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's 6th single and it was released on January 26, 2000, by

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. It was certified double platinum by the

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for 545,730 copies shipped to stores.

Background

"Tsumi to Batsu" is taken from Sheena's second album ''

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''. When she sang this song on her first national tour ''Senkō Ecstasy'', she joked with her fans, "If you want to buy this song as a single, please send a letter to Toshiba-EMI". Then, the letters actually poured in to Toshiba EMI, and it was decided to release this song. Ken-ichi Asai, ex-

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, plays the guitar on "Tsumi to Batsu." The song was covered by Takashi Obara on his piano cover album ''Try Try Try "Piano yo Utae" Special'' (2004) and by General Head Mountain on their third album ''Tsuki Kanashi Blue'' (2006). It was covered again by Blistar on ''Blistar Rockin' Covers: Rock & Sexy'' (2011).

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Tsumi to Batsu *

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

: Shiina Ringo * Electric guitars and Tooth Flute: Ken-ichi Asai "Benzie" (from

) * Bass guitars:

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* Drums: Masayuki Muraishi *

Organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

: Yuta Saito Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru * ** Vocals: Shiina Ringo ** Electric guitars: Susumu Nishikawa **

Electric Bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck The ...

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** Drums: Masayuki Muraishi **

Synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

: Makoto Minagawa 17 * Vocals: Shiina Ringo * Electric guitars: Susumu Nishikawa * Bass guitars: Seiji Kameda * Drums and

Tambourines The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called " zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

: Noriyasu "''Kāsuke''" Kawamura *

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

: Yuta Saito * Synthesizer programming: Nobuhiko Nakayama * The

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: Chieko Kinbara Group

References

{{Authority control Ringo Sheena songs 2000 singles Song recordings produced by Seiji Kameda Songs written by Ringo Sheena 2000 songs