| Ai Uta | |
| Cover: | Ai Uta cover.jpg |
| Caption: | Cover of the single |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Greeeen |
| Album: | Ā, Domo. Hajimemashite |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Label: | Nayutawave Records |
| Composer: | Greeeen |
| Producer: | Jin |
| Prev Title: | High G.K Low (Hajikero) |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Hito |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
is a song by the Japanese band Greeeen (now Gre4n Boyz). It was released on May 16, 2007.
Ai Uta was released on May 16, 2007 as the band's third single.[1] The song was later included in the band's first album Ā, Domo. Hajimemashite. Greeeen's label, Nayutawave Records, Specifically marketed the song towards junior and senior high school students in an attempt to appeal to them, as they estimated that 85% of Greeeen fans were high schoolers.[2]
The song quickly rose to popularity, selling 250,000 copies. The chaku-uta version of the song was downloaded 2 million times in two months. The song later become the third best-selling multi-format single of 2007 in Japan with over 6.2 million combined sales.[3] [4] It ranked second on Recochoku's 2019 "Heisei Download Ranking", just behind "Kiseki" another one of the band's songs. The song surpassed 100 million streams on Billboard Japan in February 2024, making it the ninth song from the 2000s to do so. The song ranked as the ninth most played 2000s song on Spotify Japan in 2022.[5] It peaked on Oricon's weekly chart in May 2007 at second.[6]
Greeeen won the 22nd Japan Gold Disc Awards on the category of New Artist of the Year award for the song.[7] The song was ranked as the third highest certified song by the Recording Industry Association of Japan with 2.5 million downloads tracked between 2007 and 2009.[8] On a survey conducted by Oricon in 2007 about "heart-throbbing love songs that are perfect for autumn and will liven up your romance", the song ranked first.[9] On a survey conducted by Oricon in 2007, they wrote that the song was "making girls' heart fluttered."
The song was used as the sixth ending theme for the 2018 anime Teasing Master Takagi-san covered by Rie Takahashi,[10] and the second ending theme for the 2023 anime The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten covered by Manaka Iwami.[11] [12] The song was also used as the ending theme of the live-action adaptation of the manga Strobe Edge covered by Whiteeeen.[13]
A live-action adaptation of the song entitled was announced by in April 2018 and premiered on January 25, 2019, in Japan on Line Live starring Ryusei Yokohama. It was directed by Taisuke Kawamura, while script was written by Greeeeen with Shimizu Tadashi. The film was distributed by Toei .[14] [15] [16] [17]
| Peak position | |
| Oricon weekly hottest topic ranking | 2[18] |