May

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May
Single by B'z
from the album ELEVEN
Released May 24, 2000
Promotions #2 (Suntory "Super Chu" CM)
Length 08:32
Label Rooms Records
Producer Tak Matsumoto
B'z singles chronology
"Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni
(2000)
"May"
(2000)
"juice"
(2000)

May is the twenty-eighth single by B'z, released on May 24, 2000. The band's second single of 2000 following "Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni", it likewise debuted at the top of the charts and gave the band their twenty-third consecutive number-one single. It went on to be collected on the band's 2000 studio album ELEVEN later that year but was not performed on the subsequent album tour, B'z LIVE-GYM 2001 "ELEVEN". It was, however, performed during the earlier summer tour B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 "juice". Since that tour, the song has not been played live. Similarly, its B-side has never been played live. In 2005, the single would be collected for the first time on B'z The Best "Pleasure II" and would be collected for the second time in 2013 with the release of B'z The Best XXV 1999-2012.

For the first time since the release of the band's seventh single, "ZERO", the title song of this release featured no tie-in promotion. Additionally, the single was not performed on television despite it being a common practice for the band at the time. A music video was filmed and broadcast on various music channels at the time, featuring the band and cloaked extras in a ruins setting.

Track listing

  1. May
  2. You pray, I stay
    The theme to a Suntory commercial, for their drink "Super Chu". The song is one of a number of B'z B-sides that have never been played live.

Personnel

B'z

Drums

Bass

Production