is the twenty-third single by
Japanese pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1 ...
band
Exile
Exile is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suf ...
. It was released on February 14, 2007 and was limited to 100,000 copies. The song has been certified as being downloaded more than 1,000,000 times as a ringtone by the
RIAJ
The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969.
The RIAJ's activities include p ...
, and more than 250,000 times as a full-length download to cellphones.
Track listing
CD
# – 4:40
# "Michi -Piano Version-" – 4:48
# "Michi" (Instrumental) – 4:40
# "Michi -Piano Version-" (Instrumental) – 4:49
# – 4:16
# "Gasshō Dō" (Instrumental) – 4:13
DVD
# "Michi" (promotional video) – 4:54
# "Exile's Connection Information" (narrated by
Kei Grant)
Personnel
*
ATSUSHI – vocals and chorus (tracks 1–4)
* TAKAHIRO – vocals and chorus (tracks 1–4)
*
NHK Tokyo Children's Choir , or NHK Tokyo Children's Chorus, is the children's choir attached to the Tokyo Broadcasting Station (JOAK) of the NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation radio-TV network. Since 1943 NHK had used the Otowa Yurikago Kai, established in 1933, to be i ...
– vocals and chorus (tracks 5–6)
* Ritsuyūkai Youth Choir – vocals and chorus (tracks 5–6)
* Shogo Kashida – lyricist
* Miwa Furuse – composer
* Daisuke Kahara – arrangement, programming
References
External links
* "Michi" entries on the Avex official website
CD+DVD edition entry
"Michi" entry
on the Oricon Charts official website
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Exile (Japanese band) songs
2007 singles
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
2007 songs
Rhythm Zone singles