Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana

"Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana"
Single by SMAP
from the album SMAP 015/Drink! Smap!
B-side"Boku wa Kimi o Tsurete Yuku"
Released5 March 2003 (2003-03-05)
GenreJ-pop
LabelVictor Entertainment
Songwriter(s)Noriyuki Makihara
Producer(s)Noriyuki Makihara
SMAP singles chronology
"Freebird"
(2002) 		"Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana"
(2003) 		"Tomodachi e (Say What You Will)"
(2005)

"Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana" (世界に一つだけの花, "The One and Only Flower in the World") is a song recorded by Japanese boy band SMAP. The Noriyuki Makihara composed song was released as a single in 2003 and sold more than 2.57 million copies, becoming the third best-selling single in Japan in Oricon history.[1] Along with Hikaru Utada's "Colors", it was one of the only two singles to sell over a million copies in 2003, a year that saw CD sales declining due to the Japanese economic slump.[2]

The single made it to the top of the Oricon 2003 Yearly singles chart. As of December 2016 it is the third best-selling single in Japan, with 3.000 million copies sold.[3] This song became popular in karaoke.

Track list

12cm single[4]
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangerLength
1."Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana"Noriyuki MakiharaN. MakiharaN. Makihara4:40
2."Boku wa Kimi o Tsurete Yuku" (僕は君を連れてゆく)Tetsuo KudōTakashi TsushimiT. Tsushimi4:39
3."Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (Music Track)"N. MakiharaN. MakiharaN. Makihara4:40
4."Boku wa Kimi o Tsurete Yuku (Music Track)"T. KudōT. TsushimiT. Tsushimi4:39
Total length:17:58

Charts and certifications

References

  1. ^ 「およげ！たいやきくん」がギネス認定、再評価の気運高まる (in Japanese). Oricon. 2008-02-20. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
  2. ^ 年度別ミリオンセラー一覧 2003年. RIAJ (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2008-03-18. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  3. ^ SMAP「世界に一つだけの花」300万枚突破 ファンの「購買運動」目標達成 (in Japanese). Oricon News. 9 December 2016. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  4. ^ Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (CD single back cover). SMAP. Victor Entertainment. VICL-35477.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ^ "世界に一つだけの花 | SMAP" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Billboard Japan Hot 100: September 26, 2011". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Hankyu Hanshin Holdings. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Billboard Japan Hot 100: January 25, 2016". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Hankyu Hanshin Holdings. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  8. ^ ゴールド等認定作品一覧 2016年8月 [Works Receiving Certifications List (Gold, etc) (August 2016)] (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved 2 December 2017.