Takako Matsu discography
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{{Infobox artist discography
| Artist = Takako Matsu
| Studio = 10
| Live = 2
| Compilation = 3
| Music videos = 20
| Video = 7
| Singles = 21
| Option = 3
| Option name = Other appearances
}}
The discography of Japanese actress and singer-songwriter Takako Matsu includes ten studio, three compilation, two live, seven video albums, twenty-one singles, and twenty music videos. Born into a family of actors, Matsu made her debut as a stage performer before her roles in TV dramas (beginning with the 1994 NHK taiga drama series Hana no Ran) and films (beginning with 1997's Tokyo Biyori).{{cite web|url=http://www.pia.co.jp/interview/matsutakako/|script-title=ja:松たか子 ／ インタビュー ／＠ぴあ|trans-title=Matsu Takako / Interview / @PIA|publisher=PIA. PIA Corporation|language=Japanese|access-date=May 1, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://publications.asahi.com/jn/intreview/091.shtml|script-title=ja:朝日新聞出版 最新刊行物：フリーペーパー：ジェイヌード|work=Asahi Shimbun|language=Japanese|access-date=May 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502201709/http://publications.asahi.com/jn/intreview/091.shtml|archive-date=May 2, 2014|url-status=dead}} That year she released her first single, "Ashita, Haru ga Kitara", which peaked at number 8 on the Oricon Singles Chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of 400,000 copies. Matsu's debut album, Sora no Kagami (also released that year), peaked at number 4 on the Oricon Albums Chart. Selling over 300,000 copies, it earned a platinum certification from the RIAJ and Matsu was named Best New Artist of the Year at the 12th Japan Gold Disc Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.golddisc.jp/award/12/index.html|title=第12回日本ゴールドディスク大賞 / Gold Disc Hall of Fame 12th|publisher=RIAJ|language=Japanese|access-date=April 25, 2014}}
In 1998 she starred in the Shunji Iwai short film April Story as Uzuki Nireno, a shy girl who leaves home to attend the University of Tokyo.{{cite web|url=http://natalie.mu/music/news/2488|title=[松たか子] 三菱UFJのCMで四月物語コンビ復活|date=July 4, 2007|publisher=Natalie|language=Japanese|access-date=May 12, 2014}} For the film's soundtrack, Matsu performed five piano songs.{{cite web|url=http://artist.cdjournal.com/d/original-soundtrack/1198040741|script-title=ja:「四月物語」オリジナル・サウンドトラック～四月のピアノ|publisher=CDJournal|language=Japanese|access-date=May 1, 2014}} Her second studio album, Ai no Tobira, was released on Arista Japan the same year; it peaked at number 3 on the Oricon chart, and was certified gold by the RIAJ. Moving to Universal Japan in 1999,{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnet.co.jp/cgi-bin/artist/list.cgi?artist=6044|script-title=ja:松たか子: 過去記事へ|trans-title=Matsu Takako: Past articles|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020820202608/http://www.musicnet.co.jp/cgi-bin/artist/list.cgi?artist=6044|archive-date=August 20, 2002|date=August 14, 1999|publisher=Musicnet. Sony Magazines Inc|language=Japanese|access-date=June 2, 2014}} Matsu released "Yume no Shizuku"; it peaked at number 8 on the Oricon chart, her fourth top-ten hit on the Oricon Singles Chart. Her album Itsuka, Sakura no Ame ni... was also certified gold. About a year later, Matsu's fourth studio album (A Piece of Life) and first compilation album (Five Years: Singles) were released. Both peaked in the top five on the Oricon Albums Chart, and the latter was certified gold. A live album of her A Piece of Life concert tour, released in 2002, peaked at number 32 on the Oricon Albums Chart; the tour DVD reached number 8 on the Oricon DVD chart. Matsu's next two studio albums peaked at number 12 on the Oricon chart.
In 2004 "Toki no Fune", co-written by Matsu and Akeboshi and produced by the latter,{{cite web|url=http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/Akeboshi/special/03.html|title=Akeboshi｜Yellow Moon 期間限定スペシャルサイト|publisher=Sony Music Japan|language=Japanese|access-date=May 1, 2014}} was released as the first single from her seventh studio album (Bokura ga Ita). The song, the theme for the TBS drama series Tōbōsha Runaway,{{cite web|url=http://www.tbs.co.jp/program/tobo.html|title=TBS「逃亡者 RUNAWAY」|publisher=Tokyo Broadcasting System|language=Japanese|access-date=May 1, 2014}} peaked at number 5 on the Oricon singles chart and the album peaked at number 14 on the albums chart. In 2006 Matsu released "Minna Hitori", another top-10 hit. Her parent studio album, Cherish You, peaked at the same position on the Oricon Albums Chart. After the disappointing performance of her ninth studio album (Time for Music) and its accompanying singles, Matsu's musical career saw a resurgence with "Let It Go" (which she performed for the Japanese version of the Disney animated film, Frozen);{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/otona/hobby/artiste/20140527-OYT8T50146.html|script-title=ja:松たか子 「アナ雪」で再ブレイクのヒミツ|trans-title=Takako Matsu: the secret of her Frozen second big break|work=The Yomiuri Shimbun|publisher=Yomiuri Group|date=May 30, 2014|language=Japanese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603000633/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/otona/hobby/artiste/20140527-OYT8T50146.html|archive-date=June 3, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=May 31, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://sankei.jp.msn.com/economy/news/140417/prl14041718090092-n1.htm|title=映画『アナと雪の女王』関連楽曲「レット・イット・ゴー」が「レコチョク週間ランキング」TOP3を3週連続独占！ - MSN産経ニュース|publisher=Sankei Shimbun/MSN|language=Japanese|date=April 17, 2014|access-date=May 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417222438/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/economy/news/140417/prl14041718090092-n1.htm|archive-date=April 17, 2014|url-status=dead}} the song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, and was certified million by the RIAJ.
