Love & Honesty

Love & Honesty
Love & Honesty
Studio album by BoA
Released	January 15, 2004
Recorded	2003–2004
Genre	Pop; R&B; pop rock;
Length	56:03
Language	Japanese
Label	Avex Trax
Producer	Ken Harada; Ken Matsubara; Akira; Kazuhiro Hara; Yoko Kuzuya; Hirata Shiyouitirou;
BoA chronology
Singles from Love & Honesty
	"Shine We Are! / Earthsong"; Released: May 14, 2003; "Double"; Released: October 22, 2003; "Rock with You"; Released: December 3, 2003; "Be the One"; Released: February 11, 2004;

Love & Honesty is third Japanese studio album (sixth overall) by South Korean singer BoA, released via Avex Trax on January 15, 2004. The album also came in a "Perfect Edition" which had two discs—the standard CD and a DVD. Love & Honesty experienced commercial success in Japan, where it was number one on the Oricon charts for two weeks.^[1] In its first week the album sold 296,781 copies while during its second week it sold 145,325 copies.^[1] Love & Honesty was certified Triple Platinum by the RIAJ within a month of its release^[2] and was the 13th best-selling album in Japan during 2004.

Track listing edit

*Love & Honestly* track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Rock with You"	Shoko Fujibayashi	Kazuhiro Hara	Akira	4:13
2.	"Shine We Are!"	Natsumi Watanabe	Kazuhiro Hara	Kazuhiro Hara	5:07
3.	"Some Day One Day" (ft. Verbal of M-Flo)	Akira Takato	Ken Harada	K-muto Maeda Kazuhiko	4:34
4.	"Love & Honesty"	BoA Natsumi Watanabe	Face2Fake	Face2Fake	4:43
5.	"Midnight Parade"	Shoko Fujibayashi	Bounceback	Akira	4:22
6.	"Be the One"	Stephen A. Kipner David Frank Nate Butler Chinka Yasushi	Stephen A. Kipner David Frank Nate Butler Kazuhiro Hara	Hirata Shiyouitirou	3:32
7.	"Expect"	Narumi Yamamoto	Ken Harada	Hirata Shiyouitirou	4:20
8.	"Over ~Across the Time~"	Ryoushi Sonoda	Ken Matsubara	Ken Matsubara	5:50
9.	"Kokoro no Tegami" (心の手紙; Letter From My Heart)	Ryoushi Sonoda	Tami Komori	Tami Komori	4:50
10.	"Double"	Natsumi Watanabe	Kazuhiro Hara	H•wonder	3:28
11.	"Easy to Be Hard"	Aida Takeshi	Akira	Akira	4:55
12.	"Song With No Name ~Namae no Nai Uta~" (～名前のない歌～)	Aida Takeshi	Yoko Kuzuya	Ken Matsubara	2:49
13.	"Milky Way ~Kimi no Uta~" (～君の歌～; Your Song)	Kenzie Shoko Fujibayashi	Kazuhiro Hara	Kazuhiro Hara	3:20
Total length:					56:03

Sampling credits

"Rock With You" contains a sample of Janet Jackson's "You Ain't Right" ^[3]

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Shine We Are! (Video clip)"
2.	"Rock With You (Video clip)"
3.	"No. 1 (Video clip)"
4.	"Rock With You (Making of)"
5.	"Commercials"
6.	"Interview"

Charts edit

Weekly charts edit


Chart (2004)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[4]	1

Year-end charts edit


Chart (2004)	Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)	13

Sales and certifications edit


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[6]	3× Platinum	653,630^[5]
South Korea	—	19,830^[7]

Singles edit

Date	Title	Peak position	Sales
May 14, 2003	"Shine We Are!" / "Earthsong"	2	144,264
October 22, 2003	"Double" / "Midnight Parade" / "Milky Way: Kimi no Uta"	2	82,395
December 3, 2003	"Rock with You"	5	58,314
February 11, 2004	"Be the One"	15	24,292

References edit

^ ^a ^b "BoA's Love & Honesty sales". Jpopmusic.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
^ "BoA's Love & Honesty certification". RIAJ. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
^ "BoA sampling a little?". Boajjang.com. March 31, 2005. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
^ "BoAのリリース一覧" [List of BoA's Releases]. Oricon. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
^ "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Big Tree']. Oricon. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
^ "Japanese album certifications – BoA – Love & Honesty" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 2004年01月 on the drop-down menu
^ "2004년총결산 POP음반 판매량집계" [2004 Year End International Music Sales]. Recording Industry Association of Korea. 2005. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2014.

[love&honesty-1] "BoA's Love & Honesty sales". Jpopmusic.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2008.

[2] "BoA's Love & Honesty certification". RIAJ. Retrieved August 15, 2008.

[3] "BoA sampling a little?". Boajjang.com. March 31, 2005. Retrieved January 4, 2014.

[OriconPositions-4] "BoAのリリース一覧" [List of BoA's Releases]. Oricon. Retrieved October 22, 2014.

[OriconSales-5] "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service 'You Big Tree']. Oricon. Retrieved November 1, 2014.

[oricon_cert-6] "Japanese album certifications – BoA – Love & Honesty" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 2004年01月 on the drop-down menu

[RIAK2004POP-7] "2004년총결산 POP음반 판매량집계" [2004 Year End International Music Sales]. Recording Industry Association of Korea. 2005. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2014.

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