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. It was released on December 24, 2014. It debuted at number one on the weekly

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Promotion

The release of this album was announced during the November 7

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performance of the live tour ''Kis-My-Journey''. The CD was released in 11 formats in five types: two limited editions, regular edition, seven Kiss My Shop formats (7 versions with solo jackets for each of the 7 members), and a Seven & i format. A lottery was held at stores nationwide as an in-store purchase privilege. On December 24, the CD release date,

members were divided into three groups and held an event across Japan.

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made radio and other media appearances and held high-touch events in

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( Sapporo Factory),

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(San-A Naha Main Place), first time for Yokoo. This event was included in the DVD that came with the 13th single CD "

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" (Seven & I version). The event "New Year Kis-My-Fuku-Bukuro -Thank you for your support this year!" (The DVD "2015 Concert Tour Kis-My-World" (Regular Edition)) contains a digest of the event, which was held at

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for 11 performances over 4 days from January 5 to 8, 2015.

Music video

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costumes, or as the

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, in honor of

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Eve, the day of the release, and dance in motifs of "sheep" and "rock-paper-scissors" in honor of the following year, 2015, the year of "snake" (the year before). The dance was choreographed by Lucky Ikeda. In the "Multi-Angle Music Video" included in the B version of the MV included in the limited first pressing A/B, 134,217,728 possible combinations can be viewed by selecting eight angles of your choice in all nine scenes.

Chart performance

The single sold 436,000 copies in its first week, reaching No. 1 on the

. This is the highest number of copies sold since their debut in August 2011, and they are the second male artist this year, after

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, to surpass 400,000 copies in their first week. It also topped the overall

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Package specifications

The CD is available in 11 formats, *First edition A *First edition B *Regular edition *Seven Kiss My Shop edition (7 versions with solo jackets for each of the 7 members) *Seven & i edition It was also pre-released on

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.jp on December 10.

Track listing

CD

*Normal and Limited First Edition A/B *Included only on the standard editions after "Holy night with you" #"Thank You Jan!" (4:46) #"Because I can meet you" (4:51) #"Holy night with you" (4:30) #"Christmas Kiss" (4:46) *Seven & i version, Kiss My Shop version #"Thank You Jan!" #"Because I can meet you" #"Holy night with you" #"Thank You Jan!" (Happy Winter ver.) (4:46)

DVD

*Limited First Edition A #"Thank You Jan!" Music video #The members teach the choreography of "Thank You Jan!" Choreography *Limited First Edition B #"Thank You Jan!" Multi-angle MV #"Thank You Jan!" Music video and making video of jacket shooting *Seven & i disc #

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"Kis-My-Ft2 Campaign" CM making video #"Thank You Jan!" Recording close-up footage (narration: Yuta Tamamori)

References

External links

"Thank You Jan!"
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Starto Entertainment is a Japanese entertainment company that provides artist management services established on October 17, 2023. The president is Atsushi Fukuda. Many of the groups and artists formerly affiliated with Johnny & Associates belong to this company. ...

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