Kingdom (Kumi Koda album)
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Kingdom is the sixth studio album by Koda Kumi released on January 30, 2008. The album debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Chart with sales of 421,302. On the day after the album's release, an inflammatory statement on the talk show All Night Nippon created much controversy, causing Avex Entertainment (The album's publisher) to cancel all promotions for Kingdom on February 2, 2008.
The CD+2DVD album includes a slip cover, 3 CD-sized stickers of the various album covers, as well as a booklet containing photos of her Live In Hall performance.
Kingdom has been certified triple platinum by RIAJ for shipment of 750,000 copies in Japan.
Packaging
The album is available in three versions; a CD+2DVD (Limited Edition), a CD+DVD, and a CD Only version. The first DVD features 16 music videos for each song on the album, including the music video for the non-album song "Run for Your Life", according to information posted on Koda's official site as well as consumer sites on the Internet. The second DVD is of her Koda Kumi Premium Live In Hall In Yokohama Arena concert.The CD+2DVD album includes a slip cover, 3 CD-sized stickers of the various album covers, as well as a booklet containing photos of her Live In Hall performance.
Kingdom has been certified triple platinum by RIAJ for shipment of 750,000 copies in Japan.
Tracklist
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)Release | Chart | Peak Position | First Week Sales | Sales Total | Chart Run |
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30 January 2008 | Oricon Daily Charts | 1 | 142,997 | ||
Oricon Weekly Charts | 1 | 421,302 | 612,223 | 32 weeks | |
Oricon Monthly Charts | 1 | ||||
Oricon Yearly Charts | 13 | 612,223 |
Singles
Date | Title | Peak position | Weeks | Sales |
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14 March 2007 | "But/Aishō But/Aisho "But" / "Aishō" is Kumi Koda's 35th single and was released on March 14, 2007. It was her first single of 2007. The single was a time-limited purchase, only being sold from March 2007 to May 2007. "", meaning "love proof", is a love ballad. But is also the theme song for the Japanese edition of the... " |
2 | 14 weeks | 130,890 |
27 June 2007 | "Freaky" | 1 | 15 weeks | 200,322 |
19 September 2007 | "Ai no Uta Ai no Uta (Kumi Koda song) is the 37th single released by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Kumi Koda.Ai no Uta was released on September 12, 2007 in Japan. It follows 2006's Yume no Uta as an autumn/wintertime love ballad. It was released in two versions: a CD+DVD version and a CD only version. The first press comes with an... " |
2 | 20 weeks | 134,831 |
14 November 2007 | "Last Angel Last Angel "Last Angel" is Kumi Koda's 38th single and is a collaboration with Korean boyband Tohoshinki which was released on November 7, 2007 in Japan.The B-side "Dear Family" is solo, and is a love ballad. "Last Angel" was used as the image song to the Japanese release of the movie Resident Evil:... " |
3 | 12 weeks | 91,620 |
23 January 2008 | "Anytime Anytime (Kumi Koda song) "Anytime" is the 39th single released in Japan on 23 January 2008, just a week before her 6th studio album Kingdom. "Anytime" was the originally scheduled to be released on her 2007 summer single Freaky, but for unknown reasons was removed and replaced by "Run for Your Life".-CD version:-DVD... " |
4 | 3 weeks | 53,189 |