Lights (BTS song)

"Lights"
Digital and regular edition cover
Single by BTS
from the album Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey ~
B-side	"Idol"
Released	July 7, 2019
Genre	Electropop
Length	4:52
Label	Universal Def Jam
Songwriter(s)	Sunny Boy UTA Yohei
Producer(s)	UTA
BTS singles chronology
"Heartbeat" (2019) "Lights" (2019) "Make It Right" (2019)
BTS Japanesesingles chronology
"Fake Love" / "Airplane Pt. 2" (2018) "Lights" / "Boy with Luv" (2019) "Stay Gold" (2020)

CD and digital download ^{[9] [46]}

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Lights"	Sunny Boy UTA Yohei	UTA	4:53
2.	"Boy with Luv"	Pdogg RM Michel "Lindgren" Schulz "Hitman" Bang Suga Emily Weisband J-Hope Ashley Frangipane	Pdogg	3:51
3.	"Idol"	"Hitman" Bang Roman Campolo Pdogg RM Supreme Boi Ali Tamposi	Pdogg	3:42
Total length:				12:26

Limited Edition A (CD + DVD) ^[47]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lights"	4:53
2.	"Boy with Luv"	3:51
3.	"Idol"	3:42
4.	"Lights" (music video)
5.	"Idol" (music video)

Limited Edition B (CD + DVD) ^[48]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lights"	4:53
2.	"Boy with Luv"	3:51
3.	"Idol"	3:42
4.	"Lights" (making of music video)
5.	"Lights" (making of jacket photos)

Limited Edition C (CD + Booklet) ^[49]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lights"	4:53
2.	"Boy with Luv"	3:51
3.	"Idol"	3:42

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from Tidal. ^[4]

• BTS  – primary vocals
• UTA – producer, songwriter, guitar, keyboards, digital editing, synthesizer, studio personnel
• D.O.I. – mixing engineer, studio personnel
• Sunny Boy – songwriter
• Yohei – songwriter
• Jungkook  – backing vocals
• Jimin  – backing vocals
• Pdogg – recording engineer, vocal arrangement, studio personnel
• Jung Woo Young – recording engineer, studio personnel
• Park Jin Se – recording engineer, studio personnel
• KM-Markit  – vocal arrangement
• Masaya Wada – vocal arrangement

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for "Lights" Chart (2019) Peak position Croatian International Albums (HDU) [50] with "Boy with Luv" 3 Hungary (Single Top 40) [51] 18 Japan (Japan Hot 100) [26] 1 Japan (Oricon) [52] with "Boy with Luv" 1 New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [34] 10 Scotland (OCC) [33] "Lights" 73 UK Singles Downloads (OCC) [53] 80 US Digital Song Sales ( Billboard ) [54] 48

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for "Lights" Chart (2019) Position Japan (Oricon) [24] with "Boy with Luv" 6 Japan (Japan Hot 100) [55] 18

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Lights / Boy with Luv"

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [56]	Platinum	40,000‡
Japan (RIAJ) [57]	Million	1,000,000^
Poland (ZPAV) [58]	2× Diamond	500,000‡
South Korea	—	4,333 [59]
Streaming
Japan (RIAJ) [60]	Platinum	100,000,000†
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. † Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Lights / Boy with Luv"

Country	Date	Format(s)	Edition	Label	Ref.
Various	July 3, 2019	Digital download streaming	Regular Edition	Universal	[9]
Japan	July 5, 2019	CD single			[61]
		CD + DVD	Limited Edition A		[62]
			Limited Edition B		[63]
		CD + Booklet	Limited Edition C		[64]

See also

• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2019 (Japan)
• List of Oricon number-one singles of 2019

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