Mai Kuraki is a Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter and producer. Kuraki debuted in 1999 with the single, "Love, Day After Tomorrow". In 2000, she released her debut album, Delicious Way, which debuted at number-one and sold over 2,210,000 copies in its first week. Kuraki is one of a few female artists in Japan to have their first four studio albums to debut at top of the Oricon album chart.
Orange Range are a 5-member Japanese rock band, based in Okinawa, Japan. Formed in 2001, the band began with Spice Music and later signed with Sony Music Japan's gr8! records division in 2003. The band left gr8! records in 2010 to start their own label, Super Echo.
Blue Blood is the second studio album by Japanese rock band X Japan, then known as simply X. It was released on April 21, 1989 by CBS/Sony as the band's major label debut. Blue Blood sold more than 700,000 copies, reached number 6 on the Oricon chart and stayed on the chart for more than 100 weeks. The album's singles would also reach the top five on the chart. In 2007, Rolling Stone Japan ranked Blue Blood number 15 on their list of the "100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time".
Dahlia is the fifth studio album by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, released on November 4, 1996 by Atlantic Records. It is the band's last album before breaking up the following year, and the last to feature new work by guitarist hide, due to his death two years later. The album is composed largely of ballads, with only a few tracks retaining the band's heavier musical traits seen on previous releases. It topped the Oricon chart and stayed on the chart for only 15 weeks, but managed to sell over half a million copies. Seven, nearly all, of the album's songs were released as singles, most of which also topped the singles chart and sold well.
Jealousy is the third studio album by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, then known as simply X. The album was released on July 1, 1991 by Sony, as the band's second major label release. Jealousy is the band's best-selling album, having sold more than one million copies, it topped the Oricon chart and stayed on the chart for 50 weeks. The album's singles would also reach the top three on the chart. It is their last album under the name "X", before changing to "X Japan", and the last to feature Taiji on bass, who would be replaced by Heath.
The discography of the Japanese heavy metal band X Japan consists of 5 studio albums, 6 live albums, 1 remix album, 11 compilations, 1 soundtrack album, 23 singles, and around 22 live video recordings.
"Endless Rain" is the fourth single released by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan on December 1, 1989. It is their second single on a major record label and reached number 3 on the Oricon chart.
"Say Anything" is a single released by X Japan on December 1, 1991.
"Dahlia" is the thirteenth single by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, released on February 26, 1996.
"Rokkugo" is the first CD single by Super Junior-T, released on February 23, 2007. Over 45,997 copies were sold by the end of the year, marking it Korea's sixteenth best-selling record and #1 best-selling single of 2007. "Rokuko" has been one of Super Junior's most well-known songs.
Thelma Aoyama is a Japanese pop and R&B singer. She is part Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese.
It's all Love! is a collaboration single by Japanese singer-songwriters Koda Kumi and misono. The single was originally set to be released on March 4, but was pushed back to its official release date of March 31, 2009.
"X X X" is the thirty-ninth single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on October 12, 2011. The single debuted at number one on the Oricon chart and remained for over a week, selling 81,414 copies. The band had not reached the top of the Oricon chart since the release of "Drink It Down" in 2008.
"Shining Butterfly" is the first single by the Japanese female pop group Dream Morning Musume, released in Japan on February 15, 2012 on the Zetima label.
"Sotsugyō" is the debut single of Japanese singer Yuki Saito. The single was released by Canyon Records on February 12, 1985, and was used as an image song for Myojo Foods' "A Ramen Named Youth" line of instant ramen. The song continues to be popular over 20 years after its debut, having been covered by multiple artists.
The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry standard singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Chart rankings are based on physical singles' sales. Oricon does not include download sales. In Japan, physical sales decreased sharply in the 2000s, while download sales hit three to four times the amount of single sales.
Snow Flake ~Kioku no Koshitsu~ / Pulse is FLOW's seventeenth single. PULSE was the official image song of the world’s biggest snowboard event "X-TRAIL JAM in TOKYO DOME ‘08." It reached #24 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 4 weeks. *
"21ji made no Cinderella" is the 8th single by the Japanese girl idol group Berryz Kobo. It was released in Japan on August 3, 2005, and debuted at number 5 in the daily Oricon singles chart and at number 13 in the weekly Oricon singles chart.
UP10TION is a South Korean boy band formed by TOP Media in 2015. The group consists of ten members: Jinhoo, Kuhn, Kogyeol, Lee Jin-hyuk, Bitto, Wooshin, Sunyoul, Gyujin, Hwanhee, and Xiao. The group debuted with an extended play (EP) Top Secret. In 2017, they made their Japanese debut with EP ID.
"Arigatō / Arashi o Okosunda Exciting Fight!" is the 28th single by the Japanese female idol group Cute, released in Japan on October 28, 2015.
