Love & Honesty
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{{Infobox album
| name = Love & Honesty
| type = Studio album
| artist = BoA
| cover = Love & Honesty low.jpg
| alt =
| released = January 15, 2004
| recorded = 2003–2004
| language = Japanese
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Pop|R&B|pop rock}}
| length = 56:03
| label = Avex Trax
| producer =
- Ken Harada
- Ken Matsubara
- Akira
- Kazuhiro Hara
- Yoko Kuzuya
- Hirata Shiyouitirou
| prev_title = Shine We Are!
| prev_year = 2003
| next_title = K-pop Selection
| next_year = 2004
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Love & Honesty
| type = Studio
| single1 = Shine We Are! / Earthsong
| single1date = May 14, 2003
| single2 = Double
| single2date = October 22, 2003
| single3 = Rock with You
| single3date = December 3, 2003
| single4 = Be the One
| single4date = February 11, 2004
}}
}}
Love & Honesty is the third Japanese studio album (sixth overall) by South Korean singer BoA, released via Avex Trax on January 15, 2004. The album also came in a "Perfect Edition" which had two discs—the standard CD and a DVD. Love & Honesty experienced commercial success in Japan, where it was number one on the Oricon charts for two weeks. In its first week the album sold 296,781 copies while during its second week it sold 145,325 copies.{{cite web | work=Jpopmusic.com | title=BoA's Love & Honesty sales | url=http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2958071&highlight=#2958071 | accessdate=August 15, 2008 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215055518/http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2958071&highlight=#2958071 | archivedate=February 15, 2012 }} Love & Honesty was certified Triple Platinum by the RIAJ within a month of its release{{cite web | work=RIAJ | title=BoA's Love & Honesty certification | url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/200401.html| accessdate=August 15, 2008}} and was the 13th best-selling album in Japan during 2004.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Love & Honestly track listing
| extra_column = Arrangement
| title1 = Rock with You
| note1 =
| writer1 =
| lyrics1 = Shoko Fujibayashi
| music1 = Kazuhiro Hara
| extra1 = Akira
| length1 = 4:13
| title2 = Shine We Are!
| note2 =
| writer2 =
| lyrics2 = Natsumi Watanabe
| music2 = Kazuhiro Hara
| extra2 = Kazuhiro Hara
| length2 = 5:07
| title3 = Some Day One Day
| writer3 =
| lyrics3 = Akira Takato
| music3 = Ken Harada
| extra3 = {{hlist|K-muto|Maeda Kazuhiko}}
| length3 = 4:34
| title4 = Love & Honesty
| note4 =
| writer4 =
| lyrics4 = {{hlist|BoA|Natsumi Watanabe}}
| music4 = Face2Fake
| extra4 = Face2Fake
| length4 = 4:43
| title5 = Midnight Parade
| note5 =
| writer5 =
| lyrics5 = Shoko Fujibayashi
| music5 = Bounceback
| extra5 = Akira
| length5 = 4:22
| title6 = Be the One
| note6 =
| writer6 =
| lyrics6 = {{hlist|Stephen A. Kipner|David Frank|Nate Butler|Chinka Yasushi}}
| music6 = {{hlist|Stephen A. Kipner|David Frank|Nate Butler|Kazuhiro Hara}}
| extra6 = Hirata Shiyouitirou
| length6 = 3:32
| title7 = Expect
| note7 =
| writer7 =
| lyrics7 = Narumi Yamamoto
| music7 = Ken Harada
| extra7 = Hirata Shiyouitirou
| length7 = 4:20
| title8 = Over ~Across the Time~
| note8 =
| writer8 =
| lyrics8 = Ryoushi Sonoda
| music8 = Ken Matsubara
| extra8 = Ken Matsubara
| length8 = 5:50
| title9 = Kokoro no Tegami
| note9 = 心の手紙; Letter From My Heart
| writer9 =
| lyrics9 = Ryoushi Sonoda
| music9 = Tami Komori
| extra9 = Tami Komori
| length9 = 4:50
| title10 = Double
| note10 =
| writer10 =
| lyrics10 = Natsumi Watanabe
| music10 = Kazuhiro Hara
| extra10 = H•wonder
| length10 = 3:28
| title11 = Easy to Be Hard
| note11 =
| writer11 =
| lyrics11 = Aida Takeshi
| music11 = Akira
| extra11 = Akira
| length11 = 4:55
| title12 = Song With No Name ~Namae no Nai Uta~
| note12 = ~名前のない歌~
| writer12 =
| lyrics12 = Aida Takeshi
| music12 = Yoko Kuzuya
| extra12 = Ken Matsubara
| length12 = 2:49
| title13 = Milky Way ~Kimi no Uta~
| note13 = ~君の歌~; Your Song
| writer13 =
| lyrics13 = {{hlist|Kenzie|Shoko Fujibayashi}}
| music13 = Kazuhiro Hara
| extra13 = Kazuhiro Hara
| length13 = 3:20
| total_length = 56:03
}}
;Sampling credits
- "Rock With You" contains a sample of Janet Jackson's "You Ain't Right"{{cite web|url=http://forums.boajjang.com/index.php?showtopic=18009|title=BoA sampling a little?|date=March 31, 2005|work=Boajjang.com|accessdate=January 4, 2014}}
{{Track listing
| headline = DVD
| extra_column =
| all_writing =
| all_lyrics =
| all_music =
| title1 = Shine We Are! (Video clip)
| length1 =
| title2 = Rock With You (Video clip)
| length2 =
| title3 = No. 1 (Video clip)
| length3 =
| title4 = Rock With You (Making of)
| length4 =
| title5 = Commercials
| length5 =
| title6 = Interview
| length6 =
| total_length =
}}
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ |
scope="col"| Chart (2004)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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scope="row" | Japanese Albums (Oricon){{cite web | title=BoAのリリース一覧 |trans-title=List of BoA's Releases | url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/270150/products/release/ | work=Oricon | access-date=October 22, 2014}}
| 1 |
{{col-2}}
=Year-end charts=
class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ |
scope="col"| Chart (2004)
! scope="col"| Position |
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scope="row" | Japanese Albums (Oricon)
| 13 |
{{col-end}}
Sales and certifications
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry |region=Japan |artist=BoA |title=Love & Honesty |type=album |salesamount=653,630|salesref={{cite web | title=オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」 |trans-title=Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Big Tree' |url=http://ranking.oricon.co.jp |work=Oricon |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 1, 2014}}|award=Platinum|number=3|domestic=true|relyear=2004|certyear=2004|certmonth=01|refname="oricon cert"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=South Korea|nocert=true|salesref={{cite web | title=2004년총결산 POP음반 판매량집계 |trans-title=2004 Year End International Music Sales | url=http://miak.or.kr/stat/pop_2004.htm | publisher=Recording Industry Association of Korea |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213090437/http://miak.or.kr/stat/pop_2004.htm |year=2005 |archive-date=February 13, 2009 | access-date=October 22, 2014}}|type=album|relyear=2004|salesamount=19,830}}
{{table end}}
Singles
class="wikitable"
!Date !Title !Peak position !Sales |
May 14, 2003
|"Shine We Are!" / "Earthsong" |align="center"|2 |144,264 |
October 22, 2003
|"Double" / "Midnight Parade" / "Milky Way: Kimi no Uta" |align="center"|2 |82,395 |
December 3, 2003
|"Rock with You" |align="center"|5 |58,314 |
February 11, 2004
|"Be the One" |align="center"|15 |24,292 |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{BoA}}
{{BoA singles}}
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