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, serving as his thirtieth single released on March 25, 2009. It is his first song performed for ''

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'', used as the television series' theme song.

Summary

It was used as the opening theme song for the 2009

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''. It was released as a single CD and as a CD coupled with a DVD with the music video. The theme of "Journey Through the Decade" is that it describes the .

CD

DVD

The music video of "Journey Through the Decade" was later released in

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, "special memorial single" version which is a

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with a special cover, a third disc and a booklet describing Gackt's collaboration with the Kamen Rider Decade production.

Charts

On its first day of release, it sold 15,000 copies and weekly reached #2 with 50,000 copies sold on the

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. By the release of its follow up single " The Next Decade", "Journey Through the Decade" had sold 94,000 copies. It stayed 25 weeks on the music charts. In June 2009, the

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certified it as gold. In December 2012, it was certified as

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for sales of over 250,000 copies. ;Oricon ;Billboard Japan

References

External links

''Kamen Rider Decade''
on

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's official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Journey Through The Decade 2009 singles Gackt songs Songs in Japanese Japanese television drama theme songs Songs with lyrics by Shoko Fujibayashi Kamen Rider