Daydream (Aimer album)

"ninelie"
daydream
Studio album by Aimer
Released	September 21, 2016
Recorded	Aobadai Studio • Burnish Stone Recording Studios • Heart Beat. Recording Studios • Onkio Haus • prime sound studio form • Studio Device • Studio GreenBird • Studio Sound Valley; Japan; The Beach; United States; Hansa Studios • Studio 4; Germany
Genre	Pop; rock;
Length	57:23
Language	Japanese; English;
Label	SME Records
Producer	Aimer; Kenji Tamai; Taka; Hiroyuki Sawano; Takahito Uchisawa; Yojiro Noda; Sukima Switch; TK;
Aimer chronology
Singles from daydream
	"ninelie"; Released: May 11, 2016; "insane dream"; Released: July 07, 2016; "us"; Released: July 07, 2016; "Chouchou Musubi"; Released: August 17, 2016; "Falling Alone"; Released: August 19, 2016;

daydream is the fourth studio album released by Aimer. It was released in three versions: a limited CD+Blu-ray (Type-A), a limited CD+DVD edition (Type-B), and a regular CD only edition. The song "Falling Alone" was used as the lead track and was previously released as her 10th digital single as advance of the album[1]

The album charted #2 daily rank for first week. It charted so far 34 weeks and sold more than 78,000 copies.[2] The album was certified Gold by Recording Industry Association of Japan in March 2017 for shipment of 100,000 copies.[3]

Track listing

daydream
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"insane dream"	aimerrhythm Taka Jamil Kazmi	Taka	Colin Brittain	4:13
2.	"ninelie" (with Chelly from Egoist)	Hiroyuki Sawano	Hiroyuki Sawano	Hiroyuki Sawano	4:21
3.	"twoface"	Takahito Uchisawa	Takahito Uchisawa	Takahito Uchisawa Kenji Tamai Masahiro Tobinai	3:05
4.	"Higher Ground"	aimerrhythm Jamil Kazmi	Taka	Kenji Tamai Rui Momota	5:14
5.	"for Lonely" (for ロンリー, with Mao Abe)	Mao Abe	Mao Abe	Kenji Tamai Shogo Ohnishi	4:51
6.	"Chouchou Musubi" (蝶々結び; "Butterfly Knot")	Yojiro Noda	Yojiro Noda	Yojiro Noda	5:05
7.	"Kataomoi" (カタオモイ; "Unrequited Love")	Takahito Uchisawa	Takahito Uchisawa	Takahito Uchisawa Kenji Tamai Masahiro Tobinai	3:27
8.	"Hz"	Takuya Ohashi Shintaro Tokita	Takuya Ohashi Shintaro Tokita	Takuya Ohashi Shintaro Tokita	4:49
9.	"Kowairo" (声色; "Tone of Voice")	TK	TK	TK	4:57
10.	"closer"	Taka Jamil Kazmi	Taka	Colin Brittain	4:13
11.	"Falling Alone"	Taka Jamil Kazmi	Taka	Colin Brittain	4:13
12.	"us"	TK	TK	TK	4:34
13.	"Stars in the rain"	aimerrhythm Jamil Kazmi	Taka	Kenji Tamai Shogo Ohnishi	5:02
Total length:					57:23

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"insane dream" (Music Video)
2.	"us" (Music Video)
3.	"ninelie" (Music Video)
4.	"Falling Alone" (Music Video)
5.	"Chouchou Musubi" (Music Video)
6.	"Koutetsujou no Kabaneri" (Special Ending Movie)

Blu-ray
No.	Title	Length
1.	"insane dream" (Music Video)
2.	"us" (Music Video)
3.	"ninelie" (Music Video)
4.	"Falling Alone" (Music Video)
5.	"Chouchou Musubi" (Music Video)
6.	"MOON RIVER" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
7.	"Believe Be:leave" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
8.	"Noir! Noir!" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
9.	"Anata ni Deawanakereba ~Kasetsu Touka~" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
10.	"Kimi wo Matsu" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
11.	"Re:pray" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
12.	"Re:far" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
13.	"Heartache (ONE OK ROCK cover)" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
14.	"Dare ka, Umi wo" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
15.	"AM02:00 - AM04:00" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
16.	"After Rain" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
17.	"Hoshi no Kieta Yoru ni" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
18.	"LAST STARDUST" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
19.	"Brave Shine" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
20.	"DAWN" (Aimer Live Tour "DAWN", 2015.11.03)
21.	"Koutetsujou no Kabaneri" (Special Ending Movie)

