Korea Weekly Albums (Gaon) [14] 34
Taiwan Weekly Albums (Five Music) [15] 10
Taiwan Weekly Albums (G-Music)15

Sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan—33,000 [13]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Misia discography</span>

The discography of Japanese R&B singer Misia consists of nine studio albums, three compilation albums, one extended play (EP), one live album, six remix albums, twenty-six singles, twelve promotional singles, eighteen video albums and thirty-seven music videos. In 1997, Misia signed a recording contract with BMG Japan and joined the then up-and-coming talent agency, Rhythmedia. Under the sub-label Arista Japan, Misia released her first single, "Tsutsumikomu Yō ni..." in February 1998, followed by "Hi no Ataru Basho" in May. In June, her debut album, Mother Father Brother Sister, opened at number three on the Oricon chart. The album peaked at number one three weeks later and stayed in the top five for eleven consecutive weeks. Mother Father Brother Sister was certified double million and won a Japan Record Award for Best Album, as well as a Japan Gold Disc Award for Pop Album of the Year. In 2000, Misia's second studio album, Love Is the Message, debuted at number one and was certified double million. It won a Japan Record Award for Best Album and a Japan Gold Disc Award for Pop Album of the Year. The album spawned three top ten hits: "Believe," "Wasurenai Hibi" and "Sweetness." Misia's first remix album, Misia Remix 2000 Little Tokyo, was released three months later and shot to number one. It sold over 800,000 copies and is the second best-selling remix album of all time in Japan.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sakura Hitohira</span> 2015 single by Misia

"Sakura Hitohira" is a song recorded by Japanese singer Misia, from the album Love Bebop. It was released as the album's second single digitally on February 11, 2015, through Ariola Japan. It was released as a limited double A-side CD single alongside the song "Shiroi Kisetsu" a week later, on February 18, 2015. The song was written by Misia, composed by her0ism and Shirose, from the band White Jam, and arranged and produced by her0ism. It was written specifically for the three-night TX drama The Eternal Zero, adapted from the film by the same name and starring Osamu Mukai, for which it serves as theme song.

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