I can still feel the hot wave of shame I felt when I found myself attracted to my classmate, Carly.
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On July 26, 2006, Koda released her first photobook, Maroc; the book, photographed by Leslie Kee, was tied with her thirty-second single "4 Hot Wave", which was released on the same day. Koda reclaimed the title of highest debut week sales for a female artist in 2006 with "4 Hot Wave"; which also ranked second behind the KinKi Kids. "4 Hot Wave" is Koda's nineteenth consecutive single to debut in the Top Ten since "Kiseki". Koda's next single, "Yume no Uta / Futari de..." (2006), was a musical first for Koda, as she took full creative control over the production of the single and music video; she wrote the lyrics, chose the outfits, and produced the concepts for the videos of both songs.
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"4 Hot Wave" (stylized as 4 hot wave) is Japanese singer Koda Kumi's 32nd single on the Rhythm Zone label. It charted at #2 on Oricon and stayed on the charts for seventeen weeks. The sales for the single became her highest selling single, even surpassing the total sales of real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba in less than three weeks. It became her highest debut single and reclaimed the title of Highest Debut Sales Female Artists, previously held by Ayumi Hamasaki's Blue Bird.
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4 hot wave is singer-songwriter Koda Kumi's thirty-second single and is her first quadruple a-side, with each song containing a corresponding music video. It hit #2 on the Oricon Singles Charts and remained on the charts for seventeen consecutive weeks. The sales for 4 hot wave made it her highest selling single, even surpassing the total sales of real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba in less than three weeks. Within its first week, the single sold 207,484 copies, with 489,000 in total.
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Unlike 4 Hot Wave, only two of the four music videos are interconnected: "V.I.P" and "KO-SO-KO-SO." "V.I.P" centers around Kumi going to a night club and pursued by two male suitors; however, while she flirts with them, she fails to be interested.
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At a 1996 Malice Mizer interview on the TV show Hot Wave, he quietly replied with his name and his position in the band when introduced on the show. Throughout the rest of the interview, Mana whispered in Gackt's ear. He has also offered his vocals to the song, "Kyomu no Naka de no Yuugi", though his voice was heavily distorted.
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Both cold waves and heat waves cause deaths, though different groups of people may be susceptible to different weather events. More deaths occur during a cold wave than in a hot wave, though the mortality rate is higher in undeveloped regions of the world. Globally, more people die during hot weather than cold weather. Extreme winter cold often causes poorly insulated water pipelines and mains to freeze.
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The music videos from 4 hot wave entertwined and were all placed on the album. "Juicy" was the first video in the story, showing Kumi with her crew seducing a group of men in a bar, who have a treasure map. In the end of the video, the men realize the women stole the map. "With your smile" has Kumi trying to outrun the men.
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However, Kumi would later reclaim the spot with her release of her next single, 4 hot wave. The song was used as the theme song to the Japanese drama Busu no Hitomi no Koishiteru (ブスの瞳に恋してる / In Love with the Eyes of an Ugly Girl), which starred SMAP's Goro Inagaki. The song was also used for the television commercial of the 2006 Pixar film Cars.
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Her 2005 and 2006 compilation albums Best: First Things and Best: Second Session were both certified for two million copies shipped by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Starting in 2006 with 4 Hot Wave, Koda started to release annual summer singles featuring multiple promoted A-sides. This was continued with "Freaky" (2007), Moon (2008), 3 Splash (2009), Gossip Candy (2010), 4 Times (2011), Summer Trip (2013) and "Hotel" (2014).
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In March 1989, high school friends Hideki (then known as "Chack") and Natchin (then spelled "Natin") formed a band called Power. They won the Summer Grand Prix Award at that year's Yokohama High School Hot Wave Festival. However, due to many member changes, including the brief enrollment of guitarist Daita, Power disbanded. After befriending guitarist Ataru, singer Hideki and bassist Natchin formed a new band with him called Atæru in 1991.
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Veeck, Bill with Ed Linn, Veeck – As In Wreck, p. 72. University of Chicago Press, 2001. In a 14-inning game against the Boston Braves on June 1, 1943, Geary enjoyed one of the more significant accomplishments of his career, scoring the game's winning run by stealing home plate."Boston Sees Stardom This Year For Braves' Big 'Jave,' Who Won Six Straight Tilts in Last August's Hot Wave", Howell Stevens, The Sporting News, June 10, 1943, p.3.
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"4 Times" (stylized as "4 TIMES") is the 50th single by pop/R&B; singer Koda Kumi. It was released on August 17, 2011 and debuted at No. 6, remaining on the Oricon charts for nine consecutive weeks. In commemoration of it being the fiftieth single since her debut, the single contained four a-sides, making it her first since 4 Hot Wave (2006). The single came in four editions: CD, CD+DVD, CD+QLIX Digital Camera and CD+50 Postcards BOX Set.
