"" is the tenth single by

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, released by

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on February 5, 1996. The cover of the single is

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's face whose tongue was written "no name". "Namonaki Uta" was used as the theme song of Japanese television drama ''Pure''. On the Japanese

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weekly chart, the single "Namonaki Uta" opened at number-one with the first week sales of over 1.208 million copies, establishing the Japanese highest first-week single sales record. It topped the 1996 Oricon yearly single charts and sold over 2.308 million copies in total. It is the second best-selling song for the band behind their 1994 single "

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." The song was covered by

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on her 2010 album ''Drama Songs''.

Track listing

References

1996 singles Oricon Weekly number-one singles Mr. Children songs Japanese television drama theme songs Songs written by Kazutoshi Sakurai 1996 songs Toy's Factory singles {{1990s-single-stub