"Ocean" is the thirty-ninth single by

B'z is a Japanese rock duo consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba,佐伯明『B'z ウルトラクロニクル』ソニー・マガジンズ、2003年。新型光�B'zはなぜ� ...

, released on August 10, 2005. This song is one of the duo's many number-one singles in the

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 ...

charts, and has sold over 505,000 copies. As B-sides, the single features "Dear My Lovely Pain" and "Narifuri Kamawazu Dakishimete", which is an

outtake An outtake is a portion of a work (usually a film or music recording) that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work's final, publicly released version. In the digital era, significant outtakes have been appended to CD and D ...

from '' The Circle''. "Ocean" was used as the theme of ''Umizaru Evolution'', a

Japanese television drama , also called or J-drama, are television programs that are a staple of Television in Japan, Japanese television and are broadcast daily. Format All major Television networks, TV networks in Japan produce a variety of Drama (genre), drama serie ...

adaptation of the manga ''

Umizaru is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūhō Satō. It was serialized by Shogakukan in '' Weekly Young Sunday'' from 1998 to 2001. Yōichi Komori is credited with the original idea for the series, and he also did the re ...

''. The song has received three certifications from the

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: a double platinum shipping certification, a double platinum ringtone download certification and a gold full-length cellphone download certification.

Track listing

# "Ocean" # #"Dear My Lovely Pain"

Certifications

References

External links

B'z performance at Oricon
* {{Authority control 2005 singles B'z songs Oricon Weekly number-one singles Japanese television drama theme songs Songs written by Tak Matsumoto Songs written by Koshi Inaba 2005 songs