Chijō no Hoshi

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“Chijō no Hoshi"/"Headlight, Taillight”
Single by Miyuki Nakajima
from the album Tanpenshū
Released July 19, 2000
Format CD single
Genre Folk rock/JPop
Length 20:16
Label Yamaha Music Communications
Writer(s) Miyuki Nakajima
Producer Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima singles chronology
"Matataki Mosezu"
(1998)		 "Chijō no Hoshi"/"Headlight, Taillight"
(2000)		 "Gin no Ryū no Sei ni Notte"
(2003)

"Chijō no Hoshi" (地上の星 earthly stars?) is the thirty-seventh single of the Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima.

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[edit] Song information

In March 2000, Nakajima wrote the songs "Chijō no Hoshi" and "Headlight, Taillight" (ヘッドライト・テールライト heddoraito tēruraito?) for an NHK documentary about inventors, Project X: Challengers (プロジェクトX～挑戦者たち～ purojekto X chōsenshatachi?). On 19 July 2000, the songs were released as a double A-side single through Yamaha Music Communications. The single made its debut at #15 on the Japanese Oricon singles chart, and remained there over two years.

On 31 December 2002, Nakajima made her appearance on the annual NHK music program Kōhaku Uta Gassen. Here she performed "Chijō no Hoshi" from the tunnel in Kurobe dam, Toyama Prefecture. Nakajima's performance recorded the highest audience rating in the program in 2002. After appearing on the show, the single began climbing the chart again, reaching #1 in January 2003. The single was later certified to have sold more than a million copies. More recently "Chijō no Hoshi" was used in a demonstration of how the forthcoming Nintendo Wii is capable of playing music and showing picture files at the same time.

"Chijō no Hoshi" has also been covered by Fuyumi Sakamoto and Twelve Girls Band, whose version was called "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)".

[edit] Track listing

  • All songs written by Miyuki Nakajima
  1. "Chijō no Hoshi" – 05:11
  2. "Headlight, Taillight" – 04:58
  3. "Chijō no Hoshi" (TV mix) – 05:11
  4. "Headlight, Taillight" (TV mix) – 04:58

[edit] Personnel

  • Miyuki Nakajima: Vocals
  • Ichizo Seo: Keyboards, Strings Arrangement & Conduct
  • Hideo Yamaki: Tomtom, Cymbals
  • Hideki Matsubara: Bass
  • Masayoshi Furukawa: Electric Guitar
  • Elton Nagata: Keyboards, Acoustic Piano
  • Keishi Urata, Seiichi Takubo: Computer Programming
  • Masatsugu Shinozaki: Violin, Concertmaster
  • Kiyo Kido: Violin
  • Jun Yamamoto: Violin
  • Yumiko Hirose: Violin
  • Osamu Inou: Violin
  • Kei Shinozaki: Violin
  • Yu Sugino: Violin
  • Naoyuki Takahashi: Violin
  • Kathrine Cash: Violin
  • Tsunehiro Shigyo: Violin
  • Keiko Nakamura: Violin
  • Machia Saito: Violin
  • Masako Mabuchi: Viola
  • Joshin Toyama: Viola
  • Gentaro Sakaguchi: Viola
  • Kaori Naruse: Viola
  • Masaharu Karita: Cello
  • Tomoya Kikuchi: Cello
  • Masahiro Tanaka: Cello
  • Susumu Miyake: Cello
  • Yasuhiro Kido: Backup Vocals
  • Fumikazu Miyashita: Backup Vocals
  • Katsumi Maeda: Backup Vocals
  • Toshiro Kirigaya: Backup Vocals
  • Etsuro Wakakonai: Backup Vocals

[edit] Production

  • Ichizo Seo: Produce and Arrangement
  • Miyuki Nakajima: Written, Compose, Vocalize and Produce

[edit] Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release Date Year Chart Highest Position Total Sales Chart Run
July 19, 2000 2003 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart 1 over 1.11 million 202 weeks

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