Keep the Faith

"Keep the faith" is the fifth overall single by the Japanese boy band, KAT-TUN, and the second from their third studio album, KAT-TUN III: Queen of Pirates. It was released in three editions with three different covers; the regular edition contains all the songs and its instrumental versions, the first press edition came with a bonus track entitled "Lovin'U" and its instrumental track and the second limited edition was packaged with a DVD with the single's music video and a short film about the making of the music video. The single was released on November 21, 2007, and was KAT-TUN's fifth consecutive number 1 on the Oricon weekly singles chart. Song information "Keep the faith" was co-written by the former Boøwy lead vocalist and lyricist Kyosuke Himuro (who later released a cover version of the song on a 2008 compilation of his) and SPIN, a frequent songwriter for the group. Koki Tanaka also provided his own rap verses whilst ha-j arranged the track. A hard rock number, the song was used as the theme song to Jin Akanishi and Junnosuke Taguchi's school comedy series, Yukan Club, shown on NTV. Promotion KAT-TUN first performed the song live on Music Station on November 14, 2007, and on their own late-night variety/talk show Cartoon KAT-TUN on November 21, the day the single was released. The group made their third appearance on Utaban on November 29, performed on Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ on December 3 and on NTV's "Best Artists 2007" special on December 11. KAT-TUN also visited Shounen Club Premium and Music Lovers on December 16 before returning to Music Station on December 21 to perform a medley of the single and "Yorokobi no Uta".