"Wanted" is the fifth single released by Pink Lady

Pink Lady (band)

is a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto and Keiko Masuda...

, on September 5, 1977. The single topped the Japan charts at number one, having sold 1,650,000 copies, and spent twelve weeks at the top.

With "Wanted" they made their first appearance on Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Kohaku Uta Gassen

, more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on both television and radio, nationally and internationally by NHK's networks and some overseas broadcasters which bought the program...

, in 1977.

According to 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...

 this was the 3d best selling single from 1977.

Track listing (7" vinyl)

All tracks composed by Shunichi Tokura, lyrics written by Yū Aku

Yu Aku

, , was a Japanese lyricist, poet, novelist.He was famous for thousands of his lyrics he contributed to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s, more than 20 of them reached the number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart, and 7 singles sold more than a million copies...

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1. "Wanted" 3:25
2. "Nigero Ojousan" 2:40

Chart positions

Charts (1977)	Peak position
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Cover versions

• Yellow Magic Orchestra
  Yellow Magic Orchestra
  Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...
  
  's live cover version of this song, was featured on their 1993 album Live At The Kinokuniya Hall '78.
• Female vocal/dance group SPEED released a cover of this song in 1997.