''Fun-Fare'' is the eleventh
studio album
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by Japanese music duo
Every Little Thing. It was released on February 19, 2014, by
Avex Trax
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History
Two years after Max Matsuura began a career distributing studio albums from othe ...
.
Background
This is the band's first album in two and a half years, and includes singles from "Landscape", which was used in TV commercials for
Toyota Isis
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and released as single in late 2011, to "
Aquamarine no Mama de Ite", originally a cover from Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe and used as theme song of Fuji TV drama ''Dakishimetai! Forever'', released digitally in August 2013.
"Start", which was used on TV Tokyo coverage of the
2014 Winter Olympics
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, was released digitally on February 5, 2014.
Chart performance
In its first week, ''Fun-Fare'' charted at number seven on the
Oricon
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charts, selling 9,891 copies. On its second week it fell abruptly to the 50th position on the charts, selling 2,141 copies (a total of 12,032 copies sold).
Track listing
;Notes
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co-arranged by Every Little Thing
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co-arranged by Ichiro Ito
Charts
References
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2014 albums
Every Little Thing (band) albums