Overview

"Innocent World" was Mr. Children's first No. 1 single on the 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...

 Japanese charts, managing to sell 1,935,830 copies during its run on the chart and was the No. 1 selling single for 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...

's 1994 yearly chart. The title track was used as the promotional song for the soft drink and was also included in the Mr. Children live album 1/42

1/42

1/42 is the only live recording album for the Japanese band Mr.Children, released as the limited item that were pressed only 500,000 units in September 1999....

released on September 8, 1999, and also Mr. Children 1992–1995, released on July 11, 2001. The b-side "My confidence song" was included in Mr. Children's compilation album, B-Side

B-Side (album)

B-SIDE is a compilation album by Mr. Children, released on May 10, 2007, marking the fifteenth anniversary of their first album's release. It collects all of the group's B-sides, with a booklet providing liner notes for each of them....

, released on May 10, 2007.

Awards

"Innocent World" has won many awards including the 'Grand Prize' at the 36th Annual Japan Record Awards, the 'Best 5 Single Award' at the 9th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards, and the 'Silver Award' at the 13th Annual JASRAC Awards.

Track listing

Personnel

• Kazutoshi Sakurai
  Kazutoshi Sakurai
  is a Japanese musician and entrepreneur. He composes and writes almost all of the songs for his band Mr. Children, in addition to writing lyrics and singing for his solo project group Bank Band. In 2006, Sakurai ranked #8 in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" and in 2007 was voted #4...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Kenichi Tahara – guitar
• Keisuke Nakagawa – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Hideya Suzuki – drums
  Drum kit
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Production

• Producer – Kobayashi Takeshi
• Arrangement - Mr. Children
  Mr. Children
  , commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan...
  
  and Takeshi Kobayashi