UFO (Pink Lady song)
| "UFO" | ||||
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| Single by Pink Lady | ||||
| from the album Pink Lady no Katsudou Ooutsushin | ||||
| B-side | "レディーX" | |||
| Released | December 5, 1977 | |||
| Genre | J-pop, kayōkyoku, Disco | |||
| Length | 3:15 | |||
| Label | JVC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Shunichi Tokura, Yū Aku | |||
| Pink Lady singles chronology | ||||
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"UFO" is the sixth single by Japanese duo Pink Lady, released on December 5, 1977 on JVC.
Background and release
As with their previous singles, the music was composed by Shunichi Tokura and the lyrics were written by Yū Aku.
With a total of 1,950,000 sales, "UFO" was Pink Lady's biggest selling single,[1] and spent ten consecutive weeks at the top of the Japanese singles chart. According to Oricon, "UFO" was the best selling single of 1978,[2] and the duo's third consecutive million selling single. This was also their fifth of nine consecutive number one singles.
The song received the grand prize at the 20th Japan Record Awards. "UFO" was the number one song in the first three episodes of the long running Japanese music program The Best Ten, and was voted the best song of 1978 by the program.
"UFO" is featured in the Japanese version of the video game Just Dance Wii.
Chart positions
| Charts (1977) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Japanese Oricon Singles Chart | 1 |
Cover versions
- Japanese girl group Morning Musume recorded a cover of UFO for their cover album Cover You.
- Female music group MAX recorded a cover version of this song in 1997.
- Mari Natsuki and Anna Tsuchiya recorded UFO for a Pink Lady/Yū Aku tribute album called Bad Friends in 2009.
- Melon Kinenbi covered this song in the TV series "Uta Doki!"
- FEMM released their cover of UFO in 2014 on iTunes within their digital EP "Astroboy".
References
- ↑ "List of the number-one hit singles on the Japanese Oricon Chart". Retrieved 2008-10-13.
- ↑ "Annual Oricon Charts 1977-1980" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-10-25.
| Preceded by "Wakareuta" by Miyuki Nakajima |
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart number-one single December 19, 1977 – February 20, 1978 |
Succeeded by "Canada Kara no Tegami" (ja) by Masaaki Hirao (ja) & Yōko Hatanaka (ja) |