Happy Birthday (NEWS song)

"Happy Birthday"
Song
B-side	"Gan Gan Ganbatte Push On! Game of Love"

"Happy Birthday" is Japanese boy band, NEWS tenth single. It was released on October 1, 2008, in two editions; a regular edition which contains two b-sides: Gan Gan Ganbatte and Push On!, and a limited edition which also contains Happy Birthday and its b-side Gan Gan Ganbatte from the regular edition, as well as another b-side entitled Game of Love and a instrumental version of Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday is NEWS tenth consecutive number-one single since their debut in 2004. This single makes them the second group to have this distinction (the other being KinKi Kids, who currently has twenty five consecutive number-one singles).

Promotion

Happy Birthday was the theme song for Kose's Happy Bath day concept.

TV performance

• September 24, 2008 - CDTV 15th Anniversary
• September 29, 2008 - Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
• October 3, 2008 - Music Station

Track list

Regular Edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Happy Birthday"	3:49
2.	"Gan Gan Ganbatte (written by zopp)"	3:54
3.	"Push On! (written by Aya Harukazu)"	3:07

Limited Edition

No.	Title	Length
3.	"Game of Love (written by Yu Shimoji/rap by JACRREN)"	4:17
4.	"Happy Birthday(Instrumental)"	3:48

Charts

Oricon sales chart

Release	Chart	Peak Position	First Week Sales	Sales Total	Chart Run
October 1, 2008	Oricon Daily Singles Chart	#1
October 1, 2008	Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	#1	201,304
October 1, 2008	Oricon Monthly Singles Chart
October 1, 2008	Oricon Yearly Singles Chart

Billboard Japan sales chart

Release	Chart	Peak Position
October 1, 2008	Billboard Japan Hot 100	#1
October 1, 2008	Billboard Japan Hot 100 Airplay	#1
October 1, 2008	Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales	#1

Airplay

Chart	Peak position
FM Osaka 851	#20

References