''Friends'' is the fourth mini-album by the Japanese rock duo

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, released in 1992. The album sold 1,355,530 copies and reached No. 1 at

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that ...

. The track "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" became extremely commercially successful, being certified by the

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as being downloaded 500,000+ times as a ringtone and more than 100,000 times as a full-length cellphone download, despite being released in the early 1990s and not as a single.

Track listing

#Prologue - Friends 1:48 # - 5:03 #Scene 2 - Boku no Tsumi (僕の罪) - 4:19 #Love is... - 1:26 #Scene 3 - Koi ja Naku Naru Hi (恋じゃなくなる日) - 4:51 #Scene 4 - Seasons - 1:14 #Scene 5 - Dōshitemo Kimi o Ushinaitakunai (どうしても君を失いたくない) - 6:07 #Itsuka no Merry Christmas (Reprise) (いつかのメリークリスマス (Reprise)) - 1:23

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 1990s concept albums 1992 EPs B'z EPs Japanese-language EPs 1990s Japanese-language albums