Navigator (1986 Omega Tribe album) explained

Navigator
Type:	studio
Artist:	1986 Omega Tribe
Cover:	Navigator cover.jpg
Released:	^[1]
Genre:	City pop
Length:	42:38
Label:	VAP
Producer:	Koichi Fujita
Next Title:	Crystal Night
Next Year:	1987

Navigator (Japanese: ナビゲイター; Translation: Flight of the Navigator) is the debut album by 1986 Omega Tribe. The album is the most popular release of the band and charted at number 2 on the Oricon chart.^{[2] [3]}

The album includes the debut song "Kimi ha 1000%", which peaked at number 6 on the Oricon charts, but had a different mix than the single's release.^[4]

Personnel

• Session co-ordinator – Velvet Line
• Design – Masami Oh-Hara
• Direction – Shigeru Matsuhashi
• Digital editing – Kenji Takeda
• Overdubbing engineer – Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshiaki Matsuoka
• Second engineers – Hiroshi Shitamiya, Junichi Fujimori, Mizuo Miura
• Executive producer – Atsushi Kitamura, Katsuhiko Endo
• Guitar, chorus – Mitsuya Kurokawa, Shinji Takashima
• Keyboards, chorus – Toshitsugu Nishihara
• Lacquer cut – Osamu Shimoju
• Mastering – Shigeru Buzawa
• Photography – Goro Iwaoka
• Producer – Koichi Fujita
• Recording, mixing – Kunihiko "Jr." Shimizu
• Vocals – Carlos Toshiki

Charts

Weekly charts

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Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8]	2

Year-end charts

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Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)	20

Notes and References

1. Web site: ナビゲーター. Disk Union.
2. Web site: Omega Tribe is a Japanese act from the 80s that has Changed Faces and Forms a Number of Times. May 10, 2019. Mower, Kelly. QTAQUEST.
3. Hits of the World. July 1, 2020. Billboard. August 30, 1986. 73.
4. Web site: 「Navigator」 1986オメガトライブ. April 26, 2012. Technology Pops π3.14.
5. Hits of the World. July 1, 2020. Billboard. September 6, 1986. 72.
6. Hits of the World. July 1, 2020. Billboard. September 13, 1986. 79.
7. Hits of the World. July 1, 2020. Billboard. October 18, 1986. 88.
8. Hits of the World. July 1, 2020. Billboard. November 1, 1986. 62.