Mind Games (Zard song)

"Mind Games" is the 28th single by Zard[1] and released April 7, 1999 under B-Gram Records. This is the significant song for Zard starting to step out of pop rock and Soft rock, and began to integrate electronic dance music and R&B elements into pop rock music, and the media commented that the quality of this song was far less than that of Zard at the peak, and the new music style was very stiff and lacking sincerity. The single became Zard's last number-one Hit.

"Mind Games"
Single by Zard
from the album Zard Best: Request Memorial
ReleasedApril 7, 1999
Genre
LabelB-Gram Records
Songwriter(s)Izumi Sakai, Masaaki Watanuki
Producer(s)Daiko Nagato
Zard singles chronology
"Atarashii Door ~Fuyu no Himawari~"
(1998)
"Mind Games"
(1999)
"Sekai wa Kitto Mirai no Naka"
(1999)

The single debuted at #1 on the first week. It charted for six weeks and sold over 167,000 copies.[2] This is the last time a Zard single would reach #1 first week in Oricon rankings.

Track list

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All songs are written by Izumi Sakai.

  1. Mind Games
    • composer: Masaaki Watanuki/arrangement: Hirohito Furui
      • the song was used in Fuji TV program Pro Yakyuu News as theme song
  2. Hypnosis
  3. Mind Games (Redway Secret Mix)
  4. Mind Games (original karaoke) [3]

References

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  1. ^ Zard discography (in Japanese) http://wezard.net/single.html Archived 2016-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Official rankings (in Japanese) http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/26939/products/123599/1/
  3. ^ Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1046