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Planetarium
Released Date: 2005.09.21
Debut Ranking: #1
Label: avex trax
Product Code: AVCD-30769
First Press: Special packaging |
Ai Otsuka’s 10th single, “Planetarium”, was released on 2005.09.21. “Planetarium” gained the first place on the Oricon daily single charts on its first day of release. This single also managed to achieve the top position on the Oricon weekly single charts, having more than 121,000 copies sold so far.
This is Ai’s first ballad single that has achieved such excellent results, which is quite a feat. As most die-hard fans of Ai know, her ballads usually sell poorly compared to her upbeat singles, such as “Sakuranbo” and “SMILY”. I do believe that the success of “Planetarium” is a positive sign that Ai Otsuka is gaining her fame rapidly due to her recently released DVD drama, Tokyo Friends, for which the sequel movie will be shown in theatres next year; her radio show, Otsuka Ai no ai-r Jack; and last but not least, her talents as an artist. Ai composes and writes lyrics for all of her songs and also has excellent piano playing skills.
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1. pretty voice
2. 桃ノ花ビラ
3. さくらんぼ
4. GIRLY
5. 雨の中のメロディー
6. しゃぼん玉
7. 石川大阪友好条約
8. 片想いダイヤル
9. ハニー
10. 甘えんぼ
11. Always Together |
LOVE PUNCH, Ai Otsuka’s debut album, was released on 2004.03.31. This album debuted at #3 on the Oricon album chart, which is an impressive feat considering that she had only been in the industry for 6 months, and was also facing strong competition from more experienced artists such as L’Arc~en~Ciel (their album SMILE debuted at #2 on the same day) and Utada Hikaru (her single collection debuted at #1). So far, over 660,000 copies of LOVE PUNCH have been sold, according to Oricon sales figures. For people who enjoy first press extras, the LOVE PUNCH first press CD only version comes with a 60 page booklet thick with drawings drawn by Ai herself.
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Hi everyone, welcome to the new Channel-Ai community blog. This is a project me and Jason has been planning on over the past few weeks. I have once used this blog to post my personal stuff but then I decided it’s such a waste and why not give it a greater purpose, that is to spread the love of Japanese music? There you go, a new direction has been set, and now let’s walk towards it.
As I mentioned above, this will be the community blog for Channel-Ai, a forum that’s dedicated to Japanese artist Ai Otsuka. So what does community blog means? Well, my vision is to let members of the forum who enjoy Japanese music to have a chance to share this love through blogging. Of course, you need to have good writing skills and knowledge about what you are writing or else people won’t be interested, will they? For that reason, authors of this community blog will be selective. You can apply within this topic posted at Channel-Ai by replying with details such as what type of music you would like to be writing for, what artist you would like to focus on etc., we will then select the qualified applicants and promote them to be authors of this community blog. If you are accepted, you will be notified via PM and more details will be enclosed.
What does it mean to be an author? You get to post message on this blog under your name, and you get to use Channel-Ai FTP should you need to upload a single or album (no abuse allowed though). You will automatically be listed as VIP in Channel-Ai which gives you member download access, and you will be well recognized for your contribution as well. How sweet eh?
After reading this much, what are you waiting for? I know quite a few of you who knows a lot about J-Pop, J-Rock, and even more about the artist you like, why not share your latest news and opinion about their upcoming releases and let other Ai’s fans to know about them as well? You never know how many new fans you can gain for your favourite artist through quality blogging.
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