| Towa Tei discography | |
|---|---|
 Towa Tei in 2010 | |
| Studio albums | 11 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Singles | 26 |
| Soundtrack albums | 2 |
The solo discography of Japanese musician Towa Tei and his side project Sweet Robots Against the Machine includes 11 studio albums, two compilation albums, two soundtracks, three extended plays and nine singles. Towa Tei came to fame in 1990 as a member of the American house group Deee-Lite in 1990, and released his debut solo album Future Listening! in 1994.
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] [upper-alpha 1] | JPN Billboard [upper-alpha 2] [upper-alpha 3] | ||||||||||
| Future Listening! |
| 50 | — | ||||||||
| Sweet Robots Against the Machine |
| 55 | — | ||||||||
| Sound Museum |
| 17 | — | ||||||||
| Last Century Modern |
| 20 | — | ||||||||
| Towa Tei |
| 55 | — | ||||||||
| Flash |
| 55 | — | ||||||||
| Big Fun |
| 25 | — [upper-alpha 4] | ||||||||
| Sunny |
| 23 | — [upper-alpha 5] | ||||||||
| Lucky |
| 36 | — [upper-alpha 6] | ||||||||
| Cute |
| 52 | 74 | ||||||||
| Emo |
| 34 | 53 | ||||||||
| LP |
| 44 | 56 | ||||||||
| Zoundtracks |
| 55 | 49 | ||||||||
| Touch |
| 52 | 60 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart, or were released before the creation of a chart. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] [upper-alpha 1] | JPN Billboard | ||||||||||
| Butterfly |
| 88 | — | ||||||||
| Alignment EP |
| — | — | ||||||||
| Mach 2012 |
| 143 | — [upper-alpha 7] | ||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart, were ineligible to chart, or were released before the creation of a chart. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] [upper-alpha 1] | |||||||||||
| The Best of Towa Tei Works |
| — | |||||||||
| Towa Tei Best |
| 40 | |||||||||
| Best Korea |
| — | |||||||||
| 94–14 Remix |
| 158 | |||||||||
| 94–14 |
| 156 | |||||||||
| 94–14 Covers |
| 165 | |||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] [upper-alpha 1] | |||||||||||
| Motivation Songs for Make-Up |
| 222 | |||||||||
| Motivation Driving Sweets |
| 148 | |||||||||
| Motivation 3 |
| 148 | |||||||||
| Motivation 4 Dusty Dance Hall |
| — | |||||||||
| Motivation Five |
| 117 | |||||||||
| Motivation 6 Adult Oriented Click Nonstop-Mix by Moodman |
| — | |||||||||
| Motivation 7 |
| 189 | |||||||||
| Motivation H |
| 168 | |||||||||
| The Beat Goes On |
| 260 | |||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] [upper-alpha 1] | |||||||||||
| Future Recall! |
| — | |||||||||
| Future Recall 2 |
| — | |||||||||
| Stupid Fresh |
| — | |||||||||
| Lost Control Mix |
| — | |||||||||
| Lost Control Mix Disc 2 |
| — | |||||||||
| Re:Towa Tei |
| 115 | |||||||||
| Flasher |
| 159 | |||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Visionary Soundtrack by Towa Tei |
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| Dai Nipponjin Original Soundtrack |
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| Super Crooks (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) |
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] | JPN Billboard [upper-alpha 8] | AUS [18] | KOR Overseas [upper-alpha 9] | UK [21] | US Dance [22] | ||||||
| "Technova" (featuring Bebel Gilberto) | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | Future Listening! | |||
| "Luv Connection" [23] (featuring Joi Cardwell, Vivien Sessoms) | — | — | — | — | 178 | 30 | |||||
| "Happy" (featuring Vivian Sessoms and Bahamadia) | 1997 | 94 | — | — | — | — | 3 | Sound Museum | |||
| "GBI (German Bold Italic)" (featuring Kylie Minogue and Haruomi Hosono) | — | — | 50 | — | 63 | — | |||||
| "A Ring" (featuring Pascale Borel) | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Last Century Modern | |||
| "Let Me Know" (featuring Chara)) | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Funkin' for Jamaica" [24] (featuring Joanne, Les Nubians, Wisdom Life & Tom Browne) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Last Century Modern" [24] (featuring UA) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Mars" (火星, Kasei) (featuring Ikuko Harada) | 2000 | 61 | — | — | — | — | — | Towa Tei Best | |||
| "Funkin' for Jamaica" (re-release) [25] (featuring Joanne, Les Nubians, Wisdom Life & Tom Browne) | 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Last Century Modern | |||
| "Koi no Upload" (恋のアップロード, "Love Upload") [26] | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
| "A.O.R." [27] (featuring Lina Ohta) | 2008 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Big Fun | |||
| "Mind Wall" [28] (featuring Miho Hatori) | — | 21 | — | 48 | — | — | |||||
| "Taste of You" [29] (featuring Taprikk Sweezee) | 2009 | — | — [upper-alpha 10] | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Marvelous" [31] [32] (with Yurico) | 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sunny | |||
| "The Burning Plain" [33] (with Yukihiro Takahashi & Kiko Mizuhara) | 2011 | — | — [upper-alpha 11] | — | 28 | — | — | ||||
| "Licht" [35] | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lucky | |||
| "Radio" [36] (with Yukihiro Takahashi & Tina Tamashiro) | — | 78 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Apple" [37] (with Ringo Sheena) | 76 [upper-alpha 12] | 60 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Hold Me Tighter in the Rain" [38] (with Vivien Sessoms) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 94–14 Covers | ||||
| "18" [39] (with Shinichi Osawa) | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
| "Chaise Longue" [40] | — | — | — | — | — | — | Cute | ||||
| "Heaven" [41] (with Junko Wada) | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Cul de Sac" [42] (with Leo Imai) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Sound of Music" [43] (with UA) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Brand New Emo" [44] (Towa Tei as Metafive with Mizuhara Sisters) | 2017 | 186 | — | — | — | — | — | Emo | |||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart, were released before the creation of the Billboard Japan Hot 100, or were not released in this region. | |||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Dance [22] | |||||||||||
