Smile (Mai Kuraki album)

Smile

Studio album by Mai Kuraki

Released

February 15, 2017

Recorded

2015–17

Studio

Northern Music

Genre

Length

46:46

Label

Northern Music

Producer

Mai Kuraki chronology

Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
(2014)

Smile
(2017)

Mai Kuraki x Meitantei Conan Collaboration Best 21: Shinjitsu wa Itsumo Uta ni aru!
(2017)

Singles from Smile

"Serendipity"
Released: May 20, 2015
"Sawage Life"
Released: July 30, 2016
"Yesterday Love"
Released: January 11, 2017

Smile is the eleventh studio album by Japanese singer Mai Kuraki. It was released on February 15, 2017, through Northern Music.

Promotion

Singles

"Serendipity" was released as the lead single from the album on May 20, 2015. It has peaked at number 6 on the RecoChoku Weekly Singles Chart, but failed to enter the Japan Hot 100. The song was used by West Japan Railway Company for the promotion of San'yō Shinkansen. ^[1]^[2]

"Sawage Life" was released as the second single from the album on July 30, 2016. The song was written by the American singer-songwriter Porcelain Black and Bobby Huff and featured as the ending theme song for the Japanese animation program Case Closed. ^[3]^[4]

"Yesterday Love" was released as the third single from the album on January 11, 2017. The song was released on Blu-ray and DVD format and has peaked at number 3 on the Oricon Music Blu-ray Chart. The song was also featured as the ending theme song for Case Closed. ^[5]^[6]

Commercial performance

Smile sold 11,910 copies in its release date and debuted at number 4 on the Oricon daily chart behind Big Bang's Made, Scandal's Best Album "Scandal" and Leo Ieiri's 5th Anniversary Best.^[7] It peaked at number 2 on the chart on February 16, 2017 with selling 4,220 copies in a day. The album debuted at number 4 on the Oricon weekly chart with selling 21,222 copies in its first week.

As of March 1, 2017, the album has sold 25,439 physical copies in Japan. ^[8]

Track listing

Standard edition
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Yesterday Love"	Mai Kuraki Keiya Kubota Daikō Nagato Yumeto Tsurusawa	4:55
2.	"Mystery Hero (ミステリーヒーロー, Mystery Hero)"	Kuraki Akihito Tokunaga	4:07
3.	"Garasu no Bishō (硝子の微笑, Smile of Glass)"	Kuraki SHIBU Yosuke Yamashita	4:01
4.	"Open Love"	Kuraki Command Freaks Tesung Kim Sophia Pae Jake K	3:23
5.	"Sawage Life"	Kuraki Alaina Beaton Bobby Huff	3:20
6.	"I Like It"	Kuraki Nanna Larsen Takashi Fukuda Makoto Wakatabe	3:36
7.	"My Victory"	Kuraki Seiji Motoyama Manabu Marutani Larsen	3:33
8.	"Serendipity"	Kuraki Tokunaga	4:18
9.	"Make That Change"	Kuraki Tokunaga	4:26
10.	"Tell Me Why"	Kuraki Yongshin Kim Maxx Song Casper 220	3:23
11.	"My Way"	Kuraki Jake K Tesung Kim Sophia Pae Shoko Mochiyama	4:12
12.	"Kimi e no Uta (きみへのうた, Song for You)"	Kuraki Sidnie Tipton Shane Pittman Nash Overstreet	3:40
Total length:			47 min

Limited edition bonus disc
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Like It (Remix)"	Kuraki Larsen Fukuda Wakatabe Motoyama	3:36

Personell

Credits adapted from the CD booklet of Smile.^[9]

Mai Kuraki – vocals, producer, songwriting,
Akihito Tokunaga - composing, tracking
Toshiya Kubota - composing, backing vocals
Daikō Nagato - producer, composing, tracking
Shibu - composing, tracking
Command Freaks- composing, tracking
Tesung Kim - composing, tracking
Sophia Pae - composing, tracking
Jake K - composing, tracking
Takashi Fukuda - composing, tracking
Maxx song - composing, tracking
Yongshin Kim - composing, tracking
Alaina Beaton - composing
Bobby Huff - composing
Makoto Watanabe - composing
Manabu Marutani - composing
Nanna Larsen - composing

Sidnie Tipton - composing
Shane Pittman - composing
Michael Africk - backing vocals
Taito - tracking
Shoko Mochiyama - tracking
Nash Overstreet - tracking
Naoki Morioka - guitar
Yumemoto Tsuresawa - guitar, tracking
Takayuki Ichikawa - recording, mixing
Seiji Motoyama - mixing, composing, tracking
Ethan Brand - mixing
Miguel Sa Pessoa - mixing
Asumi Narita - coordinator
Masahiro Shimada- mastering
Miho Saito - A&R
Asako Watanabe - artist management
Chiharu Kurosawa - artist management
Tetsuo Sato - art direction, art design

Charts

Daily charts

Chart (2017)	Peak position
Japanese Albums Chart^[10]	2

Weekly charts

Chart (2017)	Peak position
Oricon Albums Chart^[11]	4
Billboard Japan Albums Chart	7

Monthly charts

Chart (2017)	Peak position
Japanese Albums Chart^[12]	17

Release history

List of release dates, showing region, format(s), edition(s), label, and references
Region	Date	Format(s)	Edition(s)	Label(s)	Ref.
Japan	February 15, 2017	CD	Standard Deluxe	Northern Music	^[13]
Japan	February 22, 2017	digital download	Standard	Northern Music	^[14]

References

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↑ "倉木麻衣、1年半ぶり19回目のコナンテーマ曲配信". Natalie.mu. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
↑ "倉木麻衣、日本初のVRシングル「YESTERDAY LOVE」1/11リリース". Musicman-net.com. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
↑ "倉木麻衣、日本初VRシングル「YESTERDAY LOVE」リリース決定！". Popscene.jo. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
↑ "BIGBANG、新AL『MADE』が首位独走中 SCANDALと家入レオのベスト盤が続く". Yahoo Japan. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
↑ "CDアルバムランキング 2017年02月度". Oricon News. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
↑ Mai Kuraki (2017). Smile (CD Album; Booklet). Mai Kuraki. Japan: Northern Music. VNCM-9033.
↑ "デイリーCDアルバムランキング2017年02月16日付付". Oricon News. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
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Mai Kuraki
Studio albums	Delicious Way Perfect Crime Fairy Tale If I Believe Fuse of Love Diamond Wave One Life Touch Me! Future Kiss Over the Rainbow Smile
Compilation albums	Wish You the Best All My Best Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
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