"Remode 2" 2nd week

Rank: #66
Week sales: 719 copies sold
Total sales: 4,692 copies sold

^ Thanks for the sales update! Been to busy to keep up with this release, ugh. Also, I see you ordered two globe albums; which ones, if I may ask? :)

Their sales seem pretty low, but it's understandable :( Thank you for the updates. Now that I'm thinking about globe's sales for the first time, how many copies did globe20th album sell, does anyone know?

On another note, I'd like to hear why you guys started listening to globe :) Why did globe's music appeal to you? For me it was similar to ayu's in how versatile their music is.

^I randomly downloaded the Lights albums years ago but I only liked Hitorigoto, Lights brought the future and Merry Go-Round.

This year I specifically listened to Empty Lies from a TK album that someone uploaded to Jpopsuki (Even if the song is old it just appeared on OLIVIA's page recently). Then I decided to give globe a second try. I downloaded the decade album and loved some songs at first listen!

I ordered 8 YEARS best and Remode 1 album :)

A question I have, is there a particular reason why globe PVs are so scarce?

I mean during the early days we got some pretty ayu-budget level PVs, but during the later era PVs were shooted in a very lazy way (i.e. Many Classic Moments and seize the light which were basically one-shot recordings) and I think (I'm not sure) there are even singles that don't have a promotional video recorded for them.

According to generasia, it sold 20,909 copies during its eight weeks on the charts. It seems like a pretty decent number to me, but I'm not great at judging sales anyway.

Interesting question! My first globe experience was FACES PLACES the album, and I think it was the general 90s sound of the album that appealed to me at first; it was a whole new side of J-Pop to me, since I was mostly listening to 00s music at the time. The album had some songs I loved immediately (DEGENERATE, FACES PLACES, FACE), which encouraged me to try more globe, so next I tried Lights, loved all of it, and then basically hoarded all the globe music I could find. Same as you, I loved how versatile their music was, still do. :)

Nice choices!

As for the PVs, I can only speculate that globe's budget got shot when they shifted to a trance sound and started selling way less (from 1,7m copies of Relation in 1999 to 149k copies of outernet in 2001; yikes). Would be interesting to know more.

Oooh good idea!

The first time I heard Globe was through a music review thread on the Hikaru/Utada-online forums around 2004-2006. I think it may have been this performance of Departures, if not a similar one:



I was really interested in buying this version but it wasn't on the single so I didn't know where to get it and just forgot about it.

I would remember the song occasionally and made a couple of YouTube rips. I was also listening to TK tunes through Namie's albums and the tunes he later did for Ayu. (I also enjoyed Ayumi's cover of Seven Days War)

I think it may have been through a thread on JPM or JPopYuku about TK's work and I thought he's such a huge part of JPop that I really need to listen to more of his stuff. I was also looking for new JPop artists to try and had bought a couple of Capsule albums and although I really enjoyed their song World of Fantasy, it wasn't quite what I was after but Many Classic Moments seemed to satisfy this. I was downloading a few of Globe's songs from iTunes (and found the Arrival Version of Departures!) and listening to samples on iTunes but was still unsure about buying an album. Then when the Cover Best was announced featuring Ayu, Kumi AND Hyde, I thought buying the 2 disc version would be a great opportunity to get into them.

And although the cover disc was my favourite and I did wonder if I would like the originals as much as the covers, I slowly became addicted to Globe. Their melodies slowly get into your head!

I also agree about the versatility of their music like how Ayu has ballads and pop and rock songs, Globe has their pop/rock songs, trance tunes and ballads.

I was also wondering about their PVs? As a lot of them seem to feature concert footage. Is it because TK as so busy in the 90s? Could someone list all their PVs for me? I actually quite like the Many Classic Moments PV and wish there was a version for the full length of the song.

Also, are there any songs which only appear on singles or Best albums and not studio albums? I fancy buying some new Globe songs but don't want to spoil myself for any of their albums.

^I think the concert thing is just a fetish thing, those PVs look really cool but they are not the best for me. I preffer original footage.

"Remode 2" 3rd week

Rank: #151
Week sales: 416 copies sold
Total sales: 5,108 copies sold

Anybody has any idea on who is tatsumaki and why is he on many TK produced stuff?

It's a duo consisting of TK and DJ DRAGON.

I really liked their remixes for global trance and song+nation.

^Oh I see thank you!

I never knew that either!

"Remode 2" 4th week

Rank: #267
Week sales: 243 copies sold
Total sales: 5,351 copies sold

Remode 2 was put on sale in Taiwan! As soon as the seller list the item I think I'll get it ^_^

I got an e-mail the other day to say YesAsia cancelled my order of Keiko's album as it was out of stock and they weren't able to source me a copy. Luckily a seller on Amazon.co.uk had a (new) copy I could buy - phew!

Glad you finally got it! and brand new ^_^

deep JAZZ globe digest

To my great surprise, I found a leak of the KEIKO sings globe @ KEIKO solo tour 2000 live CD included in the 20th anniversary blu-ray box set! I'll try to upload it tonight, and if that doesn't work out, I'll do it by Wednesday night. Haven't had time to liste to it yet but I'm interested!

EDIT: OK, found the time to add the album to my discography thread, get it there if you haven't already found it somewhere else! Also got to listen to most of the album. It's really enjoyable, everything (Keiko, arrangements, sound in general) sounds good. :) Unsurprisingly, I loved FACE and on the way to YOU most of all; FACES PLACES is another favourite of mine, but I think this version wasn't quite perfect; but wanna Be A Dreammaker was pretty close to perfect, it's not one of my favourite globe songs but I enjoyed this version SO MUCH!

^Oooh sounds interesting! I have only seen the clip of Face that Avex uploaded.

My copy of O-Crazy Luv was delivered on Sat and I only ordered it on 31 Aug with an expected delivery date of 9 - 29 Sep so very impressed! Level 4 on the other hand, still hasn't been shipped from YesAsia and I ordered it on 27 Aug (it should ship within 7 days).

I'm expecting YA to cancel it as they can't source me a copy but luckily there is a seller on Amazon.co.uk with a copy. I should really delete my YA order...

^ Yeah, I'd recommend checking the album out, it's a nice treat!

Have you been listening to O-CRAZY LUV since you got it? Are you enjoying it? :)

Unfortunate that YesAsia seems to be out of copies. I bought mine a few years ago from CDJapan, at least back then it didn't cause any problems.

I have! I expected to be more dance orientated but I'm enjoying it. My favourite song so far is Haru no Yuki.

A question!

Apart from the melody what's the relation between winter comes around again and DEPARTURES?