Dear... (The Grace album)
album by The Grace
Dear... is the second Japanese studio album and third overall by South Korean girl group The Grace released on January 9, 2009. It also marks their last release as a group prior to their activities being hold since in 2010. The album peaked #14 on Oricon daily album charts and #37 on the Oricon weekly album charts, charted for 3 weeks and sold 4,734 copies, making it their most successful Japanese album at the time.
The album consists of nine tracks with the title track "Sukoshi de Ikara (少しでいいから) (A Little Bit of Good)" being used as a soundtrack song for the movie Subaru and including their seventh Japanese single previously released on October 22, 2008.
Track listing
CD
"Here" (featuring Cliff Edge)
"Sukoshi de Ikara (少しでいいから)"
"Stand Up People"
"I Don't Know What To Do"
"Party"
"Tenjou no Melody (天上のメロディー; Celestial Melody)"
"Near: Thoughtful 1220"
"Doushite...
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