"Ai no Kotoba" is a single by Hitomi

Hitomi

better known by her stagename , is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She began her career as model, and after meeting Tetsuya Komuro he began managing her career as a pop singer...

's and her last single released from her album Love Concent

LOVE CONCENT

Love Concent is Hitomi's eighth studio album and eleventh album overall, released in 2006. This album is hitomi's first album since Traveler, which was released on May 12, 2004. This album features five singles — "Japanese Girl", "Love Angel", "Cra"g"y Mama", "Go My Way", and "Ai no Kotoba".All...

. Overall, this is Hitomi's 32nd single released throughout her career.

Overview

The lyrics for "Ai no Kotoba" were written by Hitomi herself while the lyrics for "Arittake no Ai", the b-side of this single, were written by Taiji Sato. "Arittake no Ai" is a cover and was originally performed by Theatre Brook

Theatre Brook

Theatre Brook is a Japanese funk-rock band that made its début in 1986. The band's current line-up are: Taiji Sato, Takashi Nakajo , Takashi Numazawa , and Emerson Kitamura...

 in 2000. To date, this has been Hitomi's 2nd lowest selling single, with her first being her debut single "Let's Play Winter

Let's Play Winter

"Let's Play Winter" is the debut single by Japanese singer-songwriter Hitomi and was released on November 28, 1994 by Avex Trax. It appears as a remixed version on her 1995 debut studio album Go to the Top and was later included in its original form on the 1999 best-of compilation H and the 2007...

". Though, the main reason why this single performed so poorly is because Love Concent, the album this song is included on, was to be released only 2 weeks afterward.

In English, "Ai no Kotoba" means "Words of Love".

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release	Chart	Peak Position	First Week Sales	Sales Total	Chart Run
13 September 2006	Oricon Weekly Charts	49	2,097 copies	2,097 copies	1 week