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Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry
- Released
- 2007.08.29
- Catalog Number
- TOCT-40120
- Price
- ¥1,260
- Tracklist
- Beautiful World
- Kiss & Cry
- Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) -2007 MIX-
- Beautiful World [Original Karaoke]
- Kiss & Cry [Original Karaoke]
- Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) -2007 MIX- [Original Karaoke]
- Information
"Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry" is Utada Hikaru's 19th single. "Beautiful World" is the theme song of the first of the Rebuild of Evangelion films called Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (released on September 1, 2007), and has been described as an an uptempo song with sad lyrics. "Kiss & Cry" was used as the 2007 Freedom cup noodle CM song. The third track, "Fly Me To The Moon", is a different mix of the version featured on Utada's "Wait & See ~Risk~" single, and was released for digital download on June 29, 2007. A previous cover of the song had been used as the ending theme song for the original anime version of Neon Genesis Evangelion (sung by Hayashibara Megumi among others in the series). "Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry" sold a reported total of 229,547 copies in 2007, making it the #19 single of the year on Oricon.
- TV Performances
- [2007.08.31] Music Station
- [2007.09.01] CDTV
- [2007.09.03] HEY! HEY! HEY!
- [2007.09.06] Utaban
- [2007.09.07] Music Fighter
- [2007.09.07] Music Station
Oricon Chart Positions
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week Rank | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 93,518 |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 51,637 |
| 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 28,284 |
| 4 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16,712 |
| 4 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12,116 |
| 8 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 7,551 |
| 7 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 5,556 |
| 11 | 26 | 24 | 21 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 3,472 |
| 15 | - | - | 50 | 38 | 41 | 30 | 44 | 2,571 |
| 24 | 50 | 50 | 48 | 45 | 49 | 46 | 56 | 2,160 |
| 43 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 88 | 1,250 |
| 46 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 79 | 1,169 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 112 | 1,062 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 116 | 941 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 151 | 717 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 128 | 831 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 130 | 740 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100 | 1,689 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 108 | 561 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 107 | 563 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 169 | 437 |
- Total Reported Sales: 245,050
- Total Sales for 2007: 230,287 (#20 single of the year)
- Total Sales for 2008: 3,249
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