Dream (Ai album)
Dream is the twelfth studio album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai. It was released on February 23,2022, by EMI Records. Ai collaborated with Japanese and American producers. This includes Uta and Bernard" Harv" Harvey, who produced her 2021 extended play, It' s All Me, Vol. 2.
Album profile
Three singles have been released from the album. The first single," The Moment" featured Japanese rapper Yellow Bucks and was released in June 2021." In the Middle" , a collaboration with Daichi Miura was released in August 2021. The third single was" Aldebaran" . This served as the theme song for the Japanese television drama Come Come Everybody." Aldebaran" became Ai' s first song to chart since her 2017 single," Kira Kira" . The song debuted and peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and peaked at number 6 on the Oricon Digital Singles Chart.
Rankings
Dream debuted at number 12 on the Oricon Daily Albums chart for February 22,2022. It rose to number 7 on February 23.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from album' s liner notes and Tidal.
Musicians
Ai Carina Uemura - lead vocals, songwriting, production
Uta - production, songwriting
Julian Le - production, songwriting
Naotaro Moriyama - songwriting
Neko Saito - production, arranging
Daichi Miura - featured artist, songwriting, production
Yellow Bucks - featured artist, songwriting
Nao' ymt - songwriting, production
Felisha" Fury" King - songwriting
Fallon King - songwriting
Kes Kross - songwriting
Derek Anderson - production
Kim - songwriting
Nelson Babin-Coy - songwriting
Midorin - drums
Tomohiko Ohkanda - bass
Fumio Yanagisawa - guitar
Satoshi Onoue - guitar
Hideaki" Lanbsy" Sakai - latin percussion
Tomoyuki Asakawa - harp
Great Eida - concertmaster, strings
Jo Kuwata - violin
Nagisa Kiriyama - violin
Haruko Yano - violin
Yukinori Murata - violin
Akane Irie - violin
Ayumu Koshikawa - violin
Akiko Maruyama - violin
Yui Kaneko - violin
Masahiro Miyake - violin
Yuji Yamada - viola
Mayu Takashima - viola
Ayano Kasahara - cello
Yoshihiko Maeda - cello
Space Dust Club - production, songwriting
DJ Ryow - production, songwriting
C3prod - production, songwriting
Bernard" Harv" Harvey - production
Technical
Mizuo Miura - vocal recording, vocal production
Keisuke Narita - assistant vocal recording, assistant vocal production
Taji Okuda - vocal recording, vocal production, mixing
Keisuke Fujimaki - vocal recording, vocal production
Shohei Ishikawa - vocal recording, vocal production
Masahiro Abo - vocal recording, vocal production
D. O. I - mixing
Mark Parfitt - mixing
Randy Merrill - mastering
Visuals and imagery
Tatsuki Ikezawa - art director
Shoji Uchihada - photographer
Kanako Sato - retouching
Shinji Konishi - hair, makeup
Kumiko Iijima - stylist
Machi Kagawa - designing
Hirotaka Maeda - shooting coordination
Erika Hiyama - shooting coordination
Akiko Kawabata - AW production coordination
Charts
Release history
References
2022 albums