is the first album by InoueYosuiOkudaTamio, the duo consisting of Japanese singer-songwriters Yōsui Inoue

Yosui Inoue

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 and Tamio Okuda

Tamio Okuda

is a singer, songwriter, and producer. He started his career in 1986 as a member of the band Unicorn. After Unicorn broke up, Okuda moved on to a solo career in 1994 with the single "Ai no Tame ni." He has written and composed many songs for various artists, particularly Puffy...

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It was released in February 1997 under For Life and SME, two different labels that Inoue and Okuda had contracted with, respectively.

They formed songwriting team in the mid 1990s, the era that Okuda disbanded Unicorn

Unicorn

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 and launched his solo career. 1995 saw the first release of their collaborative material, "Tsuki Hitoshizuku" co-written and sung by pop icon

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 Kyoko Koizumi

Kyoko Koizumi

' is a Japanese singer and actress. Her music is released through Victor Entertainment . She is also known by the nickname Kyon Kyon. She had singles reach the Top ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro...

. In the following year, the pair wrote the song "Asia no Junshin" for Puffy

Puffy AmiYumi

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, the new female pop duo produced by Okuda. It was released as Puffy's debut single in May 1996 and became a huge hit, peaking at number-three on the Japanese Oricon singles chart and selling over 1.18 million copies. Shopping features the remake versions of above‐mentioned songs by Inoue and Okuda, along with 10 of new songs that they wrote together.

Prior to the album, "Arigatou" was released as a single in February 1997. Both lead single and the album received moderate commercial success, entering top-ten on the Japanese Oricon Charts.
In 2001, Inoue remade the song "Tebiki no You na Mono" on his album United Cover. Ten years after the album release, the pair recorded its successor Double Drive.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue and Tamio Okuda, except lyrics for "Tsuki Hitoshizuku" co-written by Kyoko Koizumi

Kyoko Koizumi

' is a Japanese singer and actress. Her music is released through Victor Entertainment . She is also known by the nickname Kyon Kyon. She had singles reach the Top ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro...

1. "" - 3:08
2. "2 Cars" - 4:32
3. "" - 4:24
4. "" - 2:40
5. "" - 5:48
6. "" - 3:37
7. "2500" - 6:39
8. "" - 4:57
9. "" - 4:13
10. "" - 4:57
11. "" - 3:36
12. "" - 3:53

Album

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1997	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	4	9	350,000

Single

Year	Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1997	"Arigatou"	"Wabisuke" (Outtake)	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)	10	10	249,000

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number
Japan	March 19, 1997	For Life Records	CD	FLCF-3679
		Sony Music Entertainment Japan		SRCL-3769