Voice (Mika Nakashima album)

Voice
Studio album by Mika Nakashima
Released November 26, 2008
Genre J-pop, Jazz, Pop music, Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening, Rock music
Length 1:07:30
Label Sony Music Associated Records
Mika Nakashima chronology

Yes
(2007)
Voice
(2008)
No More Rules
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [1]

Voice is the ninth album (sixth studio album) by Mika Nakashima, released on November 26, 2008. It contains all of her singles from "Life" up to "Orion". The album had two releases: a CD-only and CD+DVD format. The CD+DVD version comes in a deluxe box.[2]

Voice, on its release, provided Nakashima with her first #1 album on the Oricon 200 Album Chart since Best in 2005. It has been certified Platinum by RIAJ[3] for shipment of 250,000 copies in Japan, and has amassed sales of over 450,000 copies since its release in 2008.

Track listing

No. TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s) Length
1. "Life"  Ren Takayanagi,
Heroism
JunkooColdfeet 4:02
2. "Sakura: Hanagasumi (花霞; Cherry Blossoms: Flower Haze)" (Daishi Dance)Mona,
Hiroki Nagase
Hiroki NagaseDaishi Dance,
Tomoharu Moriya
6:09
3. "Focus"  Mika NakashimaAkihisa MatsuuraYoshito Tanaka
Brass Arrangement: Yoshinari Takegami
4:40
4. "Eien no Uta" (永遠の詩; Eternal Song)Kazufumi MiyazawaSinStephen McGregor
String Arrangement: Shunya Mori
5:45
5. "Orion"  Rui MomotaRui MomotaRui Momota 4:48
6. "Anata ga Iru Kara" (あなたがいるから; Because You Are Here)Haruna YokotaHaruna YokotaNaohisa Taniguchi 4:34
7. "My Gentleman"  Mika NakashimaAkihisa MatsuuraAkihisa Matsuura 4:34
8. "Trust Your Voice"  Mika NakashimaLenseiShin Kōno 4:15
9. "It's Too Late"  Mika Nakashima,
Ayumi Miyazaki
Lori Fine (Coldfeet)Coldfeet 4:33
10. "I Don't Know" (Mica 3 Chu)Mika Nakashima,
Lori Fine (Coldfeet)
Lori Fine (Coldfeet)Coldfeet 4:39
11. "Shut Up" (Mica 3 Chu)Mika Nakashima,
Lori Fine (Coldfeet)
Lori Fine (Coldfeet)Coldfeet 3:53
12. "Confusion"  Mika Nakashima,
Masato Odake
Tomokazu MatsuzawaThe Flixx,
Tomokazu Matsuzawa
Background vocal arrangement: Lori Fine (Coldfeet)
3:29
13. "Flower of Time"  Masato OdakeLenseiAkihisa Matsuura 6:27
14. "Koe" (声; Voice)Jun ShibataJun ShibataTakefumi Haketa 5:42
DVD
No. TitleDirector(s) Length
1. "Life" (Music video)   
2. "Eien no Uta" (Music video)   
3. "Sakura: Hanagasumi" (Music video)   
4. "I Don't Know" (Music video)   
5. "Orion" (Music video)   
6. "Focus" (Music video)   

Charts and sales

Oricon sales charts (Japan)

Release Oricon Chart Peak Position First Week Sales Sales Total Chart Run
November 26, 2008 Daily Chart 1 155,502 450,000+ 27 weeks
Weekly Chart 1
Monthly Chart (November 2008) 3
Yearly Chart (2008) 50
Yearly Chart (2009) 60

Singles

Date Title Peak Position Weeks
2007-08-22 Life 3 21 weeks
2007-10-03 Eien no Uta 5 7 weeks
2008-03-12 Sakura: Hanagasumi 12 6 weeks
2008-07-23 I Don't Know 11 5 weeks
2008-11-12 Orion 6 10 weeks

References

  1. Greenberg, Adam. "Voice - Mika Nakashima - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  2. "Sony Music Shop". Sonymusicshop.jp. 2008-11-26. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  3. "Japanese title" (in Japanese).
Preceded by
Color by NEWS
Oricon Weekly number-one album
December 8, 2008
Succeeded by
Exile Ballad Best by Exile