Love or Nothing is the 22nd studio album

Album

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 by Japanese

Japanese people

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 singer-songwriter

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 Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in October 1994.

Lead-off track of the album is another rendition of "Between the Sky and You" arranged by David Campbell, her biggest hit single which reached number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart. This new recording is used in Ienakiko, the sequel movie of same titled TV drama

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, also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...

 series which was featured single version of the song.

Love or Nothing debuted at the number-one on the Oricon, and became her last top-charting non-compilation album as of 2008.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, arranged by Ichizō Seo (except "Between the Sky and You", "Tenbin Bakari" and "Don't Fall Asleep" co-arranged by David Campbell

David Campbell (American arranger/composer)

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1. "" – 5:00
2. "" – 5:40
3. "" – 5:21
4. "" – 5:23
5. "" – 5:23
6. "" – 4:51
7. "" – 6:08
8. "" – 5:43
9. "" – 4:52
10. "You Never Need Me" – 8:26
11. "" - 4:12

Personnel

• Shigeru Suzuki - Electric guitar
• Nozomi Furukawa - Electric guitar
• Tsuyoshi Kon - Electric
  Electric guitar
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  , Electric slide
  Slide guitar
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  , pedal steel and dobro
  Dobro
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   guitars
• Chūei Yoshikawa - Nylon guitar
• Tsugutoshi Gotō - Bass guitar
• Yasuo Tomikura - Bass guitar
• Akira Okazawa - Bass guitar
• Nobuo Kurata - Acoustic Piano, Hammond B3 and keyboards
• Jun Aoyama - Drums
  Drum kit
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  , marching drums
• Eiji Shimamura - Drums
• Toshihiko Furumura - Tenor sax
• Bill Bergman - Tenor sax
• Don Markese - Baritone sax
• Dennis Farias - Trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Andy Martin - Trombone
  Trombone
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• Jon Clarke - Oboe
  Oboe
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  , tin whistle
  Tin whistle
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• Julia Waters - Background vocals
• Maxine Waters - Background vocals
• Oren Waters - Background vocals
• EVE - Background vocals
• Monalisa Young - Background vocals
• Joseph Powell - Background vocals
• Suginami Jidou Chorus - Background vocals
• David Campbell - Strings conductor
• Joel Derouin - Strings concertmaster
• Suzie Katayama - String contractor

Production

• Producer and Arranger: Ichizo Seo
• Composer, Writer, Producer and Performer: Miyuki Nakajima
• Arranger:Nobuo Kurata, David Campbell
• Engineer: Tad Gotoh, Joe Chicarelli
  Joe Chicarelli
  Joe Chiccarelli is an American music producer, mixer and engineer who has been active since early '80's. He has produced albums by Stan Ridgway, Oingo Boingo, Sandra Bernhard, My Morning Jacket, Counting Crows, The Shins, Augie March, Manchester Orchestra, Minus the Bear, Kurt Elling, Big Talk...
  
  , Kengo Katoh
• Mixer: Hiroshi Tokunaga, Tomotaka Takehara, Mike Baumagerther
• A&R: Yuzo Watanabe, Kohichi Suzuki
• Assistant: Katsuhisa Oura, Hideki Kodera, Junichi Hohrin, Yuichi Inoue, Mitsuyoshi Kishida, Koh Yamashita, Tomoaki Satoh, Atsushi Matsui, Bino Espinozza, Randy Wine
• Assistant for Producer: Tomoo Satoh
• Artist Promotor: Yoshio Kan
• Disc Promotor: Narihiko Yoshida, Shoko Sone
• Music Coordinator - Takashi Kimura, Fumio Miyata, Tomoko Takaya, Ruriko Duer, Sam Onoda
• Photographer and Art Director: Jin Tamura
• Designer: Hirofumi Arai
• Costume: Norio Suzuki
• Hair and Make-up: Noriko Izumisawa
• Location Coordinator: Tomiki Sugimura
• Artist Management: Kohji Suzuki
• Assistant: Maki Nishida
• Management Desk: Atsuko Hayashi
• General Management: Takahiro Uno
• DAD - Genichi Kawakami
  Genichi Kawakami
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Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales	RIAJ Cetification
1994	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	1 (CDDA CDDA CDDA may refer to:* Circularly Disposed Dipole Array - a large circular antenna used by the military* Compact Disc Digital Audio - an audio recording format... )	13	370,000	Platinum
		11 (APO-CD)	4