Yokan (album)

Hunch (Yokan)
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released March 5, 1983
Recorded Epicurus Studios
Genre Folk rock / pop
Length 43:54
Label Canyon/AARD-VARK
Producer Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Kansuigyo
(1981)		 Yokan (Hunch)
(1983)		 How Do You Do (Hajimemashite)
(1984)

Hunch (予感 Yokan) is the tenth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in March 1983.

In addition to the songwriting and produce for the entire album, she also participated in arrangement for the first time, except five songs which were arranged by Takayuki Inoue and featured in the latter half of the LP.

The final track on Hunch became one of fan favorites for years, though none of the contents were released as a single when the album came out. "Fight" later appeared as a double A-Side of a chart topper single "Between the Sky and You", released in 1994 and sold over a million copies. The song which became well-known because of commercial success of a single has been covered several times, interpreted by artists such as Takuro Yoshida, Noriyuki Makihara and Masaharu Fukuyama .[1]

Hunch debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon and retained the position for 3 weeks, but quickly fell off the chart compared to its predecessors that likewise reached the top.[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima.

Side one

All songs arranged by Miyuki Nakajima

  1. "Only Two of Us (この世に二人だけ Kono Yo ni Futari Dake)" – 5:00
  2. "Natsu Miyage (夏土産)" – 4:35
  3. "Kami wo Arau On'na (髪を洗う女)" – 4:29
  4. "Bye Bye Dock of the Bay (ばいばいどくおぶざべい Baibaidokuobuzabei)" – 6:26

Side two

All songs arranged by Takayuki Inoue

  1. "Dare no Sei demo Nai Ame ga (誰のせいでもない雨が)" – 6:30
  2. "En (縁)" – 3:3
  3. "Drink the Tequila (テキーラを飲みほして Tequila wo Nomihoshite)" – 3:16
  4. "Goldfish (金魚 Kingyo)" – 3:05
  5. "Fight! (ファイト! Faito!)" – 7:04

Personnel

Chart positions

Album

Year Country Chart Position Weeks Sales
1983 Japan Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)[2] 1 20 470,000+
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) 1 20
1990 Oricon Weekly CD Albums Chart (top 100) 100 1

Single

Year Single double A-Side Chart Position Weeks Sales RIAJ Certification
1994 "Fight!" "Between the Sky and You" Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100) 1 35 1,460,000+ 6x Platinum

References

  1. ↑ "The Golden Oldies, soundtrack album for Fukuyama Engineering will be released!". excite.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  2. 1 2 "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December 24, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Preceded by
Reincarnation by Yumi Matsutoya		 Japanese Oricon LP Chart number-one album
March 29 - April 26, 1983 (three weeks) 		Succeeded by
Fantasy by Akina Nakamori
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