"Love Phantom" is the eighteenth single by

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, released on October 11, 1995. This song is one of B'z many number-one singles in

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chart. The song was used as ending theme for ''

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'' during the height of its popularity in

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. The single sold over 950,000 copies within one week. It sold over 1,862,000 copies according to Oricon. The song won "the best five single award" at the 10th

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. In 2011, the song was certified digitally by the

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as a gold single for being downloaded more than 100,000 times to cellphones since its release as a digital download in early 2005. B'z became also the first artist to have at least one single charted in the yearly top 10 for five consecutives years. This record was broken by

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in 2008 (6 years).

Track listing

#Love Phantom #Fushidara 100%

Personnel

Tak Matsumoto is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist and main composer of the rock duo B'z, the best-selling music act in their native Japan. He also has a successful solo career where, in addition to winn ...

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Koshi Inaba (born September 23, 1964 in Tsuyama, Okayama) is a Japanese vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is best known as the singer and lyricist of the rock duo B'z, the best-selling music act in their native Japan. He has also had a su ...

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* Denny Fongheiser -

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Masao Akashi is a Japanese musical arranger in distributors Being Inc., mainly in their label B-Gram Records. In 1988, he debuted as arranger in debut single " Dakara Sono Te o Hanashite" by Japanese hard-rock band B'z. Until 1998 his arrangement work has ...

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- Manipulator * Takanobu Masuda -

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- Female voice *

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- Female voice * Akemi Mori - Soprano voice * Shinozaki Strings -

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Certifications

References

External links

B'z official website LOVE PHANTOM on B'z no bise
(Translation in French) {{Authority control 1995 singles B'z songs Oricon Weekly number-one singles Songs written by Tak Matsumoto Songs written by Koshi Inaba