Renegades (One Ok Rock song)

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"Renegades"
One Ok Rock - Renegades.jpg
Single by One Ok Rock
from the album Luxury Disease and Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō: The Final Soundtrack
Released16 April 2021 (2021-04-16)
RecordedFebruary 2020
Studio Decoy Residential Recording Studios (Suffolk, England)
Genre
Length4:04
Label Fueled by Ramen
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
One Ok Rock singles chronology
"Wasted Nights"
(2019)
"Renegades"
(2021)
"Broken Heart of Gold"
(2021)
Audio sample
CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Renegades"4:04
2."Renegades - Japanese Version"4:04

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Luxury Disease. [19]

One Ok Rock

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

Streaming certification for "Renegades"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) [26] Platinum100,000,000

Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

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