| "How to Be a Girl" | ||||
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| Single by Namie Amuro | ||||
| from the album Concentration 20 | ||||
| Released | May 21, 1997 | |||
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| Length | 13:06 | |||
| Label | Avex Trax | |||
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| Producer(s) | Tetsuya Komuro | |||
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"How to Be a Girl" is the tenth single by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released on May 21, 1997, through Avex Trax. It was used as the Bristol-Myers Sea Breeze commercial song, which was used for four commercials. The style of the song is similar to that of her single "A Walk in the Park," which has an evident electronic sound in the vein of her producer Tetsuya Komuro's group globe. Lyrics were even written by Marc Panther, who is another member of the group. This was the final single from her third studio album Concentration 20 (1997), which was released two months later. The single is a follow-up to "Can You Celebrate?", which became her biggest hit.
This single reached number one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart for two consecutive weeks, and continued to rank for a total of eleven weeks. "How to Be a Girl" sold 772,130 copies, becoming the twenty-third best-selling single in Japan of 1997. According to Avex, this is Amuro's first number one single to not sell over a million copies.