Daydream (style in all-lowercase) is the fourth studio album released by Aimer. It was released in three versions: a limited CD+Blu-ray (Type-A), a limited CD+DVD edition (Type-B), and a regular CD only edition. The song "Falling Alone" was used as the lead track and was previously released as her 10th digital single as advance of the albumAlbum information http://natalie.mu/music/news/198686
The album charted #2 daily rank for first week. It charted so far 34 weeks and sold more than 78,000 copies.Oricon ranking http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/542958/products/1194720/1/ The album was certified Gold by Recording Industry Association of Japan in March 2017 for shipment of 100,000 copies.
Track listing
Credits Adapted from Booklet.
Production Aimer – producer (tracks 1, 10, 11) Colin Brittain – programming, recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 1, 10, 11) Dick Beetham – mastering engineer (track 6) Fumiaki Unehara – assistant recording engineer (track 12) Hideki Kodera – recording engineer (track 5) Hideki Morioka – director, organizer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13) Hiroshi Hiranuma – recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 8, 9) Hiroyuki Sawano – producer (track 2) Keisuke Narita – assistant recording engineer (track 2) Kenji Tamai – producer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13) Kouzou Miyamoto – assistant recording engineer (track 2) Jamil Kazmi – director, organizer (tracks 1, 4, 10, 11, 13) Masahiro Tobinai – programming (tracks 3, 7) Masaki Mori - recording engineer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13), mixing engineer (track 5) Masayoshi Sugai – recording engineer, mixing engineer (track 6) Mitsunori Aizawa - recording engineer, mixing engineer, Pro Tools operator (track 2) Rui Momota – programming (track 4) Satoshi Kumasaka – mixing engineer (tracks 3, 4, 7, 13) Shogo Ohnishi – programming (tracks 5, 13) SukimaSwitch – producer (track 8) Takahiro Moriuchi – producer (tracks 1, 10, 11) Takahito Uchisawa – producer, programming (tracks 3, 4) Ted Jensen – mastering engineer (track 12) Tetsuro Sawamoto – assistant engineer (track 6) TK – producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 9, 12), mastering engineer (track 9), programming (track 12) Yasushi Horiguchi – director (track 2) Yojiro Noda – producer (track 6) Yoshikazu Nagai – recording engineer (track 3, 7) Yuji Chinone – mastering engineer (track 1~5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13)
Musicians Aimer – lead vocals (all tracks), handclaps (track 8) BOBO – drums (track 12) chelly – additional vocals (track 2) Colin Brittain – all instruments (tracks 1, 10, 11) Ichiro Yoshida – bass (track 3) Hanaregumi – guitar, chorus (track 6) Harutoshi Ito – guitar (track 2) Hiroo Yamaguchi – bass (tracks 9, 12) Hiroyuki Sawano – piano, keyboards, other instruments (track 2) Honoka Satou – strings (track 12) Katsuhiro Mafune – bass (track 6) Mao Abe – additional vocals (track 5) Makiko Amemiya strings – strings (track 9) Mamiko Hirai – piano (track 9) Masahiro Tobinai – other instruments (tracks 3, 7) Masami Horisawa – strings (track 12) Mikiyo Kikuchi – strings (track 12) Takahito Uchisawa – chorus, guitar, other instruments (track 3, 7) Takeshi Taneda – bass (track 6) Takuya Ohashi – chorus, guitar, handclaps (track 8) TK – chorus (track 12), guitar (tracks 9, 12) Tom Tamada – drums (tracks 8, 9) Toshino Tanabe – bass (track 2) Rui Momota – guitar, other instruments (track 4) Shintaro Tokita – chorus, handclaps, piano, other instruments (track 8) Shogo Ohnishi – guitar (track 13), other instruments (track 5, 13) Susumu Nishikawa – guitar (track 8) Yojiro Noda – piano, chorus (track 6) Yu "masshoi" Yamauchi – drums (track 2) Yuko Araki – drums (track 6)
Album Staff Arata Kato – photograph Daisuke Katsurada – executive producer Go Matsuda – art direction & design Hiroaki Sano – supervise Jun Yamaguchi – products coordination Kenji Tamai – executive producer Kenkichi Fukahara – artist management Mami Fujino – artist management Minaho Takahashi – hair & makeup Takeshi Tomaru – a&r Yasuhisa Ichikawa – artist management Yuuka Akashi – styling
Charts Album Chart (2016) Peak position Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard) 3 Japanese Albums (Oricon) 2 South Korean International Albums (Gaon) 3
Singles Title Year Peak positions JPNOricon JPNBillboard"Ninelie"2016 9 4"Insane Dream" 13 17"Us" 13 —"Chouchou Musubi"(蝶々結び Butterfly Knot) 10 8"Falling Alone" — —
Sales and certifications
Awards Year Award Category Work/Nominee Result 2017 CD Shop Awards Sub-Grand Prix Daydream
References
External links Album Special Website (Japanese) daydream Aimer on agehasprings daydream Aimer on quia 316 Aimer "daydream" on Arata Kato Photography
daydream / Aimer on VGMdb