Golden Best (Yōsui Inoue album) explained

Golden Best
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Yōsui Inoue
Cover:	yosui_golden.jpg
Released:	July 28, 1999
Recorded:	1972–1998 2001–2003 (Bonus disc)
Genre:	Folk, rock, kayokyoku, pop
Length:	74:43 (disc one) 78:23 (disc two)
Label:	For Life
Producer:	Various
Prev Title:	Kudan
Prev Year:	1998
Next Title:	Golden Bad
Next Year:	2000

Golden Best is the double-CD compilation album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue. The album was released in July 1999, celebrating his 30-year career as a solo recording artist. It comprises 35 tracks spanning his works after 1972; the year he released his debut album Danzetsu under the renewed stage name.

Golden Best debuted at the number-six on the Japanese Oricon chart and climbed the top in September 1999.^{[1] [2]} It became one of the most successful albums for Inoue, entering the record chart for a year with sales of over 1.4 million copies.^[3] The label For Life Music Entertainment stated that Golden Best album has sold more than 2.06 million copies up to late 2008.^[4]

After a year from the album's release, a sequel entitled Golden Bad came out. And in 2003, when the album shipped more than 2 million units, an expanded edition called Golden Best Super was issued. It features bonus disc which includes his singles in the 2000s and previously unreleased recordings.^[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise indicated

Disc one

1. "" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) – 3:21
2. "" (Inoue, Tamio Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) – 3:31
3. "Make-up Shadow" (Inoue, Utsuru Ayame) – 4:09
4. "" (Inoue, Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) – 3:53
5. "" – 3:55
6. "" – 5:35
7. "" – 4:11
8. "" – 2:40
9. "Riverside Hotel" – 3:54
10. "" – 3:27
11. "" – 5:06
12. "" – 3:16
13. "Crazy Love" – 4:04
14. "" – 4:43
15. "" – 4:01
16. "" – 4:22
17. "" – 4:51
18. "" – 5:52

Disc two

1. "" – 4:52
2. "" – 3:56
3. "" – 3:56
4. "" – 4:13
5. "" – 5:32
6. "" – 5:04
7. "" – 4:59
8. "" (Inoue, Kōji Tamaki) – 5:25
9. "" (Inoue, Tamaki) (recorded with Anzen Chitai) – 3:53
10. "Teenager" (Inoue, Hirai) – 4:34
11. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) – 2:58
12. "" – 4:55
13. "" (Inoue, Kiyoshiro Imawano) – 4:21
14. "Just Fit" – 4:25
15. "" – 4:59
16. "" – 4:07
17. "" – 5:38

Bonus disc for 2003 limited edition

1. "" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 5:07
2. ""　(Jose Manzo Perroni, Seiji Nakazawa) – 3:07
3. "" (Koichi Sugiyama, Fusako Sugawara, Rei Nakanishi) – 4:11
4. "" [Live version recorded at the Pacifico Yokohama on December 23, 2002, previously unreleased] – 3:31
5. "" – 4:12
6. "Mis Cast" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 5:10
7. "L-O-V-E" [Live version recorded at the Fukuoka Convention Center on January 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 2:58
8. "Miss Contest" [Live version recorded at the Bluenote Tokyo on January 6, 2003, previously unreleased] – 4:38
9. "" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 5:07
10. "" (Inoue, Katz Hoshi) [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 4:32

Chart positions

Year	Album	Chart	Position	Sales
1999–2000	Golden Best	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	1	1,418,000+
2003	Golden Best Super	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 300)	28	31,000

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number	Notes
Japan	July 28, 1999	For Life Records	CD	FLCF-3761
	June 25, 2003	For Life Music Entertainment		FLCF-3965	Expanded edition with bonus disc, limited release

Notes and References

1. Web site: Search results of the Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, in the second week of August 1999. oricon.co.jp. Japanese. Oricon. June 6, 2009.
2. Web site: Search results of the Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, in the second week of September 1999. oricon.co.jp. Japanese. Oricon. June 6, 2009.
3. Web site: Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Yosui Inoue . Japanese . April 24, 2009 . dead . https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_yousui.html . June 19, 2007 .
4. Web site: dead . Yosui Inoue released the ballad best album in late 2008. ja:井上陽水、バラードベストアルバムを年末にリリース！ . ja. May 9, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20120217002355/http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3904954/. February 17, 2012 .
5. Web site: 井上陽水のベスト盤が200万枚突破！ 未発表テイクを加えたプレミアム盤を、期間限定で発売. May 9, 2009.