RetroPanda
Mon, 11/09/2023 - 08:35
Released on May 19, 1993, this song reached #1 in Oricon chart (and stayed there for 2 consecutive weeks) with 1,396,420 sales. As for Oricon monthly chart, this song was charted at #9 for May 1993, #2 for June 1993, and #4 for July 1993. At the end of the year, this song was ranked #9 in Oricon yearly chart of 1993. Just less than 4 months after "Makenaide" and she got her other million selling songs. This is the second highest selling song in her career.
This song was used as theme song for Pocari Sweat commercials.
* only the song was used, Sakai Izumi herself didn't appear in the CMs.
Her live performance:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Hj411m7mt
^ Sakai Izumi rarely appeared on TV (by her own choice) but at least there's that footage of her singing this song in ZARD concert in 1999.
in ZARD memorial concert, September 2007
^ about 4 months after her death
This song was once again used in Pocari Sweat CM in 2019:
uji na
Natalia Arlovskaya