Dream (Ai album)

Dream is the twelfth studio album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai. It was released on February 23, 2022, by EMI Records. Ai collaborated with Japanese and American producers. This includes Uta and Bernard "Harv" Harvey, who produced her 2021 extended play, It's All Me, Vol. 2.
Album profile
Three singles have been released from the album. The first single, "The Moment" featured Japanese rapper Yellow Bucks and was released in June 2021. "In the Middle", a collaboration with Daichi Miura was released in August 2021. The third single was "Aldebaran". This served as the theme song for the Japanese television drama Come Come Everybody. "Aldebaran" became Ai's first song to chart since her 2017 single, "Kira Kira". The song debuted and peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and peaked at number 6 on the Oricon Digital Singles Chart.
 Rankings 
Dream debuted at number 12 on the Oricon Daily Albums chart for February 22, 2022. It rose to number 7 on February 23.

 Track listing 

 Personnel 
Credits adapted from album's liner notes and Tidal.Dream (CD). Ai. EMI Records/Universal/Def Jam Recordings. 2022. UPCH-20614.

 Musicians 

 Ai Carina Uemura – lead vocals, songwriting, production
 Uta – production, songwriting
 Julian Le – production, songwriting
 Naotarō Moriyama – songwriting
 Neko Saito – production, arranging
 Daichi Miura – featured artist, songwriting, production
 Yellow Bucks – featured artist, songwriting
 Nao'ymt – songwriting, production
 Felisha "Fury" King – songwriting
 Fallon King – songwriting
 Kes Kross – songwriting
 Derek Anderson – production
 Kim – songwriting
 Nelson Babin-Coy – songwriting
 Midorin – drums
 Tomohiko Ohkanda – bass
 Fumio Yanagisawa – guitar
 Satoshi Onoue – guitar
 Hideaki "Lanbsy" Sakai – latin percussion
 Tomoyuki Asakawa – harp
 Great Eida – concertmaster, strings
 Jo Kuwata – violin
 Nagisa Kiriyama – violin
 Haruko Yano – violin
 Yukinori Murata – violin
 Akane Irie – violin
 Ayumu Koshikawa – violin
 Akiko Maruyama – violin
 Yui Kaneko – violin
 Masahiro Miyake – violin
 Yuji Yamada – viola
 Mayu Takashima – viola
 Ayano Kasahara – cello
 Yoshihiko Maeda – cello
 Space Dust Club – production, songwriting
 DJ Ryow – production, songwriting
 C3prod – production, songwriting
 Bernard "Harv" Harvey – production

 Technical 

 Mizuo Miura – vocal recording, vocal production
 Keisuke Narita – assistant vocal recording, assistant vocal production
 Taji Okuda – vocal recording, vocal production, mixing
 Keisuke Fujimaki – vocal recording, vocal production
 Shohei Ishikawa – vocal recording, vocal production
 Masahiro Abo – vocal recording, vocal production
 D.O.I – mixing
 Mark Parfitt – mixing
 Randy Merrill – mastering

 Visuals and imagery 

 Tatsuki Ikezawa – art director
 Shoji Uchihada – photographer
 Kanako Sato – retouching
 Shinji Konishi – hair, makeup
 Kumiko Iijima – stylist
 Machi Kagawa – designing
 Hirotaka Maeda – shooting coordination
 Erika Hiyama – shooting coordination
 Akiko Kawabata – AW production coordination

 Charts 
+Chart performance for DreamChart (2022)Peak
positionJapanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)11Japanese Albums (Oricon)12

 Release history 
+Release history and formats for DreamRegionDateFormat(s)VersionLabelVariousFebruary 23, 2022StandardJapanCDLimited

 References 

Category:2022 albums
Category:Def Jam Recordings albums