Wicked Beat

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]

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)

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.