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Michi (Exile song)

2007 single by Exile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ3079440 ↗
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"Michi" (道, Road) is the twenty-third single by Japanese pop band Exile. It was released on February 14, 2007, and was limited to 100,000 copies. The song has been certified as being downloaded more than 1,000,000 times as a ringtone by the RIAJ, and more than 250,000 times as a full-length download to cellphones.

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The public source identifies “Michi (Exile song)” as 2007 single by Exile. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Michi, Exile and song.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-02-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Michi, Exile and song providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Michi (Exile song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.