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Koi no Tsubomi

CD+DVD Cover
CD Only Cover
Artist
Koda Kumi
Single
Koi no Tsubomi (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love)
Released
2006.05.24
Catalog Number
RZCD-45401 (CD+DVD)
RZCD-45402 (CD Only)
Price
¥1,365 (CD+DVD)
¥840 (CD Only)
CD Tracklist
  1. Koi no Tsubomi (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love)
  2. Koi no Tsubomi (A Cup Of Milk Tea Bossa Nova Version) (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love)
  3. Koi no Tsubomi (Instrumental) (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love)
DVD Tracklist
  1. Koi no Tsubomi PV (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love)
  2. Koi no Tsubomi (Making Video) (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love)
Information

"Koi no Tsubomi" is Koda Kumi's thirty-first single. The main track was used as the theme song to the Fuji TV dorama "Buzu no Hitomi ni Koishiteru" (which first aired on April the 11th and featured Inagaki Goro from SMAP) as well as the image song to the Japan release of the movie "Cars". This single is Koda's first release since after the 12 singles spree, and was released in CD+DVD and CD only versions. The single reached #2 on Oricon charts and charted for 21 weeks. It sold 140,269 units in it's first week and the most recent figures show that it sold a total of 273,060 units. "Koi no Tsubomi" was the #28 best-selling single of 2006, two below Koda's later single Yume no Uta / Futari de....

Song Information

Lyrics
Koda Kumi
Music
Kato Yusuke
Other Information
Arrangement: Kato Yusuke

Disambiguation

There are four versions of "Koi no Tsubomi" to be currently found in Koda Kumi's discography. These different versions are:

Koi no Tsubomi (Original)
Found on this single as track #1.
Found on Black Cherry as track #7.
Koi no Tsubomi (A Cup Of Milk Tea Bossa Nova Version)
Found on this single as track #2.
Koi no Tsubomi (Instrumental)
Found on this single as track #3.
Koi no Tsubomi (Shohei Matsumoto Remix)
Found on Driving Hit's as track #3.

Oricon Chart Positions

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Week Rank Sales
- 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 140,267
2 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 48,128
3 12 7 7 6 6 5 6 22,975
5 17 15 10 9 9 8 13 15,002
9 - 20 16 14 14 11 16 11,420
8 17 13 12 13 13 10 15 11,292
14 - - - - - - 31 5,577
- - - - - - - 44 4,031
- - - - - - - 50 2,974

Total Reported Sales So Far: 273,060 (Oricon), 389,000 (Avex), 2,160,000 (Legal Downloads)

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