Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Background and release [ ] On April 1, 2018, Twice announced the release of their third Japanese single titled 'Wake Me Up', along with the news that Twice would appear in a television commercial for. The commercial, featuring 'Wake Me Up', began airing nationwide in Japan on April 5. The full song was first revealed on 's on April 24 and it was pre-released as a digital single on various online music portals the next day. The full music video was also released online on April 25.
Composition [ ] 'Wake Me Up' was composed by Atsushi Shimada, Louise Frick Sveen, and Albin Nordqvist, with lyrics written by Natsumi Watanabe. It was described as an upbeat dance song that 'encourages people not to give up and keep going forward'. Promotion [ ] 'Wake Me Up' was first performed on on May 25, 2018. It was also performed during in Saitama and Osaka. On August 3, it was performed on a Music Station 2-hour special episode. Commercial performance [ ] The CD single debuted atop the daily ranking of with 129,275 units sold on its release day, breaking Twice's record of the highest first day sales for Korean girl groups in Japan. It topped the weekly Oricon Singles Chart with 262,658 copies sold, while recorded 299,195 unit sales from May 14–20, 2018..
This is Twice's third consecutive release to surpass 200,000 sales in its first week, making the group the first foreign artist in Japan to achieve this. It was also reported that 'Wake Me Up' sold 471,438 copies in pre-orders, and it exceeded 500,000 shipments by May 28.