Friends (B'z album)

Friends
Friends
EP by B'z
Released	December 9, 1992
Genre	Soft rock
Length	26:47
Label	BMG Rooms/ZEZ
Producer	Tak Matsumoto
B'z chronology

Friends is the fourth mini-album by the Japanese rock duo B'z, released in 1992. The album sold 1,355,530 copies and reached No. 1 at Oricon.^[1] The track "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" became extremely commercially successful, being certified by the RIAJ as being downloaded 500,000+ times as a ringtone and more than 100,000 times as a full-length cellphone download, despite being released in the early 1990s and not as a single.^[2]

Track listing

Prologue - Friends 1:48
Scene 1 - Itsuka no Merry Christmas (いつかのメリークリスマス) - 5:03
Scene 2 - Boku no Tsumi (僕の罪) - 4:19
Love is... - 1:26
Scene 3 - Koi ja Naku Naru Hi (恋じゃなくなる日) - 4:51
Scene 4 - Seasons - 1:14
Scene 5 - Dōshitemo Kimi o Ushinaitakunai (どうしても君を失いたくない) - 6:07
Itsuka no Merry Christmas (Reprise) (いつかのメリークリスマス (Reprise)) - 1:23

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[3]	2× Million	2,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ B'z、さらなる記録更新へ！ニューアルバムリリース決定！
^ レコード協会調べ　2月度有料音楽配信認定＜略称：2月度認定＞. RIAJ (in Japanese). February 20, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
^ "Japanese album certifications – B'z – Friends" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved August 24, 2021. Select 1999年8月 on the drop-down menu

[1] B'z、さらなる記録更新へ！ニューアルバムリリース決定！

[2] レコード協会調べ　2月度有料音楽配信認定＜略称：2月度認定＞. RIAJ (in Japanese). February 20, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2011.

[JapanB'zFriendsalbumCertRef-3] "Japanese album certifications – B'z – Friends" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved August 24, 2021. Select 1999年8月 on the drop-down menu

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