Live Ai
2007 live album by Ai
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Live Ai (stylized LIVE A.I.) is the first live album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai, released on March 7, 2007, by Island Records and Universal Sigma. The album primarily consists of songs and performances from Ai's final performance at Nippon Budokan, but also other various tour dates within Japan from Ai's What's Goin' On Ai tour.[1] The album was reissued on December 5, 2012 by USM Japan.
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| Released | March 7, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
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| Length | 57:23 | |||
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Background and release
To promote her fifth studio album, Ai embarked on the What's Goin' On Ai tour in Japan. The tour initially featured 11 dates across the country in November and December 2006.[2] An extra date was added on December 13, where Ai performed at the Nippon Budokan stadium in Tokyo to 12,000 people.[3]
A DVD was released on March 28, 2007 titled Nippon Budokan Ai shortly after the release of the live album.
Track listing
All tracks written by Ai Uemura unless noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "I Wanna Know" | 4:16 | |
| 2. | "Believe" | 5:05 | |
| 3. | "Last Words" (Solo version) | 4:22 | |
| 4. | "E.O." | 2:31 | |
| 5. | "No Way" | 3:36 | |
| 6. | "My Friend" | 7:57 | |
| 7. | "Thank U" | 2:44 | |
| 8. | "Intro" | 0:23 | |
| 9. | "Music" | 4:34 | |
| 10. | "Story" | 5:29 | |
| 11. | "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" | Ryuichi Sakamoto | 4:18 |
| 12. | "Beautiful" (featuring Trey Songz) | ||
| 13. | "Life" | ||
| Total length: | 57:23 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "I Wanna Know" | ||
| 2. | "Beautiful" (Remix) |
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| 3. | "Too Much" (Remix) | ||
| 4. | "We Gonna" | ||
| 5. | "Famous" | ||
| 6. | "Love Is..." | ||
| 7. | "Go Find Your Way" | ||
| 8. | "Believe" | ||
| 9. | "Last Words" (Solo version) | ||
| 10. | "E.O." | ||
| 11. | "Future" | ||
| 12. | "No Way" | ||
| 13. | "My Friend" | ||
| 14. | "Ooh" | ||
| 15. | "Thank U" | ||
| 16. | "Intro" | ||
| 17. | "Music" |
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| 1. | "Story" | ||
| 2. | "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" | Sakamoto | |
| 3. | "Beautiful" (featuring Trey Songz) |
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| 4. | "Life" | ||
| 5. | "Tour Documentary" |
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.[4]
- Ai Uemura – lead vocals (all tracks), lyricist (1–10, 12–13)
- Tremaine Neverson – featured artist, lyricist (12)
- DJ Watari – composer (1)
- DJ Yutaka – composer (2, 5)
- Desert Storm – composer (3)
- Lofey – composer (3)
- Skane – composer (3)
- 2 Soul – composer, (4, 10)
- Kazunori Fujimoto – composer (6)
- Carsten Lindberg – composer (7)
- Emanuel Officer – composer (7)
- Joachim A. Svare – composer (7)
- T-Kura – composer (8, 9)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – composer, lyricist (11)
- Stephanie Stokes Fountain – composer (13)