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and first major Japanese release of

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, It was released on March 28, 2012, in

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under Universal Sigma. The album was released in two versions, a CD & DVD Edition and a regular CD Edition. It was preceded by the singles " A", "

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" and first original Japanese single "

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". The album was re-released on December 12, 2012, in three different editions.

Editions

Standard version

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containing the "RAINBOW Premium Live at SHIBUYA PUBLIC HALL" show, including the songs "Mach", "Not Your Girl", "To Me", "Gossip Girl", and "A". It also includes a backstage video of the "Premium Live" show, and a special music video of "Mach", featuring more solo and group shots, also known as a "Close-Up" version from the original music video. The Regular CD Edition of ''Over the Rainbow'' contains only the CD album itself.

Special version

Nine months later, on December 12, the album was re-released in three different editions: two CD+DVD editions and a 2CD-only edition. The CD+DVD editions include the ''Over The Rainbow'' album and a special DVD: Type A includes all music videos of the group included on the albums and Type B includes performances of all Korean promotional tracks at that time being, "Gossip Girl", "Not Your Girl", " A", "

", "To Me" and "Sweet Dream". All performances are from the KBS' show ''

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''. The CD only edition include two CDs: the standard ''Over the Rainbow'' as CD 1 and a special Korean greatest hits on the CD 2, including tracks from the mini albums ''

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'' and '' So Girls''. This edition includes the Japanese song "Candy Girls!", theme song of the animated show Zoobles!, as bonus track of the CD 2.

Track listing

Charts

Oricon

Other charts

Release history

References

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