Frienger

Infobox Single
Name = フレンジャー" Furenjā / "Frienger


Artist = Ai Otsuka
from Album = Love Piece
B-side =
Released = April 12, 2006
Format = CD, CD+DVD
Recorded = 2006
Genre = J-Pop
Length =
Label = avex trax
AVCD-30915/B (Japan, CD+DVD)
AVCD-30916 (Japan, CD)
Writer = Ai Otsuka
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "Planetarium"
(2005)
This single = "Frienger"
(2006)
Next single = "Yumekui"
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover


Lower caption = The CD + DVD Cover

"Frienger" (フレンジャー; Furenjā) is Ai Otsuka's 11th single under the avex trax label and her first of three singles in 2006.

"Frienger" is a catchy, upbeat song. The title is actually a portmanteau of the words "Friend" and "Ranger". The song was used in the CM for au mobile service and was the theme song for the television program "Sports Uruguzu". The B-side track, "Amai Kimochi Maru Kajiri", was used in a Music.jp CM. The music video for the song was filmed in Taiwan.

"Frienger" debuted at #2 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart with 70,414 copies sold. It maintained high sales for the following two weeks and sold a total of 173,115 copies in 2006. "Frienger" was Otsuka's best-selling single of 2006 and the 60th best-selling single of 2006 overall. It is currently her fourth best-selling single.

Track listing

CD Version

#
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# Frienger (instrumental)
# Amai Kimochi Maru Kajiri (Instrumental)

DVD Version

# Frienger (PVdn)

Live Performances

*April 3, 2006 – Hey! Hey! Hey! Specual
*April 15, 2006 – Music Fighter
*April 21, 2006 – Music Station
*April 22, 2006 – CDTV
*May 1, 2006 – PopJam DX
*December 29, 2006 – Sakigake Ongaku Banzuke - "Frienger" + "Renai Shashin"
*January 1,2007– CDTV - "Frienger" + "Renai Shashin"

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)