Face Down (Arashi song)

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ReleasedMay 9, 2012 (2012-05-09)
Recorded2012
GenrePop
Length3:57
"Face Down"
Regular edition cover
Single by Arashi
from the album Popcorn
ReleasedMay 9, 2012 (2012-05-09)
Recorded2012
GenrePop
Length3:57
LabelJ Storm
Songwriter(s)
  • Eltvo
  • Sho Sakurai
  • Albi Albertsson
  • Royce.H
  • Vincent Stein
  • Konstantin Scherer
Arashi singles chronology
"Wild at Heart"
(2012)		 "Face Down"
(2012)		 "Your Eyes"
(2012)

"Face Down" is a song by the Japanese boy band Arashi. It was released on May 9, 2012, under the record label J Storm as the third single from their eleventh studio album Popcorn (2012). "Face Down" is the theme song of the Japanese television series Kagi no Kakatta Heya, which stars Satoshi Ohno, the member of the group. The single was released in two versions; the regular edition came with the song "Mezashita Mirai e" (目指した未来へ) as B-side and the instrumental versions of both songs, the limited edition accompanied with a DVD including the music video of "Face Down" and the B-side "Hitori Janai sa"(ひとりじゃないさ).

On June 26, 2020, the rearranged version of the song, titled "Face Down: Reborn" was released as a digital download.[1][2] The production for the version was taken by the multi-platinum selling producers, BloodPop and Tom Norris.[3]

"Face Down" debuted at number one on the Oricon Singles Chart, selling 526,000 copies in its first week, and stayed on the chart for 23 weeks.[4][5] It was the group's twenty-seventh consecutive, and thirty-fourth overall number-one single in Japan.[4] "Face Down" ranked as the seventh best-selling single of 2012 in Japan, with 619,940 physical copies sold.[6]

Track listing

Regular edition
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Face Down"
  • Albi Albertsson
  • Royce.H
  • Vincent Stein
  • Konstantin Scherer
  • Metropolitan Digital Clique
  • Stein
  • Scherer
3:57
2."Mezashita Mirai e" (目指した未来へ, "Go Towards Your Future")
  • Mi-n
  • Alleztune
HikariHikari4:37
3."Face Down" (instrumental)   3:57
4."Mezashita Mirai e" (instrumental)   4:37
Total length:17:08
Limited edition
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Face Down"
  • Eltvo
  • Sakurai
  • Albertsson
  • Royce.H
  • Stein
  • Scherer
  • Metropolitan Digital Clique
  • Stein
  • Scherer
3:57
2."Hitori Janai sa" (ひとりじゃないさ, "I'm Not Alone")TaskShingo AsariHirofumi Sasaki4:59
3."Hitori Janai sa" (instrumental)   4:59
Total length:13:55
Limited edition – DVD
No.TitleDirectorLength
1."Face Down" (Music video)Kensuke Kawamura 

Charts

Release history

Release history and formats for "Face Down"
Region Date Edition Format(s) Label(s)
Japan May 9, 2012 Standard CD J Storm
Limited CD/DVD
November 3, 2019

Face Down: Reborn

See also

References

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