Not to be confused with Go to the top.

Go For The Top

Song Information

 
Go For The Top's jacket.

Artist: U1 overground
Composition/Arrangement: U1-ASAMi
BPM: 74-180
Length: 1:37
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

Soundbites saying "Go for the top" and "KONAMI Arcade Championship" can be heard.

Song Connections / Remixes

  • A remix of Go For The Top, titled Go For The Top (Grand Finale Mix), appears on the DanceDanceRevolution Original Soundtrack Vol.1 album.
    • A shorter version of Go For The Top (Grand Finale Mix), titled Go For ㋟ Top, appears in ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom.
  • A Christmas themed remix of Go For The Top, titled Go For The Top (Xmas For Only You) can be found on the DanceDanceRevolution (2014) website, located where the YuniverHills project section is.

Trivia

  • Go For The Top was one of the preliminary round songs in the KONAMI Arcade Championship 2012 for DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX.
  • Go For The Top is Yuichi Asami's first song under his U1 overground alias.
  • Go For The Top's jacket features Yuichi Asami himself.
  • Go For The Top features an unique video in DanceDanceRevolution. However, it plays in the background and is not full-screen.
    • Go For The Top's video was removed from DanceDanceRevolution (2013) on April 4th, 2013, due to technical issues. It was later restored on July 30th, 2013.
  • Despite that Go For The Top's BPM is displayed as 74-180, it actually speeds up to 409 as its highest.
  • Go For The Top was added to jubeat saucer on August 24th, 2013, as part of the jubeat・GITADORA・DDRのTriple Journey unlock event, which started on August 1st, 2013.
    • To unlock Go For The Top on jubeat saucer, you must play a TAG song that has also appeared in the DanceDanceRevolution series (including the collaboration song Synergy For Angels). After you play it, you must press on BABY-LON, which will appear in one of the panels in the results screen.
  • Many players consider the dead stop in Go For The Top's CHALLENGE charts the hardest to time slowdown in the franchise.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
jubeat difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows 148 / 11 237 / 20 354 / 16 493 / 28 622 / 40 / 0 240 / 17 336 / 10 473 / 27 615 / 22 / 0
DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX 6 8 12 15 18 8 11 14 18
DanceDanceRevolution (2013)→Present 6 8 12 15 18 8 11 ↑15 18

jubeat

Game Level
Basic Advanced Extreme
Notecounts 261 562 708
jubeat saucer→Present 4 8 10
jubeat plus 4 8 10
jubeat plus (Android) 4 8 10
jukebeat 4 8 10
jubeat・GITADORA・DDRTriple Journey
DanceDanceRevolution Songs sola - Sweet Rain - Magnetic - キケンな果実 - フー・フローツ - からふるぱすてる - The Wind of Gold
RЁVOLUTIΦN - Right on time (Ryu☆Remix) - PRANA - Chinese Snowy Dance
†渚の小悪魔ラヴリィ~レイディオ† - Triple Journey -TAG EDITION-
GuitarFreaks & DrumMania Songs sola GITADORA ver. - 量子の海のリントヴルム (GITADOROCK Ver.) - HEART BEAT FORMULA (GITADORA Ver.)
Cassis - Beautiful Dream - heron -GITADOROCK ver.- - 此岸の戯事 - Spanish Snowy Dance (daybreak ver.)
Shining Wizard - Sakura Sunrise (GITADORA ver.) - †渚の小悪魔ラヴリィ~レイディオ† (GITADORA ver.)
nightbird lost wing (GITADORA ver.) - Triple Journey -OJ EDITION-
jubeat Songs sola - New Decade - キケンな果実 - 万華鏡 - Straight Oath - heron - Fly with me - New Gravity
Right on time (Ryu☆Remix) - Go For The Top - 夏・KOI・ムッシュ!! - Dragon Blade
Triple Journey -S-C-U EDITION-