Step You/Is This Love?

Infobox Single
Name = Step you/is this Love?


Artist = Ayumi Hamasaki
from Album = (miss)understood
Released = April 20, 2005
Format = ^JPN CD Single
^USA Digital Single [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=73951471]
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = J-pop
Length = 18:27
Label = Avex Trax
Writer = Ayumi Hamasaki
Producer =
Last single = "Carols"
(2004)
This single = "Step you/is this Love?"
(2005)
Next single = "fairyland"
(2005)"Step you"/"is this Love?" is the 35th single released by Ayumi Hamasaki. It was a double a-side single released on April 20, 2005. "Step you"/"is this Love?" was the first single released by Ayumi Hamasaki in 2005. "Step you"/"is this Love?" was the best-selling solo female single of 2005 until September 2005, when Mika Nakashima's Glamorous Sky outsold it. The DVD featured 3 PVs, including one for "Step you," "is this Love?", and also for "my name's Women" from Hamasaki's 2004 album, My Story. Chiharu and Etsu from TRF were featured alongside Ayu in the PV. The "My Name's Women" PV is currently the 2nd most expensive music video by a Japanese artist, behind Hamasaki's "Fairyland" PV. To date, the single has sold over 345,000 copies, making it her best-selling single of 2005. To date, "STEP you / is this LOVE?" has been downloaded over 900,000 times.

According to an online poll on the A Best 2 website, Step you was voted as the best song during the A Best 2 period.

Track listing

# "Step you" – 4:24
# "is this Love?" – 4:51
# "Step you" (Instrumental) – 4:24
# "is this Love?" (Instrumental) – 4:51

DVD track listing

# "Step you" (PV)
# "is this Love?" (PV)
# "my name's Women" (PV)

Live performances

*April 13, 2005 – Minna no Terebi – "Step you"
*April 16, 2005 – CDTV – "Step you"
*April 22, 2005 – Music Fighter – "Step you"
*April 29, 2005 – Music Station – "Step you"
*May 6, 2005 – Music Station – "Step you" and "is this Love?"
*December 31, 2005 – CDTV Special 2005-2006 – "Step you" and "Bold & Delicious"

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

* Total Sales : 345,340 (Japan)
* Total Sales : 403,000 (Avex)

References

External links

* [http://avexnet.jp/item/hamas/disc/product/AVCD-30723.html "Step you/is this Love?"] information at Avex Network.
* [http://avexnet.jp/item/hamas/disc/product/AVCD-30722.html "Step you/is this Love?"] Cd+DVD information at Avex Network.
* [http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/592938/1/ "Step you/is this Love?"] information at Oricon.