is the 4th

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single by the Japanese girl

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group

S/mileage , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (''Hello! Project'' trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of ''Hello! P ...

. It was released in Japan on February 9, 2011 on the label

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. The physical CD single debuted at number 6 in the

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daily singles chart. In the Oricon weekly chart, it debuted at number 5.

B-sides

The B-side of the regular edition was a

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of the song "

Otome Pasta ni Kandō is the 5th single by the Hello! Project girl group Tanpopo. It was released on July 5, 2000 under the Zetima label with the catalog number EPCE-5060. "Otome Pasta ni Kandō" is also featured on the album '' All of Tanpopo'' as the opening track ...

" by a Morning Musume subgroup called

Tanpopo was a sub-group of the Japanese idol girl group Morning Musume and associated with Hello! Project. It was formed by Up-Front Promotion in November 1998 as Morning Musume's first sub-group. While the main group Morning Musume features predomin ...

that released it as a single in 2000.

Release

The single was released in five versions: four limited editions (Limited Editions A, B, C, and D) and a regular edition. All the limited editions came with a sealed-in serial-numbered entry card for the lottery to win a ticket to one of the single's launch events.

Personnel

S/mileage members: *

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Yūka Maeda is a former Japanese singer. After joining Hello Pro Egg, a trainee program associated with Hello! Project, she achieved early fame as Amulet Heart in Shugo Chara Egg! before debuting in S/mileage, a Japanese idol girl group associated with He ...

Kanon Fukuda , known professionally as , is a Japanese singer. She is a former member of ZOC, Hello! Project idol group Angerme and Shugo Chara Egg!. Career Early years with Hello! Project On April 4, 2009, Tsunku announced a new girl group consisting of ...

Saki Ogawa , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (''Hello! Project'' trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of ''Hello! P ...

Track listing

Regular Edition

Limited Editions A, B, C, D

Charts

References

External links

Profile of the CD single
on the official website of

Hello! Project is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but ...

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