Shopping (Inoue Yōsui and Okuda Tamio album) explained

Shopping
Type:Album
Artist:InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio
Cover:File-Shopping IYOT.jpg
Released:March 19, 1997
Recorded:at Hitokuchizaka, Sony Music Shinanomachi, Paradise Komazawa, Greenbird Suginami
Genre:J-pop, rock
Length:52:28
Label:For Life Records/Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Producer:Yōsui Inoue, Tamio Okuda
Chronology:Yōsui Inoue
Prev Title:Eien no Sur
Prev Year:1994
Next Title:Kudan
Next Year:1998

is the first album by InoueYosuiOkudaTamio, the duo consisting of Japanese singer-songwriters Yōsui Inoue and Tamio Okuda. It was released in February 1997 under For Life and SME, two different labels that Inoue and Okuda had contracted with, respectively.

They formed songwriting team in the mid 1990s, the era that Okuda disbanded Unicorn and launched his solo career. 1995 saw the first release of their collaborative material, "Tsuki Hitoshizuku" co-written and sung by pop icon Kyōko Koizumi. In the following year, the pair wrote the song "Asia no Junshin" for Puffy, the new female pop duo produced by Okuda. It was released as Puffy's debut single in May 1996 and became a huge hit, peaking at number-three on the Japanese Oricon singles chart and selling over 1.18 million copies. Shopping features the remake versions of above‐mentioned songs by Inoue and Okuda, along with 10 of new songs that they wrote together.

Prior to the album, "Arigatou" was released as a single in February 1997. Both lead single and the album received moderate commercial success, entering top-ten on the Japanese Oricon Charts. In 2001, Inoue remade the song "Tebiki no You na Mono" on his album United Cover. Ten years after the album release, the pair recorded its successor Double Drive.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue and Tamio Okuda, except lyrics for "Tsuki Hitoshizuku" co-written by Kyōko Koizumi

  1. "" - 3:08
  2. "2 Cars" - 4:32
  3. "" - 4:24
  4. "" - 2:40
  5. "" - 5:48
  6. "" - 3:37
  7. "2500" - 6:39
  8. "" - 4:57
  9. "" - 4:13
  10. "" - 4:57
  11. "" - 3:36
  12. "" - 3:53

Chart positions

Single

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog number
JapanMarch 19, 1997For Life RecordsCDFLCF-3679
Sony Music Entertainment JapanSRCL-3769

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 井上陽水奥田民生-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック Highest position and charting weeks of Shopping by InoueYosuiOkudaTamio. oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. June 21, 2010.
  2. Web site: a-井上陽水 - Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Yōsui Inoue. Japanese. December 30, 2007. June 21, 2010. dead. https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_yousui.html. June 19, 2007.
  3. Web site: 井上陽水奥田民生-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック Highest position and charting weeks of Arigatou by InoueYosuiOkudaTamio. oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. June 21, 2010.
  4. Web site: s-井上陽水 - Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Yōsui Inoue. Japanese. December 30, 2007. June 21, 2010. dead. https://archive.today/20071016164300/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/single/yousui.html. October 16, 2007.