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Mr. Vocalist Best

2011 compilation album by Eric Martin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ107463393 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mr. Vocalist Best is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Eric Martin. Released on April 6, 2011 exclusively in Japan by Sony Music Japan, the album compiles songs from Martin's four Mr. Vocalist albums from 2008 to 2010. Also included is the song "Inori", which was written and originally recorded by Yūji Sasaki for his aunt Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the age of two and died of the effects ten years later in 1955. Two versions of the album were released: a single CD edition and a limited edition two-CD set with DVD.

The album peaked at No. 220 on Oricon's albums chart.

Track listing

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External links

Official website

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mr. Vocalist Best” as 2011 compilation album by Eric Martin. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2008, 2010, 1955—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Vocalist, Best and compilation can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2011 compilation album by Eric Martin. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q107463393. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2008, 2010 and 1955.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mr. Vocalist Best” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.