"Hitchhiker" | ||||
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Single by JO1 | ||||
from the album Be Classic | ||||
Language | Japanese | |||
A-side | "Love Seeker" | |||
Released | May 29, 2024 | |||
Recorded | 2023 | |||
Genre | J-pop | |||
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Label | Lapone Entertainment | |||
JO1 singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Love Seeker" on YouTube |
Hitchhiker (stylized in all caps) is an extended play (EP) marketed as the eighth single of Japanese boy band JO1. It also served as the lead single for their first greatest hits album, Be Classic (2025). The EP single includes six songs and was released by Lapone Entertainment in four editions on May 29, 2024, with the Japan Record Excellent Work Award winner "Love Seeker" serving as the lead track. [1]
Hitchiker debuted at number one on Oricon Daily Singles Chart with 415,697 copies sold. [2] The EP single became the group's eight consecutive number-one on the weekly chart with 505,623 copies sold; [3] it was also the fifth single in 2024 that exceeded half a million sales in its first week. [4] Hitchiker also topped the Billboard Japan Top Singles Sales chart with 738,775 copies sold. [5] The EP single marks the group's first Triple Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for more than 750,000 copies in shipments. [6]
"Love Seeker", "Test Drive" are common tracks 1 and 2 for all editions.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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1. | "Love Seeker" |
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| 2:54 |
2. | "Test Drive" |
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| 3:12 |
3. | "Lemon Candy" |
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| 3:07 |
4. | "Sugar" (performed by Kinjo, Kono, Mamehara, Ohira, Shiroiwa) |
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| 2:50 |
Total length: | 12:03 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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3. | "Lemon Candy" | 3:07 | |||
4. | "Lied to You" (performed by Kawanishi, Kawashiri, Kimata, Sato, Tsurubo, Yonashiro) | Kana Tetsuha |
| Aron Wyme | 2:58 |
Total length: | 12:11 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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3. | "Lemon Candy" | 3:07 | |||
4. | "Aqua" |
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| 3:16 |
Total length: | 12:29 |
No. | Title | Length |
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3. | "Sugar" (performed by Kinjo, Kono, Mamehara, Ohira, Shiroiwa) | 2:50 |
4. | "Lied to You" (performed by Kawanishi, Kawashiri, Kimata, Sato, Tsurubo, Yonashiro) | 2:58 |
5. | "Lemon Candy" | 3:07 |
6. | "Aqua" | 3:16 |
Total length: | 18:17 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "アイのBINGOを目指せ!LOVE MISSION HIKER (前編)" | |
2. | "'16 (Sixteen)' Live Performance" (2023 JO1 2nd Arena Live Tour "Beyond The Dark" 2023.08.06 at Ariake Arena, Tokyo) |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "アイのBINGOを目指せ!LOVE MISSION HIKER (前編)" | |
2. | " 'Ryūseiu' Live Performance" (2023 JO1 2nd Arena Live Tour "Beyond The Dark" 2023.10.19 at Osaka Castle Hall, Osaka) |
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Japan (RIAJ) [6] | 3× Platinum | 750,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Label | Format | Edition | Catalog |
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Japan | May 29, 2024 | Lapone Entertainment | Limited A | YRCS-90243 | |
| Limited B | YRCS-90244 | |||
CD | Normal | YRCS-90245 | |||
Various | Special | — |