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, Losalios, and Mo'Some Tonebender, and the limited edition version of the album includes a DVD with 10 music videos from songs on the album. The album will be supported by Superfly's "Mind Traveler" national tour. In the first day of its release, ''Mind Travel'' reached the top of the Japan iTunes Store album charts and it sold over 52,000 physical copies according to the

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, placing at the top of its daily album ranking. It eventually sold over 166,000 copies in its first week, becoming Superfly's fourth consecutive album to debut at the top of the Oricon's charts, a feat not matched by a female artist since

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's release of ''

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'' in 2004. ''Mind Travel'' also topped ''

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''s Japan Top Albums list, making it her third consecutive album to debut at number one on those charts. ''Mind Travel'' was certified platinum by the

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in June 2011. It also reached the number 3 spot for the

's Monthly Album Chart for June 2011, and then dropped to 8 on the July 2011 Monthly Charts.

Overview

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's ''BOSS'' drama, and it was released to digital download stores on May 18, 2011. "Rollin' Days" was subsequently charted as the number 1 song on ''Billboard''s Adult Contemporary Airplay charts. A promotional rental single featuring

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song "Ah" along with a digest preview of the 14 songs on the album was distributed starting May 14, 2011. Superfly's 9th single " Dancing on the Fire" and the track "Roll Over the Rainbow" from the group's 10th single "

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" are not featured on the album, but the songs' music videos are featured on the first pressing DVD. The charity song " You & Me" is also absent. A social networking campaign called "Superfly Mind Traveler's Circle" was set up on May 20, 2011, tied in with

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. Users can preview songs off of the album, watch music videos, and receive special additions to their Twitter avatars by tweeting about the songs. To celebrate the album's release, Superfly held a free concert at the

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. The concert was also broadcast live via

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on June 15, 2011, at 20:00 JST. The concert had 20,000 attendees, listening to 9 songs off of the album. A recording of the concert along with an interview will air on as a special WOWOW on August 16, 2011. "Morris" was performed live on June 19, 2011, for

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, as she wrote the song with memories of her father in mind.

Track listing

Personnel

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– background vocal (#14) *Shinji Asakura – percussion (#3, #7) *Can'no – background vocal (#14) *Luz Fonte – background vocal (#14) *Mikio Hirama – electric guitar (#2, #4, #11-12) *Binkoh Izawa – background vocal (#14) *Gen Ittetsu Stringss – strings (#5-6, #10) *Junear – background vocal (#14) *Jon Kasagi – background vocal (#14) *Teppei Kawakami – trumpet (#3) *Noriyasu "Kaasuke" Kawamura – drums (#1, #3) *Armin T. Linzbichler – drums (#13) *Maseeeta – drums (#6) *Hideki Matsubara – bass (#3, #5, #8, #10) *Hiroshi "Matsukichi" Matsubara – drums (#4), percussion (#4. #12) *Frances Maya – background vocal (#14) *Kazuhiro Momo – second vocals (#12) *Yōichi Murata – trombone (#4, #13) *Yukio Nagoshi – electric guitar (#8, #10) *Miku Nakamura – background vocal (#14) *

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– drums (#11) *Yūsuke Nakano – trumpet (#3) *Kōji Nishimura – trumpet (#13) *Shiho Ochi – lead and background vocals, tambourine (#1-2, #8, #10), cowbell (#1, #4), glockenspiel (#5), vibraphone (#5), wind chime (#5) *Yutaka Odawara – drums (#2, #8, #10) *Takumi Ogasawara – drums (#7) *Yuchi Ohata – acoustic guitar (#9) *Haruko Ōhinata – background vocals (#13-14) *Tomohiko Ohkanda – bass (#7, #13) *Rung Hyang – background vocal (#14) *San (Chagra) – background vocal (#14) *Shirō Sasaki – trumpet (#7) *Takayuki Sasaki – electric guitar (#3, #7) *Katsuhiko Satō – acoustic guitar (#9) *Yoshiaki Sato – accordion (#8-9) *Hiroko Satoh – background vocal (#14) *Kaori Sawada – background vocal (#14) *Hironori Sawano – trumpet (#7) *Yūji Shimoda> – trombone (#7) *Masayuki Shioda – background vocal (#14) *Satoshi Shōji – oboe (#5) *Masahiko Sugasaka – trumpet (#4) *Sunny – piano (#12) *Kōichi Tabo – electric guitar (Open-G turning) (#1) *Kiyoshi Takakuwa – bass (#1) *Hideyo Takakuwa – flute (#5) *Kenichi Takemoto – background vocals (#13-14) *Masakuni Takeno – alto sax (#4) *Satoru Takeshima – flute (#3) *Maiko Takeshita – background vocal (#14) *Tama (Chagra) – background vocal (#14) *Mayuka Tanaka – background vocal (#14) *Mitsuru Tanaka – trumpet (#3) *Yoshito Tanaka – electric guitar (#13) *Yukiko Tanaka – background vocal (#14) *Takeshi Taneda – bass (#4, #11-12) *Yuichi Togashiki – drums (#5) *Tokie – bass (#2) *Shunsuke Tsuri – additional arrangement (#11) *Kōichi Tsutaya – hammond B-3 (#1, #11), background vocals (#1, #6, #8), piano (#3-5, #14), programming (#4, #14) rhodes (#7, #13) *Hajime Yamamoto – alto & tenor sax (#7) *Masashi Yamamoto – bass (#6) *Takuo Yamamoto – baritone sax (#13), tenor sax (#4, #13) *Yoshiyuki Yatsuhashi – acoustic guitar (#5, #8), electric guitar (#1-6, #10-12), mandolin (#10) *Hitoshi Yokoyama – trumpet (#4) *Osamu Yoshida – alto sax (#7) *Yūho Yoshioka – background vocal (#14)

Oricon Sales Chart

Notes

References

External links

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