Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun is an extended play (EP) marketed as the sixth single of Japanese boy group JO1, featuring lead track "SuperCali". It also served as the lead single of their third studio album, Equinox (2023). Consisting of four songs and four instrumental version, the EP single was released digitally by Lapone Entertainment on October 10, 2022, while the three physical editions were released on October 12, 2022. It features the group's frequent collaborators such as Teito, Jung Ho-hyun, Full8loom, Nmore, and Poptime. Midnight Sun became the sixth single of JO1 that earned number one position on the Oricon Singles Chart. It is also their first single that surpassed 600,000 copies sold in its release week according to Billboard Japan, with "SuperCali" became the group's first song that spent two weeks in top six of Japan Hot 100. Background and release On August 25, 2022, during a live Instagram talk session, JO1 announced that their sixth EP single, Midnight Sun, was set to be released on October 12. The concept of the single was set "between dreams and reality" and centered around the message that "in this strange world, we can do everything". It expressed "the pain felt in the process of growing up by likening it to the fear felt in a strange world where night and day is uncertain". The EP single consists of four songs accompanied with the instrumental version of each song, which were released into three physical editions. The two limited editions each features four tracks and comes with a DVD bundle consisting a variety segment called Weird World (Weird House) and Weird World (Weird Spell), respectively. The normal edition comes with a CD-only and consists of six tracks. A special digital version consisting all songs and an instrumental version of "SuperCali" was released on October 10, 2022.