Achieving two crowns with the theme song of a TV drama!
BE:FIRST “Betrayal Game” recorded 21,000 DLs (21,345 DLs) in the first week, and won first place in the latest “Oricon Weekly Digital Single (Single Song) Ranking” announced on May 4th.
Since “Bye-Good-Bye” (on March 21, 2022), it has become the 5th “digital single” in total.
The song also recorded 9,048,000 views (9,047,587 times) per week in the “Oricon Weekly Streaming Ranking” on the same day, ranking first for the first time.
This is also the 4th place in total since “Bye-Good-Bye” (2022/3/21, 3/28).
With this, it simultaneously ranked first in two categories in the “Digital Ranking” [1], and following “Shining One”, “Gifted.” In addition, it is the first time in history [ 2] that a total of four works have achieved “two crowns in the weekly digital ranking by the same work by the same artist”.
This song is used as the theme song for the drama “Detective is too early ~Haru no Trick Gaeshi Matsuri~” (Yomiuri TV/Nippon TV).
[*1] The digital ranking has three categories: “digital single (single song) ranking”, “digital album ranking”, and “streaming ranking”.
[*2] Only BE:FIRST has won 3 or more weekly digital rankings for the same work by the same artist (as of May 9, 2022).
New song “Betrayal Game” provided by singer-songwriter eill for BE:FIRST
This time, eill has written a soul-filled topline with music producer Miyata “Lefty” Ryo, and SKY-HI wrote the lyrics inspired by the story of the drama, reminiscent of the skillful bargaining between men and women.
A groovy and danceable track by A.G.O, a beatmaker/producer who specializes in products that combine advanced sounds.
In the MV, the camera work itself is also choreographed.
Unraveling the world of music reminiscent of “skillful bargaining between men and women”, set in two conflicting worlds such as “white and black”, “light and darkness”, “clean and dirty”, “you” and “me”.
It is a dance music video that gives you a sense of “tactics”, depicting the strangeness of the tactics that are born between and the two sides of “I” that sway within myself.
In addition, the choreographer NOPPO (s**t kingz) and the cinematographer worked together to “choreograph” the camera itself and challenge the shooting.
As of September 6, 2022, the number of views of the MV has exceeded 14 million.
With a unique and dark sound, vocals in seven different colors, and visuals that combine overwhelming suspicion and coolness, it is understandable that BE:FIRST has received so much support.
The second step towards the right to challenge the world!
The live video released on YouTube is the second one-man live ““Bye-Good-Bye” One-day One Man Show” held at Tokyo Garden Theater.
Starting from the latest song “Betrayal Game”. The members delivered a message to BESTY (BE:FIRST fans), and SOTA enthusiastically said, “I think I’ve taken the second step toward the right to challenge the world. Let’s go to the world together.” revealed.
Please pay attention to this spectacular live performance.
Each character stands out, and along with the dark suspicion and coolness, a pleasant surprise awaits both the ears and the eyes.
The mischievous RYUHEI in the making video is cute!
Behind the scenes of the music video shoot, the members with serious expressions and the mischievous RYUHEI are cute!
I really like the management attitude of the production company BMSG, which shows the usual unadorned appearance of the members.
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