''Rumaniamania'' is the debut studio album by Japanese

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. It was released on June 16, 1999, by

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label.

Background

The album consist only of their debut single: ''Still for your love''. The beginning of single recording started near end of year 1998 during their formation period and made it into television on-air in January 1999. It became their smash-hit which sold more than 165,000 copies and charted on Oricon rankings for 13 weeks. B-side song ''Good-Bye Summer Vacation'' was included in this album as well. ''Lifevideo'' is the second and final original song performed and written by leader of the band, Makoto. ''Sayonara'' was re-recorded from the original song ''Jonathan'' which was performed in

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and included in their first indies album ''

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''. ''Anny'' was performed in acoustic live performance "UNDOWN vol.4".

Charting

The album reached #9 rank in Oricon for first week. It charted for 6 weeks and sold 92,360 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the CD booklet of ''Rumania Mania''. *Mami Miyoshi – vocals, songwriting, drums *

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- producer, vocals, guitar, arranging, composing, songwriting, *Satomi Makoshi - bass, backing vocals *Akiko Matsuda - keyboards, backing vocals, saxophone *Kazunobu Mashima - guitar *Hirohito Furui (

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) - arranging *Yoshinori Akai - recording, mixing * Secil Minami - backing vocals *Takumi Ito - backing vocals *Toshiyuki Ebihara (cule) - A&R *Daisuke Suzuki (cule) - A&R *Hideaki Magarite - artist management *Gan Kojima – art direction *Rockaku - producing

In media

*Still for your love: ending theme song for the Anime television series

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References

{{Authority control 1999 debut albums Rumania Montevideo albums Albums produced by Daiko Nagato Giza Studio albums 1990s Japanese-language albums