"Crossroads" () is a song recorded by South Korean girl group

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for their eighth

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回:''Labyrinth''. The song was released as the title track of the EP on February 3, 2020 by

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. The Japanese single album 回:''Labyrinth ~Crossroads~'' was released on October 14, 2020 by King Records, including the Japanese versions of "Crossroads" and "Labyrinth".

Composition

The song was written by Noh Jooh-wan and was produced by him and Lee Won-jong. They both already made other GFriend songs such as "

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" and "

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". It was described by ''Billboard'''s Tamar Herman, as a song which is "quintessentially GFriend with its melodic, string-oriented soaring synth-pop as the members sing about". On November 9, 2020, the song was included in the group third studio album 回:''Walpurgis Night''.

Chart performance

The song debuted and peaked at number 32 on the

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for the week ending February 7, 2020.

Music video

The music video for the song was released on February 3, 2020, at the same moment as the EP. For the first time, it was uploaded on HYBE Labels'

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channel after that the company Big Hit Entertainment (now known as

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) acquired

in July 2019.

Track listing

* Download and streaming # "Crossroads" – 3:22 * 回:''Labyrinth ~Crossroads~'' # "Crossroads" (Japanese version) – 3:22 # "Labyrinth" (Japanese version) – 3:23

Accolades

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Release history

References

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