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Lost Corner
Lost Corner is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu, released on August 21, 2024, through Sony Music Records. It included number-one singles "Pale Blue", a theme for 2021 television series Rikokatsu and "Kick Back", an opening theme for 2022 anime series Chainsaw Man; the latter became the first Japanese-language song to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album also features the theme song "Spinning Globe", which was used for Hayao Miyazaki's anime film The Boy and the Heron (2023) and "Tsuki wo Miteita - Moongazing" which was used as the ending theme for the Square Enix video game "Final Fantasy XVI" (2023). Commercially, Lost Corner debuted atop both the Oricon Albums Chart and the Billboard Japan Hot Albums charts. It sold 555,177 copies as of 2024, and was later certified double platinum by Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). In support of the album, Yonezu embarked on the concert tour Junk throughout Japan in 2025, as well as in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Article summary
Lost Corner is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu, released on August 21, 2024, through Sony Music Records. It included number-one singles "Pale Blue", a theme for 2021 television series Rikokatsu and "Kick Back", an opening theme for 2022 anime series Chainsaw Man; the latter became the first Japanese-language song to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album also features the theme song "Spinning Globe", which was used for Hayao Miyazaki's anime film The Boy and the Heron (2023) and "Tsuki wo Miteita - Moongazing" which was used as the ending theme for the Square Enix video game "Final Fantasy XVI" (2023). Commercially, Lost Corner debuted atop both the Oricon Albums Chart and the Billboard Japan Hot Albums charts. It sold 555,177 copies as of 2024, and was later certified double platinum by Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). In support of the album, Yonezu embarked on the concert tour Junk throughout Japan in 2025, as well as in Asia, Europe, and North America.
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- release date: 2024-08-21 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the release date is "2024-08-21". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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