"Beautiful" is the fourth Japanese single by
South Korea
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n boy band
2PM. It was released on June 6, 2012 in 3 editions: CD+DVD,
[Amazon.com: Beautiful(初回生産限定盤A)(DVD付): 2PM: 音楽]
'' Amazon Japan''. Retrieved 2012-06-03. CD+Photobook
[Amazon.com: Beautiful(初回生産限定盤B)(DVD付): 2PM: 音楽]
'' Amazon Japan''. Retrieved 2012-06-03. and a Regular edition.
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''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 ...
''. Retrieved 2012-06-03. The single was released along with the group's third live DVD "Arena Tour 2011 'Republic of 2PM'".
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''Oricon''. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
Composition
"Beautiful" is an original Japanese song composed by
J.Y. Park "The Asiansoul", Nice73 and Natsumi Watanabe. The B-side "Kimi ga Ireba" is also an original Japanese song, composed by the member
Junho
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. This is the first single to include an original Japanese song as B-side.
Music video
A teaser of the music video was released on May 14, into 2PM's official Japanese website and the full music video on May 22. It premiered on the Japanese TV network ''
M-On!''.
Promotions
The group made the first performance of the song on the show ''Music Fair'' on June 2. The group also performed the song in
NHK
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NHK operates two terrestr ...
's show "Music Japan" on June 10 and in
2012 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, on June 23, 2012.
2PM official Japanese Website - Media
''Sony Music''. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
Track listing
Charts
Oricon
Other Charts
Beautiful
Kimi ga Ireba
Sales and certifications
Release history
References
External links
Official website
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2012 singles
Dance-pop songs
Japanese-language songs
2PM songs
2012 songs
Ariola Japan singles
Songs written by Park Jin-young