Me Gustas Tu (GFriend song)


"Me Gustas Tu" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group GFriend for their second extended play, Flower Bud. The song was released by Source Music on July 23, 2015, as the EP's title track. It was also released as their first Japanese song and became later the lead single of their compilation album Kyō Kara Watashitachi wa ~ GFriend 1st Best ~. The song was GFriend's breakout hit, peaking at number 8 on the Gaon Digital Chart. It has sold over 2 million downloads and has been streamed over 100 million times in South Korea.

Composition

The song was written and produced by Iggy and Youngbae, who previously produced the debut song of the group.

Japanese version

In February 2018, GFriend signed with King Records. In late May, the group boarded for Japan to promote the compilation album Kyō Kara Watashitachi wa ~ GFriend 1st Best ~ which was released on May 23. The album consists of twelve songs including both Korean and Japanese-language versions of "Me Gustas Tu".
The full music video of the Japanese version of "Me Gustas Tu" was released on May 6.

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 27 on the Gaon Digital Chart, on the chart issue dated July 19–25, 2015, with 66,912 downloads sold and 1,014,574 streams. In its second week, the song rose to number 15. In its eighth week, the song peaked at number 8, staying for two consecutive weeks, marking the group's first Top 10 single in South Korea.
The song placed at number 59 on the chart, for the month of July 2015, with 137,376 downloads sold and 3,061,299 streams. For the month of August, the song rose to number 23, with 230,905 downloads sold and 9,734,931 streams, and peaked at number 13 in September, with 233,310 downloads sold and 13,117,951 streams.
The song made the year-end chart as the 38th best selling song of 2015, selling 1,013,776 downloads and accumulating 50,169,974 streams. It was also the 27th best selling song of 2016, selling 1,150,274 downloads and accumulating 66,037,226 streams.
The song surpassed 100 million streams in July 2016 and 2,500,000 downloads in November 2017.

Music video

A music video for the song was released first on MBC Music on July 20, 2015 and uploaded three days later on the respective YouTube channels of the group and the single's distributor. The video, directed by Hong Won-ki from Zanybros, features the group in outdoor scenes, intercalated with dance scenes in a field.
Due to the change of distribution from Genie Music to kakao M, the music video was reuploaded on the YouTube channel of the latter's 1theK service on November 2, 2017. In turn, Genie Music deleted the video from its own account.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Chart Peak
position
South Korea 27