"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" is the 51st and final single by Japanese entertainer

Akina Nakamori is a Japanese Singing, singer and Actor, actress. She is one of the most popular and best-selling artists in Japan. Akina achieved national recognition after winning the 1981 season of the talent show ''Star Tanjō!''. Her debut single "Slow M ...

. Written by Nakamori (under the pseudonym "Miran"), Dream Productions, and Brian Lee, the single was released on February 24, 2016, by Utahime Records and

Universal Music Japan , often referred to as just Universal Music Japan or UMJ, is a Japanese subsidiary of the Universal Music Group founded in 1990. It is the largest subsidiary for a foreign company in the country regarding music distribution. The company is resp ...

. This was Nakamori's second English-language single after " Unfixable". It was also the third single from her 24th studio album '' Fixer''.

Background

"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" was used as the image song for the 2016 film ''

While the Women Are Sleeping is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Wayne Wang. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Takeshi Kitano * Hidetoshi Nishijima * Sayuri Oyamada * Shioli Kutsuna * Hirofumi Arai * Makiko ...

''. The B-side is "Hirari (Sakura)", co-written by

Haruichi Shindō is a Japanese musician, lyricist, composer, record producer and author who is affiliated with Amuse, Inc. His artist name at his debut was , and he formed a band named No Score with his classmates at high school which later became Porno Graffitt ...

. The CD is arranged in an unconventional way, with the B-side playing before the main track.

Chart performance

"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" peaked at No. 32 on

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...

's weekly singles chart and sold over 4,300 copies.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fixer 2016 singles 2016 songs Akina Nakamori songs English-language Japanese songs Universal Music Japan singles Songs written by Brian Lee (songwriter)