World! Wide! Love!

"World! Wide! Love!"
Single by Hitomi
from the album Love Life 2
B-side "ココロの草原"
Released May 20, 2009
Format CD
Recorded Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Pop-rock
Length 15:13 (CD)
Label Love Life Records
(Subsidiary of Avex Trax)
Writer(s) Hitomi Furuya
Producer(s) Hiroyuki Fujino, Hiroki
Hitomi singles chronology
"Fight for Your Run"
(2008)		 "World! Wide! Love!"
(1995)		 "Umarete Kurete Arigato/Smile World"
(2011)

"World! Wide! Love!" is the 33rd physical single and 34th single overall by Japanese singer-songwriter Hitomi and was released on May 20, 2009 by Avex Trax.[1] "World! Wide! Love!" is the second single from, and is set to appear on, Hitomi's ninth studio album, "Love Life 2".[2]

Background

While there were many rumors that Hitomi was going to retire, they were quickly disbanded when her 34th single, "Sagashi Tsuduketeta Mono/World! Wide! Love!", a double a-side featuring a "pop ballad", was announced to be released on January 28, 2009. However, this single was soon cancelled for unknown reasons.[3] Not long after, another single release, tentatively titled, "Birth", was soon scheduled on online stores to release a month later, on February 18, 2009, in both a CD-only and CD+DVD edition. Once again, however, this single release was cancelled for unknown reasons.[4] Finally, however, her ninth studio album, then untitled, was confirmed by online retailers and Hitomi's official website. Soon after, "World! Wide! Love!" was announced.[5] The title track was used in skincare product "Easuterinie" commercials, and was also a tie-in song for the "Bee TV" series in Japan.[6] Both "World! Wide! Love!" and the b-side "Kokoro no Sogen" will appear on Hitomi's upcoming album "Love Life 2".[2]

Music video

The promotional video does not feature Hitomi herself; rather, it depicts a girl in a long t-shirt walking around a school campus. As she walks, more girls join her and wear part of the girl's long t-shirt. The beginning of the video features a spoken, robotic message (most likely from Hitomi herself), and the song used in the video prior to release of Love Life 2 uses a more vocoded voice than the version on the single. This vocoder version appeared on the CD Love Life 2 However, the version of the video on the CD+DVD version of Love Life 2 uses the single mix.

Track listing

# Title Lyrics Composers Arrangers Time
01 "World! Wide! Love!"Hitomi FuruyaHiroyuki FujinoHiroyuki Fujino4:20
02 "ココロの草原"Hitomi FuruyaHiroyuki FujinoHiroki3:37
03 "World! Wide! Love! (Instrumental)"Hiroyuki FujinoHiroyuki Fujino4:21
04 "ココロの草原 (Instrumental)"Hiroyuki FujinoHiroki3:35

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)[7]
Release Chart Peak position Sales total Chart run
February 22, 1995 Oricon Daily Albums Chart
Oricon Weekly Albums Chart 119 645 1 week
Oricon Monthly Albums Chart
Oricon Yearly Albums Chart

References

  1. ↑ World! Wide! Love! @ Oricon
  2. 1 2 Pre-Order Page for "Love Life 2"
  3. ↑ Cancelled Single Release Pre-Order Page @ CDJapan
  4. ↑ Cancelled Single "Birth" @ CDJapan
  5. ↑ Hitomi "W!W!L!" discussion
  6. ↑ Love Life 2 Detial @ CDJapan
  7. ↑ Hitomi Sales Records
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