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Yoasobi Discography
The discography of Japanese duo Yoasobi consists of seven extended plays (four Japanese and three English), 29 singles (12 of all were English version), two promotional singles, two video album, and 33 music videos (27 were additionally accompanied the English version). As of April 2025, Yoasobi has sold 3.3 million certified units, based on physical and digital sales combined, and earned 5.65 billion certified streams, according to the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Four of the duo's songs—"Yoru ni Kakeru", " Gunjō", " Kaibutsu", and "Idol"—received diamond certifications for surpassing 500 million streams or higher, the most among artists, tying with Mrs. Green Apple. Yoasobi made their debut in 2019 with the single "Yoru ni Kakeru". Going viral during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, the song became their first number one song on both the Oricon Combined Singles and ''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 charts. The song stayed on the latter chart for six non-consecu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoasobi
Yoasobi is a Japanese pop duo formed in 2019. It consists of musician and record producer Ayase (music producer), Ayase and singer-songwriter Lilas Ikuta, under the moniker Ikura. With the slogan "novel into music", the duo originally released Yoasobi discography, songs based on selected Fiction, fictional stories posted on , a social media website for creative writing operated by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Sources later also come from various media such as stories written by professional authors, books, letters, messages, plays, etc. Rising to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, Yoasobi's debut single, "Yoru ni Kakeru", spent six non-consecutive weeks atop Billboard Japan Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 and topped its 2020 year-end chart, the first ever non-CD single to do so, as well as receiving the first ever diamond and double diamond certifications for streaming figure from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Three other songs were al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book (Yoasobi EP)
''The Book'' is the debut EP by Japanese duo Yoasobi. It was released on January 6, 2021, through Sony Music Entertainment Japan, the same date with their single " Kaibutsu", accompanied the second season of ''Beastars''. A concept of "reading CD" with binder package, the EP consists of all singles released from 2019 to 2020, including other track " Encore". The track-by-track cover EP '' Mikunoyoasobi'' by Ayase with Vocaloid voicebank Hatsune Miku, was released on the same day exclusively at Tower Records Japan. Commercial performance ''The Book'' debuted at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart, behind SixTones's ''1ST'', selling 72,238 copies in its first week. and 146,745 copies as of 2021. It topped Oricon Digital Albums Chart for five consecutive weeks and the year-end chart with 100,656 downloads in 2021 alone, becoming the only album to reach this milestone in the year. For ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, ''The Book'' entered at number two with 74,601 CD copies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Global Excl
A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertisements to passing pedestrians and drivers. Typically brands use billboards to build their brands or to push for their new products. The largest ordinary-sized billboards are located primarily on major highways, expressways, or principal arterials, and command high-density consumer exposure (mostly to vehicular traffic). These afford the greatest visibility due not only to their size, but because they allow creative "customizing" through extensions and embellishments. Posters are another common form of billboard advertising, located mostly along primary and secondary arterial roads. Posters are in a smaller format and are viewed primarily by residents and commuter traffic, with some pedestrian exposure. Advertising style Billboard advertis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Global 200
The ''Billboard'' Global 200 is a weekly record chart published by ''Billboard'' magazine. The chart ranks the top songs globally and is based on digital sales and online streaming from over 200 territories worldwide. First announced in mid-2019, it officially launched in September 2020. The current number-one as of the chart dated June 21, 2025, is " Ordinary" by Alex Warren. Conception ''Billboard'' had been working on the idea of a global chart for over two years prior to its launch. The chart was first announced on May 6, 2019, then envisioned as the "Global 100" and it was to launch later that year. The motivation for the chart's conception was "to expose people to music from multiple territories and in time", to provide "overdue exposure and recognition for acts from international markets". With the chart's official announcement on September 14, 2020, ''Billboard'' described it as "the first authoritative charts ranking the top songs globally", and stated that basin ... [...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 Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... 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 () 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūsha (song)
