Mr. Taxi

"Mr. Taxi"
Digital and CD-only edition cover.
Single by Girls' Generation
from the album Girls' Generation and The Boys
A-side"Run Devil Run"
ReleasedApril 23, 2011 (2011-04-23)
Recorded2010
Genre
Length3:32
Label
Composer(s)
  • STY
  • Chad Royce
  • Scott Mann
Lyricist(s)
  • STY (Japanese)
  • Jung Hye-young (Korean)
Girls' Generation singles chronology
"Hoot"
(2010)
"Mr. Taxi"
(2011)
"The Boys"
(2011)
Music video
"Mr. Taxi" on YouTube

"Mr. Taxi" is the first original Japanese song recorded by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. It was released as a double A-side single with the Japanese version of "Run Devil Run" on April 27, 2011, as the third single from the group's eponymous debut Japanese album. Composed by STY, Chad Royce and Scott Mann, with the Japanese lyrics written by STY and Korean lyrics written by Jung Hye-young, "Mr. Taxi" is an electropop and R&B song. A Korean version was later recorded and included on the group's third Korean studio album The Boys, and was released as the album's second single in December 2011.

"Mr. Taxi" was a commercial success in Japan; it became the group's first single to sell 100,000 physical units in its first week of release.[1] The single peaked at number two on the Oricon Singles Chart, number five on the RIAJ Digital Track Chart, and number one on the Japan Hot 100. It received certifications from the Recording Industry Association of Japan on four bases–physical sales (gold), PC downloads (platinum), chaku-uta (double platinum), and full-length chaku-uta (double platinum). "Mr. Taxi" was also successful in Taiwan, on whose record chart it charted at number three. The Korean version peaked at number nine on the Gaon Digital Chart and sold over 1.5 million digital units in South Korea in 2011.

  1. ^ チャン・グンソク、海外歌手史上初のデビュー作初登場首位 (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 16, 2011.