Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime

"Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit" is a double A-side single by Japanese singer songwriter Mai Kuraki, taken from her second studio album Perfect Crime (2001) and third studio album Fairy Tale (2002). It was released on August 29, 2001, by Giza Studio, and both songs were served as the theme song to the Japanese television series Ikiru tame no Jonetsu toshite no Satsujin [ja].[1] "Can't Forget Your Love" was written by Kuraki herself, Aika Ohno, Cybersound and Akihito Tokunaga, while "Perfect Crime: Single Edit" was written by Kuraki, Tokunaga, Daisuke Ikeda.

"Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit"
Single by Mai Kuraki
from the album Perfect Crime
Fairy Tale
ReleasedAugust 18, 2001
Recorded2001
GenreJ-pop
LabelGiza Studio
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)KANONJI
Mai Kuraki singles chronology
"Always"
(2000)
"Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit"
(2001)
"Winter Bells"
(2001)

Commercial performance edit

Commercially, "Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit" was a moderate success. Although the single instantly peaked at number two on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, it has managed to sold 180,040 copies as of February 2018, 30,000 copies fewer than her preceding single "Always". It spent eight weeks on the chart and became 113rd best-selling single of 2001 in Japan and has been certificated gold by Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).[2]

Track listing edit

CD
No.TitleWriter(s)Arranger(s)Length
1."Can't forget your love"5:27
2."Perfect Crime" (Single Edit)
  • Kuraki
  • Tokunaga
  • Tokunaga
  • Daisuke Ikeda (string arrangement)
5:41
3."Perfect Crime" (DJ Me-Ya Urban Beat Box Remix)
  • Kuraki
  • Tokunaga
  • DJ Me-Ya
5:12
4."Can't Forget Your Love" (Instrumental)
  • Ohno
  • Cybersound
  • Tokunaga
5:27
5."Perfect Crime" (Single Edit / Instrumental)
  • Tokunaga
  • Tokunaga
  • Ikeda
5:41

Credits and personnel edit

Credits and personnel adapted by the CD liner notes.[3]

Charts edit

Certification and sales edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) Gold 180,040 (physical sales)

Release history edit

Region Date Format Label Ref.
Japan August 18, 2001 CD single Giza Studio [1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Can't forget your love/PERFECT CRIME-Single Edit- - 倉木麻衣 / J-POP / 音楽". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  2. ^ a b "Can't forget your love/PERFECT CRIME-Single Edit-". Oricon. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  3. ^ Mai Kuraki - Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit. CD single [Liner Notes]. Giza Studio Cat no. GZCA-2011.

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