Your Best Friend

"Your Best Friend"

Regular edition cover
Single by Mai Kuraki
from the album Over the Rainbow
A-side Your Best Friend
B-side Step by Step
Released October 19, 2011 (2011-10-19)
(see release history)
Format CD Only, CD+DVD, music download
Recorded 2011
Genre J-pop
Length 16:42 (CD)
22:34 (CD+DVD)
Label Northern Music
VNCM-6024 (CD Only)
VNCM-6023 (CD+DVD)
VNCF-6024 (Musing)
Writer(s) Mai Kuraki, Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi
Producer Mai Kuraki, Daiko Nagato
Mai Kuraki singles chronology
"Mou Ichido"
(2011)		 "Your Best Friend"
(2011)		 "Strong Heart"
(DVD Single)
(2011)
Alternative Covers
Your Best Friend DualDisc Edition
Your Best Friend Musing/Fan Club Special Edition

"Your Best Friend" is the 37th single by Japanese singer Mai Kuraki. It was released on October 19, 2011 on the Northern Music record label.[1]

Contents

Information

"Your Best Friend" is the 40th ending theme for the Japanese animation series Case Closed (20th Season).[1] "Step by Step" is the official theme song for the Mie Prefecture-based Nemu no Sato Hotel and Resort.[2][3]

Both songs were written and arranged by Kuraki and Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi from the R&B duo So' Fly. Cancemi, a Japanese-Italian, is also behind the song "Doshite Sukinandaro", a song by Cancemi's solo project Nerdhead (on Universal Music Japan label), which featured Kuraki on vocals.

The two songs are both included in Kuraki's soon-to-be-released album, Over the Rainbow.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Mai Kuraki. 

CD
No. Title Music Arranger(s) Length
1. "Your Best Friend"   Mai Kuraki, Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi 5:52
2. "Step by Step"   Mai Kuraki, Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi 4:58
3. "Your Best Friend (instrumental)"   Mai Kuraki, Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi Giorgio "Giorgio 13" Cancemi 5:52

Chart performance

Japan

Music Charts

Oricon
Released Chart Peak Debut sales Sales total Chart run
October 19, 2011 Daily Singles Chart 4 (2011/10/22) 7,558 25,247 10 weeks
Weekly Singles Chart 6 (2011/10/31)[4] 17,479
Monthly Singles Chart 25 (2011/10)[5] 20,239
Billboard Japan
Release Chart Peak position
October 19, 2011 Billboard Japan Hot 100 10
Billboard Japan Hot 100 Airplay 21
Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales 10
Billboard Japan Hot Animation Songs 2
Recochoku
Release Chart Peak position
October 19, 2011 Chaku Uta Full Chart 22
Ringback Tones Chart 66
RIAJ
Release Chart Peak position
October 19, 2011 RIAJ Digital Track Chart 12

Radio Charts

Chart Station Peak position Chart Run
Friday Super Countdown 50 JOQR-AM (Bunka Hoso) 8 (2011/10/22)[6] 5 weeks
Radio3 Single Top 30 JONU-FM (Radio3 FM Mie) 8 (2011/10/30) 4 weeks
Date FM Countdown Radio JOJU-FM (Date FM 77.1) 13 (2011/10/29)[7] 1 week
Keiyo Bank Power Countdown Japan Hot 30 JOGV-FM (bayfm78) 6 (2011/10/29)[8] 2 weeks
J-AC Top 40 JOKV-FM (Alpha Station) 13 (2011/11/12)[9] 6 weeks
Best 10 Hokkaido JOHR-AM (Hokkaido Hoso) 5 (2011/10/30)[10] 1 week
Yokohama Top 30 JOTU-FM (FM Yokohama 84.7) 24 (2011/10/30) 1 week
J's Countdown Top 20 JOWV-FM (FM Port) 6 (2011/10/30)[11] 3 weeks
FM Aichi Countdown Dragoon JOCU-FM (FM Aichi 807) 74 (2011/11/04) 3 weeks
Air-G' 40 Vibes JOFU-FM (Air-G' FM Hokkaido) 16 (2011/10/27)[12] 1 week
Radio Berry Weekly Chart JOSV-FM (Radio Berry) 3 (2011/10/28) 2 weeks

Taiwan

Release Chart Peak position
October 28, 2011 GMusic Combo Chart 14
GMusic Asian Pop Chart 3

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog number
Japan October 19, 2011 Northern Music CD, CD+DVD, Musing VNCM-6024 (CD Only), VNCM-6023 (CD+DVD), VNCF-6024 (Musing)
Hong Kong[13] October 28, 2011 Forward Music CD 11-20758
Taiwan[14]
South Korea[15] [16] November 1, 2011 C&L Music CD+DVD CNLR-1123

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "INFORMATION｜倉木麻衣 Official Website". Mai Kuraki Official Website (Northern Music). 2011-09-27. http://mai-kuraki.com/information/index.html#newrelease. Retrieved 2011-10-15. 
  2. ^ Nemu no Sato Hotel and Resort 2011 CM on YouTube
  3. ^ New TVCM for 2011 Nemu no Sato Hotel and Resort
  4. ^ Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, 2011/10/31 6th-10th
  5. ^ Oricon Monthly Singles Chart, 2011/10/31 21st-30th
  6. ^ Friday Super Countdown 50 - October 22, 2011 Episode
  7. ^ Date FM Countdown Radio
  8. ^ Keiyo Bank Power Countdown Japan Hot 30
  9. ^ J-AC Top 40
  10. ^ Best 10 Hokkaido
  11. ^ J's Countdown Top 20
  12. ^ Air-G' 40 Vibes
  13. ^ Your Best Friend (Forward Music Hong Kong)
  14. ^ Your Best Friend (GMusic)
  15. ^ http://blog.naver.com/cnlmusic
  16. ^ Your Best Friend (C&L Music)

External links

Mai Kuraki
Japanese studio albums
English studio albums
Secret of My Heart
Compilation albums
Japanese singles
"Love, Day After Tomorrow" · "Stay by My Side" · "Secret of My Heart" · "Never Gonna Give You Up" · "Simply Wonderful" · "Reach for the Sky" · "Tsumetai Umi/Start in My Life" · "Stand Up" · "Always" · "Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit" · "Winter Bells" · "Feel Fine!" · "Like a Star in the Night" · "Make My Day" · "Time After Time (Hana Mau Machi de)" · "Kiss" · "Kaze no La La La" · "Ashita e Kakeru Hashi" · "Love, Needing" · "Dancing" · "P.S My Sunshine" · "Growing of My Heart" · "Best of Hero" · "Diamond Wave" · "Shiroi Yuki" · "Season of Love" · "Silent Love (Open My Heart)/Be With U" · "Yume ga Saku Haru/You and Music and Dream" · "Ichibyōgoto ni Love for You" · "24 Xmas Time" · "Puzzle/Revive" · "Beautiful" · "Eien Yori Nagaku/Drive Me Crazy" · "Summer Time Gone" · "1000 Mankai no Kiss" · "Mou Ichido" · "Your Best Friend" · "Strong Heart"
English singles
Baby I Like
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