Kizuna (album)

Kizuna
Kizuna
	Normal edition cover
Studio album by JO1
Released	May 25, 2022
Recorded	2021–2022
Genre	J-pop
Length	42:03 (Limited edition A); 41:50 (Limited edition B); 41:39 (Anime edition); 45:00 (Normal and Fan Club edition); 60:04 (Special edition);
Language	Japanese;
Label	Lapone Entertainment
JO1 chronology
Alternative cover
	Anime edition cover featuring JO1 members drawn by artists from Lay-duce
Singles from Kizuna
	"Challenger"; Released: April 28, 2021; "Stranger"; Released: August 18, 2021; "Wandering"; Released: December 15, 2021;

Kizuna (Japanese: 絆, lit. 'bond', stylized as KIZUИA or in all caps) is the second studio album by the Japanese boy band JO1. It includes songs from their previous EP singles, Challenger, Stranger, and Wandering. Lapone Entertainment released the album into five physical editions on May 25, 2022, while the digital version was released two days earlier, with the Japan Hot 100 number-one song "With Us" serving as the main promotional single. It features familiar collaborators like Full8loom, Alive Knob, Teito, Score, and Megatone as well as new contributors like Lee Woo-min (Collapsedone), Justin Reinstein, Purple Night, UTA [ja], and others.

To promote the album, Kizuna was preceded by two promotional digital singles, "Dreamer" and "Move the Soul", as well as a six-day long out-of-home advertising campaign at Shinjuku Station, the world's busiest station. JO1 held two live events, attended the KCON 2022 Premiere in Japan and MTV Live Match, and traveled to South Korea to promote the album on M Countdown and Idol Radio. The group also embarked on a 13-show eponymous concert tour in five prefectures from September to October 2022.

The album became the group's first to debut at number one on both the Oricon Albums Chart and Billboard Japan Hot Albums, as well as to receive a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for over 250,000 units in shipments.