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Rain (Yui song)

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"Rain"
Single by Yui
from the album How Crazy Your Love
A-side"Rain"
B-side"A Room"
ReleasedNovember 24, 2010
Recorded2010 (Japan)
VenueOsaka, Japan
GenreJ-pop
Length16:32
LabelSony Music Records
Songwriter(s)Yui (lyrics & music)
Producer(s)Hisashi Kondo
Yui singles chronology
"To Mother"
(2010)
"Rain"
(2010)
"It's My Life/Your Heaven"
(2011)

"Rain" is the seventeenth single by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Yui. It was released on November 24, 2010. The title song is a tie-in for the Fuji TV drama series Perfect Report. The single reached number 2 on the Oricon chart.[1]

Music video and lyrics

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The music video for "Rain" alternates between cuts of Yui and her band playing in the rain and Yui herself running through a rainy street towards a Christmas gift shop. Around the middle of the music video, a happier past is shown through flashbacks of Yui smiling and receiving earrings on a sunny day, along with the lines: "They try to bring back memories / Which are already gone / No matter what I do, I can't get rid of the past."[note 1] The video eventually ends with an image of hope for the future, with the lyrics: "When someday this rain turns to snow / And slowly consumes this sadness / I'll be greeted by new hope.[note 2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Yui

No.TitleArranger(s)Length
1."Rain"Hisashi Kondo4:03
2."A Room"Northa+4:41
3."How Crazy ~Yui Acoustic Version~"Yui & Northa+3:46
4."Rain ~Instrumental~"Hisashi Kondo4:01
DVD
No.TitleDirectorLength
1."Rain (Music Video)"Shigeaki Kubo 
2."Please Stay With Me (Music Video)"Tsuchiya Takatoshi 

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

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Charts (2010) Peak
position
First week sales Sales total Chart run
Japan Oricon Daily Single 1
Japan Oricon Weekly Single[2] 2 67,796 83,706 11
Japan Oricon Yearly Single 86

The single was certified gold by the RIAJ for having more than 100,000 copies shipped to stores.[3]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ Original text: 失い続けた / 記憶がよぎる / どうしたって / 過去はなくせない
  2. ^ Original text: "この雨がいつか粉雪になって / 悲しみをそっと包み込むとき / 新しい希望に出会うの"

Sources

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  1. ^ "Rain(初回限定DVD付き盤) - YUI" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
  2. ^ "Rain(初回生産限定盤))" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  3. ^ "ゴールド等認定作品一覧 2010年11月". RIAJ (in Japanese). Retrieved August 5, 2011.