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Singer for Singer

2004 studio album by Misia

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2024
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Singer for Singer is Misia's sixth studio album and first conceptual one, released on December 8, 2004, only ten months after Mars & Roses. It sold 167,518 copies in its first week and peaked at #3. Singer for Singer features collaborations with Toshinobu Kubota, Fumiya Fujī, Glay, Chara, Kazufumi Miyazawa, Eisho Higa (Begin) and Kōji Tamaki.

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The public source identifies “Singer for Singer” as 2004 studio album by Misia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Singer, studio and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Singer, studio and album providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Singer for Singer”, the useful work is to connect “2004 studio album by Misia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2024. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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 “Singer for Singer” 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.