Aishiteiru to Ittekure
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is the fourth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima
is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in April 1978.

Five months before the album came out, she topped on the Oricon singles chart with a song "The Parting Song (Wakareuta)", which was released as her fifth single in September 1977. The album features her commercial breakthrough single and another well-known song, "World's Context (Sejou)". The latter was later featured in the second series of TV drama Kimpachi Sensei aired on TBS in 1980, and became known widely as one of her signature song
Signature song
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s.

Aishiteiru to Ittekure has been her longest charting album on the Oricon, because the album re-entered the chart when "World's Context" was featured on TV program in the early 1980s.

Side one

All tracks arranged by Kinji Yoshino (except "The Parting Song" co-arranged by Shun Fukui)
  1. "" (Poetry reading
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    , sampling "Prelude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18 " by César Franck
    César Franck
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     on background music
    Background music
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    ) – 2:58
  2. "" – 2:40
  3. "" – 3:57
  4. "" – 3:27
  5. "" – 5:07

Side two

All tracks arranged by Kinji Yoshino (except "World's Context" co-arranged by Shun Fukui, "Milk 32" and "Omae no Ie" arranged by Miyuki Nakajima)
  1. "" – 4:33
  2. "" – 4:06
  3. "" – 6:32
  4. "" – 6:12

Personnel

  • Miyuki Nakajima – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Toshiro Masuda – electric guitar
  • Tsugutoshi Goto – electric bass
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards
  • Nobu Saito – percussions
  • Hiro Tsunoda – drums

Production

  • Recording director; Yoshio Okushima
  • Recording and Mixing Engineer; Yoshihiko Kan'nari
  • Assistant engineer; Koji Sakakibara
  • Manager; Kunio Kaneko
  • Director; Yūzō Watanabe
  • Cover designer; Natsuo Ueda
  • Photographer; Jin Tamura
  • Executive producer; Genichi Kawakami

Chart positions

Year Country Chart Position Weeks Sales
1978–1981 Japan Oricon
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)
2 82 410,000+
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) 6 41
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