Dream (Ai album)

Dream
A grey-scale close-up shot of Ai's face with her bangs covering her left eye.
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 23, 2022 (2022-02-23)
Recorded2019–2021
Studio
Genre
Length33:27
Language
  • Japanese
  • English
Label
Producer
Ai chronology
It's All Me, Vol. 2
(2021)
Dream
(2022)
Respect All
(2023)
Singles from Dream
  1. "The Moment"
    Released: June 28, 2021
  2. "In the Middle"
    Released: August 13, 2021
  3. "Aldebaran"
    Released: November 1, 2021

Dream is the twelfth studio album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai, released on February 23, 2022, by EMI Records. Ai collaborated with various Japanese and American producers, including longtime collaborator Uta and Bernard "Harv" Harvey, the latter produced her 2021 extended play, It's All Me, Vol. 2.

Three singles were released from the album. The first single, "The Moment" featured Japanese rapper Yellow Bucks and was released in June 2021. "In the Middle", a collaboration with Daichi Miura was released in August 2021. The third single was "Aldebaran", which served as the theme song for the Japanese television drama Come Come Everybody. "Aldebaran" was a modest hit in Japan, debuting and peaking at number 37 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and at number 6 on the Oricon Digital Singles Chart. In 2022, "Aldebaran" won the Best Drama Song award at the 111th Television Drama Academy Awards.[1]

  1. ^ "ドラマソング賞 受賞結果 1位:アルデバラン、AI | 第111回 - ザテレビジョンドラマアカデミー賞" [Drama Song Award Winner 1st Place: Aldebaran, AI | The 111 Television Drama Academy Awards]. WEBザテレビジョン (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 26, 2022. Retrieved May 26, 2022.