Japanese singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki has released twenty-five video albums and three video singles, and been featured in sixty-six music videos, two television series, and eleven commercials. Kuraki debuted in 1999, while she was still in high school, through Giza Studio. The label initially marketed Kuraki in the United States under the name Mai K, and released the single "Baby I Like" (1999). However, the single was a commercial failure which prompted the label to send her back to Japan. There, they released her single "Love, Day After Tomorrow", which peaked at number two on the Oricon Singles Chart and was certified million by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAJ). The second single, "Stay by My Side" became her first number one single on the chart. Kuraki's debut album, Delicious Way, topped the Oricon Albums Chart and was certified triple million by the RIAJ.[1]

In 2001, her second album Perfect Crime was released, and it became another million seller, certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAJ. "Winter Bells", released in 2002 became her second number one single on the Oricon Singles Chart, and its parent album, Fairy Tale, topped the Albums Chart. It sold over 700,000 copies in Japan and earned a triple-platinum certification from the RIAJ. The albums If I Believe (2003), Wish You the Best (2004), Fuse of Love (2005), and Diamond Wave (2005) all charted within the top three of the Albums Chart. Both If I Believe and Wish You the Best peaked at number one on the Albums Chart. The former sold over 400,000 copies and was certified two-times platinum by the RIAJ while the latter sold more than 950,000 copies and was certified million by the RIAJ. Kuraki's next studio album release, One Life (2008) charted outside the top 10, peaking at number 14 on the Albums Chart.[1] However, the follow-up to One Life titled Touch Me! (2009) peaked at number one, earning a gold certification. Her second compilation album All My Best (2009) sold over 250,000 copies in Japan and was certificated platinum. The follow-up albums Future Kiss (2010) and Over the Rainbow (2012) peaked at number 3 and 2, respectively, on the Oricon Albums Chart. Her third compilation album Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope (2014) sold over 67,000 copies and was certificated gold. Her 11th album Smile (2017) sold only 29,000 copies in Japan and failed commercially but its follow-up single Togetsukyo (Kimi Omou) become her best-selling song in 2010's.

She has also collaborated with Tak Matsumoto of B'z on the single "Imitation Gold", which peaked at number one on the Oricon Singles Chart. In 2009, she was featured on the single "Sunao ni Ienakute" by Zard, a rearranged version of the band's 1999 song of the same title. The single peaked at number five on the Oricon Singles Chart.

