Please Smile Again

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"Please Smile Again"

Single by Namie Amuro
from the album Break the Rules
B-side(s)	Cross Over (TK original mix)
Released	October 4, 2000
Format	CD Single
Recorded	Larrabee Sound Studios TK Disc
Genre	Pop
Length	25:26
Label	Avex Trax
Writer(s)	Tetsuya Komuro
Producer(s)	Tetsuya Komuro
Chart positions
#2 (JP)
Namie Amuro singles chronology
"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).

1 Commercial tie-in
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Production
5 Charts

[edit] Commercial tie-in

"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.

[edit] Track listing

"Please Smile Again (TK original mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:46
"Cross Over (TK original mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:43
"Please Smile Again (Jamaster A Mix)" (Remixed by Alex Baboo & Groovy Cat) – 6:37
"Please Smile Again (TV mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:45
"Please Smile Again (a cappella)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:35

[edit] Personnel

Namie Amuro – vocals, background vocals
Tetsuya Komuro – synthesizer, keyboard
Ken Kimura – guitar

[edit] Production

Producer – Tetsuya Komuro
Arranger – Tetsuya Komuro
Mixing – Tetsuya Komuro
Remixing & additional production – Alex Baboo & Groovy Cat
Synthesizer programming – Akihisa Murakami, Toshihide Iwasa

[edit] Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release	Chart	Peak Position	First Week Sales	Sales Total	Chart Run
October 4, 2000	Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	2	94,520	216,960	20 weeks

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Albums
Dance Tracks Vol. 1 \| Sweet 19 Blues \| Concentration 20 \| 181920 \| Genius 2000 \| Break the Rules \| Love Enhanced Single Collection \| Style \| Queen of Hip-Pop
Singles
Body Feels Exit \| Chase the Chance \| Don't Wanna Cry \| You're My Sunshine \| Sweet 19 Blues \| A Walk in the Park \| Can You Celebrate? \| How to Be a Girl \| Dreaming I was Dreaming \| Can You Celebrate? (Maxi Single) \| I Have Never Seen \| Respect the Power of Love \| Toi et Moi \| Something 'bout the Kiss \| Love 2000 \| Never End \| Please Smile Again \| Think of Me / No More Tears \| Say the Word \| lovin' it \| I Will \| Wishing on the Same Star \| Shine More \| Put 'Em Up \| So Crazy / Come \| Alarm \| All for You \| Girl Talk / The Speed Star \| Want Me, Want Me \| White Light / Violet Sauce \| Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick / 人魚 \| Baby Don't Cry \| Funky Town
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