"Catch the Rainbow" is the twenty-first single by Japanese recording artist Misia

MISIA (Japanese singer)

, commonly stylized as MISIA, is a Japanese R&B singer originally from Fukuoka. She debuted in 1998 on BMG Japan, but has since moved to Sony Music Japan's Ariola Japan imprint...

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Background

The song "Catch the Rainbow" was first released digitally Asia-wide on August 30, 2008. It was later released as a physical CD single on December 17, 2008. "Catch the Rainbow" is Misia's only non-album single. It was released in support of Misia's first Asia tour The Tour of Misia Discotheque Asia

The Tour of Misia Discotheque Asia

The Tour of Misia Discotheque Asia is the fourteenth concert tour by Japanese R&B singer Misia. The tour is her first Asian one, which attracted 250,000 fans across Japan, China, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.- About the Tour :...

. The first press edition of the single comes in Super High Material CD (SHM-CD) format and includes a bonus DVD, which features footage from The Tour of Misia Discotheque Asia, as well as the "Catch the Rainbow" music video.

"Catch the Rainbow" was written by Misia, while the composition and production were handled by long-time collaborator Sakoshin. The B-side, "Joyful Moment", was also written by Misia, composed by Gomi and Shusui and produced by Gomi. The single includes six remixes of different genres including electropop, hip hop

Hip hop

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 and house

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

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Chart performance

"Catch the Rainbow" debuted on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 Daily Singles chart at number 6 and peaked at number 11 on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart, with 7,271 copies sold in its first week. The single charted for seven weeks and sold 12,150 copies in total.

Track listing

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Japan Hot 100 Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....	2
Billboard Japan Hot Top Airplay	1
Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales	15
Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...  Daily Singles	6
Oricon Weekly Singles	11
SoundScan Nielsen SoundScan Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...  Japan Weekly Singles (CD+DVD)	18
Taiwan Five Music J-pop/K-pop Chart	16
Taiwan G-Music J-pop Chart	14

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Asiawide	August 30, 2008	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
Japan	December 17, 2008	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , CD+DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... , digital download	BMG Japan
Taiwan	December 19, 2008	CD+DVD	Sony Music Entertainment
Hong Kong	December 31, 2008