Wicked Beat

1990 EP by B'z

Wicked Beat

EP by

B'z

Released

June 21, 1990

Studio

Studio Birdman (Gray & Brown Room)

Genre

Pop rock
electronic
new wave

Length

23:16

Language

English

Label

Air (original release), Rooms (reissues)

Producer

Masao Nakajima

B'z chronology

Bad Communication
(1989)

Wicked Beat
(1990)

Mars
(1991)

Wicked Beat is the second mini-album by the Japanese rock duo B'z, released on June 21, 1990. It consists of extended, English versions of previous hits. The album sold 1,111,230 copies in total, eventually being certified Triple Platinum by the RIAJ. It debuted at No. 3 on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, being their last album of original material to not debut at No. 1.^[1]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Koshi Inaba; all music is composed by Tak Matsumoto

*Wicked Beat* track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Wanna Dance Wicked Beat Style"	4:36
2.	"Komachi-Angel Red Hot Style"	4:33
3.	"Bad Communication E.Style"	7:20
4.	"Lady-Go-Round "W-40" Style"	6:01
Total length:		23:16

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes.^[2]

B'z

Koshi Inaba – vocals
Tak Matsumoto – guitars

Production

Masao Akashi – production, arrangement
Masayuki Nomura – mixing
Yuka Koizumi – mastering engineer
Yoshiaki Kawakami – assistant engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[1]	3

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)	Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[3]	21

Chart (1991)	Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[4]	30

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[5]	3× Platinum	1,200,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ ^a ^b "B'z、さらなる記録更新へ！ニューアルバムリリース決定！". ORICON NEWS (in Japanese). 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
^ Wicked Beat liner notes. Air Records. 1990.
^ "1990年アルバム年間TOP100" [Oricon Album Top 100 1990]. Oricon. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
^ "1991年アルバム年間TOP100" [Oricon Album Top 100 1991]. Oricon. Archived from the original on 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
^ "Japanese album certifications – B'z – Wicked Beat" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved August 24, 2021. Select 1993年8月 on the drop-down menu