Message/Personal

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title: "Message/Personal" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2003-songs", "2003-singles", "aya-ueto-songs", "songs-used-as-jingles", "songs-with-lyrics-by-yuho-iwasato", "song-recordings-produced-by-sin-(music-producer)"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message/Personal" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Message
cover	MessagePersonal.png
type	Single
artist	Aya Ueto
album	Message
A-side	"Personal" (double A-side)
released
genre
length
label	Flight Master
writer
producer
prev_title	Hello
prev_year	2003
title2	Personal
next_title	Kanshō
next_title2	Mermaid
next_year	2003
misc	{{Audio sample
type	single
file	AU-Message.ogg
description	"Message"
type	single
file	AU-Personal.ogg
description	"Personal"
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| name = Message | cover = MessagePersonal.png | alt = | type = Single | artist = Aya Ueto | album = Message | A-side = "Personal" (double A-side) | released = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = | length = | label = Flight Master | writer = | producer = | prev_title = Hello | prev_year = 2003 | title2 = Personal | next_title = Kanshō | next_title2 = Mermaid | next_year = 2003 | misc = {{Audio sample | type = single | file = AU-Message.ogg | description = "Message" | type = single | file = AU-Personal.ogg | description = "Personal"

"Message" / "Personal" is a double A-side single by Japanese singer Aya Ueto off her second studio album, Message. It was released by Flight Master on May 14, 2003.

Background

"Message" was written by Yuho Iwasato, composed by Hal, and arranged and produced by Sin. The song was used in commercials for Kao deodorant 8×4, starring Ueto herself. Ueto has stated that "Message" is one of her personal favorite songs of hers. The release of the single coincided with the start of Ueto's first concert tour, Ueto Aya First Live Tour Pureness 2003, and the premiere of her first feature film, Azumi.

"Personal" was written, composed, arranged and produced by T2ya. The song is composed in the key of B minor and set to a tempo of 92 beats per minute. Ueto's vocals span from A3 to D5

Chart performance

"Message" / "Personal" entered the daily Oricon Singles Chart at number 5, where it also peaked. The single debuted at number 10 on the weekly chart, selling 18,000 copies in the first week, and at number 9 on the SoundScan singles chart. "Message" / "Personal" charted on the Oricon Singles Chart for six weeks, selling a reported total of 28,000 copies during its run.

Track listing

| headline = | extra_column = Arranger(s)

| title1 = Message | writer1 = | extra1 = | length1 = 4:37

| title2 = Personal | writer2 = | extra2 = | length2 = 4:54

| title3 = Breath of My Heart | note3 = Be Positive Mix | writer3 = | extra3 = | length3 = 4:22

| title4 = Message | note4 = Instrumental | writer4 = | extra4 = | length4 = 4:37

| title5 = Personal | note5 = Instrumental | writer5 = | extra5 = | length5 = 4:51

| total_length =

Credits and personnel==

"Message"

• Sin – producer, keyboards and programming
• Yūho Iwasato - songwriter
• HΛL - songwriter
• Hideyuki Fukasawa - synthesizer
• Kenji Suzuki - guitar
• Chieko Kinbara - strings
• Kumiko Yoshida - chorus
• Hironobu Asano – engineering, audio mixing
• Nao Yoshida - production coordinator

"Personal"

• T2ya – songwriter, producer, keyboards and programming
• Naoki Hayashibe - guitar
• Yumi Kawamura - chorus
• Yasuyuki Hara – engineering
• Jun'nosuke Sato – engineering
• Hironobu Asano – audio mixing

Credits adapted from Best of Uetoaya: Single Collection album liner notes.

Charts

::data[format=table] | Chart (2003) | Peak position | Japan Daily Singles (Oricon) | Japan Weekly Singles (Oricon) | Japan Monthly Singles (Oricon) | Japan Weekly Singles (SoundScan) (CD/DVD) | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 5 | | | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | 37 | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | ::

Sales

Release history

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Region	Date	Format(s)	Label	Ref.	Japan	Taiwan
		Flight Master
	Skyhigh Entertainment
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References

References

1. link. (June 14, 2004). Barks
2. "「PERSONAL / 上戸 彩」のメロディ譜". @Elise.
3. (May 14, 2003). "【音楽・新譜】CDチャート速報/売上議論・予想 5/13～".
4. (May 19, 2003). "【音楽・新譜】CDチャート速報/売上議論・予想 5/19～".
5. "オリコン 2003.5.26".
6. "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」". [[Oricon]].
7. Ueto, Aya. (2006). "Best of Uetoaya: Single Collection". [[Pony Canyon]].
8. "MESSAGE/PERSONAL 上戸彩". [[Oricon]].
9. "週刊 CDソフト TOP20". [[Nielsen SoundScan]].
10. "上戸彩 / MESSAGE / PERSONAL [CCCD]". CDJournal.
11. "G-Music 藝人介紹". G-Music.

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