-She sleeps with her eyes open

scary

+1

Some new (not really important) info is coming~



SOURCE

^amazing, i love echoes, ShoujoS, Velonica and Hitoira no Hanabira, and of course chAngE

Just received this, gonna upload the rip very soon~

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._4523501_n.jpg

so,the tray colour for this single is orange?

^
Yuph, at first, I expect it'll black, when opened the package from CDJapan, I totally speechless. "... Orange..."

YES, I love the poster! :D

I wonder why it's orange :S

and my releases is up now on Asian Media Downloads :D
Happy downloading ^^v

^ thanks again~

otoshimono is kinda bland to me, but I love usotsuki :heart

I kind of like usotsuki more than otoshimono a bit, and I'm not sure what the point was for a piano version of don't cry anymore to be released in this single...

thanks thanks a lot for the rip!!!!
and that poster is :heart :heart

#8 for the first day, just like chAngE did exactly three months ago. Let's just ignore KinKi Kids (who is in front, extending the undefeated streak) and just see that she might just get a top five next year. (But let's not get too overexcited on this...)

Well, as long as people know miwa, and they want to buy her release, it's happiness for me :D

I hope her album later will get decent rank~

1st Day Sales...........3596

Good peak, i hope she can keep selling great!!

^ WHAT? Only 3k? SourcE? Natsu Style?

^yep natsu style, isn't bad at all

Uhh...what was chAngE's first day sales?

^ idk, but first week sales for chANgE was 13k
Quite low, OMG...

EDITED:
Also adantatu, if you don't mind, please teach me how to read natsu style XD

^Honestly, i really don't know XD
i just open a lot of the links in the page, and when i see something like a list of the artists of the week with numbers, i know that is the list of the sales, because i can compare the first places with the official oricon


Sorry for my stupid english

I see, I think you saw this page right?
http://blog.livedoor.jp/ustan777/archives/51773466.html

It's quite useful~
It's actually 3,632 copies :D

Those sales are pretty good for a beginning artist~ ^-^

But the second day she dropped to #10... I hope she can recover well...

1st Day Sales...........3596
2nd Day Sales...........2577

She's quite constant - I hope this can increase in her future career. After all, 2010 was her rookie year, and when she's going to turn a sophomre in her music career next year and being a senior (I guess) at Keio, I hope she makes a LOT of improvements reflected over the past year, and maybe come up with her first-ever album.

She's pretty good for a rookie, I believe she'll sell better in the future, with her first album perhaps..
And I finally listened to Otoshimono *yeah kinda late I know xD*
It's nice! don't cry anymore piano version is very good..

3rd day sales : 1015

So far Otoshimono sold : 6414 copies.

Dropped to #13 :(

EDITED:
I got panic seeing this :

^Panic???? why??
Probably she is gonna sell 8k in the end of the week. I hope a little rise this weekend !!

She should sell around 10k :(

Don't you realized in that store there's a paper written "YUI no..."
Some random people said the kanji afterwards means something like "inspired by..."
But still I think it's impossible XD

Otoshimono actually isn't that bad. I like it! Usotsuki needs to grow on me. But omg don't cry anymore ~piano version~ is pure bliss. Absolutely stunning.

miwa will be on FNS Music Festival today (or tomorrow, depending on your timezone) ^-^

+1
:heart

FNS will be aired in 15 minutes now~ :luv2

EDITED:
From FNS today : miwa x WaT - don't cry anymore



EDITED:
REMOVED ALREADY BY KUSONY

^thanks, miwa looks beautiful!

4th Day...............641
TOTAL SALES......6889

aww,miwa look so pretty and cute at the same time!i've watched it this morning.i love this performance

5th Day Sales..........623
Total Sales............7486

Can somebody upload that duo performance between WaT and miwa onto YouTube or something? I want to hear it badly but I don't want to download the video file.

^ Do you have Facebook account?

If you have try this : http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1736551014853

If you don't just try it, sometimes the pages is accessible without accounts.

If it didn't works, I will upload it for ya.

It works! Thanks! :)

6th Day Sales..........804
Total Sales.............8290

Official Weekly Sales
#14 miwa Otoshimono 8,717

Good sales there, but I think maybe the holiday season in December might have overwhelmed her, and maybe also she did not use it on the FNS music festival...

Now what...miwa dayo, anybody!?

^ Well, better than Little girl, since Little girl only sold 5,190 copies in first week.
Still can't defeat chAngE the highest sales so far for first week, more than 13k copies.

Anyway, the last part of the concert is today eh? miwa dayo!
Awww, I'm focused to Utada concert today...

Utada might have a higher priority there because Utada's going on hiatus at the end of this year, while miwa's only a rookie in her professional career! Maybe miwa could have a spring tour, sometime in April or May, depending on her school schedule...

^ miwa needs to release an album first before preparing a new concert.

I keep an eye for miwa dayo, just wait~

EDITED:
By the way I found this message in the website about DoCoMo thingy and the new song perhaps. (http://55gokaku.com/pc/board/detail.php?thread_id=1)
If you check the first post, miwa written on it, so it's her message?

