Everybody Go | |
Cover: | Kismy01.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Kis-My-Ft2 |
Album: | Kis-My-1st |
Released: | (Japan) |
Genre: | J-pop |
Length: | 04:42 |
Next Title: | We Never Give Up! |
Next Year: | 2011 |
Everybody Go is the first single by Japanese boy band Kis-My-Ft2 released on August 10, 2011. It debuted in number one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart[1] and reached number one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.[2] It was the 10th best-selling single in Japan in 2011, with 441,680 copies.[3]
The CD release was announced on June 24, 2011.[4] [5] The CD was originally scheduled to be released in May,[6] but was postponed due to 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the lyrics and tune of the title song were changed and arranged to be a song that lights up and gives hope to Japan. The album was also released in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea.[7]
It was released in four formats: First Edition A, First Edition B, Regular Edition, and Kis-My-Ft2 SHOP Limited Edition. In addition, there are "red jacket edition" and "white jacket edition" for the standard edition, and only the "white jacket edition" comes with a lyrics booklet (20 pages).
The title song "Everybody Go" is the theme song for the TBS Television (Japan) Friday night drama He is Beautiful starred Yuta Tamamori and Taisuke Fujigaya.[4]
On September 3, at the "13th Tokyo Girls Collection 2011 A/W" event held at Saitama Super Arena, Taisuke Fujigaya and Yuta Tamamori, who were the cast of the drama, appeared on the tie-in stage for the drama as appeared as secret guests and performed the theme song.[8]
The song was performed during their first appearance on the 70th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen broadcast on December 31, 2019.[9]
The song debuted at No. 1 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart dated August 22. With 316,000 first-week sales,[10] it became the third-highest first-week sales record for a debut single, following KAT-TUN's "Real Face" (754,000 copies) and Arashi's "Arashi (song)" (557,000 copies). It became the fourth highest all-time record.[10]