Choice (album)
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15th July 2020 |
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| Label (s) | Bushiroad Music | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
56:29 minutes |
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Wahl is the title of the second studio album of the fictional, BanG-Dream! Project belonging to rock band Roselia . The album was released on July 15, 2020 by Bushiroad Music on the Japanese market.
The work contains twelve songs with a total playing time of 56 minutes and 29 seconds. Various songs can be heard in the anime television series belonging to the franchise . The pieces were written and composed by the composers' collective Elements Garden .
information
On March 16, 2020, the release of the album, which was to be titled Wahl , was officially announced for July 15 of the same year. The songs were all composed by Noriyasu Agematsu, Ryutaro Fujinaga, Junpei Fujita and Yusuke Takeda of the Elements Garden composers' collective. With one exception - the seventh song on the album Break Your Desire - the lyrics of the pieces were written by Asuka Oda or Noriyasu Agametsu, who also wrote the lyrics of the pieces on the debut album.
With Neo-Aspect , Determination Symphony and Re: Birthday there are three songs on the album that were already heard on the previous work. In addition to a regular version, a limited version of the album was also released, which also includes two Blu-ray discs. This shows a concert recording of the concert Wasser / Flamme , which the group played in Fuji-Q-Highland in August 2019 .
Two weeks before the official release of the album, Bushiroad published an album teaser in which excerpts of all the pieces on the album could be heard. Wahl is the group's first album with Yuki Nakashima on bass guitar and Kanon Shizaki on keyboard . They took on the roles of characters Lisa Imai and Rinko Shirogane from Yurika Endo and Satomi Akesaka , who both retired in 2018.
Track list
| No. | title | Composers | length | Remarks |
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| 1 | R. |
Ryutaro Fujinaga ( music ) Asuka Oda ( text ) |
4:44 | BanG Dream! Girls band party! |
| 2 | Brave Jewel |
Ryutaro Fujinaga (music) Oda (text) |
4:07 | BanG Dream Girls Band Party! Opening credits for the 2nd season of BanG Dream! |
| 3 | Determination Symphony | Agematsu (music) Oda (text) |
4:41 | BanG Dream Girls Band Party! Already at the beginning there |
| 4th | FIRE BIRD |
Junpei Fujita (Music) Agematsu (Text) |
5:24 | BanG Dream! Girls band party! In episode 13 of the second season of BanG Dream! to listen |
| 5 | safe and sound | Fujita (music) Oda (text) |
4:18 | BanG Dream! Girls band party! End credits of the 2nd season of BanG Dream! |
| 6th | Avant-garde HISTORY | Fujita (music) Oda (text) |
5:05 | BanG Dream! Girls band party! In episode 13 of the third season of BanG Dream! to listen |
| 7th | Break your desire | Agematsu (music) Spirit Garden (text) |
4:20 | |
| 8th | Re: Birthday | Fujinaga (music) Oda (text) |
4:27 | BanG Dream! Girls band party! Already at the beginning there |
| 9 | Neo-Aspect | Fujinaga (music) Oda (text) |
5:10 | BanG Dream! Girls band party! Already at the beginning there |
| 10 | Promise 約束 |
Yūsuke Takeda (music) Oda (text) |
5:04 | |
| 11 | "UNIONS" Road | Fujinaga (music) Oda (text) |
5:09 | |
| 12 | Song I am. | Fujinaga (music) Oda (text) |
4:00 |
success
On the day of its release, the album sold a little over 24,800 copies in Japan alone, putting Wahl third on Oricon's daily album charts . Only the band Man with a Mission and the South Korean boy group BTS were able to achieve higher editions on the same day. After three days, 29,000 units of the album were sold. The album debuted at number three in the Japanese charts and sold almost 40,000 copies within the first week of sales.
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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| Chart placements | ||
 Japan (Oricon)
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3 (... Where.) | ... |
Individual evidence
- ↑ 注目 の 新 バ ン ド 「Morfonica （モ ル フ ォ ニ カ）」 1st Single 発 売 & イ ベ ン ト ・ ラ イ ブ 出演 決定！ PRTimes.jp, March 16, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b c choice. VGMDb.net, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ NBT: Gothic band Roselia releases powerful album “Wahl” today! Jrocknews.com, July 15, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: Check Out Jackets & Preview for BanG Dream! VA Band Roselia's 2nd album "Choice". Crunchyroll , June 30, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Egan Loo: BanG Dream! Replaces Yurika Endō With Yuki Nakashima as Lisa's Voice. Anime News Network , May 13, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Jennifer Sherman: BanG Dream! Franchise Recasts Rinko With Kanon Shizaki. Anime News Network, November 7, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Martine Trlica: Yurika Endo Retires, What Will Happen to Her Ongoing Projects BanG Dream and Onsen Musume? Manga.tokyo, December 19, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Egan Loo: Satomi Akesaka to Leave BanG Dream! Franchise Due to Sudden Hearing Loss. Anime News Network, June 30, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ 【先 ヨ ミ】 BTS の ニ ュ ー ア ル バ ム 『MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ～ THE JOURNEY ～』 が 515,297 枚 を 売 り 上 げ 首位 独 走 中. Billboard Japan , July 16, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ BTS 『MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~ THE JOURNEY ~』 が 総 合 ア ル バ ム ム 首位 MWAM / Roselia が 続 く. Billboard Japan, July 22, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ Roselia - choice. Oricon , accessed July 22, 2020 (Japanese).
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