COUNT DOWN TV
The Mini CD format entered at number five on the Japanese Count Down TV Chart, Hamasaki's highest charting single and first top ten at the time of February 1999. The Mini CD slipped to number fifteen the next week, and lasted nine weeks inside the top 100. "Whatever" was released twice as double A-side vinyl's with Hamasaki's single "Appears". The second vinyl managed to reach ninety-six on the Japanese Count Down chart. The re-released CD single format entered at number twenty-nine on the Count Down TV chart. The CD single stayed in the chart for three weeks, tallying the total weeks to twelve.