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{{Infobox song
| name = Happy Birthday
| cover = Happybirthday t200.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[News (band)|NEWS]]
| album = [[Color (NEWS album)|Color]]
| B-side = {{ubl|Gan Gan Ganbatte|Push On!|Game of Love}}
| released = October 1, 2008
| recorded = 2008
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [[J-Pop]]
| length = 18:53
| label = [[Johnny's Entertainment]]
| writer = [[SEAMO]]
| producer =
| prev_title = Summer Time
| prev_year = 2008
| next_title = Koi no ABO
| next_year = 2009
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Alternative Covers
| type = [[Single]]
| cover =
| border =
| alt =
| caption = "''Happy Birthday''" Limited Edition cover
}}
}}

"'''Happy Birthday'''" is the tenth single of the Japanese boy group [[News (band)|NEWS]]. It was released on October 1, 2008, in two editions; a regular edition which contains two b-sides: ''Gan Gan Ganbatte'' and ''Push On!'', and a limited edition which also contains ''Happy Birthday'' and its b-side ''Gan Gan Ganbatte'' from the regular edition, as well as another b-side entitled ''Game of Love'' and an instrumental version of ''Happy Birthday''. ''Happy Birthday'' is [[News (band)|NEWS]] tenth consecutive number-one single since their debut in 2004. This single makes them the second group to have this distinction (the other being [[KinKi Kids]], who currently has twenty-seven consecutive number-one singles).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/58767/ |title=NEWS tied with KinKi Kids for tenth consecutive single |date=7 October 2008 | publisher= Oricon| accessdate = 2008-10-11 | language = Japanese}}</ref>

==Overview==
Happy Birthday was written and composed by [[Japan]]ese [[Hip hop music|Hip-hop]] artist [[SEAMO]].<ref name="happybday">{{cite web | url=http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3788118/ | title=New NEWS song written by SEAMO | publisher=livedoor | access-date=2008-10-12 | language=Japanese | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928142012/http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3788118/ | archive-date=2011-09-28 | url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Happy Birthday'' reached the number-one spot on both the daily and weekly [[Oricon]] charts, selling 201,304 copies in its first week; just 38 more copies than their previous single Summer Time, which sold 201,266 copies in its first week.

==Promotion==
''Happy Birthday'' is the theme song for [[Kosé]]'s Happy Bath Day Precious Rose commercial,<ref name="happybday" /> which features all six-members.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3781332/ |title=NEWS crazy about smell of a rose | publisher= livedoor| accessdate = 2008-10-12 | language = Japanese}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

===TV performance===
* September 24, 2008 - [[CDTV]] 15th Anniversary
* September 29, 2008 - [[Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ]]
* October 3, 2008 - [[Music Station]]

==Track list==
{{tracklist
| headline = Regular Edition
| title1 = Happy Birthday
| length1 = 3:49
| title2 = Gan Gan Ganbatte (written by zopp)
| length2 = 3:54
| title3 = Push On! (written by Aya Hawerukazu)
| length3 = 3:07
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Limited Edition
| title3 = Game of Love (written by Yu Shimoji/rap by JACRREN)
| length3 = 4:17
| title4 = Happy Birthday (Instrumental)
| length4 = 3:48
}}

==Charts==
===Oricon chart===
{| class="wikitable"
!Release
!Chart
!Peak position
!First week sales
!Sales total
|-
|rowspan="4"|October 1, 2008
|Oricon Daily Singles Chart
|align="center"|1
|
|
|-
|Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|201,304
|
|-
|Oricon Monthly Singles Chart
|align="center"|2
|
|align="center"|227,644
|-
|Oricon Yearly Singles Chart
|align="center"|26
|
|
|-
|}

===Billboard Japan chart===
{| class="wikitable"
!Release
!Chart
!Peak position
|-
|October 1, 2008
|''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=848&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Japan+Hot+100+Singles&ci=3102051&cdi=10021182&cid=10%2F17%2F2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022135740/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=848&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Japan+Hot+100+Singles&ci=3102051&cdi=10021182&cid=10%2F17%2F2008 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2008-10-22 | title=Japan Hot 100 | publisher=Billboard | access-date=2008-10-12 }}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{NEWS}}

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[[Category:2008 singles]]
[[Category:News (band) songs]]
[[Category:Oricon Weekly number-one singles]]
[[Category:Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles]]
[[Category:2008 songs]]

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