And I simply don't understand XD

^ it's that entrance exam song which I mentioned before

*searches*

here:

I see, thanks again tenshi :D
Since the username written miwa, I thought she herself wrote the message, since the video is there.

So, 10 more minutes to miwa dayo!

Do we have any updates?

I got small amount of info~

I heard she added Otoshimono as an encore song, and the rest is all the same, from the person who came to miwa yade.

No photos yet about the concert.

Okay, so I've heard ikimono-gakari's going on hiatus soon, so how about this: During her hiatus, maybe sometime in March she could be releasing a new album?

I heard that there's going to be a new album soon: it's going to be called "441", and it is named after one of miwa's old songs, and there's some things that are going to be in. Obviously, this song is going to be remastered and "modernized" for the March 9, 2011 (tentative) release date, and it might contain the song that is part of that NTT docomo project-thingy (that college thing), and maybe more...

But right now, it's only a rumor/speculation...if anybody can find verifiable sources to verify information, please let us know. But in any case, I think it's time for a new album - four single's already enough for an album!

^ It's from 2ch, I read that too.

However, don't forget she's also releasing a new song (which will become an album track or new single, still no info) next year.

If...

• ...it's a new single, so maybe we will get an album after 5 singles, and she needs to promote her album by making a PV for non-single track. <--- It's only my wish LOL.
• ...it's an album track, so the song will be released in new album, the song will help to promote the album, and it's a good way to promote miwa as well.

What I want actually is she releasing new album ASAP in CD+DVD format.

I want a CD+DVD album with all her PVs.
I hope is true

^ I would assume the DVD of her next album will have all her PV's (unless she decides to not include any of them).

I also hope don't cry anymore PV is there, since no DVD for that single...

I want making of too XD

Okay, time to rejoice everyone, this is the setlist of the concert :

SET LIST
01. リトルガール
02. you can do it!
03. あなたがいないと世界はこんなにつまらない
04. めぐろ川
05. ウソつき
06. don't cry anymore
07. あまやどり
08. 青空
09. 僕が僕であるために
10. 441
11. Wake Up,Break Out!
12. chAngE
13. オトシモノ
- アンコール -
14. True Colors
15. そばにいたいから
16. don't cry anymore

SOURCE

You can check some photos on the source, right now I keep staring at it XD

^thanks a lot!!!!!
441 is a real song then,

Thanks for sharing! Maybe can't wait for the modernized 441 next spring!

441 described as a pop-rock song that kinda similar with chAngE, I believe it's pretty good XD

Also, I found a long interview : http://blog.uta-net.com/miwa/

Soooo curious, it's killing me, maybe tenshi can help :P

Whaa, hi! I can't believe I've only just discovered her songs.
Don't cry anymore is one of the most gorgeous songs I've ever heard, it's come into my life at just the right time. It's perfectly bittersweet, a good song to cry too but it's so uplifting too. ;__;~

I hope she releases an album soon, I'll pre-order it straight away!

Have you try the piano version of don't cry anymore then? It's a pure bliss~

No info yet about new album, but she already releasing 4 singles, the next one maybe an album...

So, I sort of discovered that "don't cry anymore" changed my life :) So I think miwa is one of my top favorites atm <33

she is one of my favourites solo artists too along with YUI

:yes I agree. Don't cry anymore and miwa came into my life at the perfect time. I'm going to buy the single in the new year if an album doesn't get announced.

Summary:
-Otoshimono was already an older song of hers, but the drama's staff heard it and liked it (and chose it)

-Otoshimono already had the theme 'wanting to bring back the importance of things you've lost', but she combined it with the theme 'wanting to save animals' lives + not wanting to give up' after she read the script.

-About the 1st theme (='wanting to bring back the importance of things you've lost'): after her debut, when she was drowning in work, she lost sight of herself and couldn't be sympathetic to others. She realized she was growing distant from her friends. She learned not to take things for granted.

-While she writes about personal weakness for the first time, she also added messages of courage in the lyrics.

-She can play the piano.
-She loves ballads, and made a lot of them before her debut.
-Otoshimono has gotten good responses (which makes her happy).
-She wants listeners to realize that the important things are fragile and transient. Don't take them for granted.

-Usotsuki's lyrics are based on personal experience.
-(usotsuki means 'liar') The lair in the lyrics is both herself who pretends to be tough and doesn't share her true feelings, but is also the other person who pretends not to know.

-She prefers mail over (telephone) calling, because it's quicker. It's handy when you're busy but want to stay in touch.

-She added the piano version of don't cry anymore, because she wanted to show how much she's grown since her debut. And because she sang the piano version live before and got good responses.

-She often reads books and manga for inspiration. She's also written sings while reading fan letters.
-She always writes with an 'ink pen', and not with a ball-point pen.
-Makihara and Matsutouya Yumi have influenced her lyrics.
-It's really difficult for her to combine university and work during exam weeks.

-She has friends at the university from before her debut. Some of her songs were born out their girl's talk.

-She wants to perform at JCB Hall one day (because she saw Sheryl Crow perform there).

