Follow Me Up

Follow Me Up (stylized as FOLLOW ME UP) is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto. It was released on September 30, 2015, through FlyingDog.^[1] The limited edition came with a DVD including the music videos for the singles "Hajimari no Umi", "Be Mine!", "Replica" and "Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō".^[2]

Follow Me Up
Studio album by Maaya Sakamoto
Released	September 30, 2015 (2015-09-30)
Recorded	2013–15
Genre	Pop
Length	72:03
Label	FlyingDog
Producer	Maaya Sakamoto
Maaya Sakamoto chronology
Singer-songwriter (2013) Follow Me Up (2015) Live Tour 2015-2016 "Follow Me Up" Final at Nakano Sun Plaza (2016)
Singles from Follow Me Up
"Hajimari no Umi" Released: July 31, 2013 "Saved." Released: February 5, 2014 "Be Mine!" Released: February 5, 2014 "Replica" Released: August 20, 2014 "Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō" Released: January 28, 2015 "Kore Kara" Released: April 1, 2015

Commercial performance

Follow Me Up entered the daily Oricon Albums Chart at number 5.^[3] It moved up two spots to number 3 the following day, selling 6,000 copies.^[4] The album stayed at number 3 on its third day on the chart, selling 2,000 copies.^[5] Follow Me Up debuted at number 4 on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, with 15,000 copies sold in its first week, marking Sakamoto's fifth consecutive studio album to debut within the top ten.^[6] The album charted for twelve weeks, selling a reported total of 22,000 copies.^[7]

Track listing

Follow Me Up CD

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Arranger(s)	Length
1.	"Follow Me"	Maaya Sakamoto	Zentarō Watanabe M. Sakamoto	5:08
2.	"Be Mine!"	M. Sakamoto The Band Apart	The Band Apart Ryō Eguchi Tōru Ishitsuka	4:02
3.	"Sanagi" (さなぎ, "Pupa")	M. Sakamoto Katsutoshi Kitagawa	Kitagawa Yōji Makino	4:24
4.	"Saved."	Shōko Suzuki	Ryūji Yamamoto	5:18
5.	"Tokyo Samui" (東京寒い, "Tokyo Cold")	Shintaro Sakamoto Cornelius	Cornelius	5:03
6.	"Arco" (アルコ, Aruko)	Yuho Iwasato Yoko Kanno	Kanno	5:40
7.	"Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō"	Iwasato Rasmus Faber	Faber	4:40
8.	"Hajimari no Umi"	Taeko Onuki	Toshiyuki Mori	3:57
9.	"Kore Kara"	M. Sakamoto	Shin Kōno M. Sakamoto	5:16
10.	"Waiting for the Rain"	Faber	Faber Martin Persson	4:24
11.	"Road Movie" (ロードムービー, Rōdo Mūbī)	Iwasato Caoli Cano	Watanabe Cano	5:24
12.	"That Is to Say"	M. Sakamoto H-Wonder	H-Wonder	4:53
13.	"Replica"	M. Sakamoto Takahito Uchisawa	Uchisawa Ishitsuka	4:00
14.	"Kasuka na Melody" (かすかなメロディ, Kasuka na Merodi, "Faint Melody")	S. Sakamoto Yu Sakai	Kōno	4:40
15.	"Iris" (アイリス, Airisu)	M. Sakamoto	Suzuki Takuo Yamamoto M. Sakamoto	5:07
Total length:				72:03

Limited Edition DVD: Maaya Sakamoto Music Video Collection^[8]

No.	Title	Director(s)	Length
1.	"Hajimari no Umi" (Music Video)	Shintarō Ehara	4:13
2.	"Be Mine!" (Music Video)	Ehara	4:04
3.	"Replica" (Music Video)	Ehara	4:00
4.	"Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō" (Music Video)	Ehara	4:49
Total length:			17:06

Charts

Chart (2015)	Peak position	Sales
Japan Daily Albums (Oricon)[3]	3	22,000[7]
Japan Weekly Albums (Oricon)[9]	4
Japan Hot Albums (Billboard)[10]	6
Japan Top Albums Sales (Billboard)[11]	3