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Forever Love (X JAPAN)
- Artist
- X JAPAN
- Single
- Forever Love
- Released
- 1996.07.08
- Catalog Number
- AMDM-6170
- Tracklist
- Artist
- X JAPAN
- Single
- Forever Love (Last Mix)
- Released
- 1997.12.18
- Tracklist
- Artist
- X JAPAN
- Single
- Forever Love (All Version)
- Released
- 2001.07.11
- Tracklist
- Forever Love (Single version)
- Forever Love (Last Live version)
- Forever Love (Acoustic version)
- Forever Love (Last Mix version)
- Information
Forever Love is X JAPAN's 12th single. The single reached #1 on the weekly Oricon chart and charted for fifteen weeks, selling 509,920 copies. It also reached #47 on the yearly Oricon chart for 1996.
The single has been reissued several times. On December 18, 1997, following the announcement of the band's break up, it was reissued, and it was reissued again on July 22, 1998, after the death of guitarist Hideto Matsumoto. A CD containing previous versions, as well as a live recording (recorded at "The Last Live" concert) of "Forever Love" was released on July 11, 2001. Also in 2001, the song was used as background music in several commercials for the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party. LDP member Junichiro Koizumi, at that time the country's Prime Minister has expressed fondness for X JAPAN's music. "Forever Love" appears on the soundtrack of the Japanese animated feature film X.
Song Information
Disambiguation
There are five versions of "Forever Love" to be found on X JAPAN's discography. These are:
- Forever Love (Original)
- Found on "Forever Love" single as track #1.
- Forever Love (KARAOKE)
- Found on "Forever Love" single as track #2.
- Forever Love (Last Mix)
- Found on "Forever Love (Last Mix)" single as track #1, "Forever Love (All Version)" single as track #4 and on best album BALLAD COLLECTION as track #9.
- Forever Love (Last Live version)
- Found on "Forever Love (Last Mix)" single as track #2.
- Forever Love (Acoustic version)
- Found on "Forever Love (Last Mix)" single as track #3 and on best album BALLAD COLLECTION as track #1.
