Eien (Zard song)

"Eien"
Single by Zard
from the album Eien
Released	August 20, 1997
Recorded	February–June 1997
Studio	B.Gram-RECORDS
Genre	Pop gospel rock
Label	B-Gram Records
Songwriter(s)	Izumi Sakai, Akihito Tokunaga
Producer(s)	Daiko Nagato, ZARD
Zard singles chronology
"'Kaze ga Toori Nukeru Machi he'" (1997) "Eien" (1997) "'My Baby Grand ~Nukumori ga Hoshikute~~'" (1997)

"Eien" (永遠, Eternity) is Zard's[1] 22nd single released on August 20, 1997, under B-Gram Records label. Junichi Watanabe, the writer of the novel, wrote the title word "Eien" of the CD cover. The single reached rank number 1 first week. It charted for 13 weeks and sold 628,000 copies.[2] When Izumi Sakai died in 2007, it was selected as her fifth best song on the Oricon polls.[3]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Izumi Sakai[4]

No.	Title	Music	Arrangers	Length
1.	"Eien" (永遠)	Akihito Tokunaga	Akihito Tokunaga	3:51
2.	"I can't let go"	Seiichiro Kuribayashi	Hirohito Furui	4:26
3.	"Eien" (Original Karaoke)			3:50
4.	"I can't let go" (Original Karaoke)			4:25

Usage in media

• Eien:the song was used as the theme song of Japanese television drama adaptation of the novel A Lost Paradise

References

1. ZARD discography (in Japanese) http://wezard.net/single.html Archived 2018-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
2. Oricon rankings (in Japanese):http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/26939/products/123583/1/
3. "心に残るZARDの名曲、1位は「負けないで」" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
4. Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1030