Seiko (album)

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1990 studio album by Seiko Matsuda

Seiko

Studio album by

Seiko Matsuda

Released| June 7, 1990 (1990-06-07)
Recorded| 1989–1990
Studio|

* The Hit Factory
* Trax Recording Studio
* Oasis Recording Studios
* Mission Control Studios
* Criteria Studios

Genre|

* J-pop
* pop

Length| 40:16
Label|

* CBS Sony
* Columbia
* Epic

Producer|

* Jack Matsumura
* Michael Jay
* Maurice Starr
* Clay Ostwald
* Emilio Estefan
* Jorge Casas
* Giorgio Moroder
* Jellybean
* Phil Ramone

Seiko Matsuda chronology
| Precious Moment
(1989)  | Seiko
(1990)  | We Are Love
(1990)

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Singles from  Seiko

1. "All the Way to Heaven"
Released: April 30, 1990
2. "The Right Combination"
Released: July 15, 1990
3. "Who's That Boy"
Released: October 1, 1990

Professional ratingsReview scores

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Select| [1]

Seiko is the seventeenth and first internationally released studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Seiko (Seiko Matsuda). It was released on June 7, 1990, by CBS Sony, Columbia Records, and Epic Records. After gaining nationwide success in the 1980s, Matsuda took to the international market, especially the United States and the United Kingdom. She originally intended to release her first English-language studio album Sound of My Heart internationally, however, the plan was scrapped and the album was released exclusively in Hong Kong[2] and Japan to commercial success, peaking at number two on the Oricon Weekly Albums chart.

Three singles were released from the album. The first single, "All the Way to Heaven", was released on April 30, 1990. "The Right Combination" was released on July 15, 1990, as the second single. The song, a duet with Donnie Wahlberg, a member of the boy band New Kids on the Block, has been the most internationally successful song in Matsuda's discography, charting in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Japan, as well as peaking at number fifty-four in the United States.[3] It marked the first time in ten years a Japanese artist had charted on the United States Billboard Hot 100, since Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game" reached number sixty in 1980. The third single from the album, "Who's That Boy", was released in the United States on October 1, 1990.

Commercially, the album was a moderate success, peaking at number two in Japan and selling over 500,000 copies worldwide.

## Track listing

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CD, digital downloadNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Producer(s)| Length

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1.| "All the Way to Heaven"|

* Michael Cruz
* Michael Jay

* Cruz
* Jay

| 3:40
2.| "He's So Good to Me"|

* Klarmann/Weber

| Maurice Starr| 4:14
3.| "Leave It Up to Fate"|

* Bill Duncan
* Jon Secada
* Willy Perez Feria

* Clay Ostwald
* Emilio Estefan
* Jorge Casas

| 3:40
4.| "The Right Combination" (featuring Donnie Wahlberg)|

* Cruz
* Jay

| Starr| 4:27
5.| "Goodbye My Baby"|

* Estefan
* Teddy Mulet

* Ostwald
* Estefan
* Casas

| 4:02
6.| "Who's That Boy"|

* Randy Goodrum
* Glen Ballard

| Jellybean| 4:04
7.| "With Your Love"| Starr| Starr| 4:20
8.| "Everybody Feels Alright"| Michael Morejon|

* Ostwald
* Estefan
* Casas

| 3:37
9.| "Halfway to Heaven"|

* Giorgio Moroder
* Tom Whitlock

| Moroder| 3:40
10.| "Try Gettin' Over You"|

* Doug James
* Michael Bolton

| Phil Ramone| 3:24

## Charts

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Chart performance for Seiko Chart (1990)  | Peak
position

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Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] | 86
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[5] | 2

## References

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1. ^ Connelly, Laura (October 1990). "Seiko: Seiko". Select. No. 4\. p. 115.
2. ^ "Discogs".
3. ^ Vago, Mike; Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy; Eichel, Molly (1 February 2016). "America will love Heintje: 11 failed English-language crossovers". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
4. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 247.
5. ^ "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 1990-6-14" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 28, 2020.

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