Around the World (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Around the World
Type = studio
Artist = Ami Suzuki (Avex)


Released = October 12, 2005
Recorded = 2004, 2005
Genre = J-Pop
Length = 54:17
Label = Avex Trax
AVCD-17752/B (Japan, CD+DVD) AVCD-17753 (Japan, CD) AVCD-17750 (Japan, CD+T-Shirt Girl) AVCD-17751 (Japan, CD+T-Shirt Boy)
Producer = Max Matsuura
Reviews =

Last album =
This album = Around the World
(2005)
Next album = Amix World
(2006)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Ami Suzuki (Sony)
Type = studio
Last album = Fun for Fan (2001)
This album =
Next album = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate Covers
Background = lightsteelblue
Type = Single

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Lower caption = CD+DVD Cover Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = lightsteelblue
Type = Single


Lower caption = CD+T-shirt men's Cover Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = lightsteelblue
Type = Single


Lower caption = CD+T-shirt lady's Cover Singles
Name = Around the World
Type = studio
single 1 = Delightful
single 1 date = March 24, 2005
single 2 = Eventful
single 2 date = May 25, 2005
single 3 = Negaigoto
single 3 date = August 17, 2005
single 4 = Around the World
single 4 date = October 12, 2005

Around the World is the debut album by Ami Suzuki under label Avex Trax. Ami released a single by the same name on the same day.

Information

The album title was originally set to be HOPEFUL, but was later changed to the current one. The styles of the album consists of upbeat J-Pop songs with touches from House and Trance, also with some sweet pop ballads and soft songs. A single of the same-title song was released the same of the album. It was included the previously-released singles "Delightful", "Eventful" and "Negaigoto", and also the digital releases "Hopeful" and "For yourself". However, the Trance remix version of "Hopeful" was included in the album -the same as the one used in the promotional video and included in the Delightful maxi single- instead of the original J-Pop version. This versions hasn't been included in any physical release at the moment.

A curious fact is that the DVD of the album doesn't include the original music videos of the songs of the previous physical singles; the "dance tracks" videos are the original songs but only with the dance scenes that Ami shot for those videos, and the "album edit" of "Negaigoto" is a slightly different edit of the original video.

ales

The album came in at #4 on its first day, but fell to #5 for the weekly charts. The single reached #19 on the Oricon charts, pretty impressive for a limited release single such as this. Despite that the sales were not exactly a big success come back album, this record marked Ami Suzuki again as a qualified and profitable female singer in the Japanese Music Industry.

Its first week AROUND THE WORLD sold 30,000 copies aprox. After various weeks in the charts, the album managed to sell little more than 60,000 copies.

Track listing

CD

# "Around the World" – 4:34
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Y@suo Ohtani
#:Arrangement: Ken Harada
# "Hopeful" Overhead Champion Mix 4:55
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Shunsuke Yazaki
#:Arrangement: Overhead Champion
# "Beautiful" – 4:55
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Daisuke Suzuki
#:Arrangement: ats-
# "Sweet Voice" – 4:47
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi
#:Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura
# "Delightful" – 4:20
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Tohru Watanabe
#:Arrangement: Axel Konard
# "For yourself" – 4:40
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Tohru Watanabe
#:Arrangement: h-wonder
# – 5:08
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Daisuke Suzuki
#:Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura
# "Risk" – 4:40
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Daisuke Suzuki
#:Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura
# "Eventful" – 4:23
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music & Arrangement: Tohru Watanabe
# "with you" – 4:44
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi
#:Arrangement: Ken Harada
# "Times" – 4:15
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music & Arrangement: Tohru Watanabe
# "I'm alone" – 2:56
#:Lyrics: Ami Suzuki
#:Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi
#:Arrangement: KZB

DVD

# "Hopeful"
# "Delightful" -dance track-
# "Eventful" -dance track-
# -album edit-
# "For yourself"
# "Around the World"
# "For yourself" - making
# "Around the World" - making

ingles

Personnel

* Ami Suzuki - vocals, backing vocals
* Yumi Kawamura - backing vocals

Production

* Executive Producer - Max Matsuura
* Planner - Jun Harada
* Supervisors - Hiroshi "Funaty" Ishimori, Takashi Okuda
* Directors - Hatsukoshi Yasuhara, Aki Hori, Aya Noguchi
* A&R - Katsuhiko Sakurai, Shizuka Oruga, Hideaki Tamamuchi
* Desk A&R - Megumi Seyika, Nozomi Yasumune, Sakoto Sairenji
* Musical Director - Yoshihisa Tokuda
* Mixing - Naoki Yamada, Atsushi Hattori, Overhead Champion (#2), Axel Konard (#5)
* Recording - Kaoru Akimoto, Shuichi Watanabe, Masahiro Kawata, Atsushi Hattori, Kei Kusama
* 2nd Engineering - Masahiro Kawata, Ryuichi Okubo, Hanae Saito, Hitomi Suzuki, Makoto Yamadoi, Hideaki Jinbu, Ryo Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamada.

Charts