Golden Best (Yōsui Inoue album)

Golden Best
Greatest hits album by
Yōsui Inoue
ReleasedJuly 28, 1999
Recorded1972–1998
2001–2003 (Bonus disc)
GenreFolk, rock, kayokyoku, pop
Length74:43 (disc one)
78:23 (disc two)
LabelFor Life
ProducerVarious
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Kudan
(1998) 		Golden Best
(1999) 		Golden Bad
(2000)
Alternative cover
cover of a 2003 expanded edition entitled Golden Best Super

Golden Best is the double-CD compilation album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue. The album was released in July 1999, celebrating his 30-year career as a solo recording artist. It comprises 35 tracks spanning his works after 1972; the year he released his debut album Danzetsu under the renewed stage name.

Golden Best debuted at the number-six on the Japanese Oricon chart and climbed the top in September 1999.[1][2] It became one of the most successful albums for Inoue, entering the record chart for a year with sales of over 1.4 million copies.[3] The label For Life Music Entertainment stated that Golden Best album has sold more than 2.06 million copies up to late 2008.[4]

After a year from the album's release, a sequel entitled Golden Bad came out. And in 2003, when the album shipped more than 2 million units, an expanded edition called Golden Best Super was issued. It features bonus disc which includes his singles in the 2000s and previously unreleased recordings.[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise indicated

Disc one

  1. "Shounen Jidai (少年時代)" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) – 3:21
  2. "Arigatou (ありがとう)" (Inoue, Tamio Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) – 3:31
  3. "Make-up Shadow" (Inoue, Utsuru Ayame) – 4:09
  4. "Asia no Junshin (アジアの純真)" (Inoue, Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) – 3:53
  5. "Saigo no News (最後のニュース)" – 3:55
  6. "Kasa ga Nai (傘がない)" – 5:35
  7. "Kōri no Sekai (氷の世界)" – 4:11
  8. "Yume no Naka e (夢の中へ)" – 2:40
  9. "Riverside Hotel" – 3:54
  10. "Kokoro Moyou (心もよう)" – 3:27
  11. "Gogatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ)" – 5:06
  12. "Isso Serenade (いっそ セレナーデ)" – 3:16
  13. "Crazy Love" – 4:04
  14. "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa (飾りじゃないのよ涙は)" – 4:43
  15. "Jealousy (ジェラシー)" – 4:01
  16. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり)" – 4:22
  17. "Atarashii Rhapsody (新しいラプソディー)" – 4:51
  18. "Nagai Saka no E no Frame (長い坂の絵のフレーム)" – 5:52

Disc two

  1. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン)" – 4:52
  2. "Canary (カナリア)" – 3:56
  3. "Dance wa Umaku Odorenai (ダンスはうまく踊れない)" – 3:56
  4. "Musume ga Nejireru Toki (娘がねじれる時)" – 4:13
  5. "Nazeka Shanghai (なぜか上海)" – 5:32
  6. "Eiyū (英雄)" – 5:04
  7. "Wakan'nai (ワカンナイ)" – 4:59
  8. "Wine Red no Kokoro (ワインレッドの心)" (Inoue, Kōji Tamaki) – 5:25
  9. "Natsu no Owari no Harmony (夏の終わりのハーモニー)" (Inoue, Tamaki) (recorded with Anzen Chitai) – 3:53
  10. "Teenager" (Inoue, Hirai) – 4:34
  11. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) – 2:58
  12. "Thailand Fantasia (タイランド ファンタジア)" – 4:55
  13. "Kaerenai Futari (帰れない二人)" (Inoue, Kiyoshiro Imawano) – 4:21
  14. "Just Fit" – 4:25
  15. "Jinsei ga Nido Areba (人生が二度あれば)" – 4:59
  16. "Musubikotoba (結詞)" – 4:07
  17. "Tsumini no Nai Fune (積み荷のない船)" – 5:38

Bonus disc for 2003 limited edition

  1. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン)" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 5:07
  2. "Coffee Rumba (コーヒー・ルンバ)"　(Jose Manzo Perroni, Seiji Nakazawa) – 3:07
  3. "Hana no Kubikazari (花の首飾り)" (Koichi Sugiyama, Fusako Sugawara, Rei Nakanishi) – 4:11
  4. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり)" [Live version recorded at the Pacifico Yokohama on December 23, 2002, previously unreleased] – 3:31
  5. "Kimerareta Rhythm (決められたリズム)" – 4:12
  6. "Mis Cast" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 5:10
  7. "L-O-V-E" [Live version recorded at the Fukuoka Convention Center on January 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 2:58
  8. "Miss Contest" [Live version recorded at the Bluenote Tokyo on January 6, 2003, previously unreleased] – 4:38
  9. "Kōri no Sekai (氷の世界)" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 5:07
  10. "Umi e Kinasai (海へ来なさい)" (Inoue, Katz Hoshi) [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] – 4:32

Chart positions

Year Album Chart Position Sales
1999–2000 Golden Best Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100) 1 1,418,000+[3]
2003 Golden Best Super Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 300) 28 31,000[3]

Certification

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)[6] 4× Platinum 1,600,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Country Date Label Format Catalog number Notes
Japan July 28, 1999 For Life Records CD FLCF-3761
June 25, 2003 For Life Music Entertainment FLCF-3965 Expanded edition with bonus disc, limited release

References

  1. ^ "Search results of the Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, in the second week of August 1999". oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  2. ^ "Search results of the Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, in the second week of September 1999". oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
  4. ^ "Yosui Inoue released the ballad best album in late 2008" 井上陽水、バラードベストアルバムを年末にリリース！ (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 17, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
  5. ^ "井上陽水のベスト盤が200万枚突破！ 未発表テイクを加えたプレミアム盤を、期間限定で発売". Retrieved May 9, 2009.
  6. ^ "RIAJ > The Record > June 2000 > Certified Awards (April 2000)" (PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan (in Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2014.