Super Best (Shizuka Kudo album)

Super Best
Compilation album by
Shizuka Kudo
ReleasedNovember 19, 1993 (1993-11-19)
Recorded1987–93
Genre
Length95:50
LabelPony Canyon
Shizuka Kudo chronology
Rise Me
(1993) 		Super Best
(1993) 		Expose
(1994)

Super Best is the sixth compilation album by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo. It was released on November 19, 1993, through Pony Canyon. It is Kudo's first single collection, featuring all A-sides produced by Tsugutoshi Gotō and released by Kudo since her solo debut, from "Kindan no Telepathy" up to the most recent at the time, "Anata Shika Inai Desho", spread out on two discs. The compilation also includes one new song, entitled "Honō no Naka e", which was written specifically for the album and which marks the last collaboration with Gotō until 2015, when he composed "Tan Jun Ai vs Hontō no Ai" for the compilation My Treasure Best: Miyuki Nakajima × Tsugutoshi Gotō Collection. Super Best was re-released in APO-CD format on December 1, 1993.

Commercial performance

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Super Best debuted at number six on the Oricon Albums Chart, with 60,000 units sold.[1] It dropped two positions to number eight on its second week, with 41,000 copies sold.[2] The album charted in the top 100 for fourteen consecutive weeks, selling a reported total of 227,000 copies during its chart run.[3][4] The re-release charted for a sole week at number 69 with 7,000 copies sold,[4] bringing total sales of the album to 234,000 copies.

Track listing

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All tracks composed by Tsugutoshi Gotō.

Disc 1
No.TitleLyricsArranger(s)Length
1."Kindan no Telepathy"
3:46
2."Again"
  • Akimoto
  • Gotō
4:14
3."Daite Kuretara Ii no ni"
  • Gotō
5:06
4."Fu-ji-tsu"
  • Gotō
3:48
5."Mugon... Iroppoi"
  • Nakajima
  • Gotō
3:55
6."Koi Hitoyo"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
4:31
7."Arashi no Sugao"
  • Yoshiko Miura
  • Gotō
3:31
8."Kōsa ni Fukarete"
  • Nakajima
  • Gotō
3:49
9."Kuchibiru Kara Biyaku"
  • Matsui
3:56
10."Senryū no Shizuku"
  • Draw4
4:41
Total length:41:17
Disc 2
No.TitleLyricsArranger(s)Length
1."Watashi ni Tsuite"
  • Nakajima
  • Draw4
4:06
2."Boya Boya Dekinai"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
3:41
3."Please"
  • Miura
  • Gotō
4:17
4."Metamorphose"
  • Matsui
4:15
5."Mechakucha ni Naite Shimaitai"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
  • Kadokura
4:59
6."Urahara"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
4:54
7."Koe o Kikasete"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
  • Naoki Takao
6:35
8."Dōkoku"
  • Nakajima
  • Gotō
  • Takao
4:48
9."Watashi wa Knife"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
  • Kadokura
  • Takao
4:26
10."Anata Shika Inai Desho"
  • Matsui
  • Gotō
  • Kadokura
  • Takao
6:26
11."Honō no Naka e" (炎の中へ, "Into the Flames")
  • Miura
  • Gotō
  • Kadokura
  • Takao
6:06
Total length:54:33

Charts

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Certification

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)[7] Gold 234,000[3][4]

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
Japan November 19, 1993
Pony Canyon [8]
December 1, 1993
  • APO-CD
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May 20, 1994
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Korea February 6, 2004
  • CD
 Pony Canyon Korea [8]

References

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  1. ^ "オリコン アルバム 1993.11.29". Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  2. ^ "オリコン アルバム 1993.12.6". Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "工藤静香アルバム アイドル・ポップ・データベース". Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Taiju']. Oricon. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  5. ^ "Best of Ballade Empathy 工藤静香". Oricon. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  6. ^ "工藤静香/スーパーベスト 工藤静香". Oricon. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  7. ^ "Japanese album certifications – 工藤 静香 – スーパーベスト" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 1993年11月 on the drop-down menu
  8. ^ a b c d "Release group "Super Best" by 工藤静香". MusicBrainz. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
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