Overview

The single reached #19 on 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...

 Japanese charts selling 88,330 copies during its run on the chart. The title track, "Replay", was used to promote Pocky

Pocky

is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan.-History:Pocky was first sold in 1966, and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoetic word for the sound Pocky makes when bitten, pokkin . The original was followed by...

 through commercials and was also included in the group's first compilation album, Mr. Children 1992–1995, which was released on July 11, 2001. The b-side track, "All by myself", was a re-cut from Mr. Children's second album Kind of Love

Kind of Love

Kind of Love is the second, and first full length album, by Japanese rock band Mr. Children released on December 1, 1992.The album debuted on the Japanese Oricon music charts at #13 and sold 1,179,780 copies during its run on the chart. The album contains only one single released on December 1,...

released on December 1, 1992. "Replay" has also been covered by other artists including Sotte Bosse, who covered the song on her album "Moment" released on October 3, 2007.

Track listing

Personnel

• Kazutoshi Sakurai
  Kazutoshi Sakurai
  is a Japanese musician and entrepreneur. He composes and writes almost all of the songs for his band Mr. Children, in addition to writing lyrics and singing for his solo project group Bank Band. In 2006, Sakurai ranked #8 in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" and in 2007 was voted #4...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Kenichi Tahara – guitar
• Keisuke Nakagawa – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Hideya Suzuki – drums
  Drum kit
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Production

• Producer – Kobayashi Takeshi
• Arrangement - Mr. Children
  Mr. Children
  , commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan...
  
  and Takeshi Kobayashi
• Recording - Kunihiko Imai
• Mixing - Kunihiko Imai