Kumi Koda's 15th domestic single, hands, was the end theme of ANB's television program Uchimura produce, and Through the Sky the end theme of NTV's The Sunday.

"Hands" is the second single from The Raconteurs' debut album Broken Boy Soldiers, released in the UK on July 31, 2006.

One of the B-side tracks is a live rendition of It Ain't Easy, a cover version of David Bowie's song from his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The music video was shot at the Dikemark psychiatric hospital in Asker (outside Oslo), Norway on July 4, 2006.

"Hands" is the first single released from Jewel's second album, Spirit (1998). Hands was the first single released by Jewel that was not altered from its original album version. However, a radio edit for the commercial release did surface. Radio edits are issued when the label feels the song is running too long for airplay. The radio edit cut the song short by less than a minute. A commercial single was never issued in the United States, and the singles that were issued internationally received the album version. The radio edit can be found only on promos for the single. Even though it was never released in physical format, it still reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100.

Many radio stations play Hands with their all Christmas music format.