Hitotsu is the second Japanese single released by alan

Alan Dawa Dolma

Alan Dawa Dolma , professionally known as Alan , is a female Tibetan-Chinese singer active in the Japanese music industry....

. It peaked at #100 on the 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...

 charts.

In the song "sign", alan sang in her native Tibetan language

Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...

, and the tune was based on a few traditional Tibetan songs mixed with in the background.

The Chinese versions of "Hitotsu" (titled "Yi Ge") and "Tokyo Mimei" (titled "Mi Shi De Zhu Fu") were both included in the Chinese maxi-single Xin Zhan: Red Cliff

Xin Zhan: Red Cliff

Xin·Zhan ~RED CLIFF~ is the first Mandarin-language EP released by alan in Mainland China.Xin・Zhan RED CLIFF Chi Bi Dian Ying Yuan Sheng Da Die is an extended version of the title track, used as the theme song for the 2008 Chinese film Red Cliff ...

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CD

1. Hitotsu (ひとつ; One) (Lyrics: Yoshimoto Yumi; Music: Kikuchi Kazuhito
   Kazuhito Kikuchi
   Kazuhito Kikuchi is a Japanese composer. From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the J-pop duo Breath.He has been one of the main song composers for Ayumi Hamasaki and has also written songs for Kumi Koda, Every Little Thing, Ami Suzuki and others. He won the Best Composer Award at the Japan Record...
   
   , Arrangement: Nakano Yuuta)
2. Kimi Omou Sora (君想フ空; The Sky that You Think About) (Lyrics: Safari Natsukawa; Music: Kikuchi Kazuhito, Arrangement: ats-)
3. Tokyo Mimei (東京未明; Tokyo Daybreak) (Lyrics: Okachimachi Dako; Music: Kikuchi Kazuhito, Arrangement: Kyoda Seiichi)
4. sign
5. Hitotsu (Instrumental)
6. Kimi Omou Sora (Instrumental)
7. Tokyo Mimei (Instrumental)

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