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On May 18, 2011, Koda released the DVD of her "Fantasia" concert entitled "Kumi Koda 10th Anniversary: Fantasia in Tokyo Dome". Alongside DVD, the concert was also released in Blu-ray format. Her previous concerts were also re-released in Blu-ray format. Koda's 50th single was released August 17, 2011. The single is titled "4 Times" and includes four songs as well as four music videos to accompany them (Such as her previous 2006 summer single, "4 Hot Wave").
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The single continued on with the theme of releasing a summer single with four songs, following 4 hot wave (2006) and Freaky (2007). However, although the single carried four different musical tracks, it was only a double a-side with music videos only being released for "Moon Crying" and "That Ain't Cool." For "Moon Crying," Kumi worked closely with musical composer h-wonder. The two had worked together several times in the past, beginning with her debut single Take Back in 2000.
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Yume no Uta/futari de... (夢のうた/ふたりで... / Dream Song/us two...) is singer- songwriter Koda Kumi's 33rd single under the Rhythm Zone label, and is her second attempt at a double a-side. The single charted at #1 on Oricon and stayed on the charts for sixteen weeks, out-selling her previous single, 4 hot wave. This made her first #1 single since feel. The single came in CD and CD+DVD and both a-sides have their unique cover art.
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The band first united as "Lucifer" in order to participate in the second and third Hot Wave Music Awards Contest. After winning the contest they signed a deal and joined UP G record (under the GMM Grammy records banner) in 2001, and changed their band name to "Clash" and released their first album "ONE". Their first single "Guad (Hug)" was a hit and lead the young band to success. In February 2003 Clash went back to the studio and released their second album "Soundshake".
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Bodyslam was originally called La - On () which means kids or younger people, inspired by the name of freshman orientations at Suankularb Wittayalai School, the elementary school the band (the initial "La- on")'s members attended. In 1996, the band entered a band competition for high school students called 'Hot Wave Music Awards' and won the first prize, beating nearly a hundred of other bands. La-on quickly signed a record deal with record company Music Bugs, and released a self-titled pop-rock album in 1997. "Dai Rue Plao" (ได้หรือเปล่า) became their most recognized song.
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"Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba" is Japanese R&B; singer-songwriter Kumi Koda's seventh single and first double A-side. The single became the artist's first the chart in the top ten on the weekly Oricon Singles Charts, charting at No. 3, and remained on the charts for twenty-eight weeks. Since its release, it has sold over 283,000 copies. She would not have another single surpass the physical sales of "Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba" until her 2006 single "4 Hot Wave". "1000 no Kotoba" was arranged by Takahito Eguchi and Noriko Matsueda, who arranged much of the music for Final Fantasy X-2.
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Black Cherry was released in three editions, with each edition containing different cover art: CD, CD+DVD and a limited CD+2DVD edition. The standard editions all contained fifteen tracks on the CD portion, including the a-sides from her singles 4 Hot Wave and Cherry Girl/Unmei. Despite being a promotional track, the song "futari de..." from Yume no Uta/Futari de... failed to make it to the album, while "Yume no Uta" was placed as track No. 4. The DVD housed every music video released after her compilation album Best ~second session~ up until Black Cherry, sans "futari de...", which was omitted.
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Despite losing the number-one spot to KinKi Kids' Natu Moyou, 4 hot wave outsold them by over 80,000 copies. At the end of the year, the single ranked #2 on Highest Selling Single Female Artist, losing out to Naoru Amane's Taiyou no Uta, which was used in her film Midnight Sun. Due to the single's success, it reclaimed the title of Highest Debut Sales Female Artists, from Ayumi Hamasaki's Blue Bird, which had originally taken the title from Koda Kumi's previous single, Koi no Tsubomi. The single was Kumi's first quadruple a-side, with each song's music video tying together into one story.
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Hiraga Tetsuo from Hot Express was positive, who commended Kumi's song writing and the "summer" theme throughout the EP. On the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart, 3 Splash debuted at #2, Kumi's third consecutive EP to have peaked at this position. The EP lasted twelve weeks in the top 100, selling 93,000 units, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of 100,000 units; this became her fourth consecutive EP to have shipped over 100,000 units, after Love & Honey (2004), 4 Hot Wave (2006), and Moon (2008). 3 Splash reached number eight on the Taiwanese East Asian chart. "Lick Me" reached #2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, and reached #8 and #15 on the Japan Billboard Adult Contemporary and Radio Songs chart, respectively.
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