Loveppears

Loveppears
Ayumi Hamasaki shown topless from the upper waist up, looking into the camera, with flowing brown hair covering her chest.
Studio album by Ayumi Hamasaki
Released November 10, 1999 (1999-11-10)
November 9, 2016 (2016-11-09)
Recorded January–October 1999;
Prime Sound Studio, Studio Sound Dali, Onkio Haus (Tokyo, Japan); Soundtrack (New York City, New York)
Genre Dance
Length 70:47 (Disc 1)
34:06 (Disc 2)
Label
Producer Max Matsuura
Ayumi Hamasaki chronology
A Song for ××
(1999)		 Loveppears
(1999)		 Duty
(2000)
Singles from Loveppears
  1. "Whatever"
    Released: February 10, 1999
  2. "Love (Destiny)"
    Released: April 14, 1999
  3. "To Be"
    Released: May 12, 1999
  4. "Boys & Girls"
    Released: July 14, 1999
  5. "A"
    Released: August 11, 1999
  6. "Appears"
    Released: November 10, 1999
  7. "Kanariya (Canary)"
    Released: December 8, 1999
  8. "Fly High"
    Released: February 9, 2000

Loveppears (stylised as LOVEppears; pronounced as "Love appears") is the second studio album by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on November 10, 1999 through Avex Trax and the China Record Corporation, and distributed worldwide on April 10, 2001 by Avex Entertainment Inc. It was entirely written by Hamasaki herself, whilst the production was handled by Japanese musician Max Matsuura. Musically, Loveppears is a dance album and lyrically focuses on themes of love, frustration of life, loneliness, and individualism.

Upon its release, Loveppears received favorable reviews from music critics. Many critics highlighted the singles as some of her best work, and complimented the transition from Hamasaki's previous pop rock-inspired music to dance. Commercially, the album was a success in Japan, reaching the top of the Oricon Albums Chart and eventually sold over 2.3 million units there, making it the 40th best selling album in that region. It was certified double Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for physical shipments of two million units, and is Hamasaki's third highest selling album based on Oricon Style's database.

To promote the album, Hamasaki released 11 singles. One of the singles, "Love (Destiny)", became her first single to top the Oricon Singles Chart (with further singles reaching the top three), whilst "Boys & Girls" and the extended play A sold over one million units, a first for Hamasaki. Majority of the album's material were promoted through Japanese commercials, which later became a staple for Hamasaki's future work, and some songs appeared on various remix albums conducted by Hamasaki. She performed most of the songs on her 2000 Japan concert tour.

Background and composition

After the success of Hamasaki's January 1999 studio album A Song for ××,[1][2] she begun writing songs for her next studio album. However, her record label Avex Trax decided to release a remix album titled Ayu-mi-x that marked the beginning of incorporate musical elements outside of her pop rock sound, including trance, house and electronic music.[3][4] This transition into mainstream dance music made Hamasaki recruit new composers and producers for the then-upcoming studio album, including Japanese dance band HΛL, Do As Infinity member and composer Dai Nagao, and Kazuhito Kikuchi, amongst others.[5]

Avex Trax hired Japanese musician Max Matsuura to produce the entire record, alongside with Hamasaki and Japanese musician Naoto Suzuki's help, whilst Hamasaki wrote every song on the album.[5] This is Matsuura's second album with Hamasaki he had produced, and continued producing her studio albums in the future.[6] Recording sessions were handled at Prime Sound Studio, Studio Sound Dali, and Onkio Haus in Tokyo, Japan, and at Soundtrack Studios in New York City, United States; the final material was then mixed at Studio Sound Dali and Conway Studios in Los Angeles, California, and mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Masterings.[5]

In comparison, Loveppears was noted by critics as Hamasaki's first transition from her "cautious" pop rock style in A Song for ××,[4][7] and has been described by AllMusic staff as a dance album that incorporates musical elements of pop rock and club music.[8] The album includes two instrumental tracks: "Introduction", which was composed by HΛL, and the "Interlude" song that was composed by Naoto Suzuki.[5] Some of the singles on Loveppears had been remixed and re-composed, including "Fly High", an extended version of "Whatever", "Too Late", "Appears", and a revised version of "Love (Destiny)", which was re-written and titled "Love: Refrain".[5] The album also includes a hidden track on the song "Who...", which is the album version of "Kanariya".[5] Lyrically, the material on the album focuses on themes of love, frustration of life, loneliness, and individualism. Majority of the lyrics were written in third person perspective,[9] a first for Hamasaki, whilst her song "Whatever" was her first track to include an English language word, "Wow".[upper-alpha 1]

