Ride on Time (album)

Ride on Time
Studio album by Tatsuro Yamashita
Released	September 19, 1980 (1980-09-19)
Studio	CBS/Sony
Genre	City pop[1] J-pop funk disco R&B soul
Length	43:19 53:29 (2002 reissue)
Label	AIR RVC
Producer	Tatsuro Yamashita
Tatsuro Yamashita chronology
Moonglow (1979) Ride on Time (1980) On the Street Corner (1980)
Singles from Ride on Time
"Ride on Time" Released: May 1, 1980 "My Sugar Babe" Released: October 21, 1980
Alternative cover
The obi of the first release of the album

Ride on Time is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, released by AIR/RVC on September 19, 1980. It is best known for its title track, which was used in the television commercial for Maxell cassette tapes starring Yamashita, and released as a single in May 1980. The song became his first charting single, peaking at No. 3 on Oricon's weekly singles chart with sales of 417,000 copies. In 2003, the song was featured on the television drama Good Luck!! starring Takuya Kimura, and entered the top 20 on the chart again.

The album was released after the title track became a hit, and gained commercial success subsequently. It topped the Oricon weekly albums chart for a week in October 1980, selling more than 220,000 units.

Following the album's release, the song "My Sugar Babe" (ode to the band he formerly fronted) was issued as a single. It was featured as a theme song for the television drama Keishi-K starring and directed by Shintaro Katsu and aired on NTV in Autumn 1980. Yamashita composed the entire background music used on the TV series. The album's 2002 remastered edition includes three tracks from the soundtrack as bonus tracks.