YUI (ユイ) fan club! <3

<span style="font-size: 200%;">..Personal data.. <!--size--></span> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> <!--link--><a href="http://www.yui-net.com//"><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5379/65712325.jpg" border="0" /></a> Yui grew up in a fatherless home and so does not have any memory of her father. She does remember always being close to music, be it from her mother's car stereo or the radio, she would remember the tunes and sing along. By the time she was in elementary school she thought she would like to become a singer. <img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa51/perv007103/yui.jpg" border="0" /> During her third year in middle school, following the influence of her mother, Yui began keeping a journal of everyday feelings and poetry. Because of this, by the time she was in high school, she began writing songs. While in high school she worked a part-time job to help pay for tuition. Always busy, with her time steadily disappearing, she thought there was no longer a road to music. Eventually her body would breakdown and she found her self under hospitalization. While in the hospital, with the time to consider her life, she was overwhelmed with the desire to make music. She decided that school and music could not coexist. Upon leaving the hospital she encountered a live street performance and expressed her desire to pursue a musical career to the band, Bianco Nero, at the end of the concert. Bianco Nero recommended to Yui that she should join a private music school and soon, she dropped out of high school and seriously began studying songwriting and guitar at a juku in her hometown of Fukuoka. Aspiring to become a professional, she carried her guitar around and sang at local places at the entrance of Tenjin station in Fukuoka. Doing these street performances helped Yui to eventually overcome her shyness. Her professional career began in March 2004 when at the recommendation of her juku instructors she applied for an audition hosted by Sony Music Japan. Despite the audition rule that a participant could only sing two songs, Yui sang three, with all of the judges gave her the highest score possible and causing a fierce scramble among record labels to sign her. She first sang "Why Me" (a song later included in her major label debut single), followed by "It's Happy Line" and "I Know". Because "I Know" was incomplete at the time, the judges were able to get a glimpse of what would later be dubbed "Yui-go", or Yui-speak (Yui語 in Japanese), nonsensical English hummed to a tune during her songwriting process — an example of Yui-go can be found in the film Midnight Sun when Yui is working on the song "Goodbye Days". On Christmas Eve of that year, she released her debut single "It's Happy Line" under the indie label Leaflet Records, coupled with the track "I Know". The pressing was limited to only 2,000 copies in her home area. <!--spoiler--></span></div> albums <span style="font-size: 200%;">From Me to You (2005–2006)<!--size--></span> <img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh120/ShiroiHaru/YUI/FROMMETOYOUre-release.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> Upon leaving her hometown in Fukuoka for Tokyo, Yui wrote the song "Feel My Soul". She was planning its release on an indie label as a tribute to her hometown. However, when the song caught the ears of Fuji TV producer Mr. Yamaguchi, who just happened to see the demo video clip, he claimed that Yui's voice haunted him so much that he went out of his way to visit the recording studio all by himself. He even made his channel's prime time drama Fukigen na Gene use Yui's debut track. <!--spoiler--></span></div> <span style="font-size: 200%;">Can't Buy My Love (2006–2007)<!--size--></span> <img src="http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg41/yusukea/cant-buy-my-love-02.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> Yui made her acting debut in the full-length Japanese feature film Midnight Sun (Taiyou no uta, タイヨウのうた), released on June 17, 2006. The film was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Yui attended Japan Academy Prize and received Best Newcomer Award for Midnight Sun. Prior to the release of the movie, however, Yui had released her fifth single "Good-bye Days" which is by far her highest selling single at 200,000 copies sold. "Good-bye Days" was written specifically for the film as are all three tracks featured on this single are featured in the movie. The single also has the track "It's Happy Line" as the third track, which was originally released on her debut single of the same title. Her next single, "I Remember You", did fairly well in terms of sales boosted by "Good-bye