South Korea Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 South Korea Gaon Weekly Domestic singles chart This is not the first time that the pre-single charted better than the lead single, it also happened with the singles 'On Rainy Days' and 'Fiction' from the group's first studio album Fiction and Fact.

The song had better peaks on the charts than Midnight Sun 's official lead single, 'Beautiful Night'. The song also charted on Gaon's other charts: on the Streaming chart the song peaked at number 5, with 2,214,129 streams in the first week on the Download chart it peaked at number two with 473,121 downloads in the first week on the BGM chart it peaked number one on the Mobile chart it debuted at number ten and peaked at number nine and in the Karaoke chart it peaked at number eighty-six. The song debuted at number two on Gaon's weekly singles chart with 43,855,691 points. 'Midnight' ( 별 헤는 밤 Byeol Heneun Bam, The Night I Count the Stars) - 3:54.Those scenes were also part of the music video for the lead single from Midnight Sun, the song 'Beautiful Night'. The theme music video features scenes that the group shot in New York City between July 1 and July 7, 2012.

It was released, along with the digital release of the song, on July 15, 2012. The song does not have an official music video, instead Cube Entertainment released a one-minute and sixteen second theme music video. 'Midnight' was written by Yong Jun-hyung, Choi Kyu-sung, and Shinsadong Tiger Kyu-sung and Tiger were the song's composers. Although the group used the same system that they used on the album Fiction and Fact, releasing a song as a pre-single one week before its official release, the song was not promoted. On the same day, a theme music video of the song was also released. On July 15, 'Midnight' was released digitally on South Korea music portal sites. On July 12, Cube Entertainment announced that the song would be released on July 15 as a pre-release single from the upcoming mini album Midnight Sun. The song was later re-recorded in Japanese and was used as the group's third Japanese single, released on October 17, 2012.

It was released digitally in South Korea on Jas a pre-release single of the group's fifth mini album Midnight Sun, released a week after. ' Midnight (The Night I Count the Stars)' ( Japanese: 星を数える夜 Hoshi wo Kazoeru Yoru Korean: 별 헤는 밤 Byeol Heneun Bam) is a song released by the South Korean boy band Beast.

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