Release and packaging

Loveppears was released in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on November 10, 1999 through Avex Trax and the China Record Corporation.[5][11][12] It was Hamasaki's first studio album to be released within the same year as another studio album of hers, A Song for ××, which was released on January 1.[13] The album included the seventeen tracks and, apart from the Chinese release, included a bonus Enhanced CD that features commercial files, small audio samples of all her recordings, internet links, images of magazine appearances, files of Hamasaki's voice, and images of Hamasaki being photographed in New York City, New York.[5] The enhanced CD also includes five remixes; two non-stop mega mixes of Eurodance and house inspired music, the Millennium mix of "A Song for ××", an acoustic mix of "Powder Snow", and the Make Me Mad remix of "Friend II".[5] On April 10, 2001, the album was re-released worldwide by Avex Entertainment Inc. through digital outlets.[upper-alpha 2]

The artwork for Loveppears was shot by Toru Kumazawa in New York City and Los Angeles, California. The cover features Hamasaki topless with a light brown wig covering her breasts. The cover sleeve was rotated 90 degrees clockwise, so when the booklet is open, the cover shows Hamasaki's torso and the back-side cover of the booklet has her bottom half.[5] Hamasaki believed that the material on the album influenced her decision in calling the album Loveappears, stating "While working on A Song for ××, during the sad times that I couldn't shake, I'd always be saying 'I'm very sad, I can't shake this.' Quietly crying, quietly wounded, quietly mourning. But with Loveppears, I express it with furious sounds, shouting out, screaming."[14] During an interview with Japanese magazine Beatfreak in November 1999, Hamasaki explained that the title represented the visual aspects of a relationship (appears) and how people see love; she explained in full detail;

“ The title Loveppears has two meanings to it, ‘thing that seems like love’ and ‘discrepancy between what we see and what's really there.’ ...Before my trip to New York for the jacket photo shoot, I looked out the window from inside the car, and there was a couple that looked SO happy, but I personally was thinking, maybe they're in the middle of a serious crisis. Or maybe they're actually talking about separating. So I thought of the meaning "seems to be" for the word "appears" and stuck it on there. We give ourselves certain outward appearances and images, trying to make it look like things are good or bad, whatever we want to show people, but really things aren't as we're showing.[14] ”

Singles
"Boys & Girls" (1999)
Loveppears was characterized by dance tracks such as the million-selling "Boys & Girls".
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11 singles were released to promote Loveppears, including one extended play and three limited edition releases. The first single was "Whatever", which was released on February 10, 1999 on physical and digital formats.[15][16] In Japan, it became her highest charting single on the Oricon Singles Chart at the time, reaching number five.[17] The following single, "Love (Destiny)", was released on April 14, 1999 on physical and digital formats.[18][19] It became Hamasaki's first single to reach atop of the Oricon Single Chart.[17] "To Be" was released as the album's third single on May 12, 1999, and reached the top five on the Oricon Singles Chart.[20][21] The next two singles; "Boys & Girls" and the extended play A (included the songs "Trauma", "End Roll", "Monochrome", "Too Late"), managed to sell over one million units each, with the latter release becoming Hamasaki best selling single according to the data base at Oricon Style.[22][23] Each individual track from A were promoted through commercial endorsements in Japan.[24]

The next three singles; "Appears", "Kanariya", and "Fly High", were released a limited edition pressings that restricted units of 300,000 copies of each release. "Appears" was released on November 10, 1999 in physical and digital formats.[25][26] The single was also Hamasaki's first release outside of Japan, having been remixed by Junior Vasquez and Armin Van Buuren, and distributed in 2001–2002 throughout North America and Europe.[27] "Kanariya" was released on December 8, 1999, and was her only limited edition single from the album to peak at number one on the Oricon Singles Chart.[17][28] It was her second single to have been released in North America, having been remixed by Jonathan Peters.[29] The album's final single was "Fly High", which was released in Japan on February 9, 2000, her first single inside of the 2000s decade.[30]

