Astromantic


Astromantic is the third studio album by the Japanese hip-hop group M-Flo. It was released on May 26, 2004, through Rhythm Zone. Remixes of songs from this album were released as Astromantic Charm School. The album spawned three singles featuring different singers: "Reeewind!" with Crystal Kay, "Miss You" with singer Melody, and "The Love Bug" with BoA.
Commercially, the album peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for physical sales in June 2004.

Background

Astromantic was released via Avex's record label Rhythm Zone on May 26, 2004, and marks the group's first studio album in over three years, since March 2001's Expo Expo. It is the group's first album without Lisa as the vocalist, since her departure from the trio in April 2002. Instead of finding a new vocalist, the band started to collaborate with different singers, with each collaboration credited to "m-flo loves" the featured artist. Remixes of songs from this album were later released on the Astromantic Charm School remix album, released on September 15, 2004.
"Miss You" was written by M-Flo and sung by melody. and Ryohei Yamamoto. The Japanese-American female singer "melody." has been a recording artist from 2003 until 2008.

Commercial performance

Astromantic reached number 2 on the Oricon Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for a total of 34 weeks. The album sold 330,497 copies by the end of 2004, and ranked at number 42 on the year-end Oricon Albums Chart.
"Miss You" was ranked as the eighth most popular single in the Oricon charts.

Track listing

  1. The Third Impact
  2. Miss You
  3. Starstruck - "The Return of the Luvbytes"
  4. How to Be Astromantic
  5. Vanessa
  6. Way U Move
  7. Get On!
  8. Astrosexy
  9. Listen to Your Heart
  10. The Love Bug
  11. Life Is Beautiful
  12. I Wanna Be Down
  13. Rendezvous 2014
  14. Cosmic Night Run
  15. Reeewind!
  16. Uchu No Uouo
  17. Curtain Call