Please Smile Again

Infobox Single
Name = Please Smile Again


Artist = Namie Amuro
from Album = Break the Rules
B-side = Cross Over
(TK original mix)
Released = October 4, 2000
Format = CD Single
Recorded = Larrabee Sound Studios
TK Disc
Genre = Pop
Length = 25:26
Label = Avex Trax
Writer = Tetsuya Komuro
Producer = Tetsuya Komuro
Certification =
Last single = "Never End"
(2000)
This single = "Please Smile Again"
(2000)
Next single = "Think of Me / No More Tears"
(2001)
Misc =

"Please Smile Again" is Namie Amuro's 17th solo single on the Avex Trax label. Although the single "Think of me / No more tears" (2001) was slated to be released in December, it was pushed back until the next year making "Please Smile Again" the last single to precede her 4th studio album, "Break the Rules" (2000).

Commercial tie-in

"Please Smile Again" was used in commercials for Meiji Fran products. "Cross Over" was used in cell phone MM TU-KA commercials. Amuro appeared in both ad campaigns.

Track listing

# "Please Smile Again (TK original mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:46
# "Cross Over (TK original mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:43
# "Please Smile Again (Jamaster A Mix)" (Remixed by Alex Baboo & Groovy Cat) – 6:37
# "Please Smile Again (TV mix)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:45
# "Please Smile Again (a cappella)" (Tetsuya Komuro) – 4:35

Personnel

* Namie Amuro – vocals, background vocals
* Tetsuya Komuro – synthesizer, keyboard
* Ken Kimura – guitar

Production

* Producer – Tetsuya Komuro
* Arranger – Tetsuya Komuro
* Mixing – Tetsuya Komuro
* Remixing & additional production – Alex Baboo & Groovy Cat
* Synthesizer programming – Akihisa Murakami, Toshihide Iwasa

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)