Due to Hamasaki's popularity throughout clubs in North America and Europe, offices in those regions that correspond with Avex Trax decided to release promotional 12 inch vinyls of tracks from Loveppears. "Monochrome" was remixed by Keith Litman, and released in North America, whilst Eurofen and Bonus Kaos remixed the track and released it in the United Kingdom.[31][32] American duo Thunderpuss remixed the track "Trauma" and released it in North America through the offices of Avex Trax USA.[33] "Too Late" was remixed by Soul Solution and was released in North America, whilst the original mix of the album track "Immature" was released as a double A-side single with "Appears" in Japan, as part of a promotion for her 2000 concert tour.[34][35]

Reception

Upon its release, Loveppears received positive reviews from most music critics. A staff member working for CD Journal enjoyed the album and labelled it "bold". The review also stated that the music on Loveppears was at "high quality", and praised the producers and composers work on the material.[36] AllMusic's Alexey Eremenko, whom contributed to writing Hamasaki's biography on the website, selected the album tracks "Appears", "Boys & Girls", "End Roll", "Fly High", "Monochrome", "To Be" and "Trauma" as her best work, amongst others.[37] The album brought Hamasaki several nominations and accolades, including a win at the Japan Gold Disc Awards for Best Pop Album of the Year, marking her second win after A Song for xx. Alongside this, her single A won the award for Song of the Year.[38]

Commercially, Loveppears was a success in Japan. The album debuted at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart, selling over 1.2 million units in its first week of sales.[39][40] This marks it the 34th album with the highest first week sales, and is Hamasaki's third feat.[40] By the end of 1999, the album was ranked at number 14 on the Oricon Yearly Albums Chart will over 1,443,490 units sold; this made it the fourth highest selling album by a female artist, just behind Mariah Carey, Ami Suzuki and Utada Hikaru.[41] The album continued to chart inside of 2000, and effectively sold an additional 1,077,960 units by the end of that year, reaching number 14 on the annual chart.[42] The album stayed in the Oricon Top 200 chart for 64 weeks, Hamasaki's longest spanning entry to date.[39]

It was certified double Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for physical shipments of two million units, and is Hamasaki's third highest selling album based on Oricon Style's database.[43][44] As of July 2016, Loveppears has sold over 2.5 million units in Japan, and is the 40th best selling album in Japan of all time; this marks it Hamasaki's third highest entry behind Duty and A Best, her second highest studio album behind Duty, and the 10th highest selling album by a female artist.[45]

Promotion

Ayumi Hamasaki performing the limited-edition single "Fly High" on her Ayumi Hamasaki Asia Tour 2008: 10th Anniversary

Hamasaki promoted the album with extensive commercial deals in Japan; according to Alexey Eremenko from AllMusic, he commented in his biography of Hamasaki, "its success boosted by ad contracts that Hamasaki has raked in ever since as a spokesman, beginning with the Asian cosmetics juggernaut Kose (later she also worked for the likes of Honda and Panasonic).[46] She went onto promote several other products within Asia, including various food snacks, vehicles, and technology.[7] In retrospect of the commercial deals, although Hamasaki initially supported the exploitation of her popularity for commercial purposes, saying that it was "necessary that [she is] viewed as a product",[47] she eventually opposed Avex's decision to market her as a "product rather than a person".[48]

Several tracks from Loveppears were featured on remix compilations during 1999 and 2000. The first was her February 2000 Eurobeat compilation Super Eurobeat Presents Ayu-ro Mix.[49] It reached number two on Oricon and was certified triple platinum by RIAJ; it is her highest-selling remix album and one of the best-selling remix albums of all time.[50] A four album series were then released to support Loveppears; the firs three were the Japanese remix album Ayu-mi-x II Version JPN,[51] the American and European remix album ayu-mi-x II Version US+EU[52] and the acoustic Ayu-mi-x II Version Acoustic Orchestra, all released on March 8, 2000.[53] The final album, Ayu-mi-x II Version Non-Stop Mega Mix, reached number six and was certified platinum by RIAJ.[17][54]

