It's Showtime! (B'z song)

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"It's Showtime!"
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Single by B'z
from the album Big Machine
ReleasedMarch 26, 2003
Genre Hard rock
Length7:57
Label Vermillion Records
Songwriter(s) Koshi Inaba, Tak Matsumoto
Producer(s) Tak Matsumoto
B'z singles chronology
"Atsuki Kodou no Hate"
(2002)
"It's Showtime!"
(2003)
"Yasei no Energy"
(2003)

"It's Showtime!!" is the thirty-fourth single by B'z, released on March 26, 2003. This song is one of B'z many number-one singles in Oricon charts.

Contents

Track listing

  1. It's Showtime!! - 4:00
  2. New Message - 3:57

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) [1] 2× Platinum200,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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References

  1. "Japanese single certifications – B'z – It's Showtime!" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan . Retrieved August 24, 2021.Select 2003年7月 on the drop-down menu