"One Drop" is a Japanese language song, and the ninth single, by Japanese

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, KAT-TUN, and their third from their fourth studio album, '' Break the Records: By You & For You''. It was released on February 11, 2009 and is the group's ninth consecutive number one single on the Oricon daily and weekly charts. The song is sung in Japanese, but includes a few phrases sung in English, of which the title comes from the phrase "Only lonely your tear drop oh ...."

Single information

The single was released in three editions and featured alternate jacket artwork.One Drop [w/ DVD, Limited Edition
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CDJapan; retrieved on December 22, 2008 The limited edition came with a DVD featuring the music video and a featurette on the making of the video, the first press edition included a bonus track and the regular pressing came with the instrumental versions of the songs on the single."One Drop" is also the theme song for co-lead vocalist Kazuya Kamenashi's drama, ''Kami no Shizuku (TV series), Kami no Shizuku'', in which he plays the lead character whilst "D-T-S" was used as the insert song for the Lotte (conglomerate), Lotte "Plus X" television commercials.

Chart performance

In its first week of its release, the single topped the Oricon singles chart, reportedly selling 281,359 copies. KAT-TUN gained their ninth consecutive number one single on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart since their debut with all their singles sold more than 200,000 copies and continued to hold the second most consecutive number one singles since debut with fellow Johnny's group, NEWS. By the end of the year, "One Drop" was reported by Oricon to sell 331,248 copies and was later certified Platinum by

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denoting over 250,000 shipments.February 2009 List of Certified
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Track listings

* Limited edition track listing * First press edition track listing * Regular edition track listing

Sales and certifications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:One Drop (Song) KAT-TUN songs 2009 singles Oricon Weekly number-one singles Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles Japanese television drama theme songs 2009 songs Songs written by Koki Tanaka