Live Ai Explained

Live Ai
Type:	live
Artist:	Ai
Cover:	Ai - Live Ai.png
Recorded:	2006
Length:	57:23
Prev Title:	What's Goin' On Ai
Prev Year:	2006
Next Title:	Don't Stop Ai
Next Year:	2007

Live Ai (stylized LIVE A.I.) is the first live album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai, released on March 7, 2007, by Island Records and Universal Sigma. The album primarily consists of songs and performances from Ai's final performance at Nippon Budokan, but also other various tour dates within Japan from Ai's What's Goin' On Ai tour.^[1] The album was reissued on December 5, 2012 by USM Japan.

Background and release

To promote her fifth studio album, Ai embarked on the What's Goin' On Ai tour in Japan. The tour initially featured 11 dates across the country in November and December 2006.^[2] An extra date was added on December 13, where Ai performed at the Nippon Budokan stadium in Tokyo to 12,000 people.^[3]

A DVD was released on March 28, 2007 titled Nippon Budokan Ai shortly after the release of the live album.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ai Uemura unless noted.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.^[4]

• Ai Uemura – lead vocals (all tracks), lyricist (1–10, 12–13)
• Tremaine Neverson – featured artist, lyricist (12)
• DJ Watari – composer (1)
• DJ Yutaka – composer (2, 5)
• Desert Storm – composer (3)
• Lofey – composer (3)
• Skane – composer (3)
• 2 Soul – composer, (4, 10)
• Kazunori Fujimoto – composer (6)
• Carsten Lindberg – composer (7)
• Emanuel Officer – composer (7)
• Joachim A. Svare – composer (7)
• T-Kura – composer (8, 9)
• Ryuichi Sakamoto – composer, lyricist (11)
• Stephanie Stokes Fountain – composer (13)

Charts

Chart performance for Live Ai!Chart (2007)!Peakposition

Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[5]	14
Japanese DVD (Oricon)^[6]	11

Release history

Region! scope="col"

Date	Format(s)	Label
Japan	March 7, 2007			^[7]
	March 28, 2007	DVD		^[8]
Various	December 5, 2012		USM Japan

References

1. Web site: [AI] 迫力のライブ着うたを先行配信]. 2021-11-20. Natalie Inc.. ja.
2. Web site: July 25, 2006. AI ニュー・シングルのリリースが決定！. Ai will release a new single!. Vibe-Net. Japanese. September 5, 2012.
3. Web site: December 14, 2006. AI、初の武道館で10メートルの舞台から舞い降りた！. Ai, swooping down 10 meters at first Budokan performance. Oricon. Japanese. September 5, 2012.
4. Web site: Live Ai Credits - Tidal (US). 2021-11-20. listen.tidal.com. en.
5. Web site: LIVE A.I. AI . 2022-12-24 . ORICON NEWS.
6. Web site: AIのDVD作品. 2021-11-20. ORICON NEWS.
7. Web site: AI/LIVE A.I.. 2021-11-20. tower.jp.
8. Web site: 日本武道館 A.I.【初回限定盤】 AI. 2021-11-20. ORICON NEWS.