"Make My Day" is a pop song by Japanese recording artist Yui Aragaki

Yui Aragaki

is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry.She is particularly recognized for her beauty and her movie projects.- Overview :...

. It was released as her first single on July 16, 2008.

Background and composition

"Make My Day" is a pop-rock song written and produced by Japanese singer-songwriter Keito Blow. It was released in three limited editions: edition A, which has an illustration cover drawn by Aragaki herself, edition B, which comes with a DVD including three live performances and edition C, which comes with a DVD including three music videos and off-shot footage.

Aragaki gave Blow a list of themes she wanted her music to reflect and Blow used it as inspiration to write the song, as well as the b-side "I Believe". The second b-side, "Soba ni", was written by Aragaki herself and talks about the many things one can notice in a Shibuya

Shibuya, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, it has an estimated population of 208,371 and a population density of 13,540 persons per km². The total area is 15.11 km²....

 crowd.

"Make My Day" was used as theme song for the Fuji TV drama 81diver

81diver

is a manga written by Yokusaru Shibata. It is currently serialized in Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It is aired as drama series from May 3, 2008 starring Junpei Mizobata and Riisa Naka...

, starring Junpei Mizobata

Junpei Mizobata

Junpei Mizobata is Japanese actor, best known as Saga Kazuma in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. He also appears in the drama Akai Ito as Atsushi Nishino .-TV shows:* Detective Conan - Kudo Shinichi...

 and Riisa Naka

Riisa Naka

is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. Naka became famous by appearing in Hachi One Diver .-Personal life:Naka has a Swedish grandfather, making her one-quarter Swedish and three-quarters Japanese...

.

Chart performance

"Make My Day" debuted on the daily 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...

 singles chart at #1 with 11,499 copies sold. It peaked at #2 on the weekly charts with 53,471 copies sold. The song debuted at #1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100

Japan Hot 100

The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....

 chart "Make My Day" was the 12th best selling single for the month of July and 88th best selling single of the year.

Track listing

Chart positions

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Chart (2008)	Peak positions
Japan Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Airplay	56
Japan 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...  Daily Singles Chart	1
Japan Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	2
Japan Oricon Monthly Singles Chart	12
Japan Oricon Yearly Singles Chart	88
Japan SoundScan Singles Chart (Edition A)	7
Japan SoundScan Singles Chart (Edition B)	8
Japan SoundScan Singles Chart (Edition C)	2

Sales and certification

Country	Provider	Sales	Certification Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds)
Japan	RIAJ Recording Industry Association of Japan The Recording Industry Association of Japan is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved the music industry...	85,341	Gold

Chart procession and succession

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format
Japan	July 16, 2008	Warner Music Japan Warner Music Group Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...  (Limited Edition A)
			CD+DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... (Limited Edition B)
			CD+DVD (Limited Edition C)