Just Ballade
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Personnel
- Misia – producer, arrangerArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
, vocals, background vocals, vocal producer - Herb Powers Jr. - masteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
- Hiroto Tanigawa – executive producer
- Shigenobu Karube – co-executive producer
- Kazuyuki Kobayashi – co-executive producer
- Yoshito Kawabata – A&R direction
- Chise Kamimura – A&R
- Yoshio Kawamoto – A&R
- Hiraku Okumura – A&R
- Chihiro Yoshioka – A&R
- Masashi Watanabe – A&R
- Keisuke Sato – management
- Takayuki Ishida – management
- Mayuko Hashimoto – management
- Rui Nishikawa – management
- Mitsuo Shindo - art direction, photographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Masami Hatta - artwork coordinator
- Tetsuo Hirano - design
- Kaori K - hair & make up
- Sakae Kaneda - styling
- Masahiro Matsuda - design
- Hiroshi Sakuma – marketing
- Chinatsu Kato – marketing
Charts, sales and certification
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Japan Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Albums |
4 |
| Japan Oricon Daily Albums Chart | 3 |
| Japan Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 4 |
| Japan Oricon Monthly Albums Chart | 8 |
| Japan Oricon Yearly Albums Chart | 58 |
| Japan SoundScan Albums Chart (CD+DVD) | 8 |
| Japan SoundScan Albums Chart (CD-only) | 16 |
| Taiwan Five Music J-pop/K-pop Chart | 2 |
| Taiwan G-Music J-Pop Chart | 5 |
| Taiwan G-Music International Chart | 8 |
| Country | Provider | Sales | Certification Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | RIAJ Recording Industry Association of Japan The Recording Industry Association of Japan is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved the music industry... |
142,493 | Gold |
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | December 16, 2009 | Ariola Japan | Blu-spec CD Blu-spec CD Blu-spec CD describes an Audio CD manufactured by a proprietary process introduced by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in late 2008. Its name derives from the similar manufacturing process to that used to create Blu-ray Discs. Instead of a traditional infra-red laser, a blue laser is used for... +DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... |
| CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
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| Taiwan | December 18, 2009 | Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation.... |
CD+DVD |
| South Korea | December 23, 2009 | CD | |
| Hong Kong | December 29, 2009 | CD+DVD |