Studio albums
Compilation albums
{{distinguish|5 Years (album)|Five Years (1969–1973)}}
Live albums
LP records
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| scope="row" | Hyper Bug Mix
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Singles
=As lead artist=
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|+ ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;" | Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:3em;" | Year ! scope="col" colspan="2" | Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:8em;" | Sales ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:14em;" | Certification ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;" | Album |
| style="width:4em; font-size:85%;" | Oricon chart {{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/219459/ranking/cd_single/|title=松たか子のCDシングルランキング|publisher=Oricon|language=Japanese|access-date=April 25, 2014}} ! style="width:4em; font-size:85%;" | JPN Hot 100
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| scope ="row" | "Ashita, Haru ga Kitara"
| rowspan="4" | 1997 | 8 || 65{{ref label|note_a1|A}} | 432,000 |
| rowspan="3" | Sora no Kagami |
| scope="row" | "I Stand Alone"
| 7 || — | 183,000 |
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| scope="row" | "Wind Song"
| 30 || — | 38,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Mafuyu no Memories"|真冬のメモリーズ||"Midwinter Memories"}}
| 22 || — | 77,000 | | rowspan="4" | Ai no Tobira |
| scope="row" | "Sakura Fuwari"
| rowspan="3" | 1998 | 9 || — | 96,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Gomen ne."|ごめんね。||"Sorry"}}
| 26 || — | 44,000 | |
| scope="row" | "Stay with Me"
| 20 || — | 96,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Yume no Shizuku"|夢のしずく||"Droplets of Dreams"}}
| rowspan="2" | 1999 | 8 || — | 97,000 | | rowspan="3" | Itsuka, Sakura no Ame ni... |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Tsuki no Dance"|月のダンス||"Moon Dance"}}
| 25 || — | 17,000 | |
| scope="row" | "Sakura no Ame, Itsuka"
| rowspan="2" | 2000 | 19 || — | 88,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Yasashii Kaze"|優しい風||"Gentle Breeze"}}
| 25 || — | 21,000 | | rowspan="2" | A Piece of Life |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Koishii Hito"|コイシイヒト||"Beloved Person"}}
| rowspan="2" | 2001 | 16 || — | 63,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Hana no Yō ni"|花のように||"Like a Flower"}}
| 23 || — | 24,000 | | rowspan="3" | Home Grown |
| scope="row" | "Clover"
| rowspan="2" | 2002 | 28 || — | 11,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Ashita ni Kuchizuke o"|明日にくちづけを||"A Kiss to Tomorrow"}}
| 23 || — | 14,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Honto no Kimochi"|ほんとの気持ち||"True Feelings"}}
| 2003 | 16 || — | 27,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Toki no Fune"|時の舟||"Ship of Time"}}
| 2004 | 5 || — | 61,000 | | rowspan="3" | Bokura ga Ita |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Mirai ni Naru"|未来になる||"Becomes the Future"}}
| 2005 | 24 || — | 9,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Akari no Tomoru Hō e"|明かりの灯る方へ||"Towards the Burning Torch"}}
| rowspan="2" | 2006 | 24 || — | 14,000 | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Minna Hitori"|みんなひとり||"Everyone's Alone"}}
| 10 || — | 41,000 | | rowspan="2" | Cherish You |
| scope="row" | "Ashita, Haru ga Kitara 97–07"{{ref label|note_a2|B}}
| 2007 | — || — | | |
| scope="row" | {{Nihongo|"Kimi to Nara"|君となら||"If I'm with You"}}
| 2009 | 38 || 44 | | |
| scope="row" | {{nihongo|"Egao o Misete"|笑顔をみせて||"Show Me a Smile"}}{{cite web|url=http://natalie.mu/music/news/140842|title=松たか子、5年ぶりの新曲「笑顔をみせて」本日配信|publisher=Natalie |date=March 13, 2015|language=Japanese|access-date=March 13, 2015}}
| 2015 | — || — | | | {{n/a}} |
| scope="row" | {{nihongo|"Ashita wa Doko kara"|明日はどこから| |
| 2017
| 35 || 23
| 2,000
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| {{n/a}}
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| colspan="7" | "—" denotes items which did not chart.
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=Collaborations and promotional singles=
Other album appearances
Videography
=Video releases=
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| scope="row" | Film Sora no Kagami
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| scope="row" | Film Itsuka, Sakura no Ame ni
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| scope="row" | Concert Tour Vol. 1 "A Piece of Life" on Film
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| scope="row" | Tour Documentary Film "Diary": Concert Tour Vol. 1 "A Piece of Life"
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| scope="row" | Matsu Takako Concert Tour 2003 "Second Wave" on Film
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| scope="row" | Matsu Takako Concert Tour 2007 "I Cherish You" on Film
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| scope="row" | Takako Matsu Concert Tour 2010 "Time for Music"
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=Music videos=
References
;Notes
- A {{Note|note_a1}} Charted in 2012.
- B {{Note|note_a2}} The track was released digitally only.{{cite web|url=http://natalie.mu/music/news/507|title=
[松たか子] 新曲で10年前の自分とデュエット|language=Japanese|date=March 2, 2007|publisher=Natalie|access-date=May 14, 2014}}
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