"Falling Up" is a song by South Korean boy band

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, taken from their second Japanese-language studio album ''

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'' (2024). It was released as a

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in three versions—Japanese, English, and Korean—along with "

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" by

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on October 7, 2024. The song serves as an ending theme for the "Workshop Battle" arc of the second season of ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God''.

Background and release

In 2020,

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'', titled ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God''. "Slump" was later released as a

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for the Japanese debut single "

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", which debuted atop the

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, making the group the fourth foreign artist to do so in history after

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, and

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. The second season of ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God'' was announced in November 2023, and premiered in July next year, which the first arc "Return of the Prince" was accompanied by opening theme "Rise Up" and ending theme "Believe" by labelmate

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. On September 8, 2024, it was announced that Stray Kids would be in charge of the opening and ending themes for the second arc of the second season of ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God'', subtitled "Workshop Battle". The ending theme, titled "Falling Up", first appeared on the non-credit end titles for the anime, uploaded on October 2. The song was released in three versions—Japanese, English, and Korean—on October 7.

Composition

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wrote and co-composed "Falling Up" with Restart and Chae Gang-hae.

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and Sophia Pae co-wrote the Japanese and English versions, respectively. It is described as a combination of trap-pop and

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about overcoming adversity.

Track listing

* Digital download and streaming – Japanese version # "Falling Up" – 2:54 * Digital download and streaming – English version # "Falling Up" (English version) – 2:54 * Digital download and streaming – Korean version # "

" (from ''Tower of God: Workshop Battle''; Korean version) – 2:54 # "Falling Up" (from ''Tower of God: Workshop Battle''; Korean version) – 3:10

Credits and personnel

Personnel *

– vocals **

( 3Racha) – background vocals, lyrics, composition, arrangement, vocal direction, vocal editing **

(3Racha) – lyrics, composition, vocal direction ** Han (3Racha) – vocal direction *

– lyrics (Japanese version) * Sophia Pae – lyrics (English version) * Restart – composition, arrangement, instruments,

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, vocal direction * Chae Gang-hae – composition, arrangement, instruments, computer programming * Lee Kyeong-won – vocal editing * Lim Chan-mi –

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* Yoon Won-kwon – mixing * Kwon Nam-woo – mastering Locations * JYPE Studios – recording * MadMiix – mixing * 821 Sound Mastering – mastering

Charts

Release history

Notes

References

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