"Bandage" is a song by Japanese rock band,

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and serves as their debut single as well as the lead single from their debut album '' Olympos''. The song was written and produced by composer and serves as the theme song of the film with the same name that stars

Jin Akanishi is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He has been active since 1998 as one of the two lead vocalists of the J-pop boy-band KAT-TUN before starting a solo career in 2009. Akanishi has also acted in several films and dramas. Biog ...

, who plays the leader and vocalist of the fictional band. "Bandage" was released on November 25, 2009, their record label

J Storm is a Japanese music and film company owned by Johnny & Associates. It was established on November 12, 2001, initially as a label for the Johnny's group, Arashi, after which it was named. Aside from producing and releasing CDs and DVDs, the co ...

Background

Back in November 2008, it was reported that Lands was planning on making their "real world" debut, In September 2009, it was confirmed that the band would be making their debut in the fall of 2009 with the CD release of "Bandage", which was also confirmed to be the theme song of the movie also titled,

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. In October, the release date of the song was announced.

Track listing

Chart performance

On the

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"Bandage" debuted at number 87. The following week the song went straight to the number-one spot on the chart. It peaked at number one on the Hot Singles Sales, and number nine on the Hot Top Airplay chart. On the

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...

chart, "Bandage" claimed the number-one spot with 211,000 copies sold. In total the single has sold about 248,000 copies and has been certified Platinum by the

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Charts

Format

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(JACA-5183)

References

External links

Bandage page
{{authority control 2009 debut singles 2009 songs Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles Jin Akanishi songs J Storm singles Oricon Weekly number-one singles Songs written by Takeshi Kobayashi Song recordings produced by Takeshi Kobayashi