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| Released | 18 December 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Studio | Sound Valley Victor Studio Towerside Studio | |||
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| Length | 21:40 | |||
| Language | Japanese | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Akina Nakamori | |||
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Vamp is the fourth mini studio album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori. It was released on 18 December 1996 under the MCA Records label and produced by Nakamori.
Vamp is her only mini album which was released under MCA Records. It's also her first mini album to be released for the first time in eight years. The album consists of four new songs, which weren't released as a single neither in the original albums.
In 2008, all songs were recorded in the first press edition of compilation album of her works from the 1990s, Utahime Densetsu: 90's Best. [1] [2]
The concept of the album consist of cool and sexy vibrance through the dance music. [3]
The music production team consist a music producers Hiroshi Yamada and Masanori Shimada, songwriters Gorō Matsui and Seriko Natsuno. [4] [5]
Nakamori performed all four songs only once, on her first dinner show in Xmas Dinner Show 1996. [6]
The album debuted at number 30 on the Oricon Album Weekly Charts, remained in top 100 chart for 5 weeks and sold over 30,100 copies. [7]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arranger(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Pride and Joy" | Hiroshi Yamada | Hirofumi Asamoto | Asamoto | 4:13 |
| 2. | "Egoist" | Kenn Kato | Ton Shoji | Masanori Shimada | 4:44 |
| 3. | "Crescent Fish" | Gorō Matsui | Chika Ueda | U-ki | 4:51 |
| 4. | "Metropolitan Blue" | Seriko Natsuno | Masashi Chizawa | Itaru Sakota | 7:54 |
Akina Nakamori is a Japanese singer and actress. She is one of the most popular and best-selling artists in Japan. Akina achieved national recognition after winning the 1981 season of the talent show Star Tanjō!. Her debut single "Slow Motion" was released to moderate success, peaking at number thirty on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. Nakamori's popularity increased with the release of her follow-up single, "Shōjo A", which peaked at number five on the Oricon charts and sold over 390,000 copies. Her second album Variation became her first number-one on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, staying in that position for three weeks.
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"Crazy Love" is the 48th single by Japanese entertainer Akina Nakamori. Written by Kōzō Endō, Nakamori, Fredrik Bostrom, Anna Nordell, and Calle Kindbom, the single was released on July 13, 2010, by Universal Sigma. It was also the lead single from her compilation album All Time Best: Original. "Crazy Love" is an original song for the 2010 pachinko machine CR Nakamori Akina: Utahime Densetsu ~Koi Moni Dome nara~, and it was released exclusively as a digital download. As such, it did not appear on Oricon's weekly singles chart.