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The discography of Japanese musician Kaela Kimura consists of eleven studio albums, two compilation albums, one cover album, three extended plays, twenty-eight singles and five video albums. She debuted as a musician in 2004 under the label Columbia Music Entertainment, releasing ten albums with the company. In 2013, Kimura released Rock, an album of English language covers under her private label Ela Music. In 2014, Kimura released “Ole! Oh!”, her first single under Victor Entertainment.

Kimura was originally a member of the band Amino before making her solo debut. Two of the band’s songs are present on the 2005 compilation album … of Newtypes. In 2006, Kimura collaborated with the band Sadistic Mika Band as a temporary vocalist on three of their songs on their revival album Narkissos.

Her most commercially successful singles are “Rirura Riruha” (2005), “Butterfly” (2009) and “Ring a Ding Dong” (2010), all of which have been certified Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan.[1][2][3]

Studio albums[edit]

All release dates pertain to their release in Japan, unless stated.

Compilation albums[edit]

Cover album[edit]

Extended plays[edit]

Singles[edit]

As a lead artist[edit]

As a featured artist[edit]

Promotional singles[edit]

Video albums[edit]

Other appearances[edit]

  1. ^ Sales provided by Oricon database and are rounded to the nearest thousand copies.
  2. ^ The G-Music chart was established in July 2005 and only archives the top 20 releases. The East Asian chart is a sub-chart, so releases may not have charted on the main top 20.
  3. ^ Position was taken from 2006 week 19 for Circle, 2007 week 15 for Scratch, 2008 week 20 for +1.
  4. ^ The Japan Hot 100 was established in February 2008.
  5. ^ Sources for chart positions are as follows:
    “Jasper”,[17]
    “Moustache”,[18]
    “Memories”,[18]
    “Doko”,[19]
    “Banzai”,[20]
    “Butterfly”,[21]
    “Ring a Ding Dong”,[22]
    “Deep Beep”,[23]
    “A Winter Fairy Is Melting a Snowman”,[24]
    “Kidoairaku Plus Ai”,[25]
    “Mamireru”,[26]
    “Sun Shower”,[27]
    “Ole! Oh!”,[28]
    “Today Is a New Day”,[29]
    “Egg”.[30]
  6. ^ Charted in 2010.[31]
  7. ^ Sources for chart positions are as follows:
    “Hey! Hey! Alright”.[45]
  8. ^ Sources for chart positions are as follows:
    “Dive Into Shallow”,[17]
    “Stars”,[46]
    “Odoru Pompokolin”,[47]
    “You Bet!!”,[48]
    “Chocolate”,[49]
    “Hello, Goodbye”,[50]
    “Wonder Volt”,[51]
    “Take On Me”,[52]
    “Funkytown”,[52]
    “My Love”,[53]
    “One More”,[54]
    “Sonic Manic”.[55]
  9. ^ a b Band featuring Kimura before she debuted as a solo musician.
  10. ^ a b Featuring lyrics written by Kimura.

References[edit]

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