Love Phantom Explained

Love Phantom
Cover:B'z_LP.jpg
Type:single
Artist:B'z
Album:Loose
Released:October 11, 1995
Genre:Hard rock
Label:BMG Japan
Producer:Tak Matsumoto
Prev Title:Love Me, I Love You
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Mienai Chikara (Invisible One)/Move
Next Year:1996

"Love Phantom" is the eighteenth single by B'z, released on October 11, 1995. This song is one of B'z many number-one singles in Oricon chart. The song was used as ending theme for The X-Files during the height of its popularity in Japan. The single sold over 950,000 copies within one week.[1] It sold over 1,862,000 copies according to Oricon.[2] The song won "the best five single award" at the 10th Japan Gold Disc Award.[3]

In 2011, the song was certified digitally by the RIAJ as a gold single for being downloaded more than 100,000 times to cellphones since its release as a digital download in early 2005.[4]

B'z became also the first artist to have at least one single charted in the yearly top 10 for five consecutives years. This record was broken by Mr. Children in 2008 (6 years).

Track listing

  1. Love Phantom
  2. Fushidara 100%

Personnel

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oricon Weekly Single Charts for the fourth week of October 1995. Oricon. 2008-12-05. ja.
  2. Web site: B'z、歴代No.1アーティストまでの軌跡!. Oricon. 2006-05-25. 2008-12-04. ja.
  3. Web site: Gold Disc Hall of Fame 10th. Japan Gold Disc Award. 2008-12-05. ja. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090131074334/http://golddisc.jp/award/010/index.html. 2009-01-31.
  4. 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.