Live Tour 2008: Kingdom
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| Video by Koda Kumi | ||||
| Released | 24 September 2008 (DVD) 18 May 2011 (Blu-ray) 20 March 2013 (rental live CD) |
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| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop, R&B, J-pop, dance-pop | |||
| Label | Rhythm Zone | |||
| Producer | Koda Kumi | |||
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Live Tour 2008: Kingdom (stylized as Live Tour 2008 ～Kingdom～), is Koda Kumi's eighth concert video. It reached #2 on Oricon Live charts and charted for twenty-five weeks, selling 88,505 copies during 2008. First press edition came with a sleeve case.
Live Tour 2008 ~Kingdom~ is Japanese singer-songwriter Kumi Koda's ninth DVD and fifth concert tour DVD release. While it charted at #1 on the Oricon Live charts upon its debut, it dropped to take the #2 spot for the weekly ranking; however, it still charted for twenty-five weeks.
The DVD was released as both a single and a 2DVD combo. The latter was of a limited edition and included special bonus footage. The footage featured the behind-the-scenes making of the tour, along with a tour digest and a special encore, in which fans had to find Kumi.
First press editions came with a slip cover with differing cover art than those released without.
The concert tour performed for the live DVD was done on May 17, 2008 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which is located in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan.
Between the release of Koda Kumi's studio album Kingdom and the first day of the concert, Koda Kumi had fear and anxiety over performing on stage after her statement on All Night Nippon on January 31 of that year.
On that date, she had made a lighthearted comment after being asked by the radio host her opinion on her manager getting married and the prospect of having children. Kumi had responded, "When women turn 35, their amniotic fluid goes rotten, so I hope they have a child before then." The comment caused immediate backlash due to the low pregnancy rates in Japan and the sensitivity of the subject among Japanese women. Due to this, upon Kumi request, all promotions for the album had been pulled on February 2 and a letter of apology was posted on Kumi's official site in lieu of the normal content.
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