Music videos

As lead artist

Title Year Director Video album
"Baby I Like" 1999 Masashi Ohishi First Cut
"Love, Day After Tomorrow" First Cut
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Stay by My Side" 2000
"Stay by My Side"
(Dream on Version)
First Cut
"Secret of My Heart" First Cut
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Never Gonna Give You Up" First Cut
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Simply Wonderful"
(Radio Edit)
"Reach for the Sky" My Reflection
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Tsumetai Umi" 2001
"Stand Up"
"Always"
"Can't Forget Your Love" My Reflection
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Winter Bells" 2002 My Reflection
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Feel Fine!" My Reflection
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Like a Star in the Night" My Reflection
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Ride on Time"
"Key to My Life"
"Make My Day" My Reflection
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Time After Time (Hana Mau Machi de)" 2003
"Kiss"
"Kaze no La La La"
"If I Believe" My Reflection
"Same"
"Tonight, I Feel Close to You"
(with Stefanie Sun)
"Ashita e Kakeru Hashi" 2004 Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Love, Needing" 2005 Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Dancing" Nigel Dick Making of Dancing
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"P.S My Sunshine" Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"I Sing a Song for You"
"Growing of My Heart" Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Best of Hero" 2006
"Diamond Wave" Diamond Wave
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Diamond Wave"
(iTunes Exclusive Version)
"Shiroi Yuki" Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Season of Love" 2007 Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Silent Love (Open My Heart)"
"Be with U"
"One Life" 2008
"Yume ga Saku Haru" Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Ichibyōgoto ni Love for You" Ichibyōgoto ni Love for You
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"24 Xmas Time" 24 Xmas Time
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Touch Me!" 2009
"Puzzle" Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Revive" Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Beautiful" Beautiful
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Watashi no, Shiranai, Watashi." Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
"Eien Yori Nagaku" 2010 Eien Yori Nagaku/Drive me crazy
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Drive Me Crazy" Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Summer Time Gone"
"1000 Mankai no Kiss" 2011 Over the Rainbow
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Mou Ichido" Over the Rainbow
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Your Best Friend" Your Best Friend
Over the Rainbow
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Brave Your Heart"
(with Alex Ru)
2012 Over the Rainbow
"Stay the Same"
"Koi ni Koishite" Koi ni Koishite/Special Morning Day to You
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Hakanasa" Mai Kuraki Symphonic Collection in Moscow
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Try Again" 2013 Try Again
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Wake Me Up" 2014 Wake Me Up
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Muteki na Heart" Muteki na Heart
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Stand by You" Stand by You
Mai Kuraki Best 151A: Love & Hope
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Serendipity" 2015 Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Yesterday Love" 2017 Atsunori Toshi Yesterday Love
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Togetsukyo (Kimi Omou)" Takeshi Ohno Togetsukyo (Kimi Omou)
Kimi Omou: Shunkashūtō
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Koyoi wa Yume wo Misasete" 2018 Kimi Omou: Shunkashūtō
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Hanakotoba" Kimi Omou: Shunkashūtō
"Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai" 2019 Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai/Barairo no Jinsei
Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You
"Barairo no Jinsei"
"Makenaide"
"Zero kara Hajimete" 2021 Takeshi Ohno Zero kara Hajimete
Title Year Director Video album
"Imitation Gold"
(Tak Matsumoto featuring Mai Kuraki)
2003
"My Story, Your Song"
(Stefanie Sun featuring Mai Kuraki)
"Sunao ni Ienakute"
(Zard featuring Mai Kuraki)
2009 Zard Music Video Collection: 25th Anniversary
"Doushite Suki nandaro?"
(Nerdhead featuring Mai-K)
2011 Takuya Tada Doushite Suki nandaro?
"Kotoba ni Dekinai Hodo Suki nanoni"
(Nerdhead featuring Mai-K)
Naokazu Mitsuishi

Video albums

List of media, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak positions Certifications
JPN
DVD
JPN
Blu-ray
TWN
[2][upper-alpha 1]
First Cut
  • Released: November 8, 2000
  • Label: Giza Studio
  • Format(s): DVD, VHS
1
Mai Kuraki & Experience First Live 2001 in Zepp Osaka
  • Released: September 19, 2001[3]
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): VHS
Mai Kuraki & Experience First Live Tour 2001 Eternal Moment
  • Released: November 21, 2001
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): DVD, VHS
2
Mai Kuraki "Loving You..." Tour 2002 Final 2.27 in Yokohama Arena
  • Released: April 3, 2002[4]
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): VHS
Mai Kuraki "Loving You..." Tour 2002 Complete Edition
  • Released: May 15, 2002
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): DVD
2
My Reflection
  • Released: January 17, 2004
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): DVD
1
Mai Kuraki 5th Anniversary Edition Grow, Step by Step
  • Released: January 5, 2005
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): DVD
7
Mai Kuraki Live Tour 2005 Like a Fuse of Live and Tour Documentary of "Chance for You"
  • Released: February 22, 2006
  • Label: B-Vision
  • Format(s): DVD
62
Brilliant Cut: Mai Kuraki Live & Document
  • Released: August 22, 2007
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
64
Mai Kuraki Live Tour 2008 "Touch Me!"
  • Released: May 6, 2009
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
43
10th Anniversary Mai Kuraki Live Tour "Best"
  • Released: December 23, 2009
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
108
Happy Happy Halloween Live 2010
  • Released: October 19, 2010
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
94
Mai Kuraki Premium Live One for All, All for One
  • Released: March 14, 2012
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
95
Mai Kuraki Live Tour 2012: Over the Rainbow
  • Released: August 15, 2012
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
63
Mai Kuraki Symphonic Collection in Moscow
  • Released: December 19, 2012
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD+CD, 2DVD+CD
153
Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live: Opus 1
  • Released: July 3, 2013
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
145
Mai Kuraki Live Project 2013 "Re:"
  • Released: December 4, 2013
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
10
Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live: Opus 2
  • Released: March 26, 2014
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD
343
15th Anniversary Mai Kuraki Live Project 2014 BEST “151A” ~Premium~
  • Released: May 27, 2015
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD, Blu-ray
430
Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live: Opus 3
  • Released: January 27, 2016
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD, Blu-ray
4045
Mai Kuraki Live Project 2017: Sawage Live
  • Released: August 16, 2017
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD, Blu-ray
99
Mai Kuraki Live Project 2018 "Red It be: Kimi Omou Shunkashūtō"
  • Released: November 27, 2019
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD, Blu-ray
1821
20th Anniversary Mai Kuraki Live Project 2019 "Let's Goal!: Barairo no Jinsei"
  • Released: June 24, 2020
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD, Blu-ray
1217
Mai Kuraki Live Project 2021 "Unconditional Love"
  • Released: December 8, 2022
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD, Blu-ray
1618
Mai Kuraki Premium Symphonic Concert 2022
  • Released: November 15, 2023
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD+CD, Blu-ray+CD
TBA
"—" denotes items which were released before the creation of the G-Music chart, or items that did not chart.

