BE THERE

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BE THERE
Single by B'z
Released May 25, 1990
Promotions #1 ("Wednesday Super Cast" Theme)
Length 8:57
Label BMG Rooms
Producer Tak Matsumoto
B'z singles chronology
"LADY-GO-ROUND"
(1990)
"BE THERE"
(1990)
"Taiyou no Komachi Angel"
(1990)

BE THERE is the fourth single by B'z, released on May 25, 1990. It would become the first single by the band to not be released at the same time as an accompanying album, with the pairs of "Dakara Sono Te wo Hanashite" and their debut album, "Kimi no Naka de Odoritai" and OFF THE LOCK, and "LADY-GO-ROUND" and BREAK THROUGH each sharing a release date. "BE THERE" would ultimately become a non-album single, and would go uncollected until the band's first best-of compilation was released in 1998 as B'z The Best "Pleasure". Later, in 2008, it would again be collected with the release of B'z The Best "ULTRA Pleasure".

The single was simultaneously remastered and re-released on March 26, 2003 along with nine other of the band's older singles and the then-latest single, "IT'S SHOWTIME!!". On the daily chart at launch, B'z held a monopoly over the chart's top eleven slots, with the new single ranking at the top and the re-issues covering the remaining ten. Ultimately, B'z would set a record that week for holding nine of the Top 10 slots for the week of release, with "BE THERE" coming in third place.

The title song served as the theme to the TBS variety show "Wednesday Super Cast".

Track listing

  1. BE THERE
  2. Hoshi Furu Yoru ni SawagouLet's Get Excited on the Night of Shooting Stars, 星降る夜に騒ごう

Personnel

B'z

Production

  • Masao Akashi: Arrangement
  • B+U+M
  • Chris Bellman: Remastering (2003 reissue, Bernie Grundman Mastering L.A., U.S.A.)