Zard was also known for being mysterious.
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She also said that since Makenaide was widely appreciated by the public, she often felt as if that song was not hers to keep. Sakai said that she was honored and looked forward to watching 24-hour TV. Zard's most successful single, Makenaide ( 負けないで) has been used as a theme song for Nippon Television program 24-hour TV, an annual Japanese television programming in which a celebrity host is on screen continually for a whole day. Afterward, Zard covered this song in Today Is Another Day album. The lyrics of " Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku" ( DAN DAN 心魅かれてく) by Field of View, the opening theme song of Dragon Ball GT, is by Izumi Sakai. Some of her singles were used in anime, such as Slam Dunk, Dragon Ball GT and Detective Conan. The single also featured famed Japanese baseball hero Shigeo Nagashima. She also wrote the lyrics for and participated in the collaboration for the single "Hateshinai Yume o" ( 果てしない夢を) featuring J-pop groups Zard, Zyyg, Rev & Wands. She also wrote songs for other artists, most notably for the J-pop groups that shared her management company: Field of View, Wands and Deen, and the late mainland Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. An editorial in Asahi Shimbun writes that the secret to Zard's success was that while the trend in Japan showed a decrease in the number of music programs on television, Zard used late night commercials that aired her voice to advertise her works. She wrote 150 songs during her 17-year career (numerous songs for other artists as well as all of the Zard songs except for two, Koionna no Yūutsu ( 恋女の憂鬱) and Onna de Itai ( 女でいたい) from their first album, Good-bye My Loneliness, which was written by Daria Kawashima, ) and released several books of poetry as well. The DVD for this concert, released on January 26, 2000, had a limited production of 300,000 copies. On August 31, 1999, Zard held their first concert aboard cruise ship Pacific Venus, where six hundred people were randomly selected out of a million applicants. Since "Yureru Omoi" ( 揺れる想い) she also sold three hits of one million and one other of two million copies. Only two could not break the top four mark. Although her sales fluctuated among six digits in sales for the remainder of the twentieth century, nine of twenty-one singles reached No. In 1995, Zard sold one more million hit, " My Friend". No one sold more CDs than Zard in this year. In fact, Being was so successful in the early 1990s that it was called Being Boom. An album titled "Yureru Omoi" featuring both "Makenaide" and "Yureru Omoi" sold two million copies, the first million milestone for Zard in album sales. 1, " Yureru Omoi" and " Kitto Wasurenai" in the same year. She went on to release two more songs that reached No. 1 in the Oricon charts and went on to sell over 1.8 million copies. The major breakthrough for Zard came with the sixth single in 1993, " Makenaide", which became No. Sakai's reply was that they wanted to make sure Zard would be an economically viable project and hence did not want to go public prematurely. At that time, Music Station host Kazuyoshi Morita (aka Tamori) asked Sakai what took Zard so long to be on stage.
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In fact, half of Zard's official appearances on TV were related to performing this song, which sold 440,000 copies. The group's rock style had morphed to popular while the seemingly dark music videos turned to a relatively brighter image. The fourth, " Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite" ( 眠れない夜を抱いて) took a slightly different approach. Zard's next two singles did not sell as well. The song was very successful, reaching No. Zard made a breakthrough with the release of their debut single FebruGood-bye My Loneliness, which was a theme song for the Fuji TV drama "Ideals and Reality of Marriage" featuring Misako Tanaka.
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Changing her name to Izumi Sakai in an attempt to cut off her past, she created a group called Zard. Zard began when the former CEO of Being Corporation, Daikō Nagato, recruited a 24-year-old model named Sachiko Kamachi.