Hide & Seek (TVXQ song)
| "Hide & Seek" | ||||
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| Single by Tohoshinki | ||||
| from the album Tree | ||||
| A-side | "Something" | |||
| Released | February 5, 2014 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
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| Label | Avex Trax | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kaoru Kondou | |||
| Producer(s) | Shinjiroh Inoue | |||
| Tohoshinki singles chronology | ||||
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"Hide & Seek" is a song by South Korean pop duo Tohoshinki, taken from their seventh Japanese studio album, Tree (2014). Serving as Tohoshinki's's 40th Japanese single, the song was released as a double A-sided single with "Something" on February 5, 2014 by Avex Trax. The fourth and final single release for Tree, the single was released in three editions – a CD+DVD version, a CD only version, and a Bigeast Board edition.
The song served as the theme song for the Japanese television drama, Team Batista 4, which premiered on January 7, 2014. A restrained rock song with baritone vocal range, the producers of "Hide & Seek" have described the song to be Tohoshinki's "most intense" song to date. The song was released onto various radio stations across Japan on January 16, 2014.
"Hide & Seek" reached to number two on the Oricon Singles Chart and the Billboard Japan Hot 100. Within a week of its release, the single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of over 100,000.