Winter Love


"Winter Love" is BoA's 21st Japanese single. It was released on November 1, 2006. It hit #2 on the Oricon Charts with sales of 42,481, making it the highest charting BoA single since "Do the Motion", which was released in March 2005. Formats are 「CD+DVD」 and 「CD only」.The single was released just before her twentieth birthday.
This single has met with success compared to her last single "Key of Heart / Dotch", and has outsold "".
Her song "Candle Lights" was used as the ending theme of Japanese dub version of Korean film A Millionaire's First Love.

Track listing

CD

First Press Edition

  1. Winter Love
  2. Candle Lights
  3. Last Christmas
  4. Winter Love
  5. Candle Lights

    Regular Edition

  6. Winter Love
  7. Candle Lights
  8. Winter Love
  9. Candle Lights

    DVD

  10. Winter Love

    TV performances

"Winter Love" debuted at #2 on Oricon Daily Singles Chart, but rose to #1 on its fourth day out. It landed at #2 on the weekly charts, being kept out of number one by a narrow 3,814 copies. Its total sales outsold the number one single's total sales that week. The single's debut sales and position were very high, compared to her previous single "Key of Heart / Dotch", which had low sales due to poor promotion by her record label, Avex Trax. Despite of competitions with many other major new releases, this single had continued its success. It sold double the amount of "Key of Heart / Dotch's" total sales, and outsold "".
Oricon Sales Chart
ReleaseChartPeak PositionSales TotalChart Run
November 1, 2006Oricon Daily Singles Chart1
November 1, 2006Oricon Weekly Singles Chart299,07814 weeks
November 1, 2006Oricon Monthly Singles Chart7
November 1, 2006Oricon Yearly Singles Chart98