Key of Heart / Dotch

"Key of Heart" / "Dotch"
Single by BoA
from the album Made in Twenty (20)
Released August 9, 2006 (2006-08-09)
(see Release history)
Format CD+DVD
Recorded 2006
Genre J-pop
Label Avex Trax
BoA singles chronology
Nanairo no Ashita: Brand New Beat / Your Color
(2006)		 Key of Heart / Dotch
(2006)		 Winter Love
(2006)
Alternative Cover
Korean Version

"Key of Heart" is BoA's 20th Japanese single and 6th Korean single. The single was available solely in CD+DVD format in Japan with a "special summer low price" and first pressing to commemorate this for being her 20th single.

Compared to previous singles, the sales for "Key of Heart" were low, but this was due to BoA being preoccupied with other projects and the lack of promotion from Avex Trax.

Contents

Music video

BoA's Key of Heart music video features BoA singing in a suburb land while driving a jeep. Then dancing on a mountain with 4 other dancers then she meets up with the dancers in a little town, they then dance on the streets. This music video also features BoA singing next to a river.

Commercial endorsements

Key of Heart was used as the theme song for the Japanese version of the movie Over The Hedge and also served as a background song in the music.jp commercials. Dotch was used as the background song for the Kose Fasio commercials.

In the Korean version of Key Of Heart the music video, it features Donghae from Super Junior. The music videos Key Of Heart shows the sad love story.BoA was in a relationship with Donghae who gives her a necklace with a heart pendant (a couple pendent). On her first performance, Donghae decides to give her flowers before she goes on stage and ends up in an accident due to which he dies. A scientist decides to make him a cyborg and succeeds in making a cyborg Donghae. Donghae notices that BoA is wearing the pendent he had given her before he died and realizes that she was the one he loved. He then appears in all of her performances/public appreances and takes photos of her. During on of these outings he sees her current boyfriend and is heart broken but continues taking photos of her.Another time, he goes to take photos of her during her rehearsal and a stage light nearly falls on her. He quickly leaps in and saves her. She picks up his camera and sees her photos on it. The video ends with them crossing paths and her noticing the heart pendant attached to his camera as a charm. She sees the photos of their past and starts crying as the security guards don't let her go to Donghae.

Tracklisting

Japanese Version

Regular Edition

CD
  1. Key of Heart
  2. Dotch
DVD
  1. Key of Heart (video clip)

First Press Edition

CD
  1. Key of Heart
  2. Dotch
  3. Key of Heart (English ver.)
DVD
  1. Key of Heart (video clip)
  2. Key of Heart (road movie)

Korean Version

Digital Single

  1. Key of Heart

CD+DVD

CD
  1. Key of Heart
  2. Dotch
  3. Key of Heart (English ver.)
  4. Key of Heart (Korean ver.)
DVD
  1. Key of Heart (M/V)
  2. Key of Heart (road movie)

TV performances

Release history

Region Date
Japan August 9, 2006 (2006-08-09)
South Korea August 21, 2006 (2006-08-21)

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release Chart Peak Position Sales Total Chart Run
9 August 2006 Oricon Daily Singles Chart 4
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart 7 40,943 6 weeks
Oricon Monthly Singles Chart 20
Oricon Yearly Singles Chart

References

http://www.avexnet.or.jp/boa/

BoA singles
Korean singles
Korean special
and digital singles
"Key of Heart / Dotch" · "AnyBand"
Japanese singles
Other releases
"Woo Weekend"  · "Milestone"
Japanese collaboration
and digital singles
English singles