"Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" (世界中の誰よりきっと, lit. "Surely More Than Anyone in the World") is the 25th single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama and a collaboration with the band Wands. Written by Show Wesugi, Nakayama, and Tetsurō Oda, the single was released on October 28, 1992, by King Records.[1][2][3][4]
"Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" was co-produced by Daiko Nagato, who selected it from a stock of Tetsurō Oda's compositions. Takeshi Hayama gave it an 8-beat arrangement. The main single has Nakayama on lead vocals with Wands vocalist Show Wesugi on backing vocals. The B-side, "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto (Part II)", was rearranged as a slow ballad with the vocal roles reversed.[5]
The song was used as the theme song of the Fuji TV drama series Dare ka ga Kanojo wo Aishiteru (誰かが彼女を愛してる, Someone Loves Her), which also starred Nakayama. It was also used as a hold tone for a line of Sanyo cordless phones in 1995.
"Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" became Nakayama's seventh No. 1 and Wands' second No. 1 on Oricon's weekly singles chart. It sold over 1,833,000 copies and was certified Quadruple Platinum by the RIAJ, making it Nakayama's biggest-selling single of her career.[6][7][5][8] The song was also certified Platinum in Download Sales by the RIAJ in December 2020.[9][10][11]
Nakayama and Wands performed the song on the 43rd Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 1992.[12]
Wands re-recorded the song on their 1993 album Toki no Tobira, with a rearrangement by Masao Akashi and backing vocals by Keiko Utoku. A live version of the song is included in the band's 2000 compilation album Best of Wands History. In 2020, the band with new vocalist Daishi Uehara self-covered the song as "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" (Wands 5th Period Ver.) (世界中の誰よりきっと [WANDS 第5期ver.]) on their fourth album Burn the Secret.[13][14][15]
All lyrics are written by Show Wesugi and Miho Nakayama; all music is composed by Tetsurō Oda; all music is arranged by Takeshi Hayama.
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
* Sales figures based on certification alone.
"Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" was covered by Noriko Sakai as her 36th single, released by Victor Entertainment on August 22, 2007. The song was used in a series of Toyota Noah commercials that year. The B-side is a re-recording of her 1995 single "Aoi Usagi", which was also composed by Oda.[18][19][20] The single peaked at No. 44 on Oricon's singles chart[21] This was her last single before she and her then-husband Yūichi Takasō were involved in a drug scandal in 2009.[22]
All music is composed by Tetsurō Oda and arranged by Takayuki Hijikata.