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同じ街、新しい夢。

Guides / Timeline / 1986

Year by year

1986 · Idols go uptown

Producers bring city pop sophistication to idol records.

Key releases of 1986

Adventure (album) — Momoko Kikuchi
Pocket Music (album) — Tatsuro Yamashita

Full articles: Pocket Music

Debut albums in 1986

Kiyotaka Sugiyama 杉山清貴
Yoko Minamino 南野陽子

1986 in the catalogue · 61See all →

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Takako Ohta
Adventure = アドベンチャー
Momoko Kikuchi
At My Time
Ryoko Moriyama
Be Free! OST
Fujimaru Yoshino
Beyond...
Kiyotaka Sugiyama
Blizzard
Yoshimi Iwasaki
Brooch
Akiko Yano
Brown
Takao Horiuchi
By Myself
Miki Asakura
Chic = シック
Toshitaro
Cologne
Kaoru Akimoto
Embassy
Mai Yamane
Graduation Memories (Piano And Orchestra Version)
Momoko Kikuchi
I Like It
Kiichi Yokoyama
Just Aussie Feeling
Itsumi Osawa
Kids
Amii Ozaki
Last Good-bye
Tomoko Aran
Last Picture Show
Yoshitaka Minami
Lilac 1
Lilac
Love Life
Cindy
Missing
Satoshi Ikeda
My Sanctuary
Reimy
Navigator
1986 Omega Tribe
Nine Stories ～Longtime Romance～
Tetsuji Hayashi

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