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Circle (Kaela Kimura album)

album by Japanese pop singer Kaela Kimura

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ5121387 ↗
Source-derived summary

Circle is the second album by Japanese pop singer Kaela Kimura, released on March 8, 2006.

Release

"RIRURA RIRUHA [リルラ リルハ]" (also known as "Real Life Real Heart") is the first single taken from Circle. Released March 30, 2005, it peaked at number three on the Japan Oricon singles chart, Kimura's highest charting single to date. By the end of 2005, Real Life Real Heart had sold 117,299 copies.

The second single, "Beat", was released as the second single from her album, Circle, on October 5, 2005. It peaked at #7 on the Oricon charts.

The third single, "You", was released as the third single from her album, Circle, on January 18, 2006. It peaked at number seven on the Japan Oricon singles chart.

Editorial summary

“Circle (Kaela Kimura album)” enters the record as album by Japanese pop singer Kaela Kimura. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Circle, Kaela and Kimura can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Circle, Kaela and Kimura.
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Why this record matters

“Circle (Kaela Kimura album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Circle, Kaela and Kimura provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5121387. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2005.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Circle (Kaela Kimura album)” 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.