Super Best (Shizuka Kudo album) explained

Super Best
Type:compilation
Artist:Shizuka Kudo
Cover:Super Best Cover Art.png
Recorded:1987–93
Label:Pony Canyon
Prev Title:Rise Me
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:Expose
Next Year:1994

Super Best is the sixth compilation album by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo. It was released on November 19, 1993, through Pony Canyon. It is Kudo's first single collection, featuring all A-sides produced by Tsugutoshi Gotō and released by Kudo since her solo debut, from "Kindan no Telepathy" up to the most recent at the time, "Anata Shika Inai Desho", spread out on two discs. The compilation also includes one new song, entitled "Honō no Naka e", which was written specifically for the album and which marks the last collaboration with Gotō until 2015, when he composed "Tan Jun Ai vs Hontō no Ai" for the compilation . Super Best was re-released in APO-CD format on December 1, 1993.

Commercial performance

Super Best debuted at number six on the Oricon Albums Chart, with 60,000 units sold.[1] It dropped two positions to number eight on its second week, with 41,000 copies sold.[2] The album charted in the top 100 for fourteen consecutive weeks, selling a reported total of 227,000 copies during its chart run.[3] [4] The re-release charted for a sole week at number 69 with 7,000 copies sold,[4] bringing total sales of the album to 234,000 copies.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Tsugutoshi Gotō.

Charts

Re-issue edition

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label
JapanNovember 19, 1993Pony Canyon[7]
December 1, 1993
May 20, 1994
KoreaFebruary 6, 2004Pony Canyon Korea

Notes and References

  1. Web site: オリコン アルバム 1993.11.29. January 8, 2018.
  2. Web site: オリコン アルバム 1993.12.6. January 8, 2018.
  3. Web site: 工藤静香アルバム アイドル・ポップ・データベース. January 8, 2018.
  4. Web site: オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」. Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Taiju'. Oricon. subscription . January 8, 2018.
  5. Web site: Best of Ballade Empathy 工藤静香. Oricon. January 8, 2018.
  6. Web site: 工藤静香/スーパーベスト 工藤静香. Oricon. January 12, 2018.
  7. Web site: Release group "Super Best" by 工藤静香. MusicBrainz. January 10, 2018.