Yoake Mae

Yoake Mae (夜明けまえ) is the ninth studio album by Chara, which was released on March 19, 2003. It debuted at #17 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 300 for 5 weeks. It eventually sold 47,000 copies.

The entire album was produced and written by Chara. It was her last original album release on Sony.

Two singles were released from the album: Hatsukoi (初恋) and Mieru wa (みえるわ).