Rain (Yui song)

"Rain"
Single by Yui
from the album How Crazy Your Love
A-side	Rain
B-side	A Room
Released	November 24, 2010
Format	CD single
Recorded	2010 (Japan)
Genre	J-pop
Length	16:32
Label	Sony Music Records
Writer(s)	Yui (lyrics & music)
Producer(s)	Hisashi Kondo
Yui singles chronology
"To Mother" (2010) "Rain" (2010) "It's My Life/Your Heaven" (2011)
CD + DVD CD + DVD Cover

"Rain" is the seventeenth single by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Yui. It was released on November 24, 2010. The title song is a tie-in for the Fuji TV drama series Perfect Report. The single reached number 2 on the Oricon chart.^[1]

Music video and lyrics

The music video for "Rain" alternates between cuts of Yui and her band playing in the rain and Yui herself running through a rainy street towards a Christmas gift shop. Around the middle of the music video, a happier past is shown through flashbacks of Yui smiling and receiving earrings on a sunny day, along with the lines: "They try to bring back memories / Which is already lost / No matter what I do, I can't get rid of the past."^{[note 1]} The video eventually ends with an image of hope for the future, with the lyrics: "When someday this rain turns to snow / And slowly consumes this sadness / I'll be greeted by new hope.^{[note 2]}

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yui. 

No.	Title	Arranger(s)	Length
1.	"Rain"	Hisashi Kondo	4:03
2.	"A Room"	Northa+	4:41
3.	"How Crazy ~Yui Acoustic Version~"	Yui & Northa+	3:46
4.	"Rain ~Instrumental~"	Hisashi Kondo	4:01

DVD
No.	Title	Director	Length
1.	"Rain (Music Video)"	Shigeaki Kubo
2.	"Please Stay With Me (Music Video)"	Tsuchiya Takatoshi

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Charts (2010)	Peak position	First week sales	Sales total	Chart run
Japan Oricon Daily Single	1
Japan Oricon Weekly Single[2]	2	67,796	83,706	11
Japan Oricon Yearly Single	86

The single was certified gold by the RIAJ for having more than 100,000 copies shipped to stores.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Original text: 失い続けた / 記憶がよぎる / どうしたって / 過去はなくせない
2. Original text: "この雨がいつか粉雪になって / 悲しみをそっと包み込むとき / 新しい希望に出会うの"

Sources

1. "Rain（初回限定ＤＶＤ付き盤） - YUI" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
2. "Rain（初回生産限定盤）)" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
3. "ゴールド等認定作品一覧　2010年11月". RIAJ (in Japanese). Retrieved August 5, 2011.