Blind Love (song)

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"Blind Love"
CNBLUE-BlindLove-regularcover.jpeg
Regular Edition cover
Single by CNBLUE
from the album What Turns You On?
B-side
  • "With Your Eyes"
  • "Greedy Man"
ReleasedApril 24, 2013
Recorded2012–2013
Genre Rock
Length4:04
Label Warner Music Japan
Songwriter(s) Lee Jong-hyun
Producer(s)
CNBLUE Japanesesingles chronology
"Robot"
(2012)		"Blind Love"
(2013)		"Lady"
(2013)

"Blind Love" is a Japanese-language song by the South Korean rock band CNBLUE, written and produced by Lee Jong-hyun and Vinyl House. It is their fifth major single in Japan under Warner Music Japan and their eighth overall. It was released on April 24, 2013, in 3 different editions. [1]

Contents

Background

The single was announced by the group's Korean label, FNC Media, on March 1, via their official Japanese website. [1] [2] On March 27, details about the single were revealed. It will be released in three different editions: two limited with a DVD and a regular CD only edition. Track list and jacket covers were also revealed. [3]

Editions

The single was released in three editions. Every edition comes with a different instrumental, different enclosed card with a serial code and a lottery ticket for a special event.

Composition

The song was written by the member Lee Jong-hyun who also composed the song with Vinyl House. Lee Jong-hyun also wrote and composed the first b-side of the single, the song "With Your Eyes". The member Jung Yong-hwa wrote the second b-side of the single, "Greedy Man", and composed the song with Kim Jae-yang.

Track listing

Regular edition [6]
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Blind Love" Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun, Vinyl HouseSuzuki "Daichi" Hideyuki, Kosuke Oba, Vinyl House, Lee Jong-hyun 4:04
2."With Your Eyes" Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun  3:28
3."Greedy Man" Jung Yong-hwa Jung Yong-hwa, Kim Jae-yang 3:27
4."Blind Love" (instrumental)  Lee Jong-hyun, Vinyl HouseSuzuki "Daichi" Hideyuki, Kosuke Oba, Vinyl House, Lee Jong-hyun 4:02
Total length:15:01
Limited edition type A [4]
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Blind Love" Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun, Vinyl HouseSuzuki "Daichi" Hideyuki, Kosuke Oba, Vinyl House, Lee Jong-hyun  
2."With Your Eyes" Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun   
3."Greedy Man" Jung Yong-hwa Jung Yong-hwa, Kim Jae-yang  
4."With Your Eyes" (instrumental)  Lee Jong-hyun   
Limited edition type B [5]
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Blind Love" Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun, Vinyl HouseSuzuki "Daichi" Hideyuki, Kosuke Oba, Vinyl House, Lee Jong-hyun  
2."With Your Eyes" Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun   
3."Greedy Man" Jung Yong-hwa Jung Yong-hwa, Kim Jae-yang  
4."Greedy Man" (instrumental)  Jung Yong-hwa, Kim Jae-yang  
DVD – limited edition type A: "Music for All, All for One" Live @ National Yoyogi Stadium First Gymnasium 2012.12.24 [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Where You Are" 
2."Get Away" 
3."Have a Good Night" 
4."Wake Up" 
5."Robot" 
6."Time is Over" 
7."In My Head" 
8."Blind Love" (music video) 
9."Blind Love" (music video – special feature) 
DVD – limited edition type B: "Robot" Release Live @ TFT Hall 2012.12.23 [5]
No.TitleLength
1."Robot" 
2."Get Away" 
3."The Way part 1 ~one time~" 
4."Where You Are" 
5."Time is Over" 
6."In My Head" 

Charts

In its first day of release the physical single debuted at number two in Oricon's daily chart with 35,773 copies sold, the highest first day ever from CNBLUE Japanese releases.

Oricon

Oricon ChartPeakDebut SalesSales TotalChart Run
Daily Singles Chart235,77354,003+ [7] 9 weeks
Weekly Singles Chart447,577
Monthly Singles Chart950,141

Other charts

ChartPeak
position
Billboard Japan Hot 100 [8] 7
Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales [9] 4

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
Japan April 24, 2013 CD single, [6] digital download Warner Music Japan

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