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NEW SINGLE || BoA - “LOVE LETTER”

BoA - “LOVE LETTER”

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Korean starlet BoA will be releasing her 24th Japanese single on September 19. Titled LOVE LETTER, the single is said to be a medium tempo ballad. Included on the single are the B-sides Diamond Heart and Beautiful Flowers. The single is said to have six tracks which include the previously mentioned songs plus a new version of each. The single will be available in the CD-only format and a limited edition CD+DVD version which will include the PV to LOVE LETTER.

Diamond Heart has been used in the Toshiba W53T since June this year and Beautiful Flowers has been chosen as the baseball team Yokohama BayStars official theme song for this season. Many fans expected her song Smile Again, to be included on this single but it seems to be ascent. Smile Again started airing as the ending theme for the drama Toyo Wide Theatre in mid July. So far, BoA has no unreleased Japanese songs so this will be a first.

BoA debuted in Korea with the album ID;Peace B in 2000 at the tender age of 13. She crossed over to Japan in 2002 and has since released many albums and singles in both Japan and Korea. She is multi-talented as she is a great singer, dancer and knows how to speak Korean, Japanese, some Chinese and is coming along nicely with her English. Her last single in Japan was her 23rd single Sweet Impact, released in late April. It was reported that her 6th Korean album would be out in June but so far, we’ve seen nothing. It should be out within in the next couple of months but it’s already been more than two years since her last Korean album, Girls on Top, was released.

Diamond Heart preview
Beautiful Flowers preview

BoA’s official Japanese website

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:O thanks !! for the info i love BoA

I think those extra 3 tracks are just instrumentals and not a new version for each.

mid tempo ballad.. T.T
still, i'm excited!

too bad about the Korean album..
she doesn't seem to care about her Korean fans.
which is bad, considering she debuted there..

~ Foxxy, wherever did you get such a HQ pic from Made In Twenty?!
tell me! :P

I'm bummed Diamond Heart will be a b-side. But I'm still looking forward to this single.

Thanks for the info ;) I hope "Love Letter" and "Beautiful Flowers" will be better than "Diamond Heart"; it's such a typical pop song...a little boring, hehe.

Yay! I'm excited for this single! :D

Thanks!
I hope the full single will be good.

Beautiful Flowers sounds nice, I think this should be a good single.

thanks for the info!! =))

OMG foxxy_fuyumi you scared the hell out of me! I didn't recognize the picture at first and thought it was the cover for LOVE LETTER:dead I'm so glad it's not:yes

wwooow love letter..
i can't wait to see her PV

umm she already has a song called love letter on the Don't Start Now/Jumping Into the World album....way to have an interesting title...i was hoping for another uptempo song, but ah well...i prolly wont like this song....i hate all of her ballads...

Arigatou for the info!! ^^

Hm, that's good news! =D
Is there somewhere I can listen to Smile Again?

Interesting. I usually like her ballads so I'm looking forward to this.

Quote:

The CD+DVD and CD only covers respectively.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3...034bif7nt3.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3...1035tr1mi2.jpg

From her official site. Crappy fonts, good pictures. What the heck? XD

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/3...eletterbt7.jpg
Promo photo from some site.

Quote:

BoA New Single「LOVE LETTER」
2007.9.19 Release

BoA、5ヶ月ぶりのNew Singleは新曲3曲を収録した強力盤！
M1「LOVE LETTER」は、BoAの新しい可能性を提示する繊細なミディアムバラード。
M2「Diamond Heart」は、既に本人出演のCMソングとしてオンエアされ、期間限定の着うた®配信でも話題を呼んだ初挑戦のハウスチューン。
M3「Beautiful Flowers」は、4月よりTBS「ザ・プロ野球」テーマ曲としてオンエア中のポジティヴなPOPチューン。リリース要望が相次ぐM2、M3は待望の初収録！。

更にミュゥモ・ショップではオリジナル予約特典としてスペシャル・ポストカード付き！
2007年8月16日正午までですので、お早めにゲットしてください！
http://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/list1?a...ateg_id=200601

LOVE LETTER
2007.9.19 on sale.
■ CD + DVD：AVCD-31034/B　¥1,890(tax in)
■ CD：AVCD-31035　¥1,200(tax in)

CD収録曲　（AVCD-31034/B、AVCD-31035 共通）

1. LOVE LETTER
＜Lyrics:BoA,Natsumi Watanabe/Music:Yoko Kuzuya/Arrangement:YANAGIMAN＞
2. Diamond Heart　※東芝携帯電話W53T(au)TVCMタイアップソング
＜Lyrics :Emi Nishida/Music&Arrangement: ArmySlick＞
3. Beautiful Flowers　※TBS「ザ・プロ野球」テーマ曲
＜Lyric:Shoko Fujibayashi/Music&Arrangement:h-wonder＞
4. LOVE LETTER（instrumetal）
5. Diamond Heart（instrumetal）
6. Beautiful Flowers（instrumetal）

DVD収録曲　（AVCD-31034/B のみ）

1. LOVE LETTER Music Clip

■初回盤ボーナストラック（AVCD-31034/B、AVCD-31035 共通）
LOVE LETTER（Winter Acoustic Mix）収録

Whee for quoted info.

Hahahaha that font looks so damn bad XDXDXDXD I prefer the second cover because BoA's face looks disformed/too chubby in the first one:eek

Wow, love the covers! <3~~
The background colors reminds me of CAROLS.. And the font's really ugly D:

atleast there's 3 tracks on this single~ I'm looking forward to it

Hm, I like the covers. Simple and beautiful. BoA looks so beautiful and pretty in the promo photo. I like the font too.

Nice!! it will release the day of the new single of ayu

BoA will lose sales because it. xD
Go Ayu! Go Ayu!

^No BoA won't loose sales because of this, both will do good! yay ^_^.

I hope low sales for this BoA release one for BoA see that her last songs are stupid than the olders ones.

its like 3 songs vs i dunno how many...
who cares...im sure Ayu's songs will be better...since BoA's wan is kinda plain

I like the cover,but it misses smth,imo

Thanks for the info. I love BoA!!

this is a stupid move on Avex's part..
BoA's already declining like crazy.. her singles aren't charting as they used to....
Putting her against Ayu... seriously it means they've stopped caring about her..
Cause she used to be a big name and they'd never put big names against each other...
Only smaller artists release on the same day as a bigger artist.. that way there's no competition...

Like in the past Kuu and Suzuki Ami released on the same day...
but Avex knows Suzuki Ami doesn't chart too well so it doesn't matter...
*sigh* poor BoA... oh well...

YAY. NOW I CAN SAY "I can't wait for this single" IN THIS THREAD AND IN BoA's THREAD.

I hope it's Christmasy!!

oh poor BoA..
she release love letter same day with ayumi

Awww.. Nice. I love her ballads. She has such a sweet voice :) Can`t wait for it, thanx for the info ^^

Gosh, that font is so distracting lol. I do like the gradient color background though :)

YAYYYY
Thanks a lot for the download link! o/

Right now, I'm pretty sure LOVE LETTER will sell lower than talkin' 2 myself. Why? Early leak! Which is why I really don't like singles leaking too early, because the hype dies down much faster than if they were to leak close to the release date.

I really don't understand why Avex has to pit BoA against Ayu. A potential number 1 single on the Oricon charts and Avex has to pull such a thing.