Begin is the first Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by J-Pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 group BeForU

BeForU

BeForU was an all female Japanese teen pop group who performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games. BeForU debuted in 2000 with their song "Dive", which was notable as being the first Japanese pop song in the Dance Dance Revolution series. BeForU was produced by Naoki Maeda, one...

 member Riyu Kosaka

Riyu Kosaka

is a J-pop singer, as well as a member of the Konami-produced J-Pop group BeForU. Kosaka was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture on January 17, 1985.- Discovery by Konami :...

, released June 11, 2004. Many of these tracks are covers

Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...

 of popular bemani

Bemani

is Konami's music video game division. Originally named the Games & Music Division, or simply G.M.D., it changed its name in honor of its first and most successful game, Beatmania, and expanded into other music-based games.-Bemani video games:...

 songs.

The title track of Riyu's debut single, True...

True...

"True..." is the first single by Riyu Kosaka. It was released on October 17, 2001. It features her solo track True..., which debuted on Konami's DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix. It also features a cover of BeForU's Dive, entitled Dive to the Night....

 is not included on this album. It was included on BeForU

BeForU (album)

BeForU is the first Japanese studio album by all female J-Pop group BeForU, released in 2003.-Track listing:# チカラ – 3:12# ♥LOVE² シュガ→♥ – 3:15# DIVE – 3:41# ヒマワリ – 3:34# BABY LOVE – 4:22# LOVE♥SHINE – 3:17...

's debut album instead. Another version of the B-side track of that single, Dive to the Night, is included however.

Track listing

1. Begin
2. Victory!!
3. Lifeless
4. Remember You...
5. Speedy (Album Version)
6. Glacial
7. Kiss Me
8. White Season
9. Dive to the Night (TЁЯRA Works remix)
10. Candy
11. Don't Stop the music!!
12. Sweetie (Album Version)
13. Song for You (Album Version)
14. Shining (Unplugged version)

• Track 2 is a cover of Crash! by Mr. Brian and The Final Band (Dancing Stage Euromix 2)
• Track 3 is a cover of Still in My Heart by Naoki (Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix)
• Track 4 is a cover of Remember You by NM feat. Julia (Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix)
• Track 6 is a cover of Hyper Eurobeat by Naoki feat. DDR All Stars (Dance Dance Revolution Extreme)
• Track 7 is a cover of Hysteria 2001 by NM (Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix)
• Track 8 is a cover of Silent Hill by Thomas Howard (Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix)
• Track 9 is a cover of Dive by BeForU (Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix)
• Track 10 is a remake of Candy (Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix)
• Track 11 is a cover of Can't Stop Falling in Love by Naoki (Dance Dance Revolution Solo and Beatmania IIDX 3rd)
• Track 14 is a cover of ☆shining☆ by BeForU (pop'n music 9)

Album details

1. Arranged by: Naoki Maeda <1~3, 5~7, 10, 11, 14>

Katsumi Yoshihara <2, 12>
Platinum Patnuz <4, 13>
Tatsh (platoniX) <8>
Jun <9>

1. Composed by: Naoki Maeda
2. Catalog Number: LC-1280