Pink Spider
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Cover of the 2006 re-release.
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| Single by hide with Spread Beaver | ||||||||
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| Released | May 13, 1998 | |||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, hard rock | |||||||
| Label | Universal Victor | |||||||
| Writer(s) | hide | |||||||
| hide with Spread Beaver singles chronology | ||||||||
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"Pink Spider" (Japanese: ピンク•スパイダー Hepburn: Pinku Supaidā?) is the ninth single by Japanese musician hide, the second to bear the hide with Spread Beaver name, released on May 13, 1998, eleven days after his death. It debuted at number 1 on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts and was the 11th best-selling single of the year, being certified Million by the RIAJ. It was also named "Song of the Year" at the 13th Japan Gold Disc Awards.
On November 22, 2006, the single was re-released. On December 8, 2010, it was re-released again as part of the third releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.
All songs written and composed by hide.
"Pink Spider" debuted at number 1 on the Oricon weekly charts with sales over 513,000 copies in the initial week of the release. By the end of the year it sold 1,033,770 copies, becoming the 11th best-selling single of the year and was certified Million by the RIAJ. It was also named "Song of the Year" at the 13th Japan Gold Disc Awards.
In 2011, a musical based on and featuring hide's music was created, it was named Pink Spider after the song. It ran from March 8 to the 27 at the Tokyo Globe Theater and was then brought to Fukuoka, Kobe, Nagoya, Niigata, Sendai, and Sapporo in April.
The song was covered by Siam Shade and Cornelius on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.
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