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Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa / Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai / What is LOVE? (笑顔の君は太陽さ / 君の代わりは居やしない / What is LOVE?; The Smiling You is a Sun / No One Can Replace You / What is LOVE?) is Morning Musume '14's 55th single and their first single adding the abbreviated year to the group name.[1] It was released on January 29, 2014 in 6 editions: 2 regular and 4 limited editions.[2] The first press for the regular editions included a trading cards of 11 kinds depending on the jackets (22 in total). The first press for all editions came with a 2-month calendar poster of 6 kinds.[3]

"Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai" was the official cheer song for Team Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics. "What is LOVE?" was written to commemorate the 400th episode of NHK World show J-MELO, and it was also used as the ending theme from October 2013 to January 2014 and the opening theme from April 2014 to March 2015.[4]

Tracklist[]

CD[]

  1. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa
  2. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai
  3. What is LOVE?
  4. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa <Instrumental>
  5. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai <Instrumental>
  6. What is LOVE? <Instrumental>

Limited Edition A DVD[]

  1. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Music Video)
  2. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Close-up Ver.)

Limited Edition B DVD[]

  1. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Music Video)
  2. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Dance Shot Ver.)

Limited Edition C DVD[]

  1. What is LOVE? (Music Video)
  2. What is LOVE? (Dance Shot Ver.)

Limited Edition D DVD[]

  1. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Dance Lecture Video)
  2. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Dance Shot Ver.)
  3. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa / Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Making Of & Offshot Video)

Event V "Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa"[]

  1. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Michishige Sayumi Solo Ver.)
  2. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Fukumura Mizuki Solo Ver.)
  3. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Ikuta Erina Solo Ver.)
  4. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Sayashi Riho Solo Ver.)
  5. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Suzuki Kanon Solo Ver.)
  6. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Iikubo Haruna Solo Ver.)
  7. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Ishida Ayumi Solo Ver.)
  8. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Sato Masaki Solo Ver.)
  9. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Kudo Haruka Solo Ver.)
  10. Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Oda Sakura Solo Ver.)

Event V "Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai"[]

  1. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Michishige Sayumi Solo Ver.)
  2. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Fukumura Mizuki Solo Ver.)
  3. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Ikuta Erina Solo Ver.)
  4. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Sayashi Riho Solo Ver.)
  5. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Suzuki Kanon Solo Ver.)
  6. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Iikubo Haruna Solo Ver.)
  7. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Ishida Ayumi Solo Ver.)
  8. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Sato Masaki Solo Ver.)
  9. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Kudo Haruka Solo Ver.)
  10. Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Oda Sakura Solo Ver.)

Featured Members[]

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Morning Musume '14 Promoting "Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa"

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Morning Musume '14 Promoting "Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai"

Single Information[]

Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa
Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai
  • Music Video: Smith[5]
What is LOVE?

Promotion[]

Performances[]

TV Performances[]

Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa
Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai
  • [2014.01.13] HEY HEY HEY SP
  • [2014.01.30] The Girls Live
  • [2014.02.03] Sound Room
  • [2014.02.11] Sukkiri
What is LOVE?

Concert Performances[]

An asterisk (*) is used when a song is performed in the entirety of a Hello! Project CITY CIRCUIT concert tour, including special, final, and graduation dates.
If the song is only performed for a part of the tour, the specific tour/concert name will be written without asterisk.

Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa
Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai
What is LOVE?

Event Performances[]

Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai
What is LOVE?

