Sugar (Tokio album)

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Sugar
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Studio album by Tokio
Released February 20, 2008
Genre Japanese Rock/Pop
Length33:13
Label Universal Music
Tokio chronology
Harvest
(2006) Harvest2006		Sugar
(2008)		 17
(2012) 172012
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Sugar is the eleventh studio album by Japanese band Tokio. It was released on February 20, 2008. [2] The album peaked at sixth place on the Oricon weekly charts and charted for six weeks. [3]

Tokio (band) Japanese rock/pop band

Tokio is a Japanese rock/pop band formed by Johnny & Associates that debuted in 1994. It is made up of five men who were signed with Sony Music Entertainment from 1994 to 2001, with Universal Music Japan from 2001 to 2008, and are now signed under J Storm, a label owned by Johnny & Associates. In addition to their activities as a band, the members of Tokio also act in dozens of dramas and host variety programmes, both as a group and individually.

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.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Sugar" Tomoya Nagase Tomoya NagaseTokio6:07
2."Overdrive"Hirou OhyagiHirou OhyagiKazuhiro Yamahara3:48
3."Seishun" Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi NagabuchiMotoki Funayama5:00
4."Hikari no Machi"Yoshihiro KaiYoshihiro KaiTomohiko Nishimura4:25
5."Koibito mo Nureru Machikado" (恋人も濡れる街角) Keisuke Kuwata Keisuke KuwataTokio4:21
6."Honjitsu, Mijukumono" (本日、未熟者) Miyuki Nakajima Miyuki NakajimaMotoki Funayama4:58
7."Run Free (Swan Dance wo Kimi to)" (ラン・フリー(スワン・ダンスを君と))Yoshihiro KaiYoshihiro KaiTomohiko Nishimura4:35

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References

  1. ↑ Eremenko, Alexey. "Review: Sugar". Allmusic . Retrieved 2009-11-29.
  2. ↑ "Johnny's Net TOKIO Discography - Albums" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-09-12.
  3. ↑ "ＴＯＫＩＯ-リリース-ORICON STYLE ミュージック" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-11-26.
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