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Symphony with Misono Best

album by Misono

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ16678416 ↗
Source-derived summary

Symphony with misono Best (stylized as symphony with misono BEST) is the second EP by Japanese artist misono. The EP contained three rearranged tracks, which misono performed for the video game Tales of Symphonia Chronicles for the PlayStation 3, and two new tracks.

The EP did not chart as well as her previous EP, Tales with misono-Best-, barely breaking the top 30 at No. 29. It remained on the charts for two weeks.

Information

Symphony with misono Best is the second extended play by Japanese singer-songwriter misono, her first being Tales with misono-Best- in 2009. While the EP peaked at No. 18 on the charts, it failed to be as successful as its predecessor, dropping in rank and coming in at No. 29 on the Oricon Albums Charts for the weekly ranking. It remained on the charts for only two straight weeks.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Symphony with Misono Best” as album by Misono. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-10-09. The account is most persuasive where Symphony, Misono and Best 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 album by Misono. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Jul 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16678416. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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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Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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This entry incorporates text from “Symphony with Misono 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.