Fight (Kanjani Eight album)
FIGHT | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | November 17, 2011 | |||
Recorded | 2011 | |||
Genre | J-pop, rock | |||
Length | 1:02:09 | |||
Label | Imperial | |||
Producer | Izuru Murakami, Masami Yoshikawa, Julie. K, Johnny H. Kitagawa | |||
Kanjani Eight chronology | ||||
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Singles from FIGHT | ||||
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Fight (stylized as FIGHT) is the fifth studio album released by the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight. Fight was announced on September 8, 2011, as a new untitled album. On October 17, 2011, its release date and title were announced.[1][2] There were three versions of this release: a 2 Disc regular edition and two CD+DVD limited editions. The first press release of the regular edition contains 7 trading cards while limited editions A and B contain a 48-page photo book.[3] It was released on November 16, 2011. This album marked one year and three weeks since the release of their previous album, 8 Uppers.
Production for Fight began with the announcement of a triple single release along the course of three months: "
Commercially, Fight was a success, debuting at number one on the Oricon and Billboard Japan weekly charts. The album went on to be the twenty-first top sold album of 2011 on the Oricon and twenty-third on the Billboard Japan charts, respectively.
Background and development
The feeling of the hook, the feeling of the instruments, the song itself... all of it I really like (about My Home). I don't remember much from the recording, but I do remember thinking while listening to everyone's singing coming together, " This is a really good song ". | |||
—Shota Yasuda speaking to Potato about his favorite Kanjani Eight song of the moment.[4]
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For Fight, several songs from the album were penned by top artists in the Japanese songwriting world, such as KenKen of
As with their previous albums, Kanjani Eight also worked on their own solo material. For this time around, the solo disc that came with the regular edition of Fight contained two unit songs and two solos.
Upon wrapping up production, Fight was announced in September 2011 and song credits were released in October. The album dropped on November 14, 2011, with "Monjai Beat" becoming the support track for the album's release.[1][2]
Composition
Fight follows the same theme as the band's
The fourth track and first single off the album, "T.W.L", is a high paced pop song that is carried by a horn section. The lyrics heavily rely on bilingual word puns, such as, " Akete meeting you/Hiraku to be loved " which, when sung, sound like " Akete mite yo/Hiraku tobira (Try opening it/Open the doors)". The fifth track, " Fly High ", is a similar up beat song, and is followed by the album's sixth track and third single, "365 Nichi Kazoku", a slow ballad that initially starts off slow but steadily increases as more instruments are added to the overall composition.
The second half of the album breaks from the
Critical reception
There were barely any critical reviews published once Fight was released due to policies set by
Chart performance
For the Oricon, Fight debuted at number one on the daily album ranking charts, with a total of 143,367 units sold dated November 15, 2011.[8] On the album's fourth day of sales, the Oricon daily ranking charts reported that Fight had sold a total of 227,847 units, surpassing their fourth album, 8Uppers, in first week end-sales and maintaining its number one hold.[9] For the ending week of November 14, 2011, the Oricon weekly album ranking reported that Fight was the number one album, with a total of 253,524 units sold.[10] It earned the number two spot on the Oricon monthly album ranking for the month of November with a total of 274,590 units sold[11] and had earned the number twenty-one spot for the Oricon album yearly ranking chart of 2011.[12]
For the Billboard Japan Top Album, Fight debuted at number one dated November 28, 2011.[13] For its following week, the album had dropped five spots to number six.[14] In its third week it had dropped ten more spots to number sixteen. On January 5, 2011, Fight sat at number thirty with a total of six weeks on the charts.[15] For the Billboard Japan Year End charts, Fight had ranked at the number twenty-three spot for the year of 2011.[16]
Fight was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for selling 250,000 units.[17]
Singles
In March 2011, it was announced that Kanjani Eight would release three singles consecutively for three months.
Two months later, on August 17, 2011, Kanjani Eight released their fourth single for the year titled "Tsubusa ni Koi". The song served as the ending theme for the drama, Zenkai Girl.[25] It ranked number one upon release and stayed 9 weeks on the Oricon weekly single charts.[26] The music video for "Tsubusa ni Koi" had the band perform in a garden with interspersed scenes of each individual member singing in CGI generated scenes consisting of skies, fields, and clovers.
For all the single releases this year, some of the members had either starring or supporting roles in productions that their music served as theme songs for. Tadayoshi Ohkura and Shingo Murakami made a guest appearance in Crayon Shin-chan: Operation Golden Spy, Ohkura also had a role in Umareru. Ryo Nishikido had the male lead in both Inu wo Kau to iu Koto and Zenkai Girl.[27][28][29][30]
Promotion
To promote Fight, Kanjani Eight performed at several music variety programs in Japan as well as hold a concert tour. In October, the album was announced, and in November the band begun visiting several music programs such as
Fight received additional promotion when the band went on tour in November 2011 with their concert tour titled,
Track listing
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arranged | Length |
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1. | "Monjai Beat" (モンじゃい・ビート Monjai Bīto "Coach Beat") | Naozumi Masako (Douhatsuten) | Tomoyasu Kamiharako (Douhatsuten) | Yoshimasa Fujisawa | 4:59 |
2. | "Uchū ni Itta Lion" (宇宙に行ったライオン Uchū ni Itta Raion "The Lion that Went to Space") | Fujimori Shinichi (Aobouzu) | S. Fujimori/Keisuke Noma | 4:38 | |
3. | "Fight for the Eight" | Hiroaki Hayama | H. Hayama | H. Hayama/Brass Arrangement: YOKAN | 4:07 |
4. | "T.W.L" | Yujin Kitagawa ( Sukimaswitch | Y. Kume | Brass Arrangement: YOKAN | 4:18 |
12. | "Kagayakeru Butai e" (輝ける舞台へ Kagayakeru Butai e "To the Sparkling Stage") | Ryo Tanaka | Kenta Kawano/YANAGIMAN | DJ KOHNO/YANAGIMAN | 4:06 |
13. | "My Home" (マイホーム Mai Hōmu) | A.F.R.O | A.F.R.O | K. Noma | 4:32 |
14. | "wander" | Kusuo | Kusuo | Y. Kume |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Scarecrow" (スケアクロウ Sukeakurō) | R. Nishikido | R. Nishikido | Shota Yasuda, Shingo Murakami, and Tadayoshi Okura | |
3. | "Pan Panda" (パンぱんだ) | AMO | Tanaka Hidenori | Ryuhei Maruyama & You Yokoyama | |
4. | "A" (あ) | S. Shibutani | S. Shibutani | Subaru Shibutani | 5:02 |
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||||||||
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Oricon Weekly | Billboard Japan Weekly | Oricon Monthly | |||||||||||||||||
2011 | "T.W.L/Yellow Pansy Street" | 1 | 1[34] | — |
Platinum[35] | ||||||||||||||
"My Home" | 1 | 1[36] | — |
Gold[37] | |||||||||||||||
"365 Nichi Kazoku" | 1 | 1[38] | — |
Gold[39] | |||||||||||||||
"Tsubusa ni Koi" | 1 | 1[40] | 4[41] |
Gold[42] | |||||||||||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released. |
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