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| B-side | "Baby You..." | |||
| Released | June 26, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
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| Length | 3:51 | |||
| Label | Avex Trax | |||
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"Tail of Hope" is a song recorded by South Korean singer BoA, released on June 26, 2013. The song serves as the theme song for the Japanese Fuji-TV drama Hakui no Namida . The B-side is the song "Baby You...", a rewritten Japanese version of her Korean song "Disturbance".
"Tail of Hope" is the theme song for the Japanese drama Hakui no Namida , which began airing on April 1, 2013. [1] [2] This is BoA's thirty-third Japanese single and was released on June 26, 2013. [3] A Japanese version of BoA's self-written Korean song "Disturbance" released earlier in January 2013 is the single's B-side. [4] An English version of the song released as a separate special edition CD was also made available exclusively to members of BoA's official fan club who purchased both the CD and CD+DVD editions. [5]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Tail of Hope" | Sara Sakurai | Claire Rodrigues, Daniel Sherman, Andrew Gilbert | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Baby You.." | BoA, Sakurai (supervision) | BoA | 3:20 |
| 3. | "Tail of Hope (Instrumental)" | Sara Sakurai | Rodrigues, Sherman, Gilbert | 3:51 |
| 4. | "Baby You.. (Instrumental)" | BoA, Sara Sakurai (supervision) | BoA | 3:17 |
| Total length: | 14:19 | |||
| No. | Title | Director | Length |
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| 1. | "Tail of Hope (music video)" | Toshiyuki Suzuki | 5:36 |
| 2. | "Sonna Kimi (Disturbance) Korean version (music video)" (そんな君 "You the Way You Are") | Kwon Soonwook | 3:47 |
| 3. | "Tail of Hope (making)" | Suzuki | 3:43 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Tail of Hope" | Sara Sakurai | Claire Rodrigues, Daniel Sherman, Andrew Gilbert | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Baby You.." | BoA, Sakurai (supervision) | BoA | 3:20 |
| Total length: | 7:11 | |||
| Chart (2013) | Peak position |
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| Japan (Oricon) [7] | 12 |
| Japan (Japan Hot 100) [8] | 19 |
Personnel details were sourced from the liner notes booklet of "Tail of Hope." [9]
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