Days"' popularity. Soon after, Yui's seventh single "Rolling Star" was chosen as the 5th opening theme song for the anime series Bleach and "Che.r.ry", her eighth single, was used as a song for the KDDI au Listen Mobile Service commercial. She released her second album Can't Buy My Love on April 4, 2007, which fared well on the Oricon charts, staying for two weeks at number 1 and shattering her entire previous album's record sales in one week. So far, Can't Buy My Love has managed to sell over 680,000 copies. Due to the success of Can't Buy My Love, Yui's previous album, From Me to You charted once again to add another 9,000 copies to the Oricon counting. On February 23, Yui released her first major debut single, "Feel My Soul". The music in Fukigen na Gene was mainly based on her songs such as "Feel My Soul" and "It's Happy Line". With the drama tie-in Feel My Soul managed to sell over 100,000 copies and her single managed to chart at number 8 on Oricon Weekly Charts in its first week. Her next three singles, "Tomorrow's Way" (theme song for the Japanese movie, "Hinokio"), "Life" (fifth ending song for a popular anime, Bleach), and "Tokyo" did not chart as high as Feel My Soul did and were only moderately successful in comparison. After the release of four singles, Yui released her debut album From Me to You, which was another moderate success with sales of more than 200,000 copies. <!--spoiler--></span></div> <span style="font-size: 200%;">I Loved Yesterday (2007–2008)<!--size--></span> <img src="http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/yemz_maori/yui.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> Yui released her 9th single "My Generation/Understand" on June 13, 2007. It was her first double A-side single. "My Generation" was used as the theme song for the drama Seito Shokun!, and "Understand" was chosen as the theme song for the movie Dog in a Sidecar (サイドカーに犬), which starred her senpai at Stardust Promotion, Yūko Takeuchi. It charted at number 1 on the Oricon Weekly Charts for the first week of its release. Her tenth single, "Love & Truth" was released on September 26 and the title track is the theme song to the Japanese film, Closed Note (クローズド・ノート), starring Erika Sawajiri (also of Stardust) who played the lead role in the film who also played the same role as Yui in Midnight Sun (Taiyou no uta), in television-drama version. During this time, her first two albums were re-released as Winter Sleeve Edition in alternate covers presumably from her "Love & Truth" photoshoot. Her first live DVD "Thank You My Teens" was released on November 14, 2007, which contained footage of one of Yui's concert during her second live tour. On November 19, 2007, Yui opened her first Live show at Nippon Budokan. The tickets for the concert sold out. Her first single of 2008, Namidairo, was released for sale on February 27, 2008. it is the theme song for the Japanese drama 4 Shimai Tantei Dan. Yui was asked to make a "mysterious and sad sounding" song for the drama tie-in, and she composed the song "Namidairo" as such. Incidentally, the chorus of the song was created by Yui during the time she made her singing debut. A week following the release of her 11th single, the promotional video of a new song "Laugh Away", was released. The song was used as the theme song for the Glico "Watering KissMint" commercial. "Laugh Away" was released as a digital single on March 10, 2008 and also included on her third album which would later be released. <img src="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt176/devil666dutchess/Hell/yui_yoshioka____by_lapisatpluma01.jpg" border="0" /> Her third studio album was released on April 9, 2008 titled I Loved Yesterday. It charted at number 1 on the Oricon Weekly Charts, with more than 400,000 copies sold, selling only a little behind her sophomore album. The 10th track on the album, titled "Oh Yeah" was used as the opening theme song to the morning Japanese show Mezamashi TV. The limited edition version of the album came with a DVD which included music videos of her previous singles and live footage of her Nippon Budokan show. Yui's third tour, named '"Oui": I Loved Yesterday' started in May and ended in July. Yui released a single, entitled "Summer Song" on July 2, 2008. This single charted at number 1 on Oricon Weekly Chart. Summer Song is Yui's first number 1 hit single since "I Remember You" that was not tied to a drama (My Generation/Understand, Namidairo), commercial (Laugh Away, Che.r.ry) or anime (Rolling Star). Summer Song sold 83,440 copies in a week, making Summer Song second highest in first week sales after Love & Truth single. <!--spoiler--></span></div> <span style="font-size: 200%;"> My Short Stories (2005-2008) (compilation album)<!