Hamasaki then performed several tracks from Loveppears on concert tours, including Ayumi Hamasaki Concert Tour 2000 Vol. 1, Ayumi Hamasaki Concert Tour 2000 Vol. 2, Ayumi Hamasaki Stadium Tour 2002 A and Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2003–2004 A.[55][56] The music videos to "Whatever", "Love (Destiny)", "To Be", "Boys & Girls", "Appears", "Kanariya", "Fly High" and other album promotional footage were featured on her 2004 video box set Ayumi Hamasaki Complete Clip Box A.[57]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Ayumi Hamasaki. 

CD1 / Digital download[5][58]
No. TitleMusicArranger(s) Length
1. "Introduction"  HΛLHΛL 1:09
2. "Fly High"  Dai NagaoHΛL 4:07
3. "Trauma"  D.A.I
  • Naoto Suzuki
  • Dai Nagao
 4:17
4. "And Then"  Yasuhiko HoshinoKeisuke Kikuchi 4:14
5. "Immature" (Album Version)Kazuhito KikuchiHΛL 4:44
6. "Boys & Girls"  Nagao
  • Suzuki
  • Nagao
 3:54
7. "To Be"  Nagao
  • Suzuki
  • Nagao
 5:18
8. "End Roll"  Nagao
  • Suzuki
  • Nagao
 4:49
9. "P.S II"  Hideaki KuwabaraAkimitsu Honma 4:48
10. "Whatever" ("Dub's 1999 Remix")Kazuhito KikuchiIzumi Miyazaki 7:20
11. "Too Late"  Nagao
  • Suzuki
  • Nagao
 4:25
12. "Appears" (Album Version)KikuchiHΛL 5:38
13. "Monochrome"  HΛL
  • Suzuki
  • Nagao
 4:21
14. "Interlude"  SuzukiSuzuki 0:55
15. "Love: Refrain" (Revised version of Love: Destiny)TsunkuSuzuki 5:21
16. "Who..."  KikuchiSuzuki 5:35
17. "Kanariya" (Hidden track)Yasuhiko HoshinoCPM-Marvin 3:52
CD2
No. Title Length
1. "Ayu's Euro Mega-Mix" (Y&Co. Mix) 9:48
2. "Ayu's House Mega-Mix" (N.S House Mix) 9:58
3. "A Song for ××" (Millennium Mix) 4:46
4. "Powder Snow" (Acoustic Orchestra Version) 5:03
5. "Friend II" (Make My Mad Mix) 4:31

Additional notes

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the CD liner notes of Loveppears.[5]

  • Tatsuyan Ikeda – marketing
  • Kentaro Furusawa – marketing
  • Yasuhiro Yamamoto – marketing
  • Akiiro Terada – marketing
  • Ayumi Hamasaki – vocals, background vocals, songwriting
  • Toru Kumazawa – photography
  • Koji Matsumoto – glam team
  • Tadamasa Tagami – glam team
  • Gina – assistant photography
  • Chika – glam team
  • Taro – glam team
  • Kananko Miura – glam team
  • Shinichi Hara – art direction
  • Michiho Ogasawara – design
  • Toshikazu Sakawa – creative co-ordination
  • Jun Kujiwara – guitar
  • Masayoshi Furukawa – guitar
  • Naoki Harashibe – guitar
  • Naoya Akimoto – guitar
  • Hidetoshi Suzukie – guitar
  • Naoto Suzuki – keyboards, synthesizers, mixing, arrangement, composer, additional production
  • Hal – mixing, arrangement, composer, keyboards, synthesizers
  • Max Matsuura - producer, additional production
  • Eddy Schreyer - mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1999) Peak
position
Japan Albums Chart (Oricon)[39] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1999) Peak
position
Japan Albums Chart (Oricon)[41] 15
Chart (2000) Peak
position
Japan Albums Chart (Oricon)[42] 14

