Free Way

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“Free Way”
“Free Way” cover
Single by Rain
from the album Eternal Rain
B-side Feels So Right
Released June 7, 2006
Format CD & DVD
Recorded 2006
Genre J-pop
Length 4' 05"
Label King Records
Producer Ryosuke Imai, UTA
Certification None
Rain singles chronology
Sad Tango
(2006)		 Free Way
(2006)		 Move On
(2006)
Alternate Cover 1
Free Way CD2
Free Way CD2
Alternate Cover 2
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Free Way promo CD

Free Way was the second Japanese single taken from the forthcoming debut Eternal Rain, from Korean singer, Rain. The single was released on June 7, 2006 throughout Japan, it peaked at the 15th position on the Oricon Charts. Free Way is often compared to the single, Rock Your Body by American singer Justin Timberlake. Many reasons for this are the music video similarities and the disco/funk melodies featured in the song.

Contents

[edit] Music Video

In the video for Free Way, we see singer Rain dancing in a dark black room with what appears to be television screens displaying an assorted collection of colorful holograms. The screens continue to change while Rain and his dancers dance around the area. Throughout the video a total of two outfit changes take place, the first outfit being of all white and the second being of all black.

[edit] Track Listing

CD Single

  1. Free Way
  2. Feel So Right
  3. Free Way [Instrumental Version]
  4. Feel So Right [Instrumental Version]

DVD Single Disc 1

  1. Free Way - Music Video
  2. Making of Free Way

DVD Single Disc 2

  1. Free Way
  2. Feel So Right
  3. Free Way [Instrumental Version]
  4. Feel So Right [Instrumental Version]

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Oricon Top 200 Weekly 15
Oricon Year-End Singles Chart 478[2]
SoundScan Japan Singles Chart Top 20 none[3]
J-WAVE Tokio Hot 100 none
Oricon Top 200 Weekly chart trajectory[2]
Week 01 02 03 04
Chart position 15 50 111 154

Sales: 17,005[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ You Taiju: Free Way (Japanese). Oricon Marketing Promotion. Retrieved on 2007-05-27.
  2. ^ a b c Oricon Entertainment (March 2007). Orikon Nenkan 2007 Nenban オリコン年鑑2007年版 (Oricon Yearbook 2007) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment, p. 18, p. 228, p. 232, p. 239, p. 243. ISBN 978-4-87131-082-6. 
  3. ^ Weekly CD Top 20 (Japanese). Ongen Publishing. Retrieved on 2007-05-27.