| "Batucada" [45] (featuring Bebel Gilberto) | 1996 | — | Future Listening! | ||||||||
| "Forget Me Nots" [46] (Sweet Robots Against the Machine featuring Viviam Sessions & Joi Cardwell) | 1997 | — | Sweet Robots Against the Machine | ||||||||
| "Private Eyes" [47] (featuring Bebel Gilberto) | — | Sound Museum | |||||||||
| "Butterfly" [48] (featuring Ayumi Tanabe and Vivian Sessoms) | 1998 | — | Butterfly / Last Century Modern | ||||||||
| "Congratulations!" [49] (featuring Cory Daye) | 1999 | 30 | Last Century Modern | ||||||||
| "Free" [50] (Sweet Robots Against the Machine with Rozz, Vivian Sessoms & Juiceman) | 2002 | — | Towa Tei | ||||||||
| "Latte Macaron" [51] | — | ||||||||||
| "Different Nu Nu" [52] | 2004 | — | Flash | ||||||||
| "Sometime Samurai" [53] (featuring Kylie Minogue) | 2005 | — | |||||||||
| "Melody" [54] (featuring Byron Stingily) | — | ||||||||||
| "Milky Way" [55] (featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukalicious) | — | ||||||||||
| "My Sharona" [55] (featuring Buffalo Daughter, Tycoon Tosh) | — | ||||||||||
| "N705i" [upper-alpha 13] | 2008 | — | Non-album single | ||||||||
| "Pac Is Back!" [upper-alpha 14] | 2010 | — | |||||||||
| "Upload" [58] (with Bakubaku Dokin) | 2011 | — | Mach 2012 | ||||||||
| "Milky Way" [59] | 2012 | — | |||||||||
| "Wordy" [59] (with Bakubaku Dokin) | — | ||||||||||
| "Luv Pandemic" [60] (with Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi) | 2015 | — | Cute | ||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart or were not released in this region. | |||||||||||
Towa Tei is a Japanese artist, record producer, and DJ. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Towa was a member of Deee-Lite, from the US label Elektra Records in 1990 and shot to fame via their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart". He made his solo debut with the album Future Listening! in 1994. He has since relocated from New York to rural Nagano prefecture in Japan.
Future Listening! is the debut studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on October 21, 1994 by For Life Music. It is Tei's first release after his departure from Deee-Lite. The album was released in the United States on April 25, 1995 by Elektra Records.
Sound Museum is the second studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on May 25, 1997 by East West Records. Collaborators on the album include Kylie Minogue, Biz Markie, and Bebel Gilberto.
Sweet Robots Against the Machine is the eponymous debut album by Sweet Robots Against the Machine, a pseudonym for Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on February 10, 1997 by East West Records. It includes a cover version of Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots".
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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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Let Me Know is a song by Japanese electronic musician Towa Tei, featuring singer Chara on vocals. It was released as the fourth single from his album Last Century Modern on June 23, 1999, a month before the album's release. It debuted at #34 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted for four weeks. It did substantially better on the J-Wave airplay charts, charting in the top 30 for eight weeks.
"Love Rainbow" is a song recorded by Japanese boy band Arashi, for their tenth studio album, Beautiful World (2011). It was released as a CD single on 8 September 2010 under the record label J Storm. "Love Rainbow" was used as the theme song for member, Jun Matsumoto's starring drama Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku.
Ukina, also known by its English name Talk of the Town, is a compilation album by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena. It was released on her 15th anniversary on November 13, 2013, by Universal Music Japan sublabel EMI Records Japan, alongside a live recording compilation album called Mitsugetsu-shō. The album compiles her collaborations with other musicians not released on a Ringo Sheena album, as well as two unpublished songs.
Are You Happy? is the fifteenth studio album of the Japanese idol group Arashi. The album was released on October 26, 2016 under their record label J Storm in two editions: a first press/limited edition and a regular edition. The regular edition comes with a 36-page lyrics booklet and the limited edition comes with an 80-page photo lyrics and a bonus DVD with the music video and making-of for "Don't You Get It?". The album sold over 636,000 copies in its first week and topped the Oricon charts. With more than 720,000 copies sold, the album was certified for Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). It was released digitally on February 7, 2020.
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"Anata" is a song by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It is their third single under the label Epic Records Japan, from their seventh Japanese-language studio album Hatsukoi. The song was used as a tie-in for movie Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura, and was released as a digital download on December 8. The song is their first movie tie-in in 5 years, since "Sakura Nagashi" was released in 2012 for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. The song was written with a Buddhist's view to show both the real and fantasy mixed world shown in the movie. Besides the movie, the song is also featured in a Sony campaign to promote a wireless headphone line, in which they themself also appears.
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Metafive was a Japanese band that consisted of Yukihiro Takahashi, Keigo Oyamada, Yoshinori Sunahara, Towa Tei, Tomohiko Gondo, and Leo Imai.
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Reflection is the sixth studio album by Japanese producer tofubeats, released on May 18, 2022, through Warner Music Japan subsidiary unBORDE. The album is his fifth on a major label. It peaked at 14 on the Japanese Oricon charts.