Hold Me (Zard album)
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| Released | September 2, 1992 | |||
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| Length | 48:19 | |||
| Label | Polydor, B-Gram | |||
| Producer | Daiko Nagato | |||
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Hold Me is the third album by Japanese pop-rock group Zard[1] and was released on September 2, 1992, under the Polydor label. In 1992, the album was released as a CD and cassette. In 1993, B-Gram Records re-released this album under CD format with code BGCH-1005.[2]
Chart performance
The album reached number two in Japan in its first week on the charts. It charted for 71 weeks and sold, in total, 1,065,000 copies.[3]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Izumi Sakai
| No. | Title | Music | Arrangers | Length |
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| 1. | "Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite" (眠れない夜を抱いて) | Tetsurō Oda | Masao Akashi and Daisuke Ikeda | 4:28 |
| 2. | "Dareka ga Matteru" (誰かが待ってる) | Seiichiro Kuribayashi | Akashi | 3:55 |
| 3. | "Sayonara Ienakute" (サヨナラ言えなくて) | Kuribayashi | Ikeda | 4:02 |
| 4. | "Ano Hohoemi wo Wasurenai de" (あの微笑みを忘れないで) | Daria Kawashima | Akashi | 4:26 |
| 5. | "Sukina you ni Odoritai no" (好きなように踊りたいの) | Kazuya Izumi | Takeshi Hayama | 4:23 |
| 6. | "Dangerous Tonight" | Kuribayashi | Akashi | 4:13 |
| 7. | "Konna ni Aishite mo" (こんなに愛しても) | Kuribayashi | Akashi | 5:00 |
| 8. | "Why Don't You Leave Me Alone" | Kawashima | Hayama | 3:24 |
| 9. | "Ai wa Nemutteru" (愛は眠ってる) | Kawashima | Ikeda | 3:39 |
| 10. | "Tooi Hi no Nostalgia" (遠い日のNostalgia) | Eisuke Mochizuki | Akashi | 5:49 |
| 11. | "So Together" | Kawashima | Akashi | 5:02 |
In media
- "Ano Hohoemi wo Wasurenaide" is theme song for drama series Udemakuri Kangofu Monogatari
- "Dareka ga Matteru" is theme song for Nihon TV program Magical Zunou Power!
- "Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite" is ending theme f
or TV Asahi program Tonight
Chart positions
| Year | Chart | Position | Annual sales | Total sales | Yearly position |
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| 1992 | Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 2 | 536,020 | 1,056,130 | 26 |
References
- ^ ZARD discography (in Japanese) http://wezard.net/album.html Archived 2016-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Information about actual and real code number for CD through ZARD official website (in Japanese) http://wezard.net/album_03.html Archived 2017-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Oricon rankings (in Japanese) http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/26939/rank/album/
- ^ Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/BGCH-1005
