Around the World (album)

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Around the World
Around the World cover
Studio album by Ami Suzuki (Avex)
Released October 12, 2005
Recorded 2004, 2005
Genre J-Pop
Length 54:17
Label Avex Trax
AVCD-17752/B (Japan, CD+DVD)
AVCD-17753 (Japan, CD)
AVCD-17750 (Japan, CD+T-Shirt Girl)
AVCD-17751 (Japan, CD+T-Shirt Boy)
Producer Max Matsuura
Ami Suzuki (Avex) chronology
Around the World
(2005)		 Amix World
(2006)
Ami Suzuki (Sony) chronology
Fun for Fan
(2001)
Alternate Covers
CD+DVD Cover
CD+DVD Cover
CD+T-shirt men's Cover
CD+T-shirt men's Cover
CD+T-shirt lady's Cover
CD+T-shirt lady's Cover
Singles from Around the World
  1. "Delightful"
    Released: March 24, 2005
  2. "Eventful"
    Released: May 25, 2005
  3. "Negaigoto"
    Released: August 17, 2005
  4. "Around the World"
    Released: October 12, 2005

Around the World is the debut album by Ami Suzuki under label Avex Trax. Ami released a single by the same name on the same day.

Contents

[edit] Information

The album title was originally set to be HOPEFUL, but was later changed to the current one. The styles of the album consists of upbeat J-Pop songs with touches from House and Trance, also with some sweet pop ballads and soft songs. A single of the same-title song was released the same of the album. It was included the previously-released singles "Delightful", "Eventful" and "Negaigoto", and also the digital releases "Hopeful" and "For yourself". However, the Trance remix version of "Hopeful" was included in the album -the same as the one used in the promotional video and included in the Delightful maxi single- instead of the original J-Pop version. This versions hasn't been included in any physical release at the moment.

A curious fact is that the DVD of the album doesn't include the original music videos of the songs of the previous physical singles; the dance tracks videos are the original songs but only with the dance scenes that Ami shot for those videos, and the album edit of "Negaigoto" is a slightly different edit of the original video.

[edit] Sales

The album came in at #4 on its first day, but fell to #5 for the weekly charts. The single reached #19 on the Oricon charts, pretty impressive for a limited release single such as this. Despite that the sales were not exactly a big success come back album, this record marked Ami Suzuki again as a qualified and profitable female singer in the Japanese Music Industry.

Its first week AROUND THE WORLD sold 30,000 copies aprox. After various weeks in the charts, the album managed to sell little more than 60,000 copies.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD

  1. "Around the World" – 4:34
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Y@suo Ohtani
    Arrangement: Ken Harada
  2. "Hopeful" Overhead Champion Mix 4:55
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Shunsuke Yazaki
    Arrangement: Overhead Champion
  3. "Beautiful" – 4:55
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Daisuke Suzuki
    Arrangement: ats-
  4. "Sweet Voice" – 4:47
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi
    Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura
  5. "Delightful" – 4:20
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Tohru Watanabe
    Arrangement: Axel Konard
  6. "For yourself" – 4:40
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Tohru Watanabe
    Arrangement: h-wonder
  7. "Negaigoto" (ねがいごと?) – 5:08
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Daisuke Suzuki
    Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura
  8. "Risk" – 4:40
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Daisuke Suzuki
    Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura
  9. "Eventful" – 4:23
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music & Arrangement: Tohru Watanabe
  10. "with you" – 4:44
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi
    Arrangement: Ken Harada
  11. "Times" – 4:15
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music & Arrangement: Tohru Watanabe
  12. "I'm alone" – 2:56
    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
    Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi
    Arrangement: KZB

[edit] DVD

  1. "Hopeful"
  2. "Delightful" -dance track-
  3. "Eventful" -dance track-
  4. "Negaigoto" (ねがいごと?) -album edit-
  5. "For yourself"
  6. "Around the World"
  7. "For yourself" - making
  8. "Around the World" - making

[edit] Singles

Date Title Peak position Weeks Sales
March 24, 2005 "Delightful" #3 12 97,218
May 25, 2005 "Eventful" #7 5 22,096
August 17, 2005 "Negaigoto" #13 6 22,000
October 12, 2005 "Around the World" #19 3 7,500

[edit] Personnel

  • Ami Suzuki - vocals, backing vocals
  • Yumi Kawamura - backing vocals

[edit] Production

  • Executive Producer - Max Matsuura
  • Planner - Jun Harada
  • Supervisors - Hiroshi "Funaty" Ishimori, Takashi Okuda
  • Directors - Hatsukoshi Yasuhara, Aki Hori, Aya Noguchi
  • A&R - Katsuhiko Sakurai, Shizuka Oruga, Hideaki Tamamuchi
  • Desk A&R - Megumi Seyika, Nozomi Yasumune, Sakoto Sairenji
  • Musical Director - Yoshihisa Tokuda
  • Mixing - Naoki Yamada, Atsushi Hattori, Overhead Champion (#2), Axel Konard (#5)
  • Recording - Kaoru Akimoto, Shuichi Watanabe, Masahiro Kawata, Atsushi Hattori, Kei Kusama
  • 2nd Engineering - Masahiro Kawata, Ryuichi Okubo, Hanae Saito, Hitomi Suzuki, Makoto Yamadoi, Hideaki Jinbu, Ryo Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamada.

[edit] Charts

Chart Peak
position		 Sales Time in
chart
Oricon Weekly Albums #5 62,022 copies sold 7 weeks
v • d • e
Ami Suzuki
Albums
Avex Trax:
Around the World • Connetta • Dolce
Remix Album: Amix World
DVDs
Independent Labels:
2004 Summer Fly High - Ami shower
Box Sets
Bazooka 17
See also
Tetsuya Komuro • Full Discography • Albums
Languages