Chase the Chance

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Chase the Chance
“Chase the Chance” cover
Single by Namie Amuro
from the album Sweet 19 Blues
Released December 4, 1995
Format CD Single
Genre Pop
Length 21:02
Label Avex Trax
Writer(s) Tetsuya Komuro
Takahiro Maeda
Producer Tetsuya Komuro
Namie Amuro singles chronology
"Body Feels Exit"
(1995)
"Chase the Chance"
(1995)
"Don't wanna cry"
(1996)

"Chase the Chance" is Namie Amuro's second solo single on the Avex Trax label. Released in December 1995, it debuted at number one becoming her first of five million selling singles. At the end of the month, she would make her first appearance as a solo artist on Kōhaku Uta Gassen performing the single. It is the last single before MAX and her permanently split ways.

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[edit] Commercial tie-in

"Chase the Chance" was used as the theme song to the Nihon TV drama, "The Chef."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Chase the Chance (Original Mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro, Takahiro Maeda) – 4:25
  2. "Chase the Chance (Trip Club Mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro, Takahiro Maeda) – 5:30
  3. "Chase the Chance (G.Wright Jungle Mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro, Takahiro Maeda) – 6:43
  4. "Chase the Chance (Original Karaoke)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:22

[edit] Personnel

  • Namie Amuro – vocals, background vocals

[edit] Production

  • Producer – Tetsuya Komuro
  • Arranger – Tetsuya Komuro
  • Mixing – Gary Thomas Wright

[edit] Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release Chart Peak Position First Week Sales Sales Total Chart Run
December 4, 1995 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart 1 225,090 1,361,710 20 weeks

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release Chart Position Sales Total
December 4, 1995 Oricon 1996 Year-End Chart 10 1,361,710
Preceded by
"To Love You More" by Céline Dion
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart number-one single
December 18, 1995
Succeeded by
"To Love You More" by Céline Dion

[edit] TV performances

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