is a song recorded by Japanese singer

Thelma Aoyama is a Japanese pop and Contemporary R&B, R&B singer. She is part Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese. She is known for her collaboration song with SoulJa, "Koko ni Iru yo" and her answer song "Soba ni Iru ne". In Sep ...

featuring Japanese rapper SoulJa, released on January 23, 2008, via Universal J. It is an

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to her previous collaboration with SoulJa, "Koko ni Iru yo." The B-side of the single, "My Dear Friends", was used as the ending theme to anime '' Shion no Ō'', and the opening theme to television show ''Ryuuha-R''. The single reached the number 1 position on Japan's

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charts in its second week and sold over 450,000 compact discs. In addition, it sold over 7 million downloads, including 2 million complete downloads, by July 2008. In September 2008, the

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certified the song as "the best selling download single in Japan" for the number of full-track downloads. On May 28, 2009, however, it was announced that the record was replaced by

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's song " Kiseki". It was later admitted by the Guinness World Records. It was also the best-selling download single on the iTunes Store 2008 yearly charts in Japan. Taiwanese band Da Mouth sang their cover version of "Koko ni Iru yo" on their album ''Wang Yuan Kou Li Kou''. "Soba ni Iru ne" was also covered by

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on their album ''Amazing''.

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