The Next Decade

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"The Next Decade"
The next decade.jpg
Single by Gackt
ReleasedAugust 11, 2009
Genre Hard rock, Symphonic rock
Length13:44 [1]
Label Avex Entertainment
Songwriter(s) Shoko Fujibayashi (lyricist)
Ryo (composer, arranger)
Gackt singles chronology
"Flower"
(2009)
"The Next Decade"
(2009)
"Setsugekka (The End of Silence)/Zan"
(2009)
Kamen Rider Series theme songsingles chronology
"Journey Through the Decade"
(2009)
"The Next Decade"
(2009)
"W-B-X (W-Boiled Extreme)"
(2009)
No.TitleLength
1."The Next Decade"5:03
2."T.N.D.Orchestra Attack Ride"3:38
3."The Next Decade (Instrumental)"5:03

DVD

The music video of "The Next Decade" was later released in Stay the Ride Alive , [5] as a "special memorial single" version which is a Digipak with a special cover, a third disc and a booklet describing Gackt's collaboration with the Kamen Rider Decade production. [6]

  1. "The Next Decade" music cinema film

Charts

On its first day of release, it hit #3 on the Oricon Daily Charts after selling 13,000 copies. [7]

Oricon
ReleaseProvider(s)ChartPeak positionSales total
August 11, 2009 Oricon Daily Singles3 [7] 13,534
Weekly Singles4 [8] 37,033
Monthly Singles1251,041
Yearly Singles10356,335
Billboard Japan
Chart (2009)Peak
position
Billboard Japan Hot 100 [9] 11

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