Everlasting (BoA song)

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"Everlasting"
BoAEverlasting.jpg
Japanese single cover
Single by BoA
from the album Outgrow
Language
  • Japanese
  • Korean
B-side
  • "Soundscape"
  • "People Say..."
ReleasedJanuary 18, 2006
Genre
Length5:27
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • BoA
  • Natsumi Watanabe
Producer(s) Kazuhiro Hara
BoA singles chronology
"Dakishimeru"
(2005)		"Everlasting"
(2006)		"Nanairo no Ashita (Brand New Beat)/Your Color"
(2006)
Music video
"Everlasting" on YouTube

"Everlasting" is a song by South Korean recording artist BoA. It was released as her 18th Japanese single under Avex Trax on January 18, 2006, and her 4th physical Korean single under SM Entertainment a week later on January 25, 2006. [1] The leading track "Everlasting" is a ballad, and the B-side track of the Japanese release, "Soundscape", is a mid-tempo song. "People Say..." serves as the B-side track for the South Korean release. The single also contains a "classical version" (orchestral composition remake) of "Everlasting".

Contents

Commercial endorsements

"Everlasting" was used as the network advertisement for the online Japanese music giant, music.jp; it was also used as the ending theme for the TV Asahi drama The Door of Miracles: The Power of TV . In addition, "Everlasting" was used as the theme song for the Japanese dubbing of the movie Oliver Twist, directed by Roman Polanski. [2] [3]

Music video

The first scene shown in the music video is of BoA in a dark room with a flower and many photographs scattered throughout the floor of the room. There are three windows to the room. Through each of windows, BoA is there, one with a big black hat with a white dress, another with a flower in her hair and the atmosphere like autumn and the last is BoA sitting upon a bell tower dressed in completely black. The music video takes turns between all the scenes and BoA is shown singing throughout all of them.

Track listing

Japanese version

  1. "Everlasting" – 5:27
  2. "Soundscape" – 4:12
  3. "Everlasting" (Classical version) – 5:27
  4. "Everlasting" (TV Mix) – 5:29
  5. "Soundscape" (TV Mix) – 4:15

Korean version

  1. "Everlasting" – 5:24
  2. "People Say..." (슬픔은 넘쳐도) – 4:23
  3. "Everlasting" (Classical version) – 5:28
  4. "Everlasting" (Instrumental) – 5:24
  5. "People Say..." (슬픔은 넘쳐도) (Instrumental) – 4:21

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Soundscape".

Personnel – Japanese version

Charts

Sales and certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) [6]
Physical single 		Gold74,000 [7]
Japan (RIAJ) [8]
Chaku-uta 		2× Platinum500,000*
South Korea
Physical single 		—24,000 [9]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

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References

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  3. ↑ "보아, 로만 폴란스키 영화에 테마곡 선사" [BoA provides theme song to Roman Polanski's film]. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Naver. December 28, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
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  6. ↑ "Japanese single certifications – BoA – Everlasting" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan.Select 2006年2月 on the drop-down menu
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  8. ↑ "Japanese ringtone certifications – BoA – Everlasting" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan.Select 2006年8月 on the drop-down menu
  9. ↑ 19,000 (Korean version) + 5,000 (Japanese version)
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