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Can You Celebrate?
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Wikipedia article
"'Can You Celebrate?'" is Namie Amuro's seventh solo single under the Avex Trax label, taken by her third studio album 'Concentration 20', Released on February 19, 1997, "Can You Celebrate" is the best-selling single by a solo female artist in Japanese music history, with sales of 2,296,200 copies.
It is also the theme song for Japanese drama ' in 1997, which starred Emi Wakui, Tetsuya Takeda and Takashi Sorimachi. Namie Amuro herself appears in the opening sequence of the drama, along with Tetsuya Komuro on the piano.
Release
Unique to Amuro's singles, the re-release was released in a hardpaper slipcase and pressed on a full-sized 5" disc instead of the then industry standard 3" disc. The cover utilizes images from her 'Concentration 20' (1997) album as well as images from her original "Can You Celebrate?" and "Dreaming I was dreaming" singles. Closeup shoots of Amuro clasping her hands together exposing her engagement ring are some of the only professional photographs of it that exist.
The single was re-released on December 25, 1997, as a maxi single to commemorate Amuro's marriage to Masaharu Maruyama (SAM). Featuring remixes of "Can You Celebrate?" as well as a remix of "Dreaming I Was Dreaming", the song charted as the first number one of 1998.
Track listings
;CD single
# "Can You Celebrate? (Straight Run)" (Tetsuya Komuro) 6:17
# "Can You Celebrate? (Seventh Avenue South Mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) 8:43
# "Can You Celebrate? (Back Track with TK)" (Tetsuya Komuro) 6:16
;1997 re-released maxi single
# "Can You Celebrate? (Wedding Mix)" 6:28
# "Dreaming I Was Dreaming (Subconscious Mix)" 5:21
# "Can You Celebrate? (Heavenly Mix)" 4:46
# "Can You Celebrate? (Wedding Mix - Instrumental)" 6:28
# "Dreaming I Was Dreaming (Subconscious Mix - Instrumental) 5:20
Personnel
* Namie Amuro vocals, background vocals
* Tetsuya Komuro piano, background vocals
* Valerie Pinkerton-Background vocals
* Lynn Mabry-Background vocals
* Will Wheaton-Background vocals
* Kazuhiro Matsuo guitar
* Producer Tetsuya Komuro
* Arrangement Tetsuya Komuro, Cozy Kubo
* String Arrangement Randy Waldman
* Additional production Robert Arbittier, Gary Adante
* Mixing Dave Way
* Remixing Joe Chiccarelli
TV performances
*February 4, 1997 Utaban
*February 9, 1997 Super Jockey
*February 10, 1997 Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
*February 14, 1997 Music Station
*February 16, 1997 Mega Hits Special
*March 7, 1997 Music Station
*March 28, 1997 Music Station Special
*March 31, 1997 Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ in Daiba
*May 21, 1997 TK Groove Museum Hong Kong
*May 27, 1997 TK Pan-Pacific Tour
*October 3, 1997 Music Station Special
*November 16, 1997 1st The Japan Audition
*November 28, 1997 TK Groove Museum Beijing
*December 11, 1997 FNS Music Festival
*December 26, 1997 Music Station Special Super Live 1997
*December 31, 1997 39th Japan Record Awards
*December 31, 1997 48th Khaku Uta Gassen
*December 31, 1998 49th Khaku Uta Gassen
*December 27, 1999 SMAP X SMAP
*April 12, 2000 Music Museum
*December 2, 2000 Love Love Aishiteru
*March 30, 2001 Music Station Special
*December 6, 2001 FNS Music Festival
*December 25, 2001 Eienteki Oto Raku Shounen
*September 27, 2004 Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ Special
Charts
Total Release (Original + Re-Release)
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)Original CD release
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)Maxi single re-release
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)References
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070527145646/http://www.akatsuki.thatsjustme.net/ Namie Amuro Discography Sampling Site]
Category:1997 singles
Category:1997 songs
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Category:Songs written by Tetsuya Komuro
Category:Avex Trax singles
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