--size--></span> <img src="http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x167/xii012/myshortstoriescdil3.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> Yui's latest compilation album, My Short Stories,released November 2008, again charted at number 1 on Oricon, featuring the B-Sides from all her past singles (Feel My Soul to Summer Song), along with new song "I'll Be". Yui is only the second female artist whose B-side compilation album topped the charts, after Seiko Matsuda's "Touch Me" in 1984. The last compilation album that reached number 1 was Mr. Children's B-Side, on 21 May 2007. Due to the success of "My Short Stories", sales of her first album From Me to You rose again. In her 29 August 2008 "Yui Diary" blog entry, Yui mentioned that she will take a break for a while from all public appearances after this new album to re-energize herself. With this break, she will be able to fully concentrate on next year's song production. During this break, she contributed a song, "I Do It" to an Okinawan girl band Stereopony. It was released as their third single on April 22, 2009 and as ringtone (chaku uta) on March 18, 2009. <!--spoiler--></span></div> <span style="font-size: 200%;">Holidays In The Sun<!--size--></span> <!--link--><a href="http://img222.imageshack.us/i/okam35copy.jpg/"><img src="http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6953/okam35copy.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> Yui has announced her return from her 5-month hiatus with a new single just one day before her 22nd birthday, on March 25 on her diary entry in her official website. Yui's new song is an up-tempo tune titled "Again". It has been chosen as the opening theme song of the new Fullmetal Alchemist anime series, which started on April 5. The single was released on June 3, 2009. "Again" debuted atop the Oricon chart selling over 110,000 copies in its first week and currently has the highest opening week sales for a female act in 2009. On July 27, 2009, Yui's official website, YUI-net has announced that Yui will be releasing her second double-A side single named, "It's all too much/Never say die". These two songs are chosen for a movie version of an anime, Kaiji as a theme song and an insert song. The single will be released on 7 October, 2009 and the movie released on 10 October, 2009. "It's All Too Much/Never Say Die" debuted at #1 in the first week sales, with sales of 75,047 copies on Oricon. This is her fifth overall #1 single. On July 27, 2009, Yui-net.com announced the release of her second double-A side single named, "It's All Too Much/Never Say Die". The two songs featured for a movie version of an anime, Kaiji as a both a theme and an insert song.The single was released on 7 October 2009 and Kaiji released on October 10, 2009. The single debuted at #1, selling 75,000 copies in its first week of sales. This is her fifth overall number 1 single. Yui released her new single "Gloria" on January 20, 2010. It was another chart-topper, selling 80,000 copies in the first week. Yui's 15 is the 3rd Japan's Best-selling single after Utada Hiksru's and Ayumi Hamasaki's. Her next single, "To Mother," was released on June 2, 2010. After two years and three months since I Loved Yesterday, Yui released her new album Holidays in the Sun on July 14, 2010, which includes her latest five singles, from "Summer Song" to "To Mother". She also released her latest single "Please Stay With Me" which was included in the album Holidays in the Sun. "Please Stay With Me" was choosen became a J-drama's theme song. it named "Natsu no Ai wa Niji ni Kagayaku".then, she also covered steoropony's song. i do it" wich she had write it for steoropony. her 4th tour named "HOTEL HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN" in 24 November, she released her new single "Rain". the single reached the no-1-oricon-chart. even though she made the PV in her tour's time. the theme was "Ame no kurisumasu" (christmas rain). <!--spoiler--></span></div> Her Movies. <span style="font-size: 200%;">Midnight sun (Taiyou no Uta タイヨウのうた) <!--size--></span> <img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm222/amane_02/Yui_-_Taiyou_no_Uta.