Cover Album (album)

Cover Album (カバALBUM, Kaba Arubamu) is the first cover album and second mini-album released by Japanese soloist misono. The album's title is a play on "kaba" (カバ), the Japanese word for hippopotamus. It charted on Oricon at #28 and remained on the charts for four weeks. The album was released on the same day as her fourteenth single, Urusei Yatsura no Theme: Lum no Love Song/Me.

Cover Album
Studio album by
misono
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2009
Recorded2009
GenreJ-Pop
LabelAvex Trax
Misono chronology
Tales with Misono: Best
(2009)		 Cover Album
(2009)		 Cover Album 2
(2010)

The album was released solely as a CD, although a music video for the first song, "misono to Utaou! Animedley I", was placed on the aforementioned single.

For the album, misono covered a variety of songs from other artists, including Avril Lavinge's "Complicated", Mayo Okamoto's "Tomorrow" and PERSONZ's "Dear Friends".

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Cover Album is the first cover album released by Japanese singer-songwriter misono on September 23, 2009. The album peaked at #28 on the Oricon Albums Charts, remaining on the charts for four consecutive weeks.[1] The album was released the same day as her single Urusei Yatsura no Theme ~Lum no Love Song~／「Mii」, of which the a-side was also a cover song.[2]

While the album was only released on a standard CD, the first track, "misono to Utaou! Animedley I" (misonoと歌おう!アニメドレーI / Sing with misono! Animedley I), was given a music video on the CD+DVD version of Urusei Yatsura no Theme: Lum no Love Song/Me.[3]

misono had her own version of Mayo Okamoto's "Tomorrow" on her single Lovely♡Cat's Eye, which was released three years earlier in November 2006.[4][5] Her rendition of "Complicated" had been utilized on the Avril Lavigne tribute album Tribute to Avril Lavigne -Master's Collection- (2006), in which various Japanese artists covered several songs by the Canadian artist.[6]

misono's sister, Koda Kumi, would later cover some of the same songs, including Ouyang Fei Fei's "Love Is Over" (ラヴ・イズ・オーヴァー) on her Eternity ~Love & Songs~ album (2010),[7] and Linda Yamamoto's "Dou ni mo tomaranai" on her Color the Cover album (2013).[8]

Track listing
CD
No.TitleLyricsMusicOriginalLength
1."misono to Utaou! Animedley I 〜Urusei Yatsura no Theme ~Lum no Love Song~ / CAT'S EYE / Wai Wai World / Candy Candy / Attack No.1 Theme / Hajimete no Chuu〜" (misonoと歌おう!アニメドレーI)   6:05
2."Playback Part 2" (プレイバック)Yoko AkiRyudo UzakiMomoe Yamaguchi3:19
3."Dou ni mo Tomaranai" (どうにもとまらない / I Won't Stop)Yū AkuShunichi TokuraLinda Yamamoto2:48
4."Love Is Over" (ラヴ・イズ・オーヴァー)Kaoru ItoKaoru ItoOuyang Fei Fei • Coldfeet4:44
5."misono to Utaou! Animedley II 〜Anpanman no Maachi / Delicate ni Suki Shite / Unbalance na Kiss o Shite / Tonichankan-Chin Ikkyū-san / Touch / Omoide ga Ippai〜" (misonoと歌おう!アニメドレーII)   6:41
6."TOMORROW"Mayo OkamotoMayo OkamotoMayo Okamoto4:15
7."Complicated"Avril LavigneAvril Lavigne • Lauren Christy • Scott Spock • Graham EdwardsAvril Lavigne4:28
8."DEAR FRIENDS"JILLMitsugu WatanabePERSONZ6:42
9."gradually"misonoMitsuru Igarashi • Kotaro Kubotaday after tomorrow5:29

Charts (Japan)
Release Chart Peak position Total sales
September 23, 2009 Oricon Weekly Charts 28 7,016
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References
  1. "misonoカバALBUM / misono / ORICON NEWS". Oricon. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  2. "misono、シングル&アルバム9/23同時発売 (misono, releases single and album simultaneously)". Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  3. "Urusei Yatsura no Theme Lum no Love Song/Mii (SINGLE+DVD)(Japan Version)". YesAsia. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  4. "Mayo Okamoto - Tomorrow / Blue Star (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  5. "「TOMORROW」misonoのタイアップ情報 グリコ 「カフェオーレ」 CMソング". RecoChoku (in Japanese). Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  6. "Various Artistsの「Tribute to Avril Lavigne -Master's Collection-」". iTunes. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  7. "ETERNITY ~Love & Songs~ / KODA KUMI / ORICON STYLE". Oricon. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  8. avex (2013-02-21). "Cover Album "Color The Cover"". Koda Kumi. Rhythm Zone. Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
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