Friends (B'z album) explained

Friends
Type:EP
Artist:B'z
Cover:B'z_F.jpg
Released:December 9, 1992
Genre:Soft rock
Length:26:47
Label:BMG Rooms/ZEZ
Producer:Tak Matsumoto
Prev Title:Mars
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:Friends II
Next Year:1996

Friends is the fourth mini-album by the Japanese rock duo B'z, released in 1992. The album sold 1,355,530 copies and reached No. 1 at Oricon.[1] The track "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" became extremely commercially successful, being certified by the RIAJ as being downloaded 500,000+ times as a ringtone and more than 100,000 times as a full-length cellphone download, despite being released in the early 1990s and not as a single.[2]

Track listing

  1. Prologue - Friends 1:48
  2. - 5:03
  3. Scene 2 - Boku no Tsumi (僕の罪) - 4:19
  4. Love is... - 1:26
  5. Scene 3 - Koi ja Naku Naru Hi (恋じゃなくなる日) - 4:51
  6. Scene 4 - Seasons - 1:14
  7. Scene 5 - Dōshitemo Kimi o Ushinaitakunai (どうしても君を失いたくない) - 6:07
  8. Itsuka no Merry Christmas (Reprise) (いつかのメリークリスマス (Reprise)) - 1:23

Notes and References

  1. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/21023/ B'z、さらなる記録更新へ!ニューアルバムリリース決定!
  2. Web site: ja:レコード協会調べ 2月度有料音楽配信認定 <略称:2月度認定> . http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w110220.html . . Japanese . February 20, 2011 . February 21, 2011.