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Friends
EP by B'z
Released	December 9, 1992
Genre	Soft rock
Length	26:47
Label	BMG Rooms/ZEZ
Producer	Tak Matsumoto
B'z chronology
Mars (1991) Friends (1992) Friends II (1996)

Friends is the fourth mini-album by the Japanese rock duo B'z, released in 1992. The album sold 1,355,530 copies and reached No. 1 at Oricon. The track "Itsuka no Merry Christmas" became extremely commercially successful, being certified by the RIAJ as being downloaded 500,000+ times as a ringtone and more than 100,000 times as a full-length cellphone download, despite being released in the early 1990s and not as a single.

Track listing

1. Prologue - Friends 1:48
2. Scene 1 - Itsuka no Merry Christmas (いつかのメリークリスマス) - 5:03
3. Scene 2 - Boku no Tsumi (僕の罪) - 4:19
4. Love is... - 1:26
5. Scene 3 - Koi ja Naku Naru Hi (恋じゃなくなる日) - 4:51
6. Scene 4 - Seasons - 1:14
7. Scene 5 - Dōshitemo Kimi o Ushinaitakunai (どうしても君を失いたくない) - 6:07
8. Itsuka no Merry Christmas (Reprise) (いつかのメリークリスマス (Reprise)) - 1:23

Certifications

References

1. B'z、さらなる記録更新へ！ニューアルバムリリース決定！
2. レコード協会調べ　2月度有料音楽配信認定 ＜略称：2月度認定＞. RIAJ (in Japanese). February 20, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
3. "Japanese album certifications – B'z – Friends" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved August 24, 2021. Select 1999年8月 on the drop-down menu

• 1990s concept albums
• 1992 EPs
• B'z EPs
• Japanese-language EPs
• 1990s Japanese-language albums