| Today Is A Beautiful Day | ||||
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| Released | March 16, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2009–2010 | |||
| Genre | J-pop | |||
| Length | 58:20 | |||
| Label | SME | |||
| Producer | Ryo | |||
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Today Is A Beautiful Day is the second studio album by Japanese J-pop band Supercell, released on March 16, 2011 by SME. The album contains 13 music tracks written by Ryo, and sung by Nagi Yanagi, though officially Yanagi is not a member of Supercell.[1] Five of the tracks were previously released on three of Supercell's singles. Two different editions of the album were released: a regular CD version and a CD+DVD limited edition. Today Is A Beautiful Day peaked at No. 3 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart, and in July 2011 was awarded a Gold Disc by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for having exceeded 100,000 copies shipped in a single year.
Five of the songs were used as theme songs for various media: "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" was used as the ending theme to the 2009 anime television series Bakemonogatari;[2] "Hero" was the theme song to Shueisha's manga magazine Aoharu, a special edition version of Young Jump;[3] "Love & Roll" was the theme song to the 2009 anime film Cencoroll;[2] "Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni" was used as the ending theme to Type-Moon's visual novel Mahōtsukai no Yoru;[4] and "Utakata Hanabi" was used as the 14th ending theme for the Naruto: Shippuden anime series.[4]
- ^ "About Supercell" (in Japanese). Supercell. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
- ^ a b "Supercell 1st single 「君の知らない物語｣" [Supercell 1st single "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari"] (in Japanese). Supercell. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ "ヤンジャン増刊アオハル、supercellがテーマソング制作" [Supercell Makes a Theme Song for Young Jump Special Edition Aoharu] (in Japanese). Comic Natalie. November 17, 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ a b "supercell ：新曲「うたかた花火」がナルトのエンディング曲に" [Supercell: New Song "Utakata Hanabi" Used as Naruto Ending Theme] (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. June 21, 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2011.