Step You/Is This Love?
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| “Step you/is this Love?” | |||||
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| Single by Ayumi Hamasaki from the album (miss)understood |
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| Released | April 20, 2005 | ||||
| Format | JPN CD Single USA Digital Single [1] |
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| Genre | J-pop | ||||
| Length | 18:27 | ||||
| Label | Avex Trax | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||||
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"Step you/is this Love?" is the 35th single released by Ayumi Hamasaki. It was a double a-side single released on April 20, 2005. "Step you/is this Love?" was the first single released by Ayumi Hamasaki in 2005. "Step you/is this Love?" was the best-selling solo female single of 2005 until September 2005, when Mika Nakashima's Glamorous Sky outsold it. The DVD featured 3 PVs, including one for "Step you," "is this Love?", and also for "my name's Women" from Hamasaki's 2004 album, My Story. Chiharu and Etsu from TRF were featured alongside Ayu in the PV. The "My Name's Women" PV is currently the 2nd most expensive music video by a Japanese artist, behind Hamasaki's "Fairyland" PV. To date, the single has sold over 345,000 copies, making it her best-selling single of 2005. To date, STEP you / is this LOVE? has been downloaded over 900,000 times.
According to an online poll on the A Best 2 website, Step you was voted as the best song during the A Best 2 period.
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[edit] Track listing
- Step you – 4:24
- is this Love? – 4:51
- Step you (Instrumental) – 4:24
- is this Love? (Instrumental) – 4:51
[edit] DVD track listing
- Step you (PV)
- is this Love? (PV)
- my name's Women (PV)
[edit] Live performances
- April 13, 2005 – Minna no Terebi – "Step you"
- April 16, 2005 – CDTV – "Step you"
- April 22, 2005 – Music Fighter – "Step you"
- April 29, 2005 – Music Station – "Step you"
- May 6, 2005 – Music Station – "Step you" and "is this Love?"
- December 31, 2005 – CDTV Special 2005-2006 – "Step you" and "Bold & Delicious"
[edit] Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | First Week Sales | Sales Total | Chart Run |
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| April 20, 2005 | Oricon Daily Singles Chart | #1 | |||
| April 20, 2005 | Oricon Weekly Singles Chart | #1 (2 weeks at #1) | 164,008 | 345,340 | 19 |
| April 20, 2005 | Oricon Monthly Singles Chart | #1 | |||
| April 20, 2005 | Oricon Yearly Singles Chart | #19 |
- Total Sales : 345,340 (Japan)
- Total Sales : 403,000 (Avex)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Step you/is this Love? information at Avex Network.
- Step you/is this Love? Cd+DVD information at Avex Network.
- Step you/is this Love? information at Oricon.
