Seiko is the seventeenth and first internationally released
studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter
Seiko (Seiko Matsuda). It was released on June 7, 1990, by
CBS Sony,
Columbia Records, and
Epic Records. After gaining nationwide success in the 1980s, Matsuda took to the international market, especially
the United States and
the United Kingdom. She originally intended to release her first
English-language studio album Sound of My Heart internationally, however, the plan was scrapped and the album was released exclusively in Hong Kong[2] and Japan to commercial success, peaking at number two on the
Oricon Weekly Albums chart.
Three singles were released from the album. The first single, "All the Way to Heaven", was released on April 30, 1990. "
The Right Combination" was released on July 15, 1990, as the second single. The song, a duet with
Donnie Wahlberg, a member of the boy band
New Kids on the Block, has been the most internationally successful song in Matsuda's discography, charting in
the United Kingdom,
Australia,
Canada, and
Japan, as well as peaking at number fifty-four in the
United States.[3] It marked the first time in ten years a Japanese artist had charted on the United States
Billboard Hot 100, since
Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game" reached number sixty in 1980. The third single from the album, "Who's That Boy", was released in the United States on October 1, 1990.
Commercially, the album was a moderate success, peaking at number two in Japan and selling over 500,000 copies worldwide.