is the compilation album

Compilation album

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 by Japanese

Japanese people

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 singer-songwriter

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 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 March 1996. The album features her most commercially successful singles "Between the Sky and You (Sora to Kimi no Aida ni)", "Shallow Sleep (Asai Nemuri)", "Wanderer's Song (Tabibito no Uta)", and "Bad Girl (Akujo)", and mainly consists of her singles that came out during the 1990s. It also includes well-recognized songs like "Rouge" (became famous by cover version Faye Wong

Faye Wong

Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...

 recorded), although her earlier massive hit singles such as "Yūwaku" and "Unrequited Love (Yokorenbo)" were disregarded.

Daiginjō debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon Weekly albums chart with sales of 210,000 copies, defeating The Beatles' blockbuster Anthology 2 released in the same week.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by 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...

 unless otherwise noted.

1. "" [Single version]– 5:31
2. ""[Single version] – 4:02
3. "" [Single mix] – 5:30
4. "" – 4:51
5. "" – 5:23
6. "" – :4:34
7. "" – 6:50
8. "" [Remake recorded in 1993, single edit] – 4:32
9. "" – 3:57
10. "" - 4:12
11. "" (Nakajima/Tsugutoshi Gotō) - 5:44
12. "" - 5:43
13. "" [Single version] - 5:56
14. "" - 7:05

Chart positions

Year	Album	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1996	Daiginjō	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	1	18	633,000
2002	Daiginjō [Reissue]	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 300)	78	11

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number
Japan	March 21, 1996	Pony Canyon/AARD-VARK	CD	PCCA-00897
			Cassette tape	PCTA-00239
			MD	PCYA-00015
	February 20, 2002	Yamaha Music Communications	CD	YCCW-00034