Chase the Chance

"Chase the Chance"
Single by Namie Amuro
from the album Sweet 19 Blues
Released	December 4, 1995
Genre	Dance-pop electronic
Length	21:02
Label	Avex Trax
Songwriter(s)	Tetsuya Komuro Takahiro Maeda
Producer(s)	Tetsuya Komuro
Namie Amuro singles chronology
"Body Feels Exit" (1995) "Chase the Chance" (1995) "Don't Wanna Cry" (1996)

"Chase the Chance" is Namie Amuro's second solo single on the Avex Trax label. Released in December 1995, it debuted at number one on the Oricon charts becoming her first of five million selling singles. As of August 2012, the single has sold 1.3 million copies in Japan.^[1] At the end of the month, she would make her first appearance as a solo artist on Kōhaku Uta Gassen performing the single. It is the last single before she and MAX permanently split ways, even though MAX do not appear in the accompanying music video.

A pre-release TV commercial for the single features excerpts from the music videos for her four previous singles (including three singles released by Toshiba-EMI) in slow motion and in black and white.

Commercial tie-in[]

"Chase the Chance" was used as the theme song to the Nihon TV drama, "The Chef."

Track listing[]

All lyrics are written by Tetsuya Komuro and Takahiro Maeda; all music is composed by Tetsuya Komuro, arranged by Tetsuya Komuro.

Personnel[]

• Namie Amuro – vocals, background vocals

Production[]

• Producer – Tetsuya Komuro
• Arranger – Tetsuya Komuro
• Mixing – Gary Thomas Wright

TV performances[]

• December 31, 1995 – Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Charts[]

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

References[]

External links[]

• Songwriter, Takahiro Maeda's thoughts on the single (Japanese)