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Oh Yeah! (Princess Princess Song)
is the ninth single by Japanese band Princess Princess. Written by Kanako Nakayama and Kaori Okui, the single was released by CBS Sony on April 21, 1990. It became their third of five consecutive No. 1 singles on Oricon's singles chart. Background "Oh Yeah!" was written as a cheering song for the band's national tour "Panic Tour '90: Parade Shō yo!", which started in April that year. The song's original key is A. The song was used by Sony for their HF-X/UX cassette tape commercials. The B-side, "Papa", was used by KDD for their telephone commercials. Chart performance "Oh Yeah!" hit No. 1 on Oricon's singles chart and No. 5 on Oricon's year-ending chart in 1990. It also sold over 575,000 copies and was certified Platinum by the RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Princess (band)
was a five-piece Japanese pop/ rock girl band active from 1983 to 1996. They previously released music under the names and . Career After being assembled via open audition of 1400 hopefuls as the female music group Akasaka Komachi by TDK Records in 1983, the band was housed with their manager in the Tokyo suburb of Nishi-Nippori for over two years to develop their musical skills and experience. In March 1984, the band made the first of several appearances on Japanese television. In 1985 the band transferred from TDK Records to another management company, changed their name to Julian Mama, but did not release any singles or albums. In May 1986, the band made their recording debut with the EP '' Kiss de Crime'', released by CBS Sony. In August 1986, the band transferred their management to Shinko Music Entertainment. In May of that year the CEO of Shinko had declined to represent the band, but the company employee Emiko Ichimura, who had seen the girls' live show and believ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassette Tape
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog audio, analog magnetic tape recording format for Sound recording and reproduction, audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Netherlands, Dutch company Philips in 1963, Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (''Musicassette''), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although List of magnetic tape cartridges and cassettes, other tape cassette formats have also existed - for example the Microcassette - the generic term ''cassette tape'' is normally always used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. Its uses have ranged from Personal stereo, portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers; the Compact Cassette technology was originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon Weekly Number-one Singles
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number-one on the Oricon Singles Chart, the preeminent singles chart in Japan, which was created in 1967, and monitors the number of physical single purchases of the most popular singles. 1960s and 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * List of best-selling singles in Japan * List of Oricon number-one albums This is a list of albums that have peaked at number-one on the Oricon Albums Chart, the preeminent singles chart in Japan. Each chart is on a week-ending format. The chart was created on October 5, 1987, and eventually replaced the original LP ch ... * Oricon {{Number-one singles in Japan Japanese music-related lists Lists of number-one songs in Japan Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese-language Songs
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Princess (band) Songs ''
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Princess Princess may refer to: * Princess Princess (band), Japanese rock band * ''Princess Princess'' (manga), anime and manga series * Princess-Princess, a character from the webcomic ''Sluggy Freelance ''Sluggy Freelance'' is a long-running webcomic written and drawn by Pete Abrams. Starting in 1997, it is one of the oldest successful webcomics, and as of 2012 had hundreds of thousands of readers. Abrams was one of the first comic artists succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Songs
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recording Industry Association Of Japan
The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include promotion of music sales, enforcement of Copyright law of Japan, copyright law, and research related to the Japanese music industry. It publishes the annual ''RIAJ Year Book'', a statistical summary of each year's music sales, as well as distributing a variety of other data. Headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, the RIAJ has twenty member companies and a smaller number of associate and supporting members; some member companies are the Japanese branches of multinational corporations headquartered elsewhere. The association is responsible for certifying Music recording sales certification, gold and platinum albums and singles in Japan. RIAJ Certification In 1989, the Recording Industry Association of Japan introduced the music reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, 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 and Western music. It started as, 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. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singles 1987–1992
''Singles 1987–1992'' is the first compilation album by the Japanese girl band Princess Princess, released on July 15, 1992, by Sony Records. The album compiles the band's singles from 1987 to 1992, including their five consecutive No. 1 hits "Diamonds", "Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu", " Oh Yeah!", "Julian", and "Kiss". The album stayed at No. 1 on Oricon's albums chart for four consecutive weeks, becoming the band's fourth of five consecutive No. 1 albums. It was also certified as a Million seller and Quadruple Platinum by the RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include .... Track listing All music is composed by Kaori Okui, except where indicated; all music is arranged by Princess Princess and Masanori Sasaji. Charts Certification References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian (song)
is the tenth single by Japanese band Princess Princess. Written by Kanako Nakayama and Kaori Okui, the single was released by Sony Records on November 21, 1990. It became their fourth of five consecutive No. 1 singles on Oricon's singles chart. Background "Julian" was Princess Princess' first ballad single. While the title is a reference to the band's former name , lead guitarist Kanako Nakayama named the song after her pet cat, which was given to her by Bow Wow lead vocalist Kyoji Yamamoto. Julian had lived with the band at their training camp in Nishi-Nippori, but shortly after the band left the training camp, he ran away and was never seen again. Despite the title, the song is not about Nakayama's cat, but a former lover of hers. The song's original key is C. The song was used by Citizen for their Lighthouse watch commercials. The B-side, "Rock Me", was used by Sony for their cassette tape commercials. Chart performance "Julian" hit No. 1 on Oricon's singles chart a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekai De Ichiban Atsui Natsu
is the second single by Japanese band Princess Princess. Written by Kyōko Tomita and Kaori Okui, the single was released by CBS Sony on July 16, 1987. It was re-released on July 1, 1989 as the band's eighth single, which became their second of five consecutive No. 1 singles on Oricon's singles chart. Background "Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu" was originally released on vinyl in 1987 with "Vibration" as the B-side. As Princess Princess was relatively unknown at the time, the single did not chart. The song was used in the TV Asahi travel show . The song's original key is A. The song was re-released in 1989 as a CD single with the B-side being a re-recording of the song (known as the ). The CD jacket was designed to resemble an airline ticket; the first edition release was colored gold while the regular release was colored pink. The Heisei version of the song was used in the TV Asahi travel show . The song was remixed in the band's 1992 compilation album '' Singles 1987–1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
