Album Takahashi Minami 1st (Aishi te mo ii desu ka?) (16/10/12)

Minami Takahashi's 1st Album (Aishi te mo ii desu ka?)
(October 12, 2016)



Covers

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Tracklist
(First Press Limited Edition) (CD + DVD)
[Regular Edition] (CD) UPCH

1. "Kagami yo Kagami" (Music and Lyrics: Makihara Noriyuki)
2. "GIRLS TALK" (Lyrics: Kaoru Kishitani Ali Kimura, composer: Kaoru Kishitani)
3. "Itoshiku te koishi sugi ter" (Music and Lyrics: Toshihiko Takamizawa)
4. "Twinkle" (Music and Lyrics: Koji Tamaki)
5. "Yume uru shojo ja i rare nai" (Lyrics: Okamoto Shaw, composer: Okamoto show, Okamoto Koki)
6. "Egao" (Music and Lyrics: Masatoshi Mashima)
7. "Katsudon in da house" (Music and Lyrics: Kenichi Maeyamada)
8. "Unbalance" (Lyrics: Etsuko Kisugi, composer: Takao Kisugi)
9. "Kiss Miss Kiss" (Music and Lyrics: Carly Rae Jepsen · Billy Steinberg · Joshua Alexander, Japanese lyrics: Minami Takahashi)
10. "Watashi no shomei" (Lyrics: Izumi Sakaki, composer: Wataru Izumi Sato Sakaki)
11. "Someday" (Music and Lyrics: Shun Naka (HY)).
Bonus track "Ano Sora" (Lyrics: Minami Takahashi composer: Okuda group)
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MVs
Kagami yo Kagami
http://www.jpopasia.com/takahashiminami/videos/60023/kagami-yo-kagami/

 

I don't mean to alarm you guys but it's probably gonna be awesome

 

Who else is excited about this as much as I am?!

Hopefully this won't break my wallet once I buy Acchan's album as well.

 

So, I guess that means her 2nd single is definitely not gonna happen and it was just transformed into an album? lol~ oh well, this is way more exciting lol.

 

Well, I guess as long as something is happening and she's getting her solo career off the ground already...

 

well, quoting myself from Takamina's thread
The radio rip of GIRLS TALK from this album

if the video does not show watch the video here

 

Wow it's so energetic and fun to listen to. I had to listen to it twice because I was so shock that the song was so girly. I'm anticipating the rest of her songs.

 

"Aishi te mo ii desu ka?" Minami Takahashi first solo album
Release on October 12
[First Press Limited Edition] (CD + DVD)
[Regular Edition] (CD) UPCH

Tracks:
1. "Mirror yo Mirror" (Music and Lyrics: Makihara Noriyuki)
2. "GIRLS TALK" (Lyrics: Kaoru Kishitani Ali Kimura, composer: Kaoru Kishitani)
3. "Itoshiku te koishi sugi ter" (Music and Lyrics: Toshihiko Takamizawa)
4. "Twinkle" (Music and Lyrics: Koji Tamaki)
5. "Yume uru shojo ja i rare nai" (Lyrics: Okamoto Shaw, composer: Okamoto show, Okamoto Koki)
6. "Egao" (Music and Lyrics: Masatoshi Mashima)
7. "Katsudon in da house" (Music and Lyrics: Kenichi Maeyamada)
8. "Unbalance" (Lyrics: Etsuko Kisugi, composer: Takao Kisugi)
9. "TBA" (Music and Lyrics: Carly Rae Jepsen · Billy Steinberg · Joshua Alexander, Japanese lyrics: Minami Takahashi)
10. "Watashi no shomei" (Lyrics: Izumi Sakaki, composer: Wataru Izumi Sato Sakaki)
11. "Someday" (Music and Lyrics: Shun Naka (HY)).
Bonus track "Ano Sora" (Lyrics: Minami Takahashi composer: Okuda group)

* The original list is in the links below. The translation for the lyrics title is from AKB48 daily. So many artists she worked with in Domoto Kyoudai and Mujack are contributing to her album. I hope she sings her new song with Carly during Rock Corps Fes next week. That would be epic.

http://akb48-daily.blogspot.com/2016/08/takahashi-minami-1st-album-aishi-te-mo.html
http://mdpr.jp/music/1609162
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2077367/full/?ref_cd=tw_pic

 

I hope they include Jane Doe and the song that was supposed to be her 2nd single.

 

Wait, where's "Kiss Miss Kiss"?

Edit: Oh it's the Carly Rae Jepsen song...I thought it had some "Call Me Maybe" vibes when I listened to it.

 

KISS MISS KISS here http://picosong.com/TP6z/

I'm a huge Carly fan so it's wonderful she gave such a good song to Takamina

 

Ohh, i so want the album now,, it's gonna be awesome..

 

Kagami yo Kagami PV
Did she get the same director as Sayanee? lol

KISS MISS KISS is soooooooooo Carly haha
And no wonder it's good, EMOTION was basically THE pop album of 2015.

I just wish she wasn't singing so nasally.

 

^thanks for the pv. i love everything about the pv.

i listened to most of the songs on the album and i don't think she sang nasally in any of the songs. she also sang two songs from the album on her showroom and i was very surprise that her voice was really good. i was worried about some of her songs since they were really high but she had no problem singing them. (just my opinion )

 

It's actually a pretty solid album...which IDK why but i wasn't expecting much, but i really like a lot of the songs~

 

her album didn't debut on top 3 on oricon
so there's no way of telling how many copies she sold so far

 

No surprise there.
Albums in Japan are more like a collection of singles (and a excuse to go on tour), and AKB treats them even worse (an excuse to sell 2-shots).

Tbf, when they announced they were gonna go for an album instead of a single, I knew they wouldn't put their all in it in terms of promotion and such, so people who are not fans of Takamina probably have no idea she has this out.

Same with Sayanee, but at least she has the Zepp tour and it might help her get some headlines.

 

Albums are way more important than singles for regular artists than idols.
She sold about 10k (rounded off), rank 9 on the weekly charts. At the rate she's dropping, she won't even sell 15k overall.
I doubt Sayanee will have issues selling at least 30k in the first week.

 

in my opinion minami has never been one of the members to have many hardcore fans. her casual fans are less likely to buy her cds if the songs are not in their style. im actually pretty satisfied that she is able to sell this much especially since the same news about her dating seem to be appearing in the news so often. which can easily turn her hardcore fans away.

and her music choice for the album is very different from jane doe. i actually prefer her jane doe single style but she's experimenting with this album so i guess that's fine.

im not a fan of sayanee but i don't doubt that she can sell 30k or more. sayanee and minami are different people, in different situations, and with different fans so their sales will be different.

so far minami is doing very well career wise (judging from her thread). im interested to see how she will do in a few years.

 

Minami Takahashi's 1st Album (Aishi te mo ii desu ka?) 1st Week Sales
Week 1: 9,987 (9th)

Comparisions to the Other girls's 1st Album
Tomomi Itano's 1st Album: 26,639
Atsuko Maeda's 1st Album: 22,639
Sakiko Matsui's 1st Album (Piano Album): 10,263
Iwasa Misaki's 1st Album: 8,761
Erena Ono's 1st Album: 5,245