"Zenzenzense" | |
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Single by Radwimps | |
from the album Your Name | |
Released | July 25, 2016 |
Recorded | 2016 |
Genre | |
Length | 4:44 (Movie Version) 4:35 (original version, English version) |
Label | EMI |
Songwriter(s) | Yojiro Noda |
Producer(s) | Radwimps |
"Zenzenzense" (Japanese: 前前前世, "Past Past Past Life") is a song by Japanese rock band Radwimps. It was used as one of the four theme songs to the animated film Your Name, and was one of 26 songs the band composed for the film's soundtrack. It reached number-one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.[1] It also received a digital download song certification of Million from the Recording Industry Association of Japan for sales of 1,000,000.[2]
In late 2014, Makoto Shinkai sent the band's frontman, Yojiro Noda a first draft of the film's band. Within a few months, Radwimps submitted a demo of the track alongside "Sparkle".[3] In the context of the film, the song is played during a quick montage in which main characters Taki and Mitsuha swap bodies.
The song was originally released as a promotional single for the Your Name soundtrack on July 25, 2016, ahead of the Your Name soundtrack's late August release.[4] The original version of the song, which has slight structural changes, was included on the band's eighth studio album Ningen Kaika (along with another of the four vocal compositions from the Your Name soundtrack, "Sparkle").[5] The song was also used in multiple trailers for Your Name prior to the film's release.
On August 19, 2016, the song's official video premiered on TV Asahi's Music Station. Shortly afterwards, the video was uploaded onto YouTube.[6][7] Ahead of the film's April 2017 release in North America, Radwimps re-recorded the four vocal theme songs from the film in English, including "Zenzenzense". The English version was unveiled on Tokyo FM's School of Lock! radio program on January 23, 2017,[8] and was released digitally on January 27.[9]
Adapted from Your Name liner notes.
Chart (2016–2017) | Peak position |
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Japan Hot 100 (Billboard Japan)[1] | 1 |
Japan Hot 100 (Billboard Japan)[10]
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20 |
Japan Hot Animation (Billboard Japan)[11] | 1 |
Japan Radio Songs (Billboard Japan)[12] | 1 |
South Korea (Gaon Music Chart)[13] | 92 |
World Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[14] | 9 |
Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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Japan Hot 100 (Billboard Japan)[15] | 2 |
Japan Hot Animation (Billboard Japan)[16] | 1 |
Japan Radio Songs (Billboard Japan)[17] | 1 |
Chart (2008–2022) | Position |
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Japan (Japan Hot 100)[18] | 25 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Japan (RIAJ)[19] Digital single (movie ver.) |
Million | 1,000,000* |
Japan (RIAJ)[20] Digital single (original ver.) |
Gold | 100,000* |
South Korea (Gaon) | N/A | 205,497[21] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format | Distributing Label |
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Japan | July 5, 2016[22] | radio debut | EMI Records |
July 25, 2016[4] | digital download |