Ooh... That is quite interesting - she can play the piano - maybe let's see and hear what will happen if miwa switches from her guitar to the piano, just like YUI did for "to Mother" back last spring!

interesting, thanks for the translation ^_^

Since she loves ballads, I believe she has lots of songs featuring piano rather than guitar, because ballads usually fits piano better.

Anyway, it seems she has a lot of performances lately...

She was on CDTV just this late Saturday night/early Sunday morning...is that right? I don't see CDTV on JPS for a while recently...

She announced on her blog that she'll release a new single on 23 February.

It'll be the DOCOMO song (the song to encourage entrance exam taking students).

a new single again?
I thought she'd release her debut album after Otoshimono T_T

miwa new single "untitled"
Release Date 2011/02/23
Regular (SRCL-7555) http://alturl.com/fo9mu
Limited (SRCL-7553) http://alturl.com/y69gn

More info : http://ameblo.jp/miwa-guitar/entry-10754821626.html
According to tenshi no hane, it'll be the DOCOMO song (the song to encourage entrance exam taking students).

wow, yay!!!!
i can't wait, and plz miwa we want the album too

Regarding the new single, I need tenshi help, especially for last line, thanks as always :D

^ it's mainly a repeat of what I said before ↓

+ the usernames of the first 2000 students will be included in the booklet of the single.

I've been wondering about this, thanks tenshi :D
The pic in docomo site, show something like an extra paper with a name attached in the booklet, maybe this is the paper.

Guess what?
I found a long interview here : http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/5239281/?p=4
It's quite new :D

Some miwa photos there are also pretty good~

This could be quite interesting...

create a song with the help of student messages... It's really interesting. Now I want the song.
Thanks a lot tenshi^^

miwa won a Golden Disc Award (as one of the 5 best new artists).

source: her blog


congrats miwa~ ^-^

WOW, good, she deserves it!

Congratulations to her! She could be one of the best newcomers as she's starting her "sophomore year in pro music"!

OMG!!! Congrats miwa!!! Hope she'll win more in the future!!!!

congrats ,miwa!
speaking of new songs,i haven't even listen to the single she just released(months ago!)

btw dont you think that miwa release pattern feats begining of you its like

touching mid tempo song - Dont cry anyomore / Feel my soul
More upbeat song - Little Girls / Tomorrow's way
Bleach Rock kind of song - Change / Life
Ballad - Otoshimono / Tokyo

I bet she's gonna name her first album after a famous Beatles song and the album will be under 50 minutes long too.

MMmmm, nop, both have the same style, but for me there isn't a pattern.
Little girl is like It's my life of YUI, both are happy songs. Tomorrow's way is
touching mid tempo song, IMO.
ChAngE is like Rolling Star, both are rock pop songs.

For me miwa isn't a miniYUI, but i hope she can become famous as her.

LOL

She's a big fan of Sheryl Crow, not The Beatles XD

I don't think the release pattern is the same as YUI.
YUI release her first album after 4 singles, but miwa?

Sorry but Tomorrow's way is not an upbeat song.:P

For Your Information, if you realized there's also another artist who has the similar style with YUI, all of them are from Sony :

Hmm... I'm quite interested in Maika for 2011...

And LIFE is not rock, is un upbeat song

Ahh I see. Well I'm going through her song titles to see what miwa would do if she does do that.

ALL I WANNA DO
SOAK UP THE SUN
TOMORROW NEVER DIES (this would be a good miwa album title, actually)

春になったら (haru ni natta ra) means something like 'when spring arrives'. It will be released on 23 february.

Hmm... The title is quite interesting!

i hope a preview soon ^_^

Just found this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgizhl_y_music

Where does this song come from?

^ thanks~

It's titled 北風 ～君にとどきますように～ and it's a cover (original by Makihara Noriyuki). It's part of Noriyuki's tribute album called 'We Love Mackey'.

^ Oh I see, thanks! The song is pretty nice <3

it sounds really nice :)

Just ripped it from http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgizhl_y_music
[MF] miwa - 北風 ～君にとどきますように～ (MP3, 160kbps)

If anyone have FLAC / 320, please inform :D

I translated 北風 ～君にとどきますように～ --> here

It's very wintery~

@tenshi
thanks so much!!


http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/z...iwa/header.jpg

Could it be the cover?

^ the text says that they're recruiting people (to appear in the PV).

EDIT: miwa will perform 北風 ～君にとどきますように～ on Music Fair tomorrow today.

Not tomorrow, but today.
when I'm typing this, miwa sing 北風 ～君にとどきますように～ duet with Noriyuki Makihara. What I hate is, I could hear the voice clearly without lagging, but the video was stopped every 3 second ~__~"

the promo pic looks nice!

she looks so sweet in that promo pic!
i hope we can get the performance today

miwa finished shooting the PV for 'haru ni natta ra' yesterday. She mentions that there were lots of people and a school building in the backdrop. I think it might be a up-tempo song because she mentions "I had fun jumping around energetically with everyone."

(source: miwa's blog)