Around the World

Around the World
Studio album by Ami Suzuki
Released	12 October 2005
Recorded	2004, 2005
Genre	J-Pop
Length	54:17
Label	Avex Trax AVCD-17752/B (Japan, CD+DVD) AVCD-17753 (Japan, CD) AVCD-17750 (Japan, CD+T-Shirt Girl) AVCD-17751 (Japan, CD+T-Shirt Boy)
Producer	Max Matsuura
Ami Suzuki chronology
Around the World (2005) Amix World (2006)
Ami Suzuki (Sony) chronology
Fun for Fan (2001)
Alternate Covers
CD+DVD Cover
CD+T-shirt men's Cover
CD+T-shirt lady's Cover
Singles from Around the World
"Delightful" Released: 24 March 2005 "Eventful" Released: 25 May 2005 "Negaigoto" Released: 17 August 2005 "Around the World" Released: 12 October 2005

Around the World is the debut album by Ami Suzuki under label Avex Trax. Ami released a single by the same name on the same day.

Information

The album title was originally set to be Hopeful, but was later changed to the current one. The styles of the album consists of upbeat J-Pop songs with touches from house and trance, also with some sweet pop ballads and soft songs. A single of the same-title song was released the same of the album. It was included the previously-released singles "Delightful", "Eventful" and "Negaigoto", and also the digital releases "Hopeful" and "For yourself". However, the Trance remix version of "Hopeful" was included in the album -the same as the one used in the promotional video and included in the Delightful maxi single- instead of the original J-Pop version. This versions hasn't been included in any physical release at the moment.

A curious fact is that the DVD of the album doesn't include the original music videos of the songs of the previous physical singles; the dance tracks videos are the original songs but only with the dance scenes that Ami shot for those videos, and the album edit of "Negaigoto" is a slightly different edit of the original video.

Sales

The album came in at #4 on its first day, but fell to #5 for the weekly charts. The single reached #19 on the Oricon charts, pretty impressive for a limited release single such as this. Despite that the sales were not exactly a big success come back album, this record marked Ami Suzuki again as a qualified and profitable female singer in the Japanese Music Industry.

Its first week AROUND THE WORLD sold approximately 30,000 copies. After various weeks in the charts, the album managed to sell little more than 60,000 copies.

Track listing

CD

1. "Around the World" – 4:34

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Y@suo Ohtani

   Arrangement: Ken Harada

2. "Hopeful" Overhead Champion Mix 4:55

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Shunsuke Yazaki

   Arrangement: Overhead Champion

3. "Beautiful" – 4:55

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Daisuke Suzuki

   Arrangement: ats-

4. "Sweet Voice" – 4:47

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi

   Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura

5. "Delightful" – 4:20

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Tohru Watanabe

   Arrangement: Axel Konard

6. "For Yourself" – 4:40

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Tohru Watanabe

   Arrangement: h-wonder

7. "Negaigoto" (ねがいごと^?) – 5:08

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Daisuke Suzuki

   Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura

8. "Risk" – 4:40

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music: Daisuke Suzuki

   Arrangement: Yasunari Nakamura

9. "Eventful" – 4:23

   Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

   Music & Arrangement: Tohru Watanabe

10. "With You" – 4:44

    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

    Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi

    Arrangement: Ken Harada

11. "Times" – 4:15

    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

    Music & Arrangement: Tohru Watanabe

12. "I'm Alone" – 2:56

    Lyrics: Ami Suzuki

    Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi

    Arrangement: KZB

DVD

1. "Hopeful"
2. "Delightful" -dance track-
3. "Eventful" -dance track-
4. "Negaigoto" (ねがいごと^?) -album edit-
5. "For Yourself"
6. "Around the World"
7. "For Yourself" - making
8. "Around the World" - making

Singles

Personnel

• Ami Suzuki - vocals, backing vocals
• Yumi Kawamura - backing vocals

Production

• Executive Producer - Max Matsuura
• Planner - Jun Harada
• Supervisors - Hiroshi "Funaty" Ishimori, Takashi Okuda
• Directors - Hatsukoshi Yasuhara, Aki Hori, Aya Noguchi
• A&R - Katsuhiko Sakurai, Shizuka Oruga, Hideaki Tamamuchi
• Desk A&R - Megumi Seyika, Nozomi Yasumune, Sakoto Sairenji
• Musical Director - Yoshihisa Tokuda
• Mixing - Naoki Yamada, Atsushi Hattori, Overhead Champion (#2), Axel Konard (#5)
• Recording - Kaoru Akimoto, Shuichi Watanabe, Masahiro Kawata, Atsushi Hattori, Kei Kusama
• 2nd Engineering - Masahiro Kawata, Ryuichi Okubo, Hanae Saito, Hitomi Suzuki, Makoto Yamadoi, Hideaki Jinbu, Ryo Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamada.

Charts