"Love the Island" is the debut single of Japanese singer

Ami Suzuki is a Japanese recording artist, DJ, and actress from Zama, Kanagawa, Japan. Having been discovered at the talent TV show ''Asayan'', she was one of the most popular female teen Japanese idol, idols in the late 1990s. However, in 2000, Suzuki fac ...

released on July 1, 1998 through True Kiss Disc, sub-label of Sony Music Entertainment Japan owned by Tetsuya Komuro.

Information

"Love the Island" was used in TV commercials for Japanese tourism in

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. Ami starred those commercials. The single debuted at number 5 in the Oricon Weekly Charts, selling 288,000 copies. This was the first and only single of Ami Suzuki to be released in a

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format. Following her blacklisting from the music industry in September 2000, production and distribution of the single stopped in its entirety. On July 27, 2011, a newly recorded version was released online, and was later included in the greatest hits compilation '' Ami Selection''.

Track listing

Personnel

* Producer -

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* Strings arrangement - Randy Waldman * Mixing - Keith Cohen (#1), John Van Nest (#2)

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan) {{Ami Suzuki 1998 debut singles 1998 songs Ami Suzuki songs