Credits:

YUMI MATSUTOYA

Description:

The ultimate all-time best album celebrating Yumi's 50th anniversary with fans all over Japan! This is the ultimate all-time best album celebrating Yumi's 50th anniversary with fans all over Japan, selected based on the songs and episodes requested by 99 commercial radio stations for the "Let's listen to the radio with speakers" campaign "Yumi Request Week". Most of the approximately 20,000 episodes are stories that have accompanied each listener's life. This is an album of the best requests that have accompanied the lives of listeners, showing once again that Yumi's songs have colored many lives over the years. Included is a new song, "Call me back," Yumi Matsutoya with Yumi Arai." The theme of the album is "Beyond 50 years" and features the first duet between Yumi Matsutoya of today and Yumi Arai's vocals recreated with the latest AI. Grammy Award-winning engineer GOH HOTODA remastered the album in 2022. In addition, some songs have been edited and remixed by Masataka Matsutoya back to the original multi. The bonus video "Yumi Arai x Yumi Matsutoya Dialogue" includes the first conversation between Yumi Arai, recreated in AI, and the current Yumi Matsutoya.