Message (Aya Ueto album)

Message
Studio album by Aya Ueto
Released	March 3, 2004 (2004-03-03)
Recorded	2003-2004
Genre	Pop, pop rock
Length	59:48
Label	Flight Master
Producer	Gorō Kumagai
Aya Ueto chronology
Ayaueto (2003) Message (2004) Re. (2004)
Singles from Message
"Message/Personal" Released: May 14, 2003 "Kanshō/Mermaid" Released: August 27, 2003 "Binetsu" Released: November 27, 2003 "Ai no Tame ni." Released: February 4, 2004

Message is the second studio album by Japanese pop singer Aya Ueto. It was released on March 3, 2004 on Flight Master.

Background

Message includes Ueto's previous singles "Message/Personal", "Kanshō/Mermaid", "Binetsu" and "Ai no Tame ni.". The album's initial track listing included a fourteenth track entitled "Shiawase ni Naru Yō ni" (幸せになるように Wish You Happiness) but it was eventually scrapped and never released. The seventh track , "Taiyō to Tsuki", was initially called "Tonari ni Ite Hoshii" (I Want You By My Side), which is a line from the song's chorus. The second track, "Okuru Kotoba", is a cover of the Tetsuya Takeda-fronted folk band Kaientai's 1979 hit of the same name.

Chart performance

Message peaked at #4 on the Oricon Daily Albums Chart and debuted at #6 on the Weekly Albums Chart with 43,154 copies sold. The album charted for a total of eleven weeks and sold over 75,000 copies.^[1][2][3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Ai no Tame ni."	Tetsurō Oda	Oda	5:06
2.	"Okuru Kotoba" (贈る言葉 The Words I Send to You)	Tetsuya Takeda	Kazuomi Chiba	4:33
3.	"Message (Album Version)"	Yūho Iwasato	H∧L	4:35
4.	"Aozora" (青空 Blue Sky)	Shin'ichi Asada	Kosuke Morimoto	3:56
5.	"Kanshō"	Pipeline Project	Pipeline Project	4:46
6.	"Mermaid"	Pipeline Project	Pipeline Project	3:58
7.	"Taiyō to Tsuki" (太陽と月 The Sun and Moon)	Mikio Sakai	Sakai	5:08
8.	"Personal"	T2ya	T2ya	4:53
9.	"Binetsu"	Hiromasa Ijichi	Miki Watabe	4:04
10.	"Kiseki" (キセキ Miracle)	T2ya	T2ya	4:52
11.	"Silence (Coconuts Groove Version)"	Hanano Tanaka	Nobuyuki Shimizu	5:16
12.	"Steppin' Out (Complete Version)"	Naho Tanaka	H∧L	3:07
13.	"Ai no Tame ni. (Lover's Splash Mix)"	Oda	Oda	5:34
Total length:				59:48

Charts and sales

Chart (2004)	Peak position	Sales
Japan Oricon Daily Albums Chart[1]	4	74,934[3]
Japan Oricon Weekly Albums Chart[2]	6
Japan SoundScan Albums Chart[4]	9

References

1. ^ ^{a b} (Japanese) Oricon (2004-03-03). "21世紀は上戸彩でいこうぞね Part 44". 2channel. http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/geino/1076955232/427. Retrieved 2011-01-21. 
2. ^ ^{a b} (Japanese) Oricon. "上戸彩のCDアルバムランキング、上戸彩のプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE". Oricon. Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/288553/ranking/cd_album/. Retrieved 2011-01-21. 
3. ^ ^{a b} (Japanese) Oricon (2011-01-21). "ポニーキャニオン＠売上データ補完スレ - 売上スレ避難所＠JBBS掲示板". JBBS Live Door. http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/music/3914/1044683358/129. Retrieved 2011-01-21. 
4. ^ (Japanese) "週刊 CDソフト TOP20". SoundScan. http://www.phileweb.com/ranking/cd-top20/470.html. Retrieved 2011-01-21.