"Change" is Japanese singer-songwriter Miwa

Miwa (singer)

Miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "Don't Cry Anymore", used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi.- Biography :...

's third major label single, released on September 1, 2010.

Writing and inspiration

The song is an upbeat pop rock song. The lyrics describe a person with the desire to "change to be more like (themselves)." The letters a and e being capitalised in the song's title represents Miwa's change from an acoustic guitar to an electric guitar. The guitar Miwa used for this release was a Joan Jett Model Gibson Melody Maker.

Promotion

The song was used as the 12th opening theme song for the anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 Bleach

Bleach (manga)

is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki...

, starting in April 2010 and succeeded by "Ranbu no Melody" by SID on October 12, 2010.

On August 21, performed the song live on the Fuji TV

Fuji Television

is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....

 music show Music Fair, and also collaborated with Ryoko Moriyama

Ryoko Moriyama

, is a Japanese folk and jazz singer. Her father is Hisashi Moriyama, a pioneer of Japanese jazz. Her son Naotaro Moriyama is a singer. Her first cousin Hiroshi Kamayatsu is also a musician....

 and Akiko Yano

Akiko Yano

is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born as Akiko Suzuki in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori, and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s...

 to perform covers of "Kono Hiroi Nohara Ippai" (Moriyama's debut single in 1967) and "Super Folk Song" a 1992 single by Yano.

During promotions for the single, Miwa held the first event on the 5th of September, in which Miwa held a meeting with many high school guitarists (a group of 20 electric guitar players, chosen from 300 applicants at Miwa's official site). At the event, the 21 electric guitar players performed "Change" in unison.

Music video

The music video features Miwa performing the song with band members, in a cave lit by candles. Interspersed between the performance are two main separate scenes. The first features several women in a dark forest, whose white dresses are lit with glowing lights. The other is Miwa in a red dress, exploring a forest at daytime. The women occasionally feature in the same scenes as Miwa, as she explores the forest.

Track listing

Chart rankings

Chart	Peak position
Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Japan Hot 100 Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....	12
Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... daily singles	5
Oricon weekly singles	8
RIAJ Digital Track Chart RIAJ Digital Track Chart The is chart ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan since April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads ....  Top 100	4

Reported sales

Chart	Amount
Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... physical sales	20,000

External links

• Sony Music "Change" profile