is a song by Japanese duo Yoasobi from their third EP, ''The Book 3'' (2023). It was released as a Single (music), single by Sony Music Entertainment Japan on September 29, 2023, serving as the first opening theme for the 2023 Japanese anime series ''Frieren#Anime, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End''. Written by Ayase (music producer), Ayase and based on the short story ''Fanfare for Frieren'' written by Jirō Kiso, the song expresses the protagonist Frieren (character), Frieren's emotions and memories towards the hero List of Frieren characters#The Hero Party, Himmel. Commercially, "Yūsha" peaked at number two on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100, and number three on the Oricon Combined Singles Chart, and was certified double platinum for streaming by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Background and release In September 2022, an anime adaptation of manga series by and , ''Frieren: Beyond Journey's End'', was first announced. One year later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shukufuku
is a song by Japanese duo Yoasobi from their third EP, ''The Book 3'' (2023). It was released as a single on October 1, 2022, by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, served as the opening theme of the first season of the Japanese mecha anime series '' Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury'' (2022). The song was based on the ''Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury'' writer Ichirō Ōkouchi's short story ''Yurikago no Hoshi'', depicting the perspective of XVX-016 Gundam Aerial to Suletta Mercury. It peaked at number three on the Oricon Combined Singles Chart, and number two on the ''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100, and was certified platinum for downloads and triple platinum for streaming by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Background and release Starting on September 2, 2022, Yoasobi uploaded three mysterious images of the unknown black shape with a white background featuring the text "941", "730", and "Coming Soon!!!" for three days. Two days later, the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book 3
''The Book 3'' is the third Japanese-language EP (sixth overall) by Japanese duo Yoasobi. It was released on October 4, 2023, through Sony Music Entertainment Japan, one year and ten months after their second EP '' The Book 2'' (2021). Continuing with the "reading CD" concept as previous records, the EP spans electropop and synth-pop genres, comprising ten tracks, which were solely written and produced by one half of the duo Ayase. Eight singles preceded ''The Book 3'', including top-five anime opening theme songs: '' Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury''s " Shukufuku", ''Oshi no Ko''s " Idol", and '' Frieren: Beyond Journey's End''s " Yūsha". Commercially, ''The Book 3'' peaked at number two on both the Oricon Albums Chart and ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of over 100,000 units. The EP won Finalist Award (Red) at the 16th CD Shop Awards. Background and release Yoasobi release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ... founded in 1946. It has a circulation of 1,661,000, and is an affiliate newspaper of the '' Asahi Shimbun''. Companies and regions ;Nikkan Sports News (Tokyo) :Tokyo HQ: 5-10, Tsukiji Sanchome, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan ;Hokkaido Nikkan Sports News (Hokkaido) :Hokkaido HQ: KN Building, 1-30, Kita-Sanjo-Higashi Sanchome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Japan ;Nikkan Sports News West Japan (Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu) :Osaka HQ: Hanshin Diamond Building, 14-24, Fukushima Sanchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan :Nagoya HQ: Asahi Kaikan, 3-3, Sakae Itchome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Japan :Seibu HQ: Fukuoka Asahi Building, 1-1, Hakata Ekimae Nichome, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan See also * Nikkan Sports Film Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book 2
''The Book 2'' is the second Japanese-language EP (third overall) by Japanese duo Yoasobi. It was released on December 1, 2021, through Sony Music Entertainment Japan, eleven months after their debut EP '' The Book'' (2021). It consists of eight tracks, preceded by their all singles released in 2021, and included the new song " Moshi mo Inochi ga Egaketara". In support of the EP, the duo held their first face-to-face concert Nice to Meet You on December 4–5 at Nippon Budokan. Commercially, ''The Book 2'' debuted at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart, and atop ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums and certified gold by Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Background and release In 2021, Yoasobi released the debut EP '' The Book'', preceded by the singles released from 2019 to 2020. It peaked at number two on both Oricon Albums Chart, and ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, and atop the Oricon Digital Albums Chart for five consecutive weeks. According to Oricon, the EP sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
