Another World (Gackt song)

"Another World"
Single by Gackt
from the album Moon
ReleasedSeptember 5, 2001
GenreAlternative rock/Art rock
Length10:58
LabelNippon Crown
Songwriter(s)Gackt C.
Producer(s)Gackt
Gackt singles chronology
"Kimi no Tameni Dekiru Koto"
(2001) 		"Another World"
(2001) 		"Jūnigatsu no Love Song"
(2001)
Music video
"Another World" on YouTube

"Another World" is the ninth single by Japanese musical artist Gackt. It was released on September 5, 2001, and peaked at second place on the Oricon Singles Chart and charted for seventeen weeks.[1] In 2001, with sales of 255,640 copies, it was the 74th best selling single of the year. It is Gackt's best selling single with 285,550 copies sold.[2] He performed the song at the annual New Year's Eve TV show, Kouhaku Uta Gassen.[3]

Gackt used both songs as the introduction and opening to the "Moon Project, while the "Another World" promotional video was used as a preview for his co-written and co-starred 2003 film Moon Child.

The music video was filmed in Hong Kong and Gackt considered it one of his music videos it was hardest to film, saying "it took days and days to shoot, from morning to night. We filmed as though we were shooting a movie, so it was a real tough one".[4]

The song is used in neue MEN's advertisement for Shiseido.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Another World on Oricon" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  2. ^ "Gackt、幻の楽曲がついにCD化！" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2006-12-27. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
  3. ^ "52. Kouhaku Uta Gassen" (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  4. ^ Yukie Kurihara, Megan Bates (2007). "Gackt Speaks: J-Pop Superstar commiserates with SB". Shojo Beat. Vol. 3, no. 8. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  5. ^ "アーティストのブレイクにひと役買う、資生堂CM30年のパワー" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2006-08-08. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  6. ^ "Another World". gackt.com. Retrieved 2019-02-01.