[globe] The 1st Thread: - "10000 Days" best-of album (2022)

[Kacku]

Originally Posted by ayu-michan

Their sales seem pretty low, but it's understandable Thank you for the updates. Now that I'm thinking about globe's sales for the first time, how many copies did globe20th album sell, does anyone know?

On another note, I'd like to hear why you guys started listening to globe Why did globe's music appeal to you? For me it was similar to ayu's in how versatile their music is.

According to generasia, it sold 20,909 copies during its eight weeks on the charts. It seems like a pretty decent number to me, but I'm not great at judging sales anyway.

Interesting question! My first globe experience was FACES PLACES the album, and I think it was the general 90s sound of the album that appealed to me at first; it was a whole new side of J-Pop to me, since I was mostly listening to 00s music at the time. The album had some songs I loved immediately (DEGENERATE, FACES PLACES, FACE), which encouraged me to try more globe, so next I tried Lights, loved all of it, and then basically hoarded all the globe music I could find. Same as you, I loved how versatile their music was, still do.

Originally Posted by visionfactory

I ordered 8 YEARS best and Remode 1 album

A question I have, is there a particular reason why globe PVs are so scarce?

I mean during the early days we got some pretty ayu-budget level PVs, but during the later era PVs were shooted in a very lazy way (i.e. Many Classic Moments and seize the light which were basically one-shot recordings) and I think (I'm not sure) there are even singles that don't have a promotional video recorded for them.

Nice choices!

As for the PVs, I can only speculate that globe's budget got shot when they shifted to a trance sound and started selling way less (from 1,7m copies of Relation in 1999 to 149k copies of outernet in 2001; yikes). Would be interesting to know more.

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On another note, I'd like to hear why you guys started listening to globe Why did globe's music appeal to you? For me it was similar to ayu's in how versatile their music is.

Oooh good idea!

The first time I heard Globe was through a music review thread on the Hikaru/Utada-online forums around 2004-2006. I think it may have been this performance of Departures, if not a similar one:



I was really interested in buying this version but it wasn't on the single so I didn't know where to get it and just forgot about it.

I would remember the song occasionally and made a couple of YouTube rips. I was also listening to TK tunes through Namie's albums and the tunes he later did for Ayu. (I also enjoyed Ayumi's cover of Seven Days War)

I think it may have been through a thread on JPM or JPopYuku about TK's work and I thought he's such a huge part of JPop that I really need to listen to more of his stuff. I was also looking for new JPop artists to try and had bought a couple of Capsule albums and although I really enjoyed their song World of Fantasy, it wasn't quite what I was after but Many Classic Moments seemed to satisfy this. I was downloading a few of Globe's songs from iTunes (and found the Arrival Version of Departures!) and listening to samples on iTunes but was still unsure about buying an album. Then when the Cover Best was announced featuring Ayu, Kumi AND Hyde, I thought buying the 2 disc version would be a great opportunity to get into them.

And although the cover disc was my favourite and I did wonder if I would like the originals as much as the covers, I slowly became addicted to Globe. Their melodies slowly get into your head!

I also agree about the versatility of their music like how Ayu has ballads and pop and rock songs, Globe has their pop/rock songs, trance tunes and ballads.

I was also wondering about their PVs? As a lot of them seem to feature concert footage. Is it because TK as so busy in the 90s? Could someone list all their PVs for me? I actually quite like the Many Classic Moments PV and wish there was a version for the full length of the song.

Also, are there any songs which only appear on singles or Best albums and not studio albums? I fancy buying some new Globe songs but don't want to spoil myself for any of their albums.