Mysterious (Shizuka Kudo album)

Mysterious
Studio album by Shizuka Kudo
Released January 21, 1988 (1988-01-21)
Genre
Length 37:15
Label Pony Canyon
Producer
  • Yūzō Watanabe
Shizuka Kudo chronology
Mysterious
(1988)		 Shizuka
(1988)
Singles from Mysterious
  1. "Kindan no Telepathy"
    Released: August 31, 1987
  2. "Again"
    Released: December 2, 1987

Mysterious (ミステリアス, Misuteriasu) is the debut studio album by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo. It was released on January 21, 1988, through Pony Canyon. Mysterious was re-issued in gold CD on March 21, 1989, and later in APO-CD format on December 1, 1993.

Commercial performance

Mysterious debuted at number three on the Oricon Albums Chart, with 62,000 units sold in its first week. It stayed at number three the following week. The album charted in the top 100 for seventeen weeks, of which seven where spent in the top twenty, selling a reported total of 233,000 copies during its run.[1][2] Mysterious was ranked number 40 on the year-end Oricon Albums Chart.[2]

Track listing

All music composed by Tsugutoshi Gotō.

No.TitleLyricsArranger(s)Length
1."Kanashimi no Etranger" (哀しみのエトランゼ), Kanashimi no Etoranze, "Sad Stranger")
  • Jun Taguchi
5:16
2."Mysterious" (ミステリアス, Misuteriasu)
  • Yoshiko Miura
  • Gotō
4:55
3."Kindan no Telepathy"
  • Gotō
3:47
4."Arashi no Yoru no Serenade" (嵐の夜のセレナーデ, Arashi no Yoru no Serenāde, "Stormy Night Serenade")
  • Taguchi
  • Gotō
5:14
5."Passage" (パッセージ, Passēji)
  • Miura
  • Gotō
4:16
6."Wine Hitokuchi no Uso" (ワインひとくちの嘘, Wain Hitokuchi no Uso, "Lying After One Sip of Wine")
  • Gotō
4:49
7."Again"
  • Akimoto
  • Gotō
4:14
8."Subete wa Sore Kara" (すべてはそれから, "Everything Began With That")
  • Akimoto
  • Gotō
4:44
Total length:37:15

Charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position		 Sales
Japan Weekly Albums (Oricon)[2] 3 233,000[1]
Japan Yearly Albums (Oricon)[2] 40

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
Japan January 21, 1988 Pony Canyon [3]
March 21, 1989 [3]
December 1, 1993
  • APO-CD
 [4]
Various March 9, 2016 [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "工藤静香アルバム アイドル・ポップ・データベース". Retrieved January 14, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Taiju']. Oricon. Retrieved January 14, 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. 1 2 "Release group "ミステリアス" by 工藤静香". MusicBrainz. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ "工藤静香 / ミステリアス [廃盤]". CDJournal. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ "ミステリアス／工藤静香". JP: Mora. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
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