My Heart Draws a Dream

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"My Heart Draws a Dream"
Single by L'Arc-en-Ciel
from the album Kiss
ReleasedAugust 29, 2007
Format CD
Genre Alternative rock
Length4:18
Label Ki/oon Records
Songwriter(s) Hyde, Ken
L'Arc-en-Ciel singles chronology
"Seventh Heaven"
(2007)
"My Heart Draws a Dream"
(2007)
"Daybreak's Bell"
(2007)

"My Heart Draws a Dream" is the thirty-second single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on August 29, 2007. It reached number 1 on the Oricon chart. [1]

LArc-en-Ciel Japanese rock band

L'Arc-en-Ciel is a Japanese rock band, founded in Osaka in 1991. With a reported 40 million records sold, they were the first Japanese act to headline at Madison Square Garden. In 2003, they were ranked 58 on a list of the top 100 Japanese pop musicians by HMV Japan. While they first got their start as a visual kei band, they have not had any association with the movement since their major label debut in 1994.

Oricon Inc., 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 Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.

Contents

Track listing

#TitleLyricsMusic
1"My Heart Draws a Dream" Hyde Ken
2"Feeling Fine 2007"HydeKen
3"My Heart Draws a Dream (Hydeless version)"Ken
4"Feeling Fine 2007 (Tetsu P'unkless version)"Ken

Sales

Oricon sales chart (Japan)

ReleaseChartPeak PositionSales Total
August 29, 2007Oricon Daily Singles Chart1
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart1128664

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References

  1. L'Arc〜en〜Cielのアルバム売り上げランキング Retrieved May 18 2011