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Frienger

"フレンジャー"
Furenjā / "Frienger"
Single by Ai Otsuka
from the album Love Piece
Released April 12, 2006 (2006-04-12)
Format CD, CD+DVD
Recorded 2006
Genre J-Pop
Label avex trax
AVCD-30915/B (Japan, CD+DVD)
AVCD-30916 (Japan, CD)
Songwriter(s) Ai Otsuka
Ai Otsuka singles chronology
"Planetarium"
(2005)
"フレンジャー"
Furenjā / "Frienger
"
(2006)
"Yumekui"
(2006)
"Planetarium"
(2005)
"Frienger"
(2006)
"Yumekui"
(2006)

"Frienger" (フレンジャー; Furenjā) is Ai Otsuka's 11th single under the avex trax label and her first of three singles in 2006.

"Frienger" is a catchy, upbeat song. The title is actually a portmanteau of the words "Friend" and "Ranger". The song was used in the CM for au mobile service and was the theme song for the television program "Sports Uruguzu". The B-side track, "Amai Kimochi Maru Kajiri", was used in a Music.jp CM. The music video for the song was filmed in Taiwan.

"Frienger" debuted at #2 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart with 70,414 copies sold. It maintained high sales for the following two weeks and sold a total of 173,115 copies in 2006. "Frienger" was Otsuka's best-selling single of 2006 and the 60th best-selling single of 2006 overall. It is currently her fourth best-selling single.

All tracks written by Ai Otsuka.

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)


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