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Happy Birthday (NEWS song)

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"Happy Birthday"
Single by NEWS
from the album Color
B-side
  • Gan Gan Ganbatte
  • Push On!
  • Game of Love
Released October 1, 2008
Recorded 2008
Genre J-Pop
Length 18 : 53
Label Johnny's Entertainment
Songwriter(s) SEAMO
NEWS singles chronology
"Summer Time"
(2008) 		" Happy Birthday "
(2008) 		"Koi no ABO"
(2009)
Alternative Covers

" Happy Birthday " is the tenth single of the Japanese boy group NEWS . It was released on October 1, 2008, in two editions; a regular edition which contains two b-sides: Gan Gan Ganbatte and Push On! , and a limited edition which also contains Happy Birthday and its b-side Gan Gan Ganbatte from the regular edition, as well as another b-side entitled Game of Love and an instrumental version of Happy Birthday . Happy Birthday is NEWS tenth consecutive number-one single since their debut in 2004. This single makes them the second group to have this distinction (the other being KinKi Kids , who currently has twenty-seven consecutive number-one singles). [1]

Overview [ edit ]

Happy Birthday was written and composed by Japanese Hip-hop artist SEAMO . [2] Happy Birthday reached the number-one spot on both the daily and weekly Oricon charts, selling 201,304 copies in its first week; just 38 more copies than their previous single Summer Time, which sold 201,266 copies in its first week.

Promotion [ edit ]

Happy Birthday is the theme song for Kose 's Happy Bath Day Precious Rose commercial, [2] which features all six-members. [3]

TV performance [ edit ]

Track list [ edit ]

Regular Edition
No. Title Length
1. "Happy Birthday" 3:49
2. "Gan Gan Ganbatte (written by zopp)" 3:54
3. "Push On! (written by Aya Hawerukazu)" 3:07
Limited Edition
No. Title Length
3. "Game of Love (written by Yu Shimoji/rap by JACRREN)" 4:17
4. "Happy Birthday (Instrumental)" 3:48

Charts [ edit ]

Oricon chart [ edit ]

Release Chart Peak position First week sales Sales total
October 1, 2008 Oricon Daily Singles Chart 1
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart 1 201,304
Oricon Monthly Singles Chart 2 227,644
Oricon Yearly Singles Chart 26

Billboard Japan chart [ edit ]

Release Chart Peak position
October 1, 2008 Billboard Japan Hot 100 [4] 1

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "NEWS tied with KinKi Kids for tenth consecutive single" (in Japanese). Oricon. 7 October 2008 . Retrieved 2008-10-11 .
  2. ^ a b "New NEWS song written by SEAMO" (in Japanese). livedoor. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28 . Retrieved 2008-10-12 .
  3. ^ "NEWS crazy about smell of a rose" (in Japanese). livedoor . Retrieved 2008-10-12 . [ dead link ]
  4. ^ "Japan Hot 100" . Billboard. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22 . Retrieved 2008-10-12 .
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