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Kono Namida Hoshi ni Nare

1999 single by Zard

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 5, 2023
Entity authorityQ11266762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kono Namida Hoshi ni Nare (この涙 星になれ)" is the 31st single by Zard, released 1 December 1999 under the B-Gram Records label. This is Zard's first single released in 12 cm CD format. The single opened at #5 rank the first week. It charted for six weeks and sold over 129,000 copies.

Track list

All songs are written by Izumi Sakai.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kono Namida Hoshi ni Nare” as 1999 single by Zard. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-12-01. The account is most persuasive where Kono, Namida and Hoshi can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1999 single by Zard. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 5, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q11266762. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kono Namida Hoshi ni Nare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.