HOME is the twelfth studio album by Mr. Children

Mr. Children

, commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan...

, released on March 14, 2007. Its first press limited edition

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 includes a documentary DVD

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 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 was used as the theme song for a series of Toyota commercials. The second single, , used as the theme song to the Japanese television drama

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, , was the seventh best selling single, with over 550,000 copies sold in 2006. The last single, , released on January 24, 2007, was used as the theme song to the live-action film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka

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's Dororo

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. A promotional video was created for to promote the album and the song was also used for the Olympus E-410

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 commercials. Four songs from the HOME sessions are not included on the album, and my sweet heart are included as B-sides on the , while and are found on the single. The B-sides are also available on their B-SIDE

B-Side (album)

B-SIDE is a compilation album by Mr. Children, released on May 10, 2007, marking the fifteenth anniversary of their first album's release. It collects all of the group's B-sides, with a booklet providing liner notes for each of them....

 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, debuted in their second tour.

HOME is the best selling album in the 2007 Oricon

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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. – 1:06
2. "Wake Me Up!" – 5:52
3. – 5:25
4. – 5:12
5. "Another Story" – 5:19
6. "Piano Man" – 4:45
7. – 4:48
8. – 4:29
9. – 4:56
10. – 5:51
11. "Sunrise" – 6:35
12. – 7:12
13. – 5:26
14. – 5:24