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{{Infobox Single
| Name           = May
| Cover          = 28s.jpg
| Artist         = [[B'z]]
| from Album     = [[ELEVEN]]
| Released       = May 24, 2000
| Recorded       = 
| Length         = 08:32
| Label          = [[Rooms Records]]
| Producer       = [[Tak Matsumoto]]
| Promotions     = #2 (Suntory "Super Chu" CM)
| Last single    = '''27th Single'''<br>[[File:27s.jpg|link=Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni|border|65px|right]]<br>[[Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni]]<br>(2000)
| This single    = '''28th Single'''<br>[[File:28s.jpg|link=|border|65px|right]]<br>'''May'''<br/>(2000)
| Next single    = '''29th Single'''<br>[[File:29s.jpg|link=juice|border|65px|right]]<br>[[juice]]<br>(2000)
}}

'''May''' is the twenty-eighth [[B'z Singles|single]] by [[B'z]], released on May 24, 2000. The band's second single of 2000 following "[[Konya Tsuki no Mieru Oka ni]]", it likewise debuted at the top of the charts and gave the band their twenty-third consecutive number-one single. The release reached Double Platinum status, with over 457,000 copies sold in the first week alone. After spending thirteen weeks on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart, the song finished 29th in sales for the year of 2000.

For the first time since the release of the band's seventh single, "[[ZERO]]", the title song of this release featured no tie-in promotion. Additionally, the single was not performed on television despite it being a common practice for the band in that era. A music video was filmed and broadcast on various music channels at the time, featuring the band and cloaked extras in the famed Oya Stone Museum in Tochigi, Japan. On the production side, [[Kousuke Ooshima]], who previously served as keyboardist on the [[B'z LIVE-GYM '98 "SURVIVE"|SURVIVE tour in 1998]] while [[Takanobu Masuda]] was occupied with other commitments, collaborated on the arrangement for the song.

The title song went on to be collected on the band's 2000 studio album ''[[ELEVEN]]'' later that year but was not performed on the subsequent album tour, [[B'z LIVE-GYM 2001 "ELEVEN"]]. It was, however, performed during the earlier summer tour [[B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 "juice"]]. Since that tour, the song has not been played live. Similarly, its B-side has [[B'z Songs Never Performed Live|never been played live]]. In 2005, the single would be collected for the first time on ''[[B'z The Best "Pleasure II"]]'' and would be collected for the second time in 2013 with the release of ''[[B'z The Best XXV 1999-2012]]''.

Seventeen years after its debut, a performance of the song from [[B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2000 "juice"]] was finally made available on [[B'z Home Videos|home video]] release as part of the premium collection ''[[B'z COMPLETE SINGLE BOX]]'' and its included DVD set.

== Track listing ==
All music and guitar by [[Tak Matsumoto]]. All lyrics and lead vocals by [[Koshi Inaba]].

#'''[[May (Lyrics)|May]]'''
#: [[File:s28_01.ogg]] {{May Song}}
#'''[[You pray, I stay (Lyrics)|You pray, I stay]]'''
#: [[File:s28_02.ogg]] A demo of the song was carried out with recording engineer Mike Clink in Los Angeles. However, the recording and production took longer than the recording of the title song. Two months prior to the single's release during the band's March 31, 2000 appearance on ''[[Music Station]]'', the band were listening to the song in the dressing room with their supporting band. Upon hearing that iteration of the song, Tak was not content, and said, "Let's work on it one more time." It later became the theme to a Suntory commercial, for their drink "Super Chu". The song is one of a number of B'z B-sides that have [[B'z Songs Never Performed Live|never been played live]].

== Live appearances ==
===[[B'z Songs by LIVE-GYM|Live Performances]]===
{{May Live}}
{{You pray, I stay Live}}

===[[B'z Songs on Home Video|Home Videos]]===
{{May Video}} 
{{You pray, I stay Video}}

== Sales data ==
{{Main|B'z Sales Records}}

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|-
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff; width:50px;" rowspan="2" | No.
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff; width:45px;" rowspan="2" | Cover
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff; width:370px;" rowspan="2" | Single
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff; width:150px;" colspan="2" | Physical Copies Sold
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff; width:150px;" colspan="3" | Chart Positions
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff; width:110px;" rowspan="2" | Certification

|-
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff;" | <small>FIRST WEEK</small>
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff;" | <small>LIFETIME</small>

!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff;" | <small>WEEK</small>
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff;" | <small>MONTH</small>
!style="color:black; background-color:#e6f2ff;" | <small>YEAR</small>

{{May Sales}} 

|}

== Personnel ==
{{Main|B'z Support Members}}

'''B'z'''
*[[Tak Matsumoto]]: Guitar, Music Composition, Arrangement
*[[Koshi Inaba]]: Vocals, Lyric Composition, Arrangement

'''Support Members'''
*[[Kaichi Kurose]]: Drums <small>(Track 2)</small>
*[[Vagabond Suzuki]]: Bass <small>(Track 1)</small>
*[[Showtaro Mitsuzono]]: Bass <small>(Track 2)</small>
*[[Akira Onozuka]]: Piano <small>(Track 1)</small>
*[[Daisuke Ikeda]]: Manipulator <small>(Track 2)</small>

'''Production'''
*[[Kousuke Ohshima]]: Arrangement <small>(Track 1)</small>