''Request'' is a
cover album
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by Japanese recording artist
Juju, released on September 29, 2010.
The album features recordings of famous songs by Japanese female vocalists, mostly from the late
1990s.
Conception
The album was originally titled ''Juju Sings Beautiful Woman''.
After the album's announcement on August 4, a questionnaire was put up on Juju's website, asking fans which songs they wanted to hear Juju cover.
Despite this, four songs had already been chosen for the album, "
Gips," "
Hello, Again (Mukashi Kara Aru Basho)," "
Last Kiss" and "
Time Goes By."
The album is Juju's second disc of covers, after the ''She Sings...'' second disc of her previous album ''
Juju'', which featured primarily covers of Western songs in English.
Promotion
"Last Kiss" was originally released in February 2010, as one of the A-side tracks of the four A-side single "Sakura Ame/Ready for Love/S.H.E./Last Kiss."
A cover of
My Little Lover
My Little Lover is a Japanese pop group belonging to the Avex Trax label as of the single and the album ''Akko''. Previous releases were under Toy's Factory. The group has had several members, but currently only Akko (Akamatsu Akiko 赤松亜 ...
's "
Hello, Again (Mukashi Kara Aru Basho)" sung by Juju was announced as a song used in an adverstising campaign for the
Sony Alpha
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
digital camera on June 4. The song was released digitally on June 16 as a ringtone and on June 23 as a full-length cellphone download,
where it was extremely successful digitally, reaching #1 on the
RIAJ Digital Track Chart
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. Due to this popularity, it was released as a physical single a month later, where it reached #15 on
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 N ...
's physical charts.
Track listing
Chart rankings
Reported sales and certifications
Promotional tracks
Many songs from the album were released prior to the physical release digitally, or through other means such as a physical CD or radio airplay.
*Ballad Version
Release history
References
External links
Sony Music ''Request'' profile
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2010 albums
Covers albums
Japanese-language albums
Juju (singer) albums
Onenation albums