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| Released | May 28, 2008 | |||
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| Length | 26:12 | |||
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| Label | Aer-born | |||
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Beam of Light is the second full-length album by the Japanese rock band One Ok Rock, released on May 28, 2008. [1] It reached No. 17 on the Oricon weekly chart, and charted for six weeks before it dropped out. [2]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "Hitsuzen Maker" (必然メーカー) | Takahiro Moriuchi |
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| 3:30 |
| 2. | "Melody Line no Shibouritsu" (Melody Lineの死亡率 Mortality Rate of Melody Line) | Yamashita |
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| 3:44 |
| 3. | "100% (One Hundred Percent)" | Moriuchi |
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| 3:06 |
| 4. | "Abduction-Interlude" | - | Onizawa | Koichi Korenaga | 1:45 |
| 5. | "Sansan Dama" | Moriuchi | Moriuchi |
| 3:58 |
| 6. | "Koubou" (光芒 Light Beam) | Moriuchi | Moriuchi |
| 3:28 |
| 7. | "Crazy Botch" | Moriuchi |
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| 3:54 |
| 8. | "Yap" | Moriuchi | Moriuchi |
| 2:46 |
| Total length: | 26:12 | ||||
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| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| Japanese Albums (Oricon) [2] | 17 |
| Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan) [6] | 14 |
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