''Message'' is the second studio album by Japanese
pop
Pop or POP may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Pop music, a musical genre
Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop! (British group), a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
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singer
Aya Ueto
is a Japanese actress, singer and television personality. In 1997, Ueto participated in the seventh Japan Bishōjo Contest, where she won the special jury prize. Soon thereafter, Ueto joined the talent agency Oscar Promotion and began taking s ...
. It was released on March 3, 2004 on
Flight Master.
Background
''Message'' includes Ueto's previous singles "
Message/Personal
"Message" / "Personal" is a double A-side single by Japanese singer Aya Ueto off her second studio album, ''Message''. It was released by Flight Master on May 14, 2003.
Background
"Message" was written by Yuho Iwasato, composed by Hal, and arr ...
", "
Kanshō/Mermaid", "
Binetsu" and "
Ai no Tame ni.". The album's initial track listing included a fourteenth track entitled "Shiawase ni Naru Yō ni" (幸せになるように ''Wish You Happiness'') but it was eventually scrapped and never released. The seventh track, "Taiyō to Tsuki", was initially called "Tonari ni Ite Hoshii" (''I Want You By My Side''), which is a line from the song's chorus. The second track, "Okuru Kotoba", is a cover of the
Tetsuya Takeda
Tetsuya Takeda (), born April 11, 1949, is a Japanese folk singer and actor. Takeda is perhaps most known in Japan for his starring role in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's (TBS) long-running, highly rated television drama '' Sannen B Gumi Kinpa ...
-fronted folk band Kaientai's 1979 hit of the same name.
Chart performance
''Message'' peaked at #4 on the
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 ...
Daily Albums Chart and debuted at #6 on the Weekly Albums Chart with 43,154 copies sold. The album charted for a total of eleven weeks and sold over 75,000 copies.
Track listing
Charts and sales
References
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2004 albums
Aya Ueto albums
Pony Canyon albums