The Changing Same
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- Artist
- Hirai Ken
- Album
- THE CHANGING SAME
- Released
- 2000.06.21
- 2000.10.01 (re-release)
- Catalog Number
- DFCZ-1020 (re-release)
- Price
- ¥3,059
- Tracklist
- Introduction -HERE COMES K.H.-
- Love Love Love
- why
- affair
- the flower is you
- Interlude -BRIGHTEN UP-
- K.O.L.
- LADYNAPPER
- Unfit In Love
- wonderful world
- Interlude -TURN OFF THE LIGHTS-
- LAKuEN (楽園; Paradise)
- Aoi Tori (アオイトリ; Blue Bird)
- The Changing Same -Kawari Yuku Kawaranai Mono- (変わりゆく変わらないもの; Things That Don't Change)
- Information
THE CHANGING SAME is Hirai Ken's third album. This is his first album since 1996's Stare At and since he begun his new R&B style. Hirai's 1997 single HEAT UP was not featured on this album. This album reached #1 on Oricon charts and charted for 18 weeks. As it sold 912,800 copies in 2000 it was the #18 album of the year. When this album was re-released on 2000.10.01 along with the rest of Hirai's back-catalogue, the album would reach #14 on Oricon charts and chart for 42 more weeks; selling an additional 352,496 copies. This brings the grand total copies of this album sold to 1,265,296.

