# Milet (singer)

Milet (ミレイ, mirei) is a Japanese singer signed to SMEJ. She made her major debut in 2019 with Inside You EP. The EP peaked at number 16 on the Oricon Albums Chart. After releasing five EPs, she released first studio album Eyes in 2020. The album hit number one on both Oricon and Japan's Billboard chart, certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for sales of 100,000.

## Career

Milet is a Tokyo-based Japanese singer-songwriter. She started her career in 2018.
On March 6, 2019, her first live show, Milet Special Show Case @Billboard-Live Tokyo, was held at Billboard Live Tokyo. In that same year, several of her songs were featured in various media. Her songs "Us" and "Again and Again" were used as the openings for Japanese TV dramas Gisou Furin and Joker x Face respectively, while her songs "Drown", and "Prover"/"Tell me" were used as the first ending for the anime adaptation of Vinland Saga and the second ending of anime series Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, respectively.
On June 3, 2020, Milet released her debut album Eyes, which hit number one on Oricon Albums Chart. She collaborated on the album with guitarist Toru of One OK Rock and Man with a Mission member Kamikaze Boy.
Starting from October 4, 2020, Milet became a DJ host for the radio series Music Freaks, streaming every Sunday from 22:00 to 24:00 (JST) on the Osaka radio station FM802 from a studio in Minami-morimachi. The radio broadcasts are stated to last one year.
Her single "Ordinary Days" was used as the ending theme for the live-action drama adaptation of Police in a Pod, which aired from July 7 to September 15, 2021.
On November 12, 2020, the song "Who I Am" premiered on YouTube and was subsequently featured as the title track of her sixth mini-album, which released on December 2, 2020. "Who I Am" and the song "The Hardest" were both respectively used as the opening and ending themes of the Japanese television drama Shichinin no Hisho.
Milet debut in the popular annual TV music show, 71st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen, on 31 December 2020 with the song "Inside You".
On August 8, 2021, she performed at the closing ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She covered the song "Hymne à l'amour", originally sung by Edith Piaf. On November 18, 2021, she represented Japan in the 10th Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) TV Song Festival, performing her first big hit "Inside You" remotely. On December 31, 2021, she participated in the "NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen" for the second consecutive year, performing "Fly High."
On April 22, 2022, Milet released a teaser lyric video for a new single entitled "Walkin' in My Lane", which serves as the theme song to the live-action drama adaptation of the manga Yangotonaki Ichizoku. It was pre-released on streaming services on April 29, and was fully released on May 25, 2022, along with "Love When I Cry" and "My Dreams Are Made of Hell."
In 2025, she made her film debut in the remake of the French-Belgian film Love at Second Sight, titled My Beloved Stranger.

## Discography
### Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales and certifications :
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Details | JPN | JPN Hot | Sales | Certifications |
| Eyes | Released: June 3, 2020 Label: SME Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital download, streaming | 1 | 1 | JPN: 82,392 (Phy.) JPN: 16,641 (Dig.) | RIAJ: Gold |
| Visions | Released: February 2, 2022 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 5 | 4 | JPN: 26,437 (Phy.) | |
| 5am | Released: August 30, 2023 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 4 | 4 | JPN: 17,620 (Phy.) | |

### Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected details and chart positions :
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Details | JPN | JPN Hot |
| Inside You EP | Released: March 6, 2019 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 16 | — |
| Wonderland EP | Released: May 15, 2019 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 18 | 9 |
| Us | Released: August 21, 2019 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 11 | 8 |
| Drown / You & I | Released: November 6, 2019 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 25 | 10 |
| Prover / Tell Me | Released: February 19, 2020 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 11 | 7 |
| Who I Am | Released: December 2, 2020 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 10 | 7 |
| Ordinary Days | Released: August 4, 2021 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 8 | 5 |
| Flare | Released: March 9, 2022 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 6 | 7 |
| Anytime Anywhere | Released: January 31, 2024 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download | 7 | 5 |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. ||||

### Live albums

List of live albums :
| Title | Details |
| Milet Live at Nippon Budokan | Released: July 29, 2024 Label: SME Formats: CD, digital download, streaming |

### Singles
#### As lead artist

List of singles, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certification | Album |
| Title | Year | JPN | JPN Hot | WW | Certification | Album |
| "Checkmate" | 2021 | — | 100 | — | | Visions |
| "Omokage" (with Aimer and Lilas Ikuta) | 2021 | — | 11 | — | RIAJ: Platinum (st.) | Non-album single |
| "Walkin' in My Lane" | 2022 | 10 | 25 | — | | 5am |
| "Always You" | 2022 | 9 | 54 | — | | 5am |
| "Final Call" | 2022 | — | 64 | — | | 5am |
| "Kizuna no Kiseki" (with Man with a Mission) | 2023 | 4 | 2 | 140 | RIAJ: Platinum (dig.) Platinum (st.) | Non-album single |
| "Koi Kogare" (with Man with a Mission) | 2023 | 4 | 25 | — | RIAJ: Gold (dig.) | 5am |
| "Anytime Anywhere" | 2023 | — | 55 | — | | Anytime Anywhere |
| "The Road of Victory" (with Man with a Mission and Go Shiina) | 2024 | — | — | — | | Non-album singles |
| "Hanataba" | 2024 | 8 | 19 | — | | Non-album singles |
| "Out of the Loop" (with Jason Chan) | 2024 | — | — | — | | Non-album singles |
| "I Still" | 2025 | 15 | 35 | — | | Non-album singles |
| "Nobody Knows" | 2025 | 15 | — | — | | Non-album singles |
| "—" denotes items that did not chart or items that were ineligible to chart because no physical edition was released. |||||||

#### As featured artist

List of singles, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | JPN | Album |
| "Reiwa" (Man with a Mission featuring milet) | 2019 | 3 | Dark Crow |
| "Future Tone Bender" (TK from Ling Tosite Sigure featuring milet) | 2021 | — | Egomaniac Feedback |
| "Cheat Day" (Jason Chan featuring milet) | 2024 | — | Non-album single |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. ||||

#### Promotional singles

List of promotional singles, with selected chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certification | Album |
| Title | Year | JPN Hot | JPN DL | Certification | Album |
| "You & I" | 2019 | — | 65 | | Drown / You & I and Eyes |
| "Tell Me" | 2020 | 86 | 22 | | Prover / Tell Me and Eyes |
| "Who I Am" | 2020 | 65 | 14 | | Who I Am and Visions |
| "The Hardest" | 2020 | — | — | | Who I Am and Visions |
| "Ordinary Days" | 2021 | — | — | RIAJ: Gold (st.) | Ordinary Days and Visions |
| "Fly High" | 2022 | — | — | | Visions |
| "Flare" | 2022 | 34 | — | | Flare |
| "Wake Me Up" | 2022 | — | — | | Visions |
| "Living My Life" | 2023 | — | — | | 5am |
| "Hey Song" | 2023 | — | — | | 5am |
| "—" denotes items that did not chart. ||||||

### Other charted songs

List of songs released, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
| Title | Year | JPN Hot | JPN DL | Certifications | Album |
| "Inside You" | 2019 | 11 | 2 | RIAJ: Gold (download) RIAJ: Gold (streaming) | Inside You EP and Eyes |
| "Us" | 2019 | 14 | 5 | RIAJ: Gold (download) RIAJ: Silver (streaming) | Us and Eyes |
| "Prover" | 2020 | — | 19 | | Prover / Tell Me and Eyes |
| "—" denotes items that did not chart. ||||||

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2025 | My Beloved Stranger | Minami Maezono | | |