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For My Dear...
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = For My Dear...
| cover = Formydeara.PNG
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Ayumi Hamasaki
| album = A Song for
| released = October 7, 1998
| recorded = 1998
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = J-pop
| length = 4:33
| label = Avex Trax
| writer = Yasuhiko Hoshino (music)
Ayumi Hamasaki (lyrics)
| producer = Max Matsuura
| prev_title = Trust
| prev_year = 1998
| next_title = Depend on You
| next_year = 1998
| misc =
}}
"'For My Dear...'" is the fourth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on October 7, 1998.
Track listing
# "For My Dear..."
# "For My Dear..." (Acoustic Version)
# "For My Dear..." (Instrumental)
Re-release
This single was re-released on February 28, 2001, including four new songs.
Track listing
# "For My Dear..."# "For My Dear..." (Acoustic Version)
# "A Song for " (she shell Reproduction)
# "Friend II" (Jazzy Jet Mix)
# "As if" (dub's L.B.M remix)
# "For My Dear..." (Inst.)
# "For My Dear..." (Acoustic Version Inst.)
Live performances
*October 9, 1998 - Super Dream Live - For My Dear...
*October 17, 1998 - Pop Jam - For My Dear...
*October 24, 1998 - Countdown TV - For My Dear...
*October 30, 1998 - Music Station - For My Dear...
*November 9, 1998 - Hey! Hey! Hey! - For My Dear...
Music video
The music video of For My Dear... was directed by Odagami Hiromitsu. The video features Hamasaki sitting in a bar watching people come and go. The video then follows a few of the visitors as they leave. The video also switches to a heavens gate scene where Hamasaki sings.
* Producer: Hasegawa Toru (HAT)
* Director: Odagami Yoko (HAT)
* Production Manager: Sato Naoki (HAT)
* Director of Photography: Sakamoto Seigo
* Light: Nishiyama Yoshiharu
* Stylist: Matsumoto Koji
* Hair: Tamotsu (Too RUSTIC)
* Make Up: Chu (Too RUSTIC)
Success in the KL
Ayumi Hamasaki's For My Dear... was played on Traxx FM., the first Japanese song to do so.
Chart positions
1Original version
Re-release version
Oricon sales: 74,440 (Original version)
References
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