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. The song, his best-known work, is featured as the B-side on the single "Oh! Yeah! / Love Story wa Totsuzen ni", the ninth-best-selling Japanese single since 1968, selling approximately 2.7 million copies to date.

History

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''. The song was written, composed, arranged and produced by Oda himself. The song has since been featured on three of Oda's albums: ''Oh! Yeah!'' (1991), '' Tsutaetai Koto ga arun da'' (, 1997) and '' Jiko Best'' (, 2002). In 2005, fourteen years after the song was released,

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conducted a survey titled . "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" was ranked at number forty-four out of one hundred male artists. Oda performed the song during the 1991 broadcast of the

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on a special edition of the variety programme "Love Love Aishiteru" in 2000.

Sales

The single reached number one on the weekly Japanese music chart,

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, charting for forty-four weeks. It was also the best-selling single of 1991, selling 2.54 million copies and beating the number-two seller by just under 40,000 copies.

Covers

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(English and Japanese)

Single track-listing

References

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