Critical and Commercial Response
The single sold 582,000 units in Japan, making it #2 in Oricon charts and was blocked from the No.1 position for four weeks, each week by a new strong release, but managed to stay at the No.2 position for a month. It charted for 13 weeks. The single was the #24 single of 2001 in Japan. This single, as well as "Hikari" and "Sakura Drops/Letters", strangely did not chart in the world charts airplay charts or sales charts.
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