I Hope So
{{Infobox album
| name = I Hope So
| type = studio
| artist = Akina Nakamori
| cover = File:I_hope_so_(Akina_Nakamori_album_cover).jpg
| alt =
| released = 14 May 2003
| recorded = 2003
| studio = West Side
On-Air Mafu Studio
Heartbeat Recording Studio
| genre = J-pop
| length = 52:57
| language = Japanese
| label = Universal Music Japan
| producer = Satoshi Takebe
| prev_title = Utahime Double Decade
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = Utahime 3: Shūmaku
| next_year = 2003
| misc = {{Singles
| name = I Hope So
| type = studio
| single1 = Days
| single1date = 30 April 2003
}}
}}
I Hope So (stylized as I hope so) is the twenty first studio album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori and second studio album to be released during the 2000s. It was released on 14 May 2003 under the Universal Music Japan label. The album includes the lead single "Days".
The album includes four of Akina's original written songs: "Niji", "I Hope So", "Veil" and "Days".
Promotion
=Singles=
It consists of one previously released single.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/2114743/s/|title=JBOOK:I hope so:中森明菜:CD|work=JBOOK|publisher=文教堂|accessdate=2011-02-22}}{{Cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722163329/http://www.universal-music.co.jp/akina/bio.html|url=http://www.universal-music.co.jp/akina/bio.html|title=中森明菜 UNIVERSAL MUSIC OFFICIAL WEBSITE|work=biography|publisher=ユニバーサルミュージック|accessdate=2012-04-04|archivedate=2011-07-22}}
"Days" is the forty second single written by Nakamori herself and Oda Tetsuro. It was released on 30 April 2003 under Universal Music Japan. It was her only single to be released in that year. The single was promoted as an ending theme to the Japanese television drama Onna to Ai to Mystery.{{Cite web|url=http://artist.cdjournal.com/d/i-hope-so/3203021034|title=
The single debuted at number 30 on Oricon Single Weekly Charts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/235370/products/music/505472/1/|title=Days 中森明菜のプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE|publisher=オリコン|accessdate=2011-10-16}}
Stage performances
"Days", "Utsutsu no Hana", "Tsumugi Uta" and "Kaze no Hate" has been performed in the anniversary live tour Akina Nakamori 2003: I Hope So.
"I Hope So" has been performed in the one-night special live AKINA NAKAMORI Special Live 2009 “Empress at Yokohama”.
Chart performance
The album reached number 15 on the Oricon Album Weekly Chart charted for the 6 consecutive weeks with the sales of 18,000 copies.{{cite book |title=Oricon Album Chart Book Complete Edition 1970-2005 |date=25 April 2006 |publisher=オリコン・マーケティング・プロモーション |isbn=4871310779 |pages=3, 455–457, 883}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/478184/1/|title=中森明菜-リリース-ORICON STYLE ミュージック|publisher=オリコン|accessdate=2012-04-04}} During its re-release in 2023, the album debut at number 79 on the Billboard Japan´s Album Weekly Charts.{{cite web|url=https://billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot_albums&year=2023&month=06&day=12|title=Billboard Japan Hot Albums: Week of June 7, 2023|website=Billboard Japan|language=ja|access-date=June 7, 2023}}
Track listing
All tracks are arranged by Satoshi Takebe.
{{track listing
| headline = I Hope So track listing
| total_length =
| title1 = Toki
| note1 = instrumental
| music1 = Satoshi Takebe
| length1 = 1:59
| title2 = Rain
| lyrics2 = Mayo Okamoto
| music2 = Okamoto
| length2 = 5:18
| title3 = Niji
| lyrics3 = Akina Nakamori
| music3 = Ryouki Matsumoto
| length3 = 4:27
| title4 = Hikari
| note4 = instrumental
| music4 = Takebe
| length4 = 0:56
| title5 = Kaze no Hate
| lyrics5 = Matsui Goro
| music5 = Oda Tetsuro
| length5 = 4:25
| title6 = I Hope So
| lyrics6 = Nakamori
| music6 = Shinjiro Inoue・Takebe
| length6 = 4:43
| title7 = Veil
| lyrics7 = Nakamori
| music7 = Takebe
| length7 = 3:54
| title8 = Yoi
| note8 = instrumental
| music8 = Takebe
| length8 = 1:15
| title9 = Yuuyami wo Matte
| lyrics9 = Minako Kawae
| music9 = Kawae
| length9 = 5:05
| title10 = Doukei
| lyrics10 = Kawae
| music10 = Zenkyu
| length10 = 4:19
| title11 = Tsumugi Uta
| lyrics11 = Kawae
| music11 = Kawae
| length11 = 4:56
| title12 = Yume
| note12 = instrumental
| music12 = Takebe
| length12 = 2:03
| title13 = Utsutsu no Hana
| lyrics13 = Matsui
| music13 = Tatsurou Mashikota
| length13 = 4:21
| title14 = Days
| lyrics14 = Nakamori
| music14 = Oda
| length14 = 4:57
}}
Covers
- Mayo Okamoto self-covered provided song Rain in her 2010 album "Close to you".
Release history
References
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{{Akina Nakamori}}
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Category:2000s Japanese-language albums