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> Story Kaoru is out almost every night playing and singing in front of the station. By day she sleeps, but every morning she sits by the window of her room to watch a young surfer, Koji Fujishiro (藤代 孝治 Fujishiro Kōji), played by Takashi Tsukamoto, who usually waits by a bus stop for his friends before they go surfing each morning. She develops a crush on him from afar. One night, when she is playing as usual by the train station, she sees Koji. She leaves her guitar and runs after him, knocking him over when she finally catches up to him. She clumsily introduces herself. When her cousin drags her home, they sit by Kaoru's window while they watch Koji meet his friends. Kaoru explains everything, and her cousin notes that she probably goes to the same school as him, and offers to spy on him for her. The next night she sits by the bus stop before going home, and plays a song. Koji arrives on his scooter. Both embarrassed, they start talking and Koji eventually promises to meet her and listen to her sing another night, at the start of the school holidays. When they meet up, another obnoxious street performer has taken her spot. Koji decides to take her to the city, where after seeing the sights, she starts playing in a square. YUI's music video Skyline features this event. A substantial crowd gathers to hear her sing. Afterwards they watch the ocean. Koji asks her out. Their date, however, ends abruptly as the sun breaks out and Kaoru flees home. Koji is soon informed of Kaoru's condition (she suffers from XP) and is set aback. For a while, Kaoru stubbornly refuses to see him, as if her misery would spread to him if they make contact. Remembering her passion to sing, Koji begins working slowly in order to help her compile her own debut single. Her father, out of concern, invites Koji over one night. At dinner, Koji reveals his plans for Kaoru's CD. As they walk home that night, the two begin to talk and Kaoru slowly realizes how much Koji truly cares for her. In an attempt to cheer her up, he pinches her cheeks and exclaims: "What a funny face!" As her disease worsens, she loses feeling in her hand and is unable to play guitar. She assures Kōji that this will not change anything, that she still has her voice. In the studio, she asks her family and friends to leave the room. She smiles and tells them that it will be better to wait for the CD to come out before they hear her song. They reluctantly leave the room and Kōji declares his belief that Kaoru will achieve happiness. Time passes. As promised, Koji brings Kaoru to the beach to watch him surf. The protective suit she had left hanging for years is finally used. By now she is in a wheelchair. She complains that the suit is getting hot. With a painful expression that fades quickly, Kaoru's father tries to convince her that if she takes off the suit, it can't bother her anymore, that she could run around freely. She declines. With that, she struggles to stand up and limps weakly toward Koji. As she walks, she trips over the sand and Koji rushes to catch her. She catches herself at the last minute, revealing that it was a feint and giggles at his surprised face. In an ironic moment, she grabs his cheeks and exclaims happily, "What a funny face!". Koji smiles weakly. Finally Kaoru is laid to rest in a coffin full of sunflowers. Koji, Kaoru's friends, and her family listen happily as Kaoru's CD is finally released. In a flashback Kaoru sings with passion; tears begin to fill her eyes as she finishes. Koji rushes towards the waves, his mind replaying her voice. * Title: タイヨウのうた * Title (romaji): Taiyo no Uta * Also known as: A Song of the Sun (The Sun's Song), Midnight Sun, A Song to the Sun * Genre: Romance, Human Drama * Theme song: Good-bye Days by Yui * Insert song: Skyline by Yui * Insert song: It's happy line by Yui <!--spoiler--></span></div> Anime songs <span style="font-size: 200%;">Again - Fullmetal alchemist Brotherhood<!--size--></span> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/K1OEWd8S-Mc&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K1OEWd8S-Mc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <span style="font-size: 200%;">Rolling Star - Bleach<!--size--></span> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/7G9Qsm6xNFc&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7G9Qsm6xNFc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <span style="font-size: 200%;">Life - Bleach<!--size--></span> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/JL5eYD5kgUA&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JL5eYD5kgUA&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> <img src="http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww335/HardworkStudent/b986fce266e702f3508ba64b8520f725-1.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/nononk_uzumaki/Artists/yui-48.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll189/aleeya95/yuiyoshioka.gif" border="0" /> <img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii251/porcarr/yui_photo00.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/y_love/YUI/26944.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br>*YUI as Kaoru in TAIYOU no uta<!--spoiler--></span></div> <!--spoiler--></span></div>