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Dancemania

Overview

Dancemania is a series of compilation albums made by TOSHIBA-EMI (now Universal Music Japan), released under their i-DANCE label (known as Intercord Japan prior to 2000) between 1996 and 2013. Most albums in the series are nonstop megamixed, though some have separate discs with non-mixed versions. The main series mostly consists of Eurodance and other popular dance songs from the time of their release, along with several sub-series focusing on specific genres like happy hardcore, Miami bass or trance.

Dancemania is perhaps best known for its relation to the BEMANI series, particularly with DanceDanceRevolution. Thanks to an agreement between KONAMI and TOSHIBA-EMI, KONAMI was allowed to use a large number of songs from the Dancemania series in exchange for including advertisements in their games. As a result of this, nearly all licensed songs in the DanceDanceRevolution series up to DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, as well as the Dance Maniax series and beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- were sourced from the Dancemania series. TOSHIBA-EMI also handled the release of soundtracks for DanceDanceRevolution and other games they were involved in while their partnership was active, and KONAMI occasionally contributed remixes of BEMANI original songs to the Dancemania SPEED sub-series.

Shortly after the release of DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, KONAMI and TOSHIBA-EMI broke off their partnership (apart from a one-time deal for DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX for Dancemania's 15th anniversary), though songs found in the Dancemania series continued to be licensed separately until DanceDanceRevolution A, with BEMANI remixes from the Dancemania series still in the games as of DanceDanceRevolution A20. The last Dancemania release (演歌SPEED) came out in 2013, shortly after EMI's recording operations were bought by Universal Music Group.

Releases

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Main Series

• Dancemania 1 (1996)
• Dancemania 2 (1996)
• Dancemania 3 (1996)
• Dancemania 4 (1997)
• Dancemania 5 (1997)
• Dancemania 6 (1997)
• Dancemania 7 (1997)
• Dancemania 8 (1998)
• Dancemania 9 (1998)
• Dancemania 10 (1998)
• Dancemania X1 (1999)
• Dancemania X2 (1999)
• Dancemania X3 (1999)
• Dancemania X4 (1999)
• Dancemania X5 (2000)
• Dancemania X6 (2000)
• Dancemania X7 (2000)
• Dancemania X8 (2001)
• Dancemania X9 (2001)
• Dancemania 20 (2001)
• Dancemania 21 (2001)
• Dancemania 22 (2002)
• Dancemania BEST RED (2002)
• Dancemania BEST YELLOW (2002)
• Dancemania EX 1 (2002)
• Dancemania EX 2 (2003)
• Dancemania EX 3 (2003)
• Dancemania EX 4 (2003)
• Dancemania EX 5 (2003)
• Dancemania EX 6 (2004)
• Dancemania EX 7 (2004)
• Dancemania EX 8 (2004)
• Dancemania EX 9 (2006)
• Dancemania TRE☆SURE 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION (2006)
• Dancemania Sparkle BEST OF 90's DANCE POP (2011)
• Dancemania Party BEST OF 90's DANCE HITS (2012)

SPEED

• Dancemania SPEED
• Dancemania SPEED 2
• Dancemania SPEED 3
• Dancemania SPEED 4
• Dancemania SPEED 5
• Dancemania SPEED 6
• Dancemania SPEED 7
• Dancemania SPEED 8
• Dancemania SPEED 9
• Dancemania SPEED 10
• Dancemania SPEED EVOLUTION G
• Dancemania SPEED EVOLUTION G2
• Dancemania SPEED EVOLUTION G3
• Dancemania SPEED EVOLUTION G4
• Dancemania SPEED EVOLUTION G5
• Dancemania SPEED BEST 2001
• Dancemania SPEED presents BEST OF HARDCORE
• Dancemania SPEED presents HAPPY RAVERS
• Dancemania SPEED presents TRANCE RAVERS
• Dancemania SPEED SFX
• Dancemania SPEED TV
• Christmas SPEED
• classical SPEED
• classical SPEED 2
• HAPPY SPEED The BEST of Dancemania SPEED G
• SPEEDRIVE
• アニメ SPEED
• アニメ SPEED Newtype Edition
• スピード刑事
• 演歌SPEED (2013)

Soundtracks

• DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (1999, re-released in 2011 with extra tracks)
• beatmania 5thMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2000)
• DanceDanceRevolution Solo 2000 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2000)
• DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2000)
• Dance Maniax Original Soundtrack (2000)
• DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2001)
• GIANTS mania (2001)
• DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2001)
• Dance Maniax 2ndMIX Original Soundtrack (2001)
• beatmania 6thMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC (2001)
• DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution 6thMIX- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2001)
• DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2002)
• DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2003)
• DanceDanceRevoluton Party Collection ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2003)
• DanceDanceRevolution FESTIVAL & STR!KE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (2006)

Related Link

Dancemania Offical Site (archived)