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. It was released on November 10, 1993. It was number-one on the ''

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. It was the 29th best-selling single in Japan in 1993, with 806,000 copies sold, the 11th best-selling single in Japan in 1994, with 1.213 million copies sold and it is the 20th best-selling physical single in Japan, having sold a total of 2.023 million copies. The song was used as the theme for the Japanese television series, Ordinary People, starring

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