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Masafumi Akikawa
Person · male · Japan · Saijo · born 1967 · recording since 2006
Japanese tenor singer
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Also known as Masafumi Akikawa · 秋川雅史
Timeline
3 events◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1960s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: 千の風になって
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography126 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1360639014
Biography
Masafumi Akikawa (秋川 雅史, Akikawa Masafumi) is a Japanese tenor singer. He has released a number of CDs, in which he has sung a broad range of genres, from classical to pop. He appeared on the 57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen broadcast.
Biography
His single Sen no Kaze ni Natte (千の風になって) (released 24 May 2006) made it to No.1 on 22 January 2007 Oricon Singles Weekly Ranking following his appearance on Uta Gassen. Based on the poem Do not stand at my grave and weep, the single has since sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Japan. The Korean version was used as a requiem for the victims of the MV Sewol, a passenger ferry that capsized and sank with the loss of 304 lives in 2014.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 2 | 14.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:02:45
1五月のバラ4:302見上げてごらん夜の星を3:553地上の星5:114ワインレッドの心5:395旅立ちの日に4:396ふるさとの山に向ひて4:507美幌峠4:258長崎の鐘5:219川の流れのように5:1610イヨマンテの夜4:0911鼓動5:0612昴5:2913千の風になって4:15
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 千の風になってSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 3 tracks · 13:371千の風になって4:34 2千の風になって～カラオケ～4:33 3リンゴ追分4:30 | 24 May 2006 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Masafumi Akikawa head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 2 | 14.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/93440417-2a21-4ba4-816c-6bd06874beb7discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/93440417-2a21-4ba4-816c-6bd06874beb7core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1333046genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1333046seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Akikawabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Akikawa
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Japanese singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q1333046 · MusicBrainz: 93440417-2a21-4ba4-816c-6bd06874beb7
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