Midnight (Beast song)
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| "Midnight" | |
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| Promotional single by Beast | |
| from the album Midnight Sun | |
| Released | July 15, 2012 |
| Recorded | 2012 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:54 |
| Label | Cube Entertainment |
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"Midnight" (Korean: 별 헤는 밤; RR: Byeol Heneun Bam; Japanese: 星を数える夜; Hepburn: Hoshi o Kazoeru Yoru) is a song by the South Korean boy band Beast. It was released digitally in South Korea on July 15, 2012 as a pre-release single[1] of the group's fifth mini album Midnight Sun, released a week after.[2] The song was later re-recorded in Japanese and was used as the group's third Japanese single, released on October 17, 2012.[3]
On July 12, Cube Entertainment announced that the song would be released on July 15 as a pre-release single from the upcoming mini album Midnight Sun.[4] On July 15, "Midnight" was released digitally on South Korea music portal sites. On the same day, a theme music video of the song was also released.[5] Although the group used the same system that they used on the album Fiction and Fact, releasing a song as a pre-single one week before its official release, the song was not promoted.
Composition
"Midnight" was written by Yong Jun-hyung, Choi Kyu-sung, and Shinsadong Tiger; Kyu-sung and Tiger were the song's composers.
Music video
The song does not have an official music video, instead Cube Entertainment released a one-minute and sixteen second theme music video. It was released, along with the digital release of the song, on July 15, 2012. The theme music video features scenes that the group shot in New York City between July 1 and July 7, 2012. Those scenes were also part of the music video for the lead single from Midnight Sun, the song "Beautiful Night".[6]
Track listing
Korean digital single:[1]
- "Midnight" (별 헤는 밤; Byeol Heneun Bam, The Night I Count the Stars) - 3:54
Chart performance
The song debuted at number two on Gaon's weekly singles chart with 43,855,691 points. The song also charted on Gaon's other charts: on the Streaming chart the song peaked at number 5, with 2,214,129 streams in the first week; on the Download chart it peaked at number two with 473,121 downloads in the first week; on the BGM chart it peaked number one; on the Mobile chart it debuted at number ten and peaked at number nine; and in the Karaoke chart it peaked at number eighty-six. The song had better peaks on the charts than Midnight Sun's official lead single, "Beautiful Night". This is not the first time that the pre-single charted better than the lead single, it also happened with the singles "On Rainy Days" and "Fiction" from the group's first studio album Fiction and Fact.
Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| South Korea Gaon Weekly singles chart[7] | 2 |
| South Korea Gaon Weekly Domestic singles chart[7] | 2 |
| South Korea Gaon Monthly singles chart[7] | 11 |
| South Korea Gaon Weekly Streaming chart[7] | 5 |
| South Korea Gaon Weekly Download chart[7] | 2 |
| South Korea Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100[8] | 6 |
