"Promise" is the eleventh single by Japanese recording artist Kohmi Hirose

Kohmi Hirose

is a J-pop singer-songwriter. She started piano lessons at the age of 4 and within a year was writing songs.-Biography:Asami Yonemitsu graduated from Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University and then Kunitachi College of Music in 1989. During her student days, she visited Los Angeles and decided to pursue a...

. It was released on November 27, 1997, as the second single from Hirose's seventh studio album, Rhapsody (1998). The title track and B-side, "Chocolate," were both written and composed by Hirose. "Promise" was used in commercials for Alpen's 1998 winter campaign.

Chart performance

"Promise" debuted at number 14 on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart with 31,920 copies sold in its first week. It climbed one spot to number 13 in its second week, selling 34,470 copies, and again to number 12 on its third week, selling 41,700 copies. "Promise" peaked at number 4 on its fourth week, with 68,910 copies sold. It spent the following seven weeks within the top thirty, selling 324,790 copies. The single charted for a total of sixteen weeks and has sold 542,290 copies in total, becoming Hirose's second best-selling single, behind "Romance no Kamisama

Romance no Kamisama

is the third single by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Kohmi Hirose. Originally released on December 1, 1993, the song, translated as "The Cupid of Romance", is Hirose's most successful to date, selling over one million copies in Japan...

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In other media

The song was popularized on the Internet through its use in the meme

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 on YouTube

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 and Nico Nico Douga

Nico Nico Douga

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, which originally involved glitched game play footage from the Nintendo 64

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 game GoldenEye 007 set to the song. In 2011, Victor Entertainment used its copyright on the song to have the audio removed from these "Get Down" videos.

Track listing

Charts

Chart (1997–98)	Peak position
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...  Weekly Singles	4
Oricon Monthly Singles	10
Oricon Yearly Singles	45

Certifications and sales

Country	Certifications	Sales
Japan Recording Industry Association of Japan The Recording Industry Association of Japan is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved the music industry...	2× Platinum	542,290