Key of Heart / Dotch
| "Key of Heart" / "Dotch" | ||||
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| Single by BoA | ||||
| from the album Made in Twenty (20) | ||||
| Released |
August 9, 2006 (see Release history) | |||
| Format | CD+DVD | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | J-pop | |||
| Label | Avex Trax | |||
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"Key of Heart" is BoA's 20th Japanese single and 6th Korean single. The single was available solely in CD+DVD format in Japan with a "special summer low price" and first pressing to commemorate this for being her 20th single.
Compared to previous singles, the sales for "Key of Heart" were low, but this was due to BoA being preoccupied with other projects and the lack of promotion from Avex Trax.
Music video
BoA's Key of Heart music video features BoA singing in a suburb land while driving a jeep. Then dancing on a mountain with 4 other dancers then she meets up with the dancers in a little town, they then dance on the streets. This music video also features BoA singing next to a river.
Commercial endorsements
Key of Heart was used as the theme song for the Japanese version of the movie Over The Hedge and also served as a background song in the music.jp commercials. Dotch was used as the background song for the Kose Fasio commercials.
In the Korean version of Key Of Heart the music video, it features Donghae from Super Junior. The music videos Key Of Heart show a sad love story. BoA was in a relationship with Donghae who gives her a necklace with a heart pendant (a couple pendant). On her first performance, Donghae decides to give her flowers before she goes on stage and ends up in an accident due to which he dies. A scientist decides to make him a cyborg and succeeds in making a cyborg Donghae. Donghae notices that BoA is wearing the pendant he had given her before he died and realizes that she was the one he loved. He then appears in all of her performances/public appreances and takes photos of her. During one of these outings he sees her current boyfriend and is heartbroken but continues taking photos of her. On another occasion, he goes to take photos of her during her rehearsal and a stage light nearly falls on her. He quickly leaps in and saves her. She picks up his camera and sees her photos on it. The video ends with them crossing paths and her noticing the heart pendant attached to his camera as a charm. She sees the photos of their past and starts crying as the security guards don't let her go to Donghae.
Track listing
Japanese version
Regular edition
CD
- Key of Heart
- Dotch
DVD
- Key of Heart (video clip)
First press edition
CD
- Key of Heart
- Dotch
- Key of Heart (English ver.)
DVD
- Key of Heart (video clip)
- Key of Heart (road movie)
Korean version
Digital single
- Key of Heart
CD+DVD
CD
- Key of Heart
- Dotch
- Key of Heart (English ver.)
- Key of Heart (Korean ver.)
DVD
- Key of Heart (M/V)
- Key of Heart (road movie)
TV performances
- January 26, 2007 — Music Station - Key of Heart
Release history
| Region | Date |
|---|---|
| Japan | August 9, 2006 |
| South Korea | August 21, 2006 |
Charts
Oricon sales chart (Japan)
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | Sales Total | Chart Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2006 | Oricon daily singles chart | 4 | ||
| Oricon weekly singles chart | 7 | 40,943 | 6 weeks | |
| Oricon monthly singles chart | 20 | |||
| Oricon yearly singles chart |