Chart Positions[]

Oricon Chart Positions[]

Daily & Weekly Ranking
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week Rank Sales
- 1
119,442
4 3
4,486
1
8,089
5 1
6,343
1 149,361
7 26 26 22 5 22 2
2,499
16 7,890
36 46 45 39 34 48 45 40 1,711
46 - - - - - - 87 838
- - - - - - - 155 465
- - - - - - - 195 290
- - - - - - - 200 243
Monthly Rankings
Year Month Month Rank Sales Ref
2014 January 3 149,361 [27]
Yearly Ranking
Year Year Rank Sales Ref
2014 42 160,798 [28]

Total Reported Sales: 160,768

Other Chart Rankings[]

Country Chart Highest
Position
Ref
Flag of Japan.svg Japan Billboard Japan Adult Contemporary Airplay 63 [29]
Billboard Japan Hot Top Airplay 36 [30]
Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales 1 [31]
Billboard Japan Hot 100 4 [32]
COUNT DOWN TV 1
Billboard Japan Top Singles Sales Year End 2014 68 [33]
Flag of the United States (Pantone) United States US J-Pop Albums iTunes Charts 2 [34]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified Sales Ref
Flag of Japan.svg Japan (RIAJ) Gold 100,000 [35]

Achievements[]

  • Group: 4th consecutive single to debut at #1 in the Weekly Oricon rankings
  • Group: 1st single to rank #1 on the Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales.
  • Group: 6th single in a row to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan.
  • Group: What is LOVE? - 22nd Music Video to reach 1,000,000 views on YouTube
  • Group: Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai - 23rd Music Video to reach 1,000,000 views on YouTube
  • Group: Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa - 24th Music Video to reach 1,000,000 views on YouTube
  • National: First female group to release 55 singles.
  • National: First female group to have 55 singles debut in the Oricon Weekly Top 10.

Trivia[]

  • Sayashi Riho is the center for ‘’Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou Sa’’, Sayashi Riho and Oda Sakura are the centers for ‘’Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai’’, and Sato Masaki is the center for ‘’What is LOVE?’’.
  • This was Morning Musume's first triple A-side single, and their first major single to not have any B-sides.
  • Various billboards were put up to promote "Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai".
  • "What is LOVE?" is the first Morning Musume music video entirely made of concert footage.
  • This was the first time concert footage was used in a Morning Musume music video since "Chokkan 2 ~Nogashita Sakana wa Ookizo!~" in 2005.
  • This was their last single to be released in January until the release of KOKORO&KARADA / LOVEpedia / Ningen Kankei No way way six years later in January 2020.
  • In the January 5, 2014 episode of J-MELO, Sayashi Riho and Ishida Ayumi asked for viewers to send in videos dance covers of "What is LOVE?".
  • For their performance of "Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai" on HEY HEY HEY SP they made a different ending pose than in the music video, which Michishige, Fukumura, Sayashi, Iikubo and Ishida formed the five Olympic rings with their arms.
  • The Event Vs for "Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa" and "Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai" were sold at the single release events on March 1 and March 9, 2014.
  • The single debuted at #1 in the weekly Oricon charts, making it the first time in Morning Musume history that the group has ranked #1 in the weekly charts for 4 consecutive singles. The single sold 160,265 copies.
  • This was the highest selling Hello! Project single of 2014.
  • As of February 2016, this is the highest selling single for all of the featured members.
  • As of February 2016, the official music videos for this single have over 1 million, 2 million, and 3 million views respectively; thus, they are 3 of 46 music videos for a single that have reached over 1,000,000 views on Morning Musume's official YouTube channel.
  • Solo covers of "Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa" and "Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai" by Michishige Sayumi are included in the original soundtracks of her stage performance SAYUMINGLANDOLL ~Kibou~.
  • A solo cover of "Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa" by Sato Masaki was released digitally on December 14, 2021 commemorating Sato's graduation from the group and Hello! Project.
    • The release of Sato's cover version also brought the original version back to the charts, with the song peaking at number 41 on the iTunes Japan Top 200 on December 14th, 2021. [36] Sato's own version topped the same chart on release day. [37]

Videos[]

Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (MV)
Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (MV)
What is LOVE? (MV)

Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa (Dance Shot Ver.)
Kimi no Kawari wa Iyashinai (Dance Shot Ver.)
What is LOVE? (Dance Shot Ver.)

Gallery[]

References[]

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  31. http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2014&month=02&day=10
  32. http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2014&month=02&day=10
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