Eien (Zard song)

"Eien"
Single by Zard
from the album Eien
Released	August 20, 1997
Genre	J-pop, Pop rock
Label	B-Gram Records
Zard singles chronology
Kaze ga Toori Nukeru Machi he (1997) Eien (1997) My Baby Grand ~Nukumori ga Hoshikute~~ (1997)

"Eien" (永遠, Eternity) is Zard's^[1] 22nd single released on August 20, 1997 under B-Gram Records label. The single reached rank number 1 first week. It charted for 13 weeks and sold 628,000 copies.^[2] When Izumi Sakai died in 2007, it was selected as her fifth best song on the Oricon polls.^[3]

Track list

All songs are written by Izumi Sakai

1. Eien (永遠)
   • composer and arrangement: Akihito Tokunaga
     • the song was used as the main theme of Japanese television drama adaptation of the novel A Lost Paradise
     • Junichi Watanabe, the writer of the novel, wrote the title word "Eien" of the CD cover.
2. I can't let go
   • composer: Seiichirou Kuribayashi/arrangement: Hirohito Furui
3. Eien (永遠) (Original karaoke)
4. I can't let go (Original karaoke) ^[4]

References

1. ↑ ZARD discography (in Japanese) http://wezard.net/single.html
2. ↑ Oricon rankings (in Japanese):http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/26939/products/123583/1/
3. ↑ "心に残るZARDの名曲、1位は「負けないで」" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2008-12-06. 
4. ↑ Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1030