Love (Kis-My-Ft2 song)

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"Love"
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Single by Kis-My-Ft2
from the album Best of Kis-My-Ft2
B-side "Because I Love You"
ReleasedJuly 11, 2018 (2018-07-11) (Japan)
Genre J-pop
Label Avex Trax
Kis-My-Ft2 singles chronology
"You & Me"
(2018)		"Love"
(2018)		"Kimi, Boku"
(2018)
Music video
"Love" on YouTube
"Because I Love You" (Dance Edition) on YouTube

"Love" is the 21st single by Japanese boy band Kis-My-Ft2, released on July 11, 2018, by Avex Trax. [1]

Contents

Overview

The theme of this album is “Marugoto Love Song" (The whole thing is a love song.), and each song in the album is a song about love in its various forms. [2]

It was released in three forms: First edition, A/B, and Regular disc. The DVD of the first edition A includes the music video for "Love" and "Kis-My-Ft2's Funny Sports Championship." In contrast, the DVD of the first edition B consists of the music video for "Because I Love You," and the DVD of "Ura Yummy! (Moments of Another Kis-Matsu-So)" will be included. The regular edition includes three-unit songs. This is the first time a unit song has been included on a single in two years. [2]

"Love" is a commercial song for Kowa's "Unakowa Cool," in which the members appear. [3] "Because I Love You” is a commercial song for Daiichi Kosho Company's "Live Dam Stadium," and is an emotional ballad about her painful feelings of being too young to love as a student. The music video “Dance Edition” features dance. [4]

"Love" and "Because I Love You" made their television premieres on the July 7, 2018, broadcasts of Nippon TV's "The Music Day: The Song You Want to Tell" and TBS Television (Japan)'s "Count Down TV" on the same day, respectively.

Chart performance

The song reached No. 1 on the Oricon Weekly Chart dated July 23, 2018. This was their 21st consecutive No. 1 ranking since their debut single “Everybody Go”. [5] The single also topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100. [6]

The special single "You & Me" released on April 25, 2018, was sold exclusively on Seven Net, so it is not counted in the Oricon count. CD first-week sales: 175,655 (Oricon total). By December 9, 2018, the album had sold a total of 197,737 copies and ranked 33rd on the 2018 annual Oricon Album Ranking. [7]

Track listing

CD

  1. "Love" (3:40)
  2. "ConneXion" (3:47) song by Taisuke Fujigaya, Kento Senga and Wataru Yokoo
  3. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (4:53) song by Yuta Tamamori and Toshiya Miyata
  4. "Happy Birthday" (1:33) song by Hiromitsu Kitayama and Takashi Nikaido
  1. "Love"
  2. "Because I Love You" (3:20)

DVD

  1. "Love" Music Video
  2. "Love" Music Video making document
  3. Kis-My-Ft2's Funny sports championship with roller skate
  1. "Because I Love You" Music Video (Dance Edition)
  2. "Because I Love You" Music Video (Making Document)
  3. The making of "Because I Love You" MUSIC VIDEO (Dance Edition)
  4. "Yummy behind the scenes!" (Moments from the other side of the Kismatsuso apartment)

References

  1. ↑ "Kis-My-Ft2がニューシングル「LOVE」リリース、3組のユニット曲も". natalie (in Japanese). Retrieved April 28, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "21st SINGLE『LOVE』". MENT. 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  3. ↑ "キスマイの新曲「L.O.V.E.」流れるウナクール新CM放送". natalie. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  4. ↑ "キスマイ、最新作MVで"半端ないエモダンス"を披露". musicman. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  5. ↑ "【オリコン】Kis-My-Ft2、最新シングルが21作連続となる1位獲得". oricon. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "【ビルボード】キスマイ「L.O.V.E.」が17.8万枚を売り上げ、CD＆ルックアップ＆Twitterの3冠で総合首位 山下達郎「ミライのテーマ」総合6位にジャンプ・アップ". billboard japan (in Japanese). 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  7. ↑ "【第51回オリコン年間ランキング 2018】安室奈美恵さんが総合首位、AKB48がシングル9年連続1位・2位独占". oricon (in Japanese). 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
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