is a song recorded by Japanese boy band SMAP. The

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composed song was released as a single in 2003 and sold more than 2.57 million copies, becoming the third best-selling single in Japan in

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history. Along with Hikaru Utada's "Colors", it was one of the only two singles to sell over a million copies in 2003, a year that saw CD sales declining due to the Japanese economic slump. The single made it to the top of the

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