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Please Smile Again

"Please Smile Again"
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Single by Namie Amuro
from the album Break the Rules
B-side "Cross Over
(TK original mix)"
Released October 4, 2000
Format CD Single
Recorded Larrabee Sound Studios
TK Disc
Genre J-Pop
Length 25:26
Label Avex Trax
Songwriter(s) Tetsuya Komuro
Producer(s) Tetsuya Komuro
Namie Amuro singles chronology
"Never End"
(2000)
"Please Smile Again"
(2000)
"Think of Me / No More Tears"
(2001)
"Never End"
(2000)
"Please Smile Again"
(2000)
"Think of Me / No More Tears"
(2001)

"Please Smile Again" is Namie Amuro's 17th solo single on the Avex Trax label. Although the single "Think of Me / No More Tears" (2001) was slated to be released in December, it was pushed back until the next year making "Please Smile Again" the last single to precede her 4th studio album, Break the Rules (2000). It was certified gold for 200,000 copies shipped to stores.

"Please Smile Again" was used in commercials for Meiji Fran products. "Cross Over" was used in cell phone MM TU-KA commercials. Amuro appeared in both ad campaigns.

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)


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