Friends is the fourth Mini-Album for the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese rock duo B'z

B'z

is a Japanese hard rock duo, composed of and .B'z has released 45 consecutive #1 singles, 24 #1 albums, and sold more than 79 million records in Japan alone...

. The album sold 1,355,530 copies and reached #1 at Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

. The track "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" became extremely commercially successful, being certified by the RIAJ as being downloaded 500,000+ times as a ringtone and more than 100,000 times as a full-length cellphone download, despite being released in the early 1990s and not as a single.

Track listing

• Prologue - Friends 1:48 - 5:03
• Scene 2 - Boku no Tsumi (僕の罪) - 4:19
  • Love is... - 1:26
• Scene 3 - Koi ja Naku Naru Hi (恋じゃなくなる日) - 4:51
• Scene 4 - Seasons - 1:14
• Scene 5 - Dōshitemo Kimi o Ushinaitakunai (どうしても君を失いたくない) - 6:07
• 6. Itsuka no Merry Christmas (Reprise) (いつかのメリークリスマス (Reprise)) - 1:23