Smile (Mai Kuraki album)

Smile is the eleventh studio album by Japanese singer and songwriter Mai Kuraki. The album was released on February 15, 2017, by Northern Music. It is the follow-up to her 2014 compilation album, Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope. The album was released on three editions: standard edition, fan club edition, and limited edition, which is accompanied with a bonus disc. Smile

Smile
Standard edition/digital download cover
Studio album by
Mai Kuraki
ReleasedFebruary 15, 2017 (2017-02-15)
Recorded2015–17
StudioNorthern Music
Genre
Length46:46
Label
  • Northern Music
Producer
Mai Kuraki chronology
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
(2014)		 Smile
(2017)		 Mai Kuraki x Meitantei Conan Collaboration Best 21: Shinjitsu wa Itsumo Uta ni Aru!
(2017)
Singles from Smile
  1. "Serendipity"
    Released: May 20, 2015
  2. "Sawage Life"
    Released: July 30, 2016
  3. "Yesterday Love"
    Released: January 11, 2017

The album was preceded by three singles, "Serendipity", "Sawage Life", and "Yesterday Love", which was released as the video single and peaked at number six in Japan. To promote the album, Kuraki embarked on the national tour, "Mai Kuraki Live Project 2017 "Sawage Life"" from March 18, 2017.

Promotion

Singles

"Serendipity" was released as the lead single from the album on May 20, 2015. It has peaked at number 6 on the RecoChoku Weekly Singles Chart, but failed to enter the Japan Hot 100. The song was used by West Japan Railway Company for the promotion of San'yō Shinkansen.[1][2]

"Sawage Life" was released as the second single from the album on July 30, 2016. The song was written by the American singer-songwriter Porcelain Black and Bobby Huff and featured as the ending theme song for the Japanese animation program Case Closed.[3][4]

"Yesterday Love" was released as the third single from the album on January 11, 2017. The song was released on Blu-ray and DVD format and has peaked at number 3 on the Oricon Music Blu-ray Chart. The song was also featured as the ending theme song for Case Closed.[5][6]

Commercial performance

Smile sold 11,910 copies in its release date and debuted at number 4 on the Oricon daily chart behind Big Bang's Made, Scandal's Best Album "Scandal" and Leo Ieiri's 5th Anniversary Best.[7] It peaked at number 2 on the chart on February 16, 2017 with selling 4,220 copies in a day. The album debuted at number 4 on the Oricon weekly chart with selling 21,222 copies in its first week.

As of March, 2018, the album has sold 29,716 physical copies in Japan.[8]

Track listing
Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Yesterday Love"
  • Mai Kuraki
  • Keiya Kubota
  • Daikō Nagato
  • Yumeto Tsurusawa
4:55
2."Mystery Hero (ミステリー ヒーロー, Mystery Hero)"
4:07
3."Garasu no Bishō (硝子の微笑, Smile of Glass)"
  • Kuraki
  • SHIBU
  • Yosuke Yamashita
4:01
4."Open Love"
  • Kuraki
  • Command Freaks
  • Tesung Kim
  • Sophia Pae
  • Jake K
3:23
5."Sawage Life"
3:20
6."I Like It"
  • Kuraki
  • Nanna Larsen
  • Takashi Fukuda
  • Makoto Wakatabe
3:36
7."My Victory"
  • Kuraki
  • Seiji Motoyama
  • Manabu Marutani
  • Larsen
3:33
8."Serendipity"
  • Kuraki
  • Tokunaga
4:18
9."Make That Change"
  • Kuraki
  • Tokunaga
4:26
10."Tell Me Why"
  • Kuraki
  • Yongshin Kim
  • Maxx Song
  • Casper
  • 220
3:23
11."My Way"
  • Kuraki
  • Jake K
  • Tesung Kim
  • Sophia Pae
  • Shoko Mochiyama
4:12
12."Kimi e no Uta (きみへのうた, Song for You)"
  • Kuraki
  • Sidnie Tipton
  • Shane Pittman
  • Nash Overstreet
3:40
Total length:47 min
Limited edition bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Like It (Remix)"
  • Kuraki
  • Larsen
  • Fukuda
  • Wakatabe
  • Motoyama
3:36

Personnel

Credits adapted from the CD booklet of Smile.[9]

Charts

Certification and sales
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) None 29,716

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history
List of release dates, showing region, format(s), edition(s), label, and references
Region Date Format(s) Edition(s) Label(s) Ref.
Japan February 15, 2017
  • Standard
  • Limited
  • FC & Musing
 Northern Music [13]
February 22, 2017
  • Standard
 [14]
gollark: That's basically what I said (the extra volume of halloween stuff mucks up the ratios).
gollark: Any opinions on my theory of what's going on with the pricing? Basically, I said that if extra dragons are introduced to the total but not the rest of the system (golds, whatever else), then rarer stuff's ratios will be affected more than common stuff, so the gold pricing goes crazy and nebulae stay the same.
gollark: 3.
gollark: My theory of what's up, copied from the forum thread:If many new eggs are being introduced to the system, then that will most affect the stuff which is rarest, by making it rarer by comparison, but commons will stay the same. As for why it happened now? Weekly updates, possibly.Example:Imagine there are 200 dragons, 5 of which are golds.The ratio of golds to total dragons is now 5:200 = 1:40. If the target ratio is 1:50 then prices will be higher to compensate.Now imagine there are an extra 200 dragons added, none of which are golds.The ratio would then be 5:400 = 1:80. Then, assuming the same target, prices will drop.This is of course simplified, and the ratios may not work like this, but this matches observed behavior pretty well.
gollark: That why was rhetorical.

References
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  2. "倉木麻衣、「Serendipity」MVは新幹線車内でダンスモブ". Barksj.jp. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  3. "倉木麻衣、新曲「SAWAGE☆LIFE」がアニメ「名探偵コナン」エンディングテーマ＆配信決定！". Popscene.jp. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  4. "倉木麻衣、1年半ぶり19回目のコナンテーマ曲配信". Natalie.mu. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  5. "倉木麻衣、日本初のVRシングル「YESTERDAY LOVE」1/11リリース". Musicman-net.com. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
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  7. "BIGBANG、新AL『MADE』が首位独走中 SCANDALと家入レオのベスト盤が続く". Yahoo Japan. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  8. "CDアルバムランキング 2017年02月度". Oricon News. Archived from the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  9. Mai Kuraki (2017). Smile (CD Album; Booklet). Mai Kuraki. Japan: Northern Music. VNCM-9033.
  10. "デイリーCDアルバムランキング2017年02月16日付付". Oricon News. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  11. "週間CDアルバムランキング2017年02月27日付". Oricon News. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
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