Credits

Adapted from Booklet.[4]

Production

Aimer – producer (tracks 1, 10, 11)
Colin Brittain – programming, recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 1, 10, 11)
Dick Beetham – mastering engineer (track 6)
Fumiaki Unehara – assistant recording engineer (track 12)
Hideki Kodera – recording engineer (track 5)
Hideki Morioka – director, organizer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13)
Hiroshi Hiranuma – recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 8, 9)
Hiroyuki Sawano – producer (track 2)
Keisuke Narita – assistant recording engineer (track 2)
Kenji Tamai – producer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13)
Kouzou Miyamoto – assistant recording engineer (track 2)
Jamil Kazmi – director, organizer (tracks 1, 4, 10, 11, 13)
Masahiro Tobinai – programming (tracks 3, 7)
Masaki Mori - recording engineer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13), mixing engineer (track 5)
Masayoshi Sugai – recording engineer, mixing engineer (track 6)
Mitsunori Aizawa - recording engineer, mixing engineer, Pro Tools operator (track 2)
Rui Momota – programming (track 4)
Satoshi Kumasaka – mixing engineer (tracks 3, 4, 7, 13)
Shogo Ohnishi – programming (tracks 5, 13)
SukimaSwitch – producer (track 8)
Takahiro Moriuchi – producer (tracks 1, 10, 11)
Takahito Uchisawa – producer, programming (tracks 3, 4)
Ted Jensen – mastering engineer (track 12)
Tetsuro Sawamoto – assistant engineer (track 6)
TK – producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 9, 12), mastering engineer (track 9), programming (track 12)
Yasushi Horiguchi – director (track 2)
Yojiro Noda – producer (track 6)
Yoshikazu Nagai – recording engineer (track 3, 7)
Yuji Chinone – mastering engineer (track 1~5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13)

Musicians

Aimer – lead vocals (all tracks), handclaps (track 8)
BOBO – drums (track 12)
chelly – additional vocals (track 2)
Colin Brittain – all instruments (tracks 1, 10, 11)
Ichiro Yoshida – bass (track 3)
Hanaregumi – guitar, chorus (track 6)
Harutoshi Ito – guitar (track 2)
Hiroo Yamaguchi – bass (tracks 9, 12)
Hiroyuki Sawano – piano, keyboards, other instruments (track 2)
Honoka Satou – strings (track 12)
Katsuhiro Mafune – bass (track 6)
Mao Abe – additional vocals (track 5)
Makiko Amemiya strings – strings (track 9)
Mamiko Hirai – piano (track 9)
Masahiro Tobinai – other instruments (tracks 3, 7)
Masami Horisawa – strings (track 12)
Mikiyo Kikuchi – strings (track 12)
Takahito Uchisawa – chorus, guitar, other instruments (track 3, 7)
Takeshi Taneda – bass (track 6)
Takuya Ohashi – chorus, guitar, handclaps (track 8)
TK – chorus (track 12), guitar (tracks 9, 12)
Tom Tamada – drums (tracks 8, 9)
Toshino Tanabe – bass (track 2)
Rui Momota – guitar, other instruments (track 4)
Shintaro Tokita – chorus, handclaps, piano, other instruments (track 8)
Shogo Ohnishi – guitar (track 13), other instruments (track 5, 13)
Susumu Nishikawa – guitar (track 8)
Yojiro Noda – piano, chorus (track 6)
Yu "masshoi" Yamauchi – drums (track 2)
Yuko Araki – drums (track 6)

Album Staff

Arata Kato – photograph
Daisuke Katsurada – executive producer
Go Matsuda – art direction & design
Hiroaki Sano – supervise
Jun Yamaguchi – products coordination
Kenji Tamai – executive producer
Kenkichi Fukahara – artist management
Mami Fujino – artist management
Minaho Takahashi – hair & makeup
Takeshi Tomaru – a&r
Yasuhisa Ichikawa – artist management
Yuuka Akashi – styling

Charts

Album

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard)[5]	3
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6]	2
South Korean International Albums (Gaon)[7]	3

Singles

Title	Year	Peak positions
Title	Year	JPN Oricon [8]	JPN Billboard
"Ninelie"	2016	9	4[9]
"Insane Dream"		13	17[10]
"Us"		13	—
"Chouchou Musubi" (蝶々結び Butterfly Knot)		10	8[11]
"Falling Alone"		—	—

Sales and certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)	Gold[3]	100,000
South Korea (Gaon)		600+[12][13]
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work/Nominee	Result
2017	CD Shop Awards	Sub-Grand Prix	Daydream	Won[14]

gollark: It is almost certainly better than the entirely ææaaaaæææææææaaaæææ result I have.

gollark: What's your resistivity like *now*?

gollark: Well, it's almost consistent with it being off by a factor of 100 somehow but why?

gollark: Your area is entirely the wrong magnitude.

gollark: Hmm, is this your "wellbeing robot" project?

