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I Loved Yesterday

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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,[6] which starred her senpai at Stardust Promotion, Y'ko 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, 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.[7]
Her first single of 2008, Namidairo, was released for sale on February 27, 2008.[8] 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.
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.[9]
Yui released a single, entitled "Summer Song" on July 2, 2008.[10] 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.

After listening to Can't Buy My Love and From Me to You, I have to say that this album takes the cake. There were a few songs I really liked on the previous albums and most of them I didn't really care for or got bored after a few times. However, the songs for I Loved Yesterday all have a certain uniqueness from one another that never tires. Unlike her other albums, this one has a few more faster songs (in the style of Rolling Star) and has a more rock 'n roll feel to it. All the slower songs are great as well. A problem I felt with the other albums were that they piled it with too many songs that sounded too similar next to each other without any variation.

If you never heard Yui before, this album is the perfect place to start!