"Scream" is a song recorded by South Korean

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. It was released through

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alongside the group's Japanese compilation album ''

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'' on March 28, 2012, and marked the first and only original Japanese song by the group. "Scream" serves as the second single promoted off the record after " Go Away", which was released in November 2011. A remix of the song by

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was released digitally on

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on March 14, 2012, before the single itself was released on March 28. A recording of "Scream" in Korean was included on the tracklist of 2NE1's second studio album '' Crush'', which was released in February 2014.

Editions

The single was released in three different versions, two limited CD & DVD editions and a regular CD only. First press edition come with a sleeve cover and the regular edition also includes a 22-page booklet consisting of pictures of the group and lyrics to "Scream" and "Fire". Type A's DVD contains the

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of the title track "Scream", the making of the music video and exclusive footage of

in the Philippines. Type B comes with various footage from Season 3 of "2NE1TV" and is approximately 30 minutes long.

Commercial performance

The song is, to date,

's least successful Japanese single. Despite the song peaking at number 7 and selling 3,278 copies in the first day while their previous Japanese single, " Go Away", peaked at number 9, the song dropped off the

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Daily chart after 4 consecutive days of charting whereas "Go Away" charted for 7 days. The song debuted at number 18 on the

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. In 2014, the Korean version of the track peaked at number 17 on the

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for two consecutive weeks.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

vocals, background vocals ** CLlyricist (Korean ver.) * Verballyricist (Japanese ver.) *

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lyricist, composer, arranger *

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** Dee.Pcomposer, arranger

Accolades

Charts

Daily and weekly charts

Monthly charts

Release history

References

External links

2NE1 official site
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