is a song recorded by Japanese singer

Maaya Sakamoto is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a Voice acting in Japan, voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime ''Little Twins'', and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in ''The Vision of Escaflowne''. Other ...

, from the album ''

Follow Me Up ''Follow Me Up'' (stylized as ''FOLLOW ME UP'') is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto. It was released on September 30, 2015, through FlyingDog. The limited edition came with a DVD including the music videos for the singles "H ...

''. It was released as the album's fourth single on August 20, 2014, through

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. The song was written by Sakamoto and composed by Takahito Uchisawa from the band

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. It served as the second opening theme to the

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anime series '' M3: The Dark Metal''.

Chart performance

"Replica" debuted on the

Oricon Singles Chart The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry-standard Single (music), singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Chart rankings are based on physical singles' sales. Until 2017, Oricon did not track down ...

at number 17, with 7,000 copies sold in first charting week. The single charted on the chart for four consecutive weeks, selling a reported total of 9,000 copies sold.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Personnel * Vocals, backing vocals –

* Songwriting – Maaya Sakamoto, Takahito Uchisawa *

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– Takahito Uchisawa, Tōru Ishitsuka * Bass – Ichiro Yoshida * Drums – Noriyasu Kawamura * Guitar,

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– Takahito Uchisawa *

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– Tomomi Tokunaga Strings *

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– Takahiro Okubo, Tohru Takayama * Mixing – Tohru Takayama * Mastering – Hiroshi Kawasaki

Charts

References

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