Fake Star ~I'm Just a Japanese Fake Rocker~ (stylized in all caps; commonly abbreviated to Fake Star) is the seventh studio album by the Japanese rock band Kuroyume, released on May 26, 1996, by EMI.[1] The song "Pistol" won an International Viewer's Choice Award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.[2] Fake Star peaked at the number one on the Oricon Albums Chart and sold 203,660 copies in its first week.[3]