Milet (singer)
Japanese singer-songwriter
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Milet (ミレイ, Mirei) is a Japanese singer and songwriter.[1][2] She made her major debut in 2019 with Inside You EP. The EP peaked at number 16 on the Oricon Albums Chart.[3] After releasing five EPs, she released first studio album Eyes in 2020. The album hit number one on both Oricon and Japan's Billboard chart,[4][5] certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for sales of 100,000.[6]
Career
Milet is a Tokyo-based Japanese singer-songwriter. She started her career in 2018.[7]
On March 6, 2019, her first live show, Milet Special Show Case @Billboard-Live Tokyo, was held at Billboard Live Tokyo.[8] In that same year, several of her songs were featured in various media. Her songs "Us" and "Again and Again" were used as the openings for Japanese TV dramas Gisou Furin and Joker x Face respectively,[9][10] while her songs "Drown", and "Prover"/"Tell me" were used as the second ending theme for the anime series adaptation of Vinland Saga and Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, respectively.[11][12]
On June 3, 2020, Milet released her debut album Eyes, which hit number one on Oricon Albums Chart.[4] She collaborated on the album with guitarist Toru of One OK Rock and Man with a Mission member Kamikaze Boy.[2][13]
Starting from October 4, 2020, Milet became a DJ host for the radio series Music Freaks, streaming every Sunday from 22:00 to 24:00 (JST) on the Osaka radio station FM802 from a studio in Minami-morimachi. The radio broadcasts are stated to last one year.[14][15]
Her single "Ordinary Days" was used as the ending theme for the live-action drama adaptation of Police in a Pod, which aired from July 7 to September 15, 2021.[16]
On November 12, 2020, the song "Who I Am" premiered on YouTube and was subsequently featured as the title track of her sixth mini-album, which released on December 2, 2020.[17] "Who I Am" and the song "The Hardest" were both respectively used as the opening and ending themes of the Japanese television drama Shichinin no Hisho.[18]
Milet debut in the popular annual TV music show, 71st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen, on 31 December 2020 with the song "Inside You".[19]
On August 8, 2021, she performed at the closing ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She covered the song "Hymne à l'amour", originally sung by Edith Piaf.[20][21][22] On November 18, 2021, she represented Japan in the 10th Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) TV Song Festival,[23] performing her first big hit "Inside You" remotely.[24] On December 31, 2021, she participated in the "NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen" for the second consecutive year, performing "Fly High."[25]
On April 22, 2022, Milet released a teaser lyric video for a new single entitled "Walkin' in My Lane", which serves as the theme song to the live-action drama adaptation of the manga Yangotonaki Ichizoku. It was pre-released on streaming services on April 29, and was fully released on May 25, 2022, along with "Love When I Cry" and "My Dreams Are Made of Hell."[26]
On September 29, 2023, Milet released her single "Anytime Anywhere", which was used as the ending theme for season one of the anime adaptation of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Her song "Bliss," from the same EP, was used as the special ending theme for the two hour special premieres of the two cours of the anime.
In 2025, she made her film debut in the remake of the French-Belgian film Love at Second Sight, titled My Beloved Stranger.[27]
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
Sales | Certifications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [28] |
JPN Hot [29] | ||||
| Eyes |
|
1 | 1 | ||
| Visions |
|
5 | 4 |
|
|
| 5am[34] |
|
4 | 4 |
|
|
Extended plays
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [28] |
JPN Hot [36] | ||||
| Inside You EP |
|
16 | — | ||
| Wonderland EP |
|
18 | 9 | ||
| Us |
|
11 | 8 | ||
| Drown / You & I |
|
25 | 10 | ||
| Prover / Tell Me |
|
11 | 7 | ||
| Who I Am |
|
10 | 7 | ||
| Ordinary Days |
|
8 | 5 | ||
| Flare |
|
6 | 7 | ||
| Anytime Anywhere |
|
7 | 5 | ||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||
Live albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Milet Live at Nippon Budokan |
|
| Milet 5th Anniversary Live "Green Lights" |
|
Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certification | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [38] |
JPN Hot [39] |
WW [40] | ||||
| "Checkmate" | 2021 | — | 100 | — | Visions | |
| "Omokage" (with Aimer and Lilas Ikuta) |
— | 11 | — |
|
Non-album single | |
| "Walkin' in My Lane" | 2022 | 10 | 25 | — | 5am | |
| "Always You" | 9 | 54 | — | |||
| "Final Call"[42] | — | 64 | — | |||
| "Kizuna no Kiseki" (with Man with a Mission) |
2023 | 4 | 2 | 140 | Non-album single | |
| "Koi Kogare" (with Man with a Mission) |
25 | — |
|
5am | ||
| "Anytime Anywhere" | — | 55 | — | Anytime Anywhere | ||
| "The Road of Victory"[46] (with Man with a Mission and Go Shiina) |
2024 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Hanataba" | 8 | 19 | — |
| ||
| "Out of the Loop" (with Jason Chan) |
— | — | — | |||
| "I Still"[48] | 2025 | 15 | 35 | — | ||
| "Nobody Knows"[48] | — | — | ||||
| "Goddess"[49] | — | — | — | |||
| "Waterproof" | — | — | — | |||
| "Swamp" | — | — | — | |||
| "The Story of Us" | 2026 | 6 | 50 | — | ||
| "—" denotes items that did not chart or items that were ineligible to chart because no physical edition was released. | ||||||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [50] | |||
| "Reiwa" (Man with a Mission featuring Milet) |
2019 | 3 | Dark Crow |
| "Future Tone Bender" (TK from Ling Tosite Sigure featuring Milet) |
2021 | — | Egomaniac Feedback |
| "Cheat Day" (Jason Chan featuring Milet) |
2024 | — | Non-album single |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||
Promotional singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certification | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Hot [39] |
JPN DL [51] | ||||
| "You & I" | 2019 | — | 65 | Drown / You & I and Eyes | |
| "Tell Me" | 2020 | 86 | 22 | Prover / Tell Me and Eyes | |
| "Who I Am" | 65 | 14 | Who I Am and Visions | ||
| "The Hardest" | — | — | |||
| "Ordinary Days" | 2021 | — | — |
|
Ordinary Days and Visions |
| "Fly High" | 2022 | — | — | Visions | |
| "Flare" | 34 | — | Flare | ||
| "Wake Me Up" | — | — | Visions | ||
| "Living My Life" | 2023 | — | — | 5am | |
| "Hey Song" | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes items that did not chart. | |||||
Other charted songs
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Hot [39] |
JPN DL [51] | ||||
| "Inside You" | 2019 | 11 | 2 | Inside You EP and Eyes | |
| "Us" | 14 | 5 | Us and Eyes | ||
| "Prover" | 2020 | — | 19 | Prover / Tell Me and Eyes | |
| "—" denotes items that did not chart. | |||||
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | My Beloved Stranger | Minami Maezono | [56] | |
Awards
| Year | Award ceremony | Category | Nominee/work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | International Drama Festival in Tokyo | Theme Song Awards | "Inside You" | Won | [57] |
| Recochoku Annual Ranking | New Artist Ranking | Herself | Won | [58][59] | |
| 2021 | Space Shower Music Awards | Best Breakthrough Artist | Nominated | [60][61] | |
| CD Shop Awards | Finalist Award | Eyes | Won | [62] |