was first released on December 16, 2001 as a Christmas single and reached a rank of 5 in the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 charts. From 2001 to 2004, the single was recorded in four different languages: Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 and Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

 and released before Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

. In 2005, a re-recorded version of the Korean song was released "December Love Song" feat. M.C the MAX (Isoo), which is only available online.

The last installment of this single-series was the release of the Jūnigatsu no Love Songs ~Complete Box~

Junigatsu no Love Song: Complete Box

Jūnigatsu no Love Songs ~Complete Box~ is a limited edition box set album released by Gackt on December 13, 2006. It contains nine different versions of the previously released single Jūnigatsu no Love Song, including the Chinese version duet with Leehom Wang, and four new versions...

box set on December 13, 2006.

Track listing

December 16, 2001

• 1. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song"
  2. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song" (Instrumental)

/December Love" (English) November 27, 2002

• 1. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song"
  2. "December Love"
  3. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song" (Instrumental)

/ (Chinese) December 3, 2003

• 1. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song"
  2. ""
  3. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song" (Instrumental)

• "Jūnigatsu no Love Song/December Love Song "(Korean) December 8, 2004
  1. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song"
  2. "December Love Song ∼∼"
  3. "Jūnigatsu no Love Song" (Instrumental)

External links

• Oricon Charts ranking (Japanese)
• OnGen (Japanese)