"Say Yes" is a Japanese
single
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* Single (music), a song release
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by
Chage and Aska
were a Japanese popular music duo composed of male singer-songwriters from Fukuoka Prefecture: and . To date they have sold over 31 million albums and singles in Japan.
History
They were formed in the late 1970s at the suggestion of the A&R ...
, released by
Pony Canyon
, also known by the shorthand form , is a Japanese mass media publishing company founded on October 1, 1966. The company publishes mainly physical home media on compact discs, including music, films and TV shows and video games. It is affiliate ...
on July 24, 1991. The song was used as a theme of the Japanese television drama ''101 kaime no Propose''. It was regarded as a wedding song.
On the Japanese
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
weekly single charts, "Say Yes" spent 13 consecutive weeks at the number-one position. The single became the best-selling song for the duo. It sold over 2.82 million copies and is the seventh best-selling single in Oricon charts history.
Cover versions
In 1992, Hong Kong singer
Raymond Choi covered this song in Cantonese.
Debbie Gibson
Deborah Ann Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress.
Gibson released her debut album '' Out of the Blue'' in 1987, which spawned several international hits, later being certified triple plati ...
recorded an English-language cover of the song in her 2010 Japan-only release ''
Ms. Vocalist''.
See also
*
List of best-selling singles in Japan
Japan has the second largest music market in the world. In 1962, Tokushin music reports was founded and became the leading provider of music sales in Japan. However their reports and charts are only available to industry insiders and are not avail ...
References
1991 singles
Chage and Aska songs
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Japanese television drama theme songs
1991 songs
Pony Canyon singles
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