Uta ga Chikara
Encyclopedia
Singles
| Date | Title | Peak position | Weeks | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "So Much Love for You So Much Love for You "So Much Love for You" is Kokia's 11th single, released on April 21, 2004. -Background:"So Much Love for You" was the first single released after Kokia's commercially successful third album, Remember Me. During this stage of her career, Kokia had releases that generally charted in the low end of... " |
40 (Oricon) | 5 | 6,692 | |
| "Yume ga Chikara Yume ga Chikara is Kokia's 12th single, released on June 23, 2004. It was the lead single from Kokia's fourth studio album Uta ga Chikara, and was used as the official cheering song for the Japan team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-Background:... " |
30 (Oricon) | 5 | 8,258 |
Japan Sales Rankings
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | First Week Sales | Sales Total | Chart Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oricon Daily Albums Chart | |||||
| Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 23 | 8,172 | 19,917 | 7 weeks | |
| Oricon Yearly Albums Chart |
Personnel
- Kiyotsugu Amano - acoustic guitar (#1)
- Katsuhiko Asano - recording/mixing
- Masashi Fujimori - art direction, art work (Chocolate)
- Sayaka Hayakawa - violin (#4)
- Ayako Himata - violin (#2)
- Shigeyuki Hirano - director, tanbourine (#6, #8) (Mother Land)
- Junichi "Igao" Igarashi - programming (#8)
- Noriko Inose - photography
- Daisuke Kahara - arranger, programming (#3-5, #7)
- Tetsuto Kato - recording/mixing (Envers)
- Hiroshi Kawasaki - mastering (at Flair)
- Yukie Kazama - management (Mother Land)
- Shoji Kobayashi - score copyist (#1, #10)
- Kokia - arranger (#8), chorus work, song writing, vocals
- Daisuke Kurihara - visuals (Chocolate)
- Akiko Maeda - management (Mother Land)
- Kazuhiro Matsuo - guitars (#3-5, #7-8)
- Fumiaki Miyamoto - oboeOboeThe oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
(#1, #10) - Kazuhiko Miyamoto - recording/mixing (#4-5, #7)
- Hajime Mizoguchi - celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
(#1, #10) - Ryōsuke Nakanishi - arranger (#2, #6)
- Akio Namiki - hair, make-up (Kurara System)
- Naruki Niino - management (Mother Land)
- Hiroo Oda - executive producer (Mother Land)
- Yuzo Oka - bass (#5)
- Masayoshi Ookawa - recording/mixing (#1, #10)
- Taisuke Sawachika - arranger, piano, programming (#9)
- Akira Senju - arranger, conductor, keyboards (#1, #10)
- Genpachi Sekiguchi (#6)
- Takeshi Sennoo - piano (#1, #10)
- Nobuhisa Shimizu - executive producer (Victor)
- Setsuko Sugita - strings (gallery music/leader) (#1, #10)
- Yoshimi Sugiura - coordinator (#3-5, #7)
- Yoji Sugiyama - coordinator (Witch Craft) (#1, #10)
- Eiko Suzuki - visual coordinator (V.D.C.)
- Yurika Suzuki - stylist (Dynamic)
- Yoshinari Takegami - saxophone (#5)
- Toshino Tanabe - bass (#6)
- Hiroshi Tanaka - artist promoter (Victor)
- Hiroko Uno - visuals (Chocolate)
- Takefumi Wada - manipulator (#1)
- China Yoshihiko (#2, #6)
- Haruyuki Yukawa - A&R (Victor)