Taiyou no Season

Following the huge success of the previous song "Try Me (Watashi o Shinjite)," this was the second Eurobeat track to be released. The song is a Japanese language cover of Eurobeat artist Veronica Sales' song "Seasons".^[1] Meanwhile, the b-side is also a Japanese cover of the song "Burning Love", originally sung by Eurobeat artist D-Essex.^[2] The echoing vocals and rushing melody of "Taiyou no SEASON" give the song a sense of seasonality and speed, as if the listener is driving a convertible car along the seaside in the middle of summer.^[3]

"Taiyou no SEASON" debuted at number eight on the Oricon Singles Chart, with 69,750 copies sold in its first week.^[4] On its second week the single jumped to number five on the chart, selling 95,430 copies.^[5] It dropped to number ten the next week, selling 70,860 copies.^[6] The single stayed at number ten for a second consecutive week during its fourth week of availability, shifting 90,950 copies.^[7] "Taiyou no SEASON" then slid to number thirteen, selling 64,720 copies.^[8] Afterwards the single then lingered in the top twenty for the next three weeks, respectively ranking at number fifteen,^[9] number seventeen,^[10] and number twenty,^[11] before vanishing from the top twenty entirely on its ninth week of availability. "Taiyou no SEASON" was the fifty-sixth best-selling single in Japan of 1995.^[12] The single charted in the top 100 for seventeen weeks^[13] and sold a reported total of 610,680 copies.^[14]