White Love (Speed song)

"White Love" is a single by Japanese girl group Speed. It was released on October 15, 1997.^[1] The song marked a point in Speed's career when their style shifted from dance music to other genres, such as ballads.^[2] It was number-one on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.^[3] It was the 10th best-selling single in Japan in 1997, with 1.164 million copies sold^[4] and it has sold a total of 1.845 million copies.^[5]

"White Love"
Single by Speed
from the album Rise
B-side	"Namaiki"
Released	October 15, 1997 (1997-10-15)
Genre	J-pop
Label	Toy's Factory^[1]
Songwriter(s)	Hiromasa Ijichi
Speed singles chronology
""Wake Me Up!" [ja]" (1997) "White Love" (1997) "My Graduation [ja]" (1998)

In 2012, Su-metal of the kawaii metal group Babymetal performed a cover during their Legend "D" show at Akasaka Blitz, which coincided with her 15th birthday. The song was chosen because it was a hit in 1997, the year of her birth.^[6] In 2022, the J-pop duo ClariS performed a cover for their mini-album Winter Tracks.

Track listing

All songs are written by Hiromasa Ijichi; all music is arranged by Yasutaka Mizushima.

^[1]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"White Love"
2.	"Namaiki" ((ナマイキ))
3.	"White Love" (Instrumental)
4.	"Namaiki" (Instrumental)

Weekly charts

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Japan Singles Chart (Oricon)^[3]	1

References

1. "WHITE LOVE". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
2. . Nikkei Entertainment (in Japanese). December 22, 1998. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
3. "Japan #1 DISKS by Oricon Hot Singles". hbr3.sakura.ne.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved September 27, 2016.
4. "オリコンCDシングル年間売上ランキング 1997年". amigo.lovepop.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved September 27, 2016.
5. "歴代シングルランキング TOP246". musictvprogram.com (in Japanese). Retrieved September 27, 2016.
6. BABYMETAL – White Love (English Captions Intro), Babymetal.net, posted on October 20, 2014