Video singles

List of media, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak positions Sales
JPN
DVD
JPN
Blu-ray
JPN
Hot 100
Strong Heart
  • Released: November 23, 2011
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD+CD, DVD+2CD
463 20,000
Wake Me Up 275 12,000
Yesterday Love
  • Released: February 26, 2014
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): Blu-ray, DVD, Blu-ray+DVD
36[upper-alpha 2] 6,100
Zero kara Hajimete
  • Released: June 2, 2021
  • Label: Northern Music
  • Format(s): DVD+CD
1[upper-alpha 3] 8,000

Television roles

Year Television show Character Description
2000-2002 Mai-K TV Host
2019 Case Closed Herself (voice role) "The Scarlet School Trip (Bright Red Arc)"
"The Scarlet School Trip (Crimson Love Arc)"
(Episode 927, 928)
Fhit Music: Mai Kuraki Herself
Non-fiction W: Mai Kuraki First Documentary Documentary

Commercials

Year Companies Brands/products
2001 Coca-Cola Japan Sokenbicha
2002-2003 Shiseido Sea Breeze
2005 Dwango
2009 Being Giza Studio
2009-2011 Kosé Esprique Precious
2012 NGW Japan Icefield
2015 West Japan Railway Company San'yō Shinkansen 40th anniversary campaign
2016-2017 U-Can Speak Master
2018-2019 Parco Chinese New Year campaign
2018-2019 Kyoto Travel campaign
2019- Cleverlyhome

Notes

  1. Positions were taken from 2006 week 8 for Mai Kuraki Live Tour 2005 Like a Fuse of Live and Tour Documentary of "Chance for You", 2007 week 34 for Brilliant Cut: Mai Kuraki Live & Document, 2009 week 18 for Mai Kuraki Live Tour 2008 "Touch Me!", 2009 week 52 for 10th Anniversary Mai Kuraki Live Tour "Best", 2011 week 44 for Happy Happy Halloween Live 2010, 2011 week 49 for Strong Heart: From Mai Kuraki Premium Live One for All, All for One, 2012 week 33 for Mai Kuraki Live Tour 2012: Over the Rainbow, 2013 week 51 for Mai Kuraki Symphonic Collection in Moscow, 2013 week 27 for Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live: Opus 1, and 2014 week 13 for Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live: Opus 2.
  2. "Yesterday Love" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Chart, but peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Japan Hot Animation Chart.[6]
  3. "Zero kara Hajimete" did not enter the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Chart, but peaked at number 80 on the Billboard Japan Top Download Songs Chart.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Eremenko, Alexey. "Mai Kuraki – Biography". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  2. "G-Music Audio/Video Chart" (in Chinese). G-Music. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  3. "【倉木麻衣×BARKS連載対談】第三回(2001年~2002年)「十代の頃の私はませた歌詞を書いていたなと思うんです。早く大人になりたいと」" (in Japanese). Barks. Global Plus Inc. May 30, 2014. Archived from the original on July 3, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  4. "Mai Kuraki"Loving You…"Tour 2002 Final 2.27 YOKOHAMA ARENA" (in Japanese). Northern Music. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  5. ゴールドディスク認定作品一覧 2004年12月 (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  6. "Billboard Japan Hot Animation(2017/01/23 付け)". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  7. "Billboard Japan Top Download Songs(2021年3月22日付)". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
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