Love & Honesty
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| Studio album by BoA | ||||||||||
| Released | 15 January 2004 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2003-2004 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||
| Length | 56:00 | |||||||||
| Label | Avex Trax | |||||||||
| Producer | Lee Soo Man | |||||||||
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Love & Honesty is BoA's third Japanese album and it also had a "Perfect Edition" which had two discs: the standard CD and a DVD. It was number one on the Oricon charts for two weeks.[1] In its first week the album sold 296,781 copies and 145,325 in its second.[1] Love & Honesty has been certified Triple Platinum by the RIAJ.[2]
Track listing
CD
| # | Song Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Time |
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| 1 | "Rock with You" | Shoko Fujibayashi | Hara Kazuhiro | Akira | 4:13 |
| 2 | "Shine We Are!" | Natsumi Watanabe | Hara Kazuhiro | Hara Kazuhiro | 5:07 |
| 3 | "Some Day One Day ft. Verbal (m-flo) " | Akira Takato | Ken Harada | K-muto Maeda Kazuhiko |
4:34 |
| 4 | "Love & Honesty" | BoA Natsumi Watanabe |
Face2Fake | Face2Fake | 4:43 |
| 5 | "Midnight Parade" | Shoko Fujibayashi | Bounceback | Akira | 4:22 |
| 6 | "Be the One" | Stephen A. Kipner David Frank Nate Butler Chinka Yasushi (Japanese lyrics) |
Stephen A. Kipner David Frank Nate Butler Hara Kazuhiro |
Hirata Shiyouitirou | 3:32 |
| 7 | "Expect" | Narumi Yamamoto | Ken Harada | Hirata Shiyouitirou | 4:20 |
| 8 | "Over ~Across the Time~ | Ryoushi Sonoda | Ken Matsubara | Ken Matsubara | 5:50 |
| 9 | "Kokoro no Tegami (心の手紙, lit. Letter From My Heart)" | Ryoushi Sonoda | Tami Komori | Tami Komori | 4:50 |
| 10 | "Double | Natsumi Watanabe | Kazuhiro Hara | H•wonder | 3:28 |
| 11 | "Easy to Be Hard" | Aida Takeshi | Akira | Akira | 4:55 |
| 12 | "Song With No Name ~Namae no Nai Uta~ ( Song With No Name ～名前のない歌～) lit. Song with No Name" | Aida Takeshi | Yoko Kuzuya | Ken Matsubara | 2:49 |
| 13 | "Milky Way: Kimi no Uta (君の歌, lit. Your Song) | Kenzie Shoko Fujibayashi (Japanese lyrics) |
Kazuhiro Hara | Kazuhiro Hara | 3:20 |
- Sampling credits
- "Rock With You" contains a sample of Janet Jackson's "You Ain't Right" [3]
DVD
| # | Title |
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| 1 | "Shine We Are!" (Video clip) |
| 2 | "Rock With You" (Video clip) |
| 3 | "No.1" (Video clip) |
| 4 | "Rock With You" (Making of) |
| 5 | "Commercials" |
| 6 | "Interview" |
Oricon sales chart
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | First Week Sales | Sales Total |
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| 15 January 2004 | Oricon Daily Charts | 1 | ||
| Oricon Weekly Charts | 1 | 296,781 | 653,630 | |
| Oricon Yearly Charts | 13 |
Singles
| Date | Title | Peak position | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2003 | Shine We Are! / Earthsong | 2 | 144,264 |
| 22 October 2003 | Double (Double/Midnight Parade/Milky Way: Kimi no Uta) | 2 | 82,395 |
| 3 December 2003 | Rock with You | 5 | 58,314 |
| 11 February 2004 | Be the One | 15 | 24,292 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "BoA's Love & Honesty sales". Jpopmusic.com. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ "BoA's Love & Honesty certification". RIAJ. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ "BoA sampling a little?". Boajjang.com. 31-03-05. Retrieved 04-01-14. Check date values in:
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