Home (Mr. Children album)


HOME is the twelfth studio album by Mr. Children, released on March 14, 2007. Its first press limited edition includes a documentary DVD on the making of the album and live performances by members of the group between recording sessions. The album debuted at the number 1 position, with 693,038 copies sold in the first week.
Its first single Houkiboshi was used as the theme song for a series of Toyota commercials. The second single, Shirushi, used as the theme song to the Japanese television drama, 's Dororo. A promotional video was created for Irodori to promote the album and the song was also used for the Olympus E-410 commercials. Four songs from the HOME sessions are not included on the album, Hokorobi and my sweet heart are included as B-sides on the Houkiboshi, while Hibiki and Kurumi - for the Film - Koufuku na Shokutaku are found on the Shirushi single. The B-sides are also available on their B-SIDE compilation.
Mr. Children held 14 concerts in support of the album, known as the HOME Tour, from May 4, 2007 to June 23, 2007. They visited 7 cities in Japan. They performed songs from the album, as well as a selection of their old songs were in their tour. Another tour, known as HOME -in the field-, was held from August 4, 2007 - September 30, 2007. A previously unreleased song, Tabidachi no Uta debuted in their second tour.
HOME'' is the best selling album in the 2007 Oricon Yearly Album Chart marking their first yearly number 1 position on the charts in their 16th year since their debut. A total of 1,181,241 copies were sold in 2007.

Track listing

  1. "Sakebi Inori"– 1:06
  2. "Wake me up!" – 5:52
  3. "Irodori" – 5:25
  4. "Hokiboshi" – 5:12
  5. "Another Story" – 5:19
  6. "Piano Man" – 4:45
  7. "Motto" – 4:48
  8. "Yawarakai Kaze" – 4:29
  9. "Fake" – 4:56
  10. "Pocket Castanet" – 5:51
  11. "Sunrise" – 6:35
  12. "Shirushi" – 7:12
  13. "Toori Ame" – 5:26
  14. "Anmari Oboete Naiya" – 5:24