Certification and sales

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Japan (RIAJ)[43] 2× Million 2,562,130[22]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Japan[5] November 10, 1999 CD + Enhanced CD Avex Trax
Hong Kong[11]
China[12] CD
Japan[58] April 10, 2001 Digital download Avex Entertainment Inc.
Australia[59]
New Zealand[60]
United Kingdom[61]
Ireland[62]
Germany[63]
Spain[64]
France[65]
Italy[66]
Taiwan[67]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The exclamation "Wow" is commonly used in the English-language and French-language. Technically, "Wow" is spoken and written in an English format and has been listed in the 1913 Webster Dictionary, so it proves that "Whatever" is her first song to use an English-language word. However, it does not count as an English-language conversation whereas she performed it on tracks from her album Rainbow in 2002.[10]
  2. ↑ The iTunes Store website has identified April 10, 2001 as the album's release date outside of Asia, but the store was not available until 2003-on wards.

References

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  2. ↑ "GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 1999年2月度" [Gold Albums, and other certified works. February 1999 Edition] (PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese). Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan. 473: 9. April 10, 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Ayu-mi-x (CD Remix Album; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-11716~7.
  4. 1 2 Walters, Barry (March 5, 2002). "Turning (Japanese) Point". The Village Voice. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
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  6. ↑ Matsuura, Max. "Max Matsuura's Production Credits". Discogs.com. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
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  9. ↑ "Loveppears". Beatfreak (in Japanese). 142. November 1999.
  10. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2002). Rainbow (CD Album; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-17239.
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  14. 1 2 Unknown author (November 1999). "Ayumi Hamasaki exclusive interview". Beatfreak.
  15. ↑ The list below are major formats released for "Whatever";
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Whatever (Mini CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVDD-20291.
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Whatever (CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-30216.
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Whatever (12" Vinyl; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVJT-2365.
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  18. ↑ The list below are major formats released for "Love (Destiny)";
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Love (Destiny) (Mini CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVDD-20309.
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Love (Destiny) (CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-30217.
  19. ↑ "Love: Destiny – Single – by Ayumi Hamasaki". iTunes Store (Japan). April 14, 1999. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  20. ↑ The list below are major formats released for "Love (Destiny)";
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). To Be (Mini CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVDD-20316.
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). To Be (CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-30218.
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  27. ↑ The list below are major formats released for "Appears";
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Appears (12" Vinyl (Junior Vasquez); Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. North America: Avex Trax USA. AVA 12.
    • Hamasaki, Ayumi (2001–2002). Appears (12" Vinyl (Armin Van Buuren); Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Europe: Drizzly Records. DRIZ3005-1.
  28. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Kanariya (CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-30067.
  29. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (1999). Kanariya (12" Vinyl (Jonathan Peters); Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. North America: Avex Trax USA. AVA-2.
  30. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Fly High (CD Single; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. AVCD-30066.
  31. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Monochrome (12" Vinyl; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. United Kingdom: Bob. BOB 2.
  32. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Monochrome (12" Vinyl; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. North America: Avex Trax USA. AVA-5.
  33. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Trauma (12" Vinyl; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. North America: Avex Trax USA. AVA-3.
  34. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Too Late (12" Vinyl; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. North America: Avex Trax USA. AVA-4.
  35. ↑ Hamasaki, Ayumi (2000). Appears/Immature (12" Vinyl; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Japan: Avex Trax. NA.
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  52. ↑ Ayu-Mi-x II Version US+EU (Remix compilation). Ayumi Hamasaki. Avex Trax. 2000. AVCD-11797.
  53. ↑ Ayu-Mi-x II Version Acoustic Orchestral (Remix compilation). Ayumi Hamasaki. Avex Trax. 2000. AVCD-11799.
  54. ↑ Ayu-Mi-x II Version Non-Stop Mega Mix (Remix compilation). Ayumi Hamasaki. Avex Trax. 2000. AVCD-11800.
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  56. ↑ Concert Tour 2000 A Vol. 2 (Live DVD; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Avex Trax. 2000. AVBD-91020.
  57. ↑ A Clips Complete Box A (DVD Box Set; Liner notes). Ayumi Hamasaki. Avex Trax. 2004. AVBD-91181~3.
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