Voice (Mika Nakashima album)

Voice
Studio album by Mika Nakashima
Released	November 26, 2008
Genre	J-pop, Jazz, Pop music, Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening, Rock music
Length	1:07:30
Label	Sony Music Associated Records
Mika Nakashima chronology
Yes (2007) Voice (2008) No More Rules (2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Voice is the ninth album (sixth studio album) by Mika Nakashima, released on November 26, 2008. It contains all of her singles from "Life" up to "Orion". The album had two releases: a CD-only and CD+DVD format. The CD+DVD version comes in a deluxe box.^[2]

Voice, on its release, provided Nakashima with her first #1 album on the Oricon 200 Album Chart since Best in 2005. It has been certified Platinum by RIAJ^[3] for shipment of 250,000 copies in Japan, and has amassed sales of over 450,000 copies since its release in 2008.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arranger(s)	Length
1.	"Life"	Ren Takayanagi, Heroism	Junkoo	Coldfeet	4:02
2.	"Sakura: Hanagasumi (花霞; Cherry Blossoms: Flower Haze)" (Daishi Dance)	Mona, Hiroki Nagase	Hiroki Nagase	Daishi Dance, Tomoharu Moriya	6:09
3.	"Focus"	Mika Nakashima	Akihisa Matsuura	Yoshito Tanaka Brass Arrangement: Yoshinari Takegami	4:40
4.	"Eien no Uta" (永遠の詩; Eternal Song)	Kazufumi Miyazawa	Sin	Stephen McGregor String Arrangement: Shunya Mori	5:45
5.	"Orion"	Rui Momota	Rui Momota	Rui Momota	4:48
6.	"Anata ga Iru Kara" (あなたがいるから; Because You Are Here)	Haruna Yokota	Haruna Yokota	Naohisa Taniguchi	4:34
7.	"My Gentleman"	Mika Nakashima	Akihisa Matsuura	Akihisa Matsuura	4:34
8.	"Trust Your Voice"	Mika Nakashima	Lensei	Shin Kōno	4:15
9.	"It's Too Late"	Mika Nakashima, Ayumi Miyazaki	Lori Fine (Coldfeet)	Coldfeet	4:33
10.	"I Don't Know" (Mica 3 Chu)	Mika Nakashima, Lori Fine (Coldfeet)	Lori Fine (Coldfeet)	Coldfeet	4:39
11.	"Shut Up" (Mica 3 Chu)	Mika Nakashima, Lori Fine (Coldfeet)	Lori Fine (Coldfeet)	Coldfeet	3:53
12.	"Confusion"	Mika Nakashima, Masato Odake	Tomokazu Matsuzawa	The Flixx, Tomokazu Matsuzawa Background vocal arrangement: Lori Fine (Coldfeet)	3:29
13.	"Flower of Time"	Masato Odake	Lensei	Akihisa Matsuura	6:27
14.	"Koe" (声; Voice)	Jun Shibata	Jun Shibata	Takefumi Haketa	5:42

DVD
No.	Title	Director(s)	Length
1.	"Life" (Music video)
2.	"Eien no Uta" (Music video)
3.	"Sakura: Hanagasumi" (Music video)
4.	"I Don't Know" (Music video)
5.	"Orion" (Music video)
6.	"Focus" (Music video)

Charts and sales

Oricon sales charts (Japan)

Release	Oricon Chart	Peak Position	First Week Sales	Sales Total	Chart Run
November 26, 2008	Daily Chart	1	155,502	450,000+	27 weeks
	Weekly Chart	1
	Monthly Chart (November 2008)	3
	Yearly Chart (2008)	50
	Yearly Chart (2009)	60

Singles

Date	Title	Peak Position	Weeks
2007-08-22	Life	3	21 weeks
2007-10-03	Eien no Uta	5	7 weeks
2008-03-12	Sakura: Hanagasumi	12	6 weeks
2008-07-23	I Don't Know	11	5 weeks
2008-11-12	Orion	6	10 weeks

References

1. Greenberg, Adam. "Voice - Mika Nakashima - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
2. "Sony Music Shop". Sonymusicshop.jp. 2008-11-26. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
3. "Japanese title" (in Japanese).