"Everybody Go" is the first

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by Japanese

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released on August 10, 2011.

Overview

The CD release was announced on June 24, 2011. The CD was originally scheduled to be released in May, but was postponed due to

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. 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

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, the

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, and

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. 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 TV Friday night drama ''

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'' starred Yuta Tamamori and

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. On September 3, at the "13th

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2011 A/W" event held at

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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. The song was performed during their first appearance on the '' 70th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' broadcast on December 31, 2019.

Chart performance

The song debuted at No. 1 on the

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dated August 22. With 316,000 first-week sales, it became the third-highest first-week sales record for a debut single, following

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" (754,000 copies) and

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" (557,000 copies). It became the fourth highest all-time record. It also reached number one on the Billboard

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. It was the 10th best-selling single in Japan in 2011, with 441,680 copies.

Track listing

CD

#"Everybody Go" (4:42) ( Ken Katoh, catcher of the

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, used it as his appearance song (2012 - 2016)) #*Lylics: Joya Uenaka (The Inazuma Sentai) #*Composer: Samuel Waermö, Stefan Åberg, Octobar #*Arranger: Yasunari Nakamura #"S.O.KISS" (3:50) #*Lylics: Zopp #*Composer: Steven Lee #*Arranger: Chokkaku #"Kiss For U" (3:43) (Regular edition only) #*Lylics: Minori, Komu #*Composer/Arranger: Steven Lee #"Young People" (4:29) (Regular edition only) #*Lylics: Takeshi Aida #*Composer: Junkoo, Takuya Harada, Anders Dannvik, Niclas Lundin #*Arranger: Chokkaku

DVD

*First Edition A #"Everybody Go" Music Video #Music video making movie *First Edition B **From "Kis-My-Ft ni Aeru de Show vol.3 at

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2011.2.12 (Live Video)" #"Fire beat" #"Kis-My-Calling!" #Bonus Movie

References

External link

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