Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto
Background and release. "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" was co-produced by Daiko Nagato, who selected it from a stock of Tetsurō Oda's compositions. Takeshi Hayama gave it an 8-beat arrangement. The main single has Nakayama on lead vocals with Wands vocalist Show Wesugi on backing vocals. The B-side, "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto (Part II)", was rearranged as a slow ballad with the vocal roles reversed. The song was used as the theme song of the Fuji TV drama series , which also starred Nakayama. It was also used as a hold  tone for a line of Sanyo cordless phones in 1995. "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" became Nakayama's seventh No. 1 and Wands' second No. 1 on Oricon's weekly singles chart. It sold over 1,833,000 copies and was certified Quadruple Platinum by the RIAJ, making it Nakayama's biggest-selling single of her career. The song was also certified Platinum in Download Sales by the RIAJ in December 2020. Nakayama and Wands performed the song on the 43rd "Kōhaku Uta Gassen" in 1992. Track listing. All lyrics are written by Show Wesugi and Miho Nakayama; all music is composed  by Tetsurō Oda; all music is arranged by Takeshi Hayama. Charts. Weekly charts Year-end charts Noriko Sakai version. "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" was covered by Noriko Sakai as her 36th single, released by Victor Entertainment on August 22, 2007. The song was used in a series of Toyota Noah commercials that year. The B-side is a re-recording of her 1995 single "Aoi Usagi", which was also composed by Oda. The single peaked at No. 44 on Oricon's singles chart This was her last single before she and her then-husband Yūichi Takasō were involved in  a drug scandal in 2009. Track listing. All music is composed by Tetsurō Oda and arranged by Takayuki Hijikata.