Mother Earth (Maki Ohguro album)

Mother Earth
Studio album by Maki Ohguro
Released	9 September 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Japanese pop
Length	57:00
Label	B-Gram
Producer	Takeshi Hayama
Maki Ohguro chronology
Power of Dreams (1997) Mother Earth (1998) O (2001)
Singles from Mother Earth
"Ne! ~Onna Jounetsu~" Released: 26 February 1996

Mother Earth is the seventh studio album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 9 September 1998 under B-Gram Records. For the first time the arranger Takeshi became the main producer of this album.

Album consist of the only one previously released singles, Ne! ~Onna Jounetsu~.

Two tracks out of thirteen are instrumental, composed by Maki herself and Takeshi Hayama.^[1]

The album reached No. 1 in its first week on the Oricon chart. The album sold 714,000 copies.^[2] This is last time when her album reached No.1 in Oricon weekly charts.

It's her last studio album released in B-Gram Records. Before moving to new label EMI Japan by Universal Music Japan, she released in 1999 her second compilation album Maki Ohguro Best of Best ~All Singles Collection~.