References

Album information http://natalie.mu/music/news/198686
Oricon ranking http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/542958/products/1194720/1/
"Japanese albums certification 2017" (Select 2017年03月 on the drop-down menu) (in Japanese). RIAJ. March 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"SECL-1983~4 | daydream / Aimer [Limited Edition] - VGMdb". vgmdb.net. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
"Billboard Japan Hot Albums | Charts" (in Japanese). Billboard Japan. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"Daydream | Aimer" (in Japanese). Oricon, Inc. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"2016년 44주차 Album Chart" [Album Chart of 44th Week of 2016] (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"Aimerのシングル売上ランキング" [Aimer single sales ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon, Inc. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"Japanese Music: Top Japanese Songs Chart". Billboard. 2016-05-28. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"Japanese Music: Top Japanese Songs Chart". Billboard. 2016-07-23. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"Japanese Music: Top Japanese Songs Chart". Billboard. 2016-09-03. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
"2016년 10월 Album Chart" [October 2016 Album Chart]. Gaon (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-11-16.
"2018년 08월 Album Chart" [August 2018 Album Chart]. Gaon (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-11-16.
"宇多田ヒカルが「CDショップ大賞」受賞、準大賞はAimer" [Hikaru Utada received "CD Shop Award", Second Prize was Aimer]. Natalie (in Japanese). March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2018.

External links

Album Special Website (Japanese)
daydream Aimer on agehasprings
daydream Aimer on quia
316 Aimer "daydream" on Arata Kato Photography
Daydream - Aimer on iTunes
daydream at MusicBrainz
daydream / Aimer on VGMdb

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[1] Album information http://natalie.mu/music/news/198686

[2] Oricon ranking http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/542958/products/1194720/1/

[RIAJ_Gold-3] "Japanese albums certification 2017" (Select 2017年03月 on the drop-down menu) (in Japanese). RIAJ. March 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[4] "SECL-1983~4 | daydream / Aimer [Limited Edition] - VGMdb". vgmdb.net. Retrieved 2016-11-16.

[5] "Billboard Japan Hot Albums | Charts" (in Japanese). Billboard Japan. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[6] "Daydream | Aimer" (in Japanese). Oricon, Inc. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[7] "2016년 44주차 Album Chart" [Album Chart of 44th Week of 2016] (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[8] "Aimerのシングル売上ランキング" [Aimer single sales ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon, Inc. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[9] "Japanese Music: Top Japanese Songs Chart". Billboard. 2016-05-28. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[10] "Japanese Music: Top Japanese Songs Chart". Billboard. 2016-07-23. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[11] "Japanese Music: Top Japanese Songs Chart". Billboard. 2016-09-03. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

[12] "2016년 10월 Album Chart" [October 2016 Album Chart]. Gaon (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-11-16.

[13] "2018년 08월 Album Chart" [August 2018 Album Chart]. Gaon (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-11-16.

[14] "宇多田ヒカルが「CDショップ大賞」受賞、準大賞はAimer" [Hikaru Utada received "CD Shop Award", Second Prize was Aimer]. Natalie (in Japanese). March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2018.

Aimer
Singles	"Rokutosei no Yoru" "Re:pray" "Yuki no Furumachi" "Anata ni Deawanakereba -Kasetsu Toka-" "RE:I AM" "StarRingChild" "Broken Night" "Brave Shine" "Ninelie" "Insane Dream" "Chouchou Musubi" "Akanesasu" "ONE" "Ref:rain" "Black Bird" "I beg you" "Torches" "Haru wa Yuku"
Studio albums	Sleepless Nights Midnight Sun DAWN daydream Sun Dance & Penny Rain
Mini albums	After Dark Dare ka, Umi wo.
Cover albums	Your Favorite Things Bitter & Sweet
Compilation albums	BEST SELECTION "blanc" BEST SELECTION "noir"
Collaboration albums	UnChild
Live videos	Aimer Live in Budokan "blanc et noir"
Related articles	Defstar Records SME Records Hiroyuki Sawano Yuki Kajiura