Nakamori's popularity increased with the release of her follow-up single, "Shōjo A", which peaked at number five on the Oricon charts and sold over 390,000 copies.
The 9th single, "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa" proved to be a turning point in Akina Nakamori's career as the song is considered difficult to sing with fast lyrics.
Firstly, Bitter and Sweet, which contained the album version of the earlier hit of "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa" and "BABYLON."
Her next album, D404ME, only had a remix version of the hit single "Meu amor é..." among other new songs and sold 651,000 copies, debuting at number 1.
In the autumn of 1990, she was slated to release a new studio album Gaze, which would include singles "Mizu ni Sashita Hana" and ten more songs written by writer Eikyo Kyo.
[10][11] Due to issues with the record label, soon after her two-day live concert Yume, Nakamori left Warner Pioneer and the album remained unreleased.
On 13 April 1994, Nakamori played a role as the first suspect on the TV Series Furuhata Ninzaburō in the episode titled "The Shoujo Manga Murderer".
On 2 September 1994, Nakamori released her 29th single "Yoru no Doko ka de (Night Shift)", written by Tsugutoshi Gotō.
In April 1996, she appeared on the first broadcast of the Japanese variety program SMAP×SMAP, performing Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa, Tattoo, Ganbarimashou and Desire with the band Smap.
[17] On 7 August 1996, Nakamori released her 33rd single "Moonlight Shadow: Tsuki ni Hoero" written by Toshihiko Takamizawa Tetsuya Komuro.
In the newspaper Asahi Shinbun, Nakamori explained that the album's melody crosses from digital into acoustic sounds and that she had carefully chosen songs that she could sing in her key.
B-side track Good-bye tears was also chosen as the theme song for a Japanese television drama, Shichinin no OL Sommelier, in which Akina played a minor role.
In January 1999, Nakamori played a main role in the television drama Border Hanzai Shinri Sōsa File.
In early December, at a special press conference, Chiba stated that Nakamori was a "troublemaker, who shouldn't exist in the music industry."
[27][28][29] On 21 December 1999, Nakamori's final single with Gauss Entertainment, "Trust Me" (written by Kazuhiro Hara) and her 19th studio album, Will, were released.
Nakamori switched management from Koubouroku to the private office Faith, and transferred to her current record label, Universal Music.
The title of the album came from a conversation she had with her home-stay family regarding her English skills when she studied abroad in the United States for a month.
On 12 May and 7 July 2004, she collaborated with Korean music producer Kim Hyung Seok on singles "Akai Hana" and "Hajimete Deatta Hi no Yōni".
On 7 December 2005, Nakamori released her forty-fifth single "Rakka Ryūsui", written by Takashi Matsumoto and Kenji Hayashida.
On 17 January 2007, Nakamori released footage from her live tour The Last Destination and her first cover compilation album Utahime Best: 25th Anniversary.
[67] Youichi Murata reprise his role as a sound arranger for the first time since her self-cover compilation album Utahime Double Decade.
[73][74][75] All Time Best: Original consisted of Nakamori's biggest hits from between 1982 and 2009, her previously released digital single, and a new song Sweet Rain.
[83] On 30 September 2015, Nakamori released her 50th single "Unfixable", written by Hilde Wahl, Anita Lipsky, Tommy Berre and Marietta Constantinou.
The CD doesn't start with the lead song, but instead the B-side track, Hirari (Sakura), written by Kouhei Munemoto and a member of the band Porno Graffitti, Haruichi Shindō.
She announced that she transferred her management from Faith to a new label called HZ Village; she also stated that her physical condition is not ideal yet.
At the end of the footage, there was a recorded voice-only message from Nakamori, the first time in several years that her real voice was heard.
[119][120][121] In 1984, during the filming of the movie Ai Tabidachi, the relationship between Nakamori and fellow singer-actor Masahiko Kondo gradually became known to the public.
[123] Some journalists believed that her rival, Seiko Matsuda and Kondo were spotted together by the tabloid magazine Friday which could have been one of the reasons for the attempted suicide.
[138] Voice actress and singer Sora Amamiya shared that she was inspired by Nakamori's songs while in the process of songwriting for her 2022 compilation album and subsequently for her 2023 EP.
[139][140] Contemporary kayokyoku singer Kawai Fujii listed Nakamori's "Shōjo A" and "Nanpasen" as two of her personal favorite songs, and even performed for an ad campaign.