Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo
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is the song and forty-eighth single by Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese hard rock band, B'z
B'z
is a Japanese hard rock duo, composed of and .B'z has released 45 consecutive #1 singles, 24 #1 albums, and sold more than 79 million records in Japan alone...

, released on April 13, 2011. It was the first single from their 2011 album, C'mon
C'mon (B'z album)
C'mon is the eighteenth studio album for the Japanese rock duo B'z. It was released on July 27, 2011.It debuted at the #1 spot on the Japanese Oricon music charts, and by the end of its first week of sales, the album had sold 272,000 copies....

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The song is written and used for a commercial song
Music in advertising
Music in Advertising means integrating music in electronic media advertisements in order to enhance its success. Music for this purpose provides different characteristics which makes it especially interesting for usage in advertisements....

 of Pepsi NEX. Also the song was first performed on Music Station
Music Station
is a Japanese music television program. It began broadcasting on October 24, 1986 and continues to be broadcast weekly in High-definition from 8PM-9PM on tv asahi...

 "Three Hours Special" on April 1, 2011, along with the song "Brotherhood
Brotherhood (B'z album)
Brotherhood is the tenth album by Japanese hard rock band B'z, released on July 14, 1999. The catalogue code for this album is BMCR-7034. "Brotherhood" debuted with over 1,019,270 copies sold and sold over 1,391,850 copies...

". Limited edition includes DVD with the music video for the song. The song debuted at number 1 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...

 Weekly Chart, and became the 44th number-one-single by B'z on Japanese Singles Chart. The song also peaked number 1 on the Japan Hot 100
Japan Hot 100
The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....

. In April, the RIAJ certified the song was a gold single.

Although original release date was March 30, 2011, it was postponed because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

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