Summer Madness

Summer Madness is the eleventh single by Japanese hip-hop group Lead, released on June 21, 2006, two weeks before their fourth studio album, 4. It failed to break the top ten on Oricon, but charted in the top twenty, taking the weekly ranking of #17, where it remained on the charts for five weeks. The single contained two b-sides, "Boku ga Tsuki ni Inoru Yoru" and "One", the latter of which became popular enough to be placed on their first compilation album Lead Tracks ~Listener's Choice~. Information Summer Madness is the eleventh domestic single released by Japanese hip-hop group Lead. The single peaked in the top twenty on the Oricon Singles Charts at #17 and remained on the charts for five consecutive weeks. The single was released as a standard CD and a CD+DVD combo, the latter of which was of limited release. The limited CD+DVD editions carried the corresponding music video for the title track, along with the making video. The single carried two coupling tracks on both the standard CD and limited CD+DVD edition, "Boku ga Tsuki ni Inoru Yoru" (僕が月に祈る夜 / The Night I Prayed to the Moon) and "One" (stylized as ONE). "Summer Madness" was written by musical composers Yasunori Tanaka and Nice Hashimoto, the latter who has worked with Japanese boy band SMAP and who wrote the lyrics for the track. The track was performed by Motonari Murakawa, who later went on to work with kawaii metal band BABYMETAL. "Boku ga Tsuki ni Inoru Yoru" was written and composed by Yosuke Kobayashi, who had previously worked with the group for their song "High Time", while lyricist yury wrote the lyrical portion. "One" was composed by Koichi Tsutaya, who had also written the lyrics, while the music was performed by Seiji Motoyama, who would go on to work with the group on their albums Feel the Vibes (2008), Now or Never (2012) and their most successful album The Showcase (2016).