Rainbow (Sayaka Yamamoto album) explained

Rainbow
Type:studio album
Artist:Sayaka Yamamoto
Cover:Sayaka Yamamoto - Rainbow.png
Caption:Regular edition
Recorded:2016
Genre:J-pop
Length:59:05
Label:laugh out loud! records
Producer:Yasushi Akimoto and Seiji Kameda
Next Title:Identity
Next Year:2017

Rainbow is the first album by Sayaka Yamamoto, a member of Japanese idol girl group NMB48. She made her solo debut with this album.[1] It was released on 26 October 2016 under the label laugh out loud records. There are two editions. The limited edition includes a DVD with music video and the regular edition has only audio CD.[2]

A musician Shikao Suga and Takuro, a guitarist of the rock band Glay provided a song but most of the songs and lyrics were written by herself. The sound producer is Seiji Kameda. He is best known as the former member of Tokyo Jihen.[3]

It was number three on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart with 50,375 copies sold.[4] It was number two on the Billboard Japan Album Sales Chart.[5]

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Billboard)2
Japanese Albums (Oricon)3

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NMB48's Yamamoto Sayaka to make her solo debut. 2016-10-26. 2016-11-30. 6Theory Media, LLC. tokyohive.
  2. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2079591/full/. ja:山本彩、ソロ初アルバム収録曲&ジャケ写公開. 2016-10-06. 2016-11-30. Oricon ME inc.. Japanese.
  3. Web site: http://natalie.mu/music/news/199378. ja:NMB48山本彩アルバム発表!プロデュースは亀田誠治、TAKUROやスガ提供曲も. 2016-08-25. 2016-11-30. Natasha,Inc. Japanese.
  4. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/2016-11-07/. https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001447/http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/2016-11-07/. ja:オリコン週間 CDアルバムランキング 2016年10月24日~2016年10月30日. 2016-11-07. 2016-11-04. 2016-11-30. Oricon ME inc.. Japanese.
  5. Web site: http://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/43735/2. ja:【ビルボード】嵐『Are You Happy?』650,352枚売り上げ、アルバム・セールス1位 . Billboard Japan. Japanese. 2016-11-30.