"UFO" is Pink Lady

Pink Lady (band)

is a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto and Keiko Masuda...

's sixth single release, released on December 5, 1977. With a total of 1,950,000 sales, this single was their highest grossing ever , and spent ten weeks at the top of the Japanese singles chart. Although it was released in December of 1977, It was voted best song from 1978 in the Japanese music program The Best Ten.

According to 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...

 this was the best selling single from 1978.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Shunichi Tokura, lyrics written by Yū Aku

Yu Aku

, , was a Japanese lyricist, poet, novelist.He was famous for thousands of his lyrics he contributed to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s, more than 20 of them reached the number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart, and 7 singles sold more than a million copies...

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1. "UFO" 3:15
2. "Lady X" 2:45

Chart positions

Charts (1977)	Peak position
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Cover versions

• Japanese girl group Morning Musume
  Morning Musume
  , sometimes referred to as is a Japanese idol girl group, whose act generally revolves around singing and dancing to upbeat melodies. They are the lead group of Hello! Project, which is managed and produced by Tsunku, who composes nearly all the lyrics and melodies of their songs...
  
   recorded a cover of UFO for their cover album Cover You
  Cover You
  - Oricon ranks and sales :- External links :* entry at Up-Front Works official website * entry on Oricon Style...
  
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• Female music group MAX
  MAX (band)
  MAX whose name is an acronym for "Musical Active eXperience" is an Okinawan vocal group popular in Japan. The original members of MAX made their musical debut as members of the Super Monkey's along with lead vocalist, Namie Amuro...
  
   recorded a cover version of this song in 1997.
• Mari Natsuki
  Mari Natsuki
  Mari Natsuki , real name Junko Nakajima , is a Japanese singer, dancer and actress....
  
   and Anna Tsuchiya
  Anna Tsuchiya
  is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model.Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent from Buffalo, New York. In her earliest years, she spoke English and Japanese...
  
  recorded UFO for a Pink Lady/Yū Aku tribute album called Bad Friends in 2009.