SuperJunior05 (TWINS)
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SuperJunior05 is the eponymous debut studio album by Korea
n boy band
Super Junior 05
(the band's name before they added Kyuhyun
as the thirteenth member, and thus becoming simply Super Junior
), released on December 5, 2005 in South Korea
. The album peaked at #3 on the MIAK K-pop albums chart, selling 28,536 copies in the first month of release. It includes Super Junior's first #1 radio single, "Miracle
" and the group's successful debut single, "Twins (Knock Out)
". The album sold over 86,659 copies by 2008.All sales numbers taken from the Music Industry Association of Korea. Last known sales numbers
," which was performed on SBS's Popular Songs on November 6, 2005 for the first time, the group was scheduled to release an official single of the song. However, a digital single of "Twins (Knock Out)" was released instead with three more brand new singles available for download on November 8, 2005.
The full album, which included all of the singles in the "Twins (Knock Out)" digital release and several other new tracks, was released on December 5, 2005 in South Korea
.
On February 12, 2006, Super Junior moved on to their second promotional single for the album "Miracle
". The performance version of the single differs from the one released in the album, as the performance single has an added dance break and vocal bridge in the song. In contrast to the edgy, rock-influenced feel of "Twins (Knock Out)", "Miracle" was a light bubblegum pop
love song with light-hearted dance choreography
. It was the second and last song to be promoted from their studio album.
Only twelve of the current thirteen members of Super Junior are featured in this album as Kyuhyun
was not added to the group until six months after this album's release.
release. Dancing like eagles, the dance choreography
arranged for the song became warmly welcomed and extremely popular. The follow-up single, "Miracle", is a typical K-pop bubblegum pop song, a genre still very welcomed by children and young adults. Like the song itself, the dance choreography for the single is also simpler and softer. The rest of the tracks in their first studio album, mainly consist of pop love ballads
and also R&B-influenced dance
tracks with rap
and fast drum beat
s.
The main themes involved in the album are about situations that are related to love
or trust. Soothing ballads like "You are the one" and "So I" intends a positive environment in one's love relationship. Fast tracks with light-hearted melodies like "Miracle" and "Way for love" contains bubblegum pop lyrics with positive views of love and trust. However, fast, rap-influenced dance tracks like "Twins (Knock Out)", "Over", "L.O.V.E", etc. usually gives in negative connotations about love and relationships. For example, in "Over", the lyrics hovers around a confident persistence after a relationship breakup
. "L.O.V.E" involves around a loss of hope
and confidence
after love is shattered. Likewise, Super Junior's debut track "Twins (Knock Out)" speaks of self-deception and the indecisive aspects of mind, contrasting the feelings between a man towards love and how he has to decide whether or not he should continue to love or fight with sticking to his own destiny.
"Keep in Touch" and "Believe" are cover songs of the Japanese band, EXILE.
SuperJunior05 (Twins) stayed in the charts throughout 2006, selling an extra 26,510 copies. It sold 10,408 more copies in 2007 and sold 86,659 copies by mid-2008. It remains as within the top 60 best-selling albums from 2005 to 2008.
When it was released in Taiwan on February 16, 2006, it debuted in the G-music J-pop Weekly Album Charts as #16.
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
Super Junior 05
Super Junior
Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...
(the band's name before they added Kyuhyun
Kyuhyun
Cho Kyuhyun , best known mononymously as Kyuhyun, is a Korean pop singer. He is the youngest member of a very popular boy band Super Junior. In Super Junior, he is a main vocalist. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps...
as the thirteenth member, and thus becoming simply Super Junior
Super Junior
Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...
), released on December 5, 2005 in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. The album peaked at #3 on the MIAK K-pop albums chart, selling 28,536 copies in the first month of release. It includes Super Junior's first #1 radio single, "Miracle
Miracle (Super Junior song)
"Miracle" is a bubblegum pop dance song written by Yoon Hyosang, and produced by Lee Soo Man for Super Junior 05's first album, SuperJunior05 ...
" and the group's successful debut single, "Twins (Knock Out)
TWINS (Knock Out)
"Twins " is the debut single by Super Junior 05, which was released online as a digital single on November 8, 2005 and later as an official in the group's first studio album, SuperJunior05 on December 5, 2005....
". The album sold over 86,659 copies by 2008.All sales numbers taken from the Music Industry Association of Korea. Last known sales numbers
History
After achieving critically acclaimed success from their debut performance of the single "Twins (Knock Out)TWINS (Knock Out)
"Twins " is the debut single by Super Junior 05, which was released online as a digital single on November 8, 2005 and later as an official in the group's first studio album, SuperJunior05 on December 5, 2005....
," which was performed on SBS's Popular Songs on November 6, 2005 for the first time, the group was scheduled to release an official single of the song. However, a digital single of "Twins (Knock Out)" was released instead with three more brand new singles available for download on November 8, 2005.
The full album, which included all of the singles in the "Twins (Knock Out)" digital release and several other new tracks, was released on December 5, 2005 in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
.
On February 12, 2006, Super Junior moved on to their second promotional single for the album "Miracle
Miracle (Super Junior song)
"Miracle" is a bubblegum pop dance song written by Yoon Hyosang, and produced by Lee Soo Man for Super Junior 05's first album, SuperJunior05 ...
". The performance version of the single differs from the one released in the album, as the performance single has an added dance break and vocal bridge in the song. In contrast to the edgy, rock-influenced feel of "Twins (Knock Out)", "Miracle" was a light bubblegum pop
Bubblegum pop
Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers, often using unknown singers.Bubblegum's classic period ran from 1967 to 1972...
love song with light-hearted dance choreography
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
. It was the second and last song to be promoted from their studio album.
Only twelve of the current thirteen members of Super Junior are featured in this album as Kyuhyun
Kyuhyun
Cho Kyuhyun , best known mononymously as Kyuhyun, is a Korean pop singer. He is the youngest member of a very popular boy band Super Junior. In Super Junior, he is a main vocalist. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps...
was not added to the group until six months after this album's release.
Overview
The album's first single, "Twins (Knock Out)" is a rap rockRap rock
Rap rock is a cross-genre fusing vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rock is often confused with rap metal and rapcore, subgenres that include heavy metal-oriented and hardcore punk-oriented bands, respectively....
release. Dancing like eagles, the dance choreography
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
arranged for the song became warmly welcomed and extremely popular. The follow-up single, "Miracle", is a typical K-pop bubblegum pop song, a genre still very welcomed by children and young adults. Like the song itself, the dance choreography for the single is also simpler and softer. The rest of the tracks in their first studio album, mainly consist of pop love ballads
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
and also R&B-influenced dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
tracks with rap
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
and fast drum beat
Drum beat
A drum beat or drum pattern is a rhythmic pattern, or repeated rhythm establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drum kits and other percussion instruments...
s.
The main themes involved in the album are about situations that are related to love
Love
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
or trust. Soothing ballads like "You are the one" and "So I" intends a positive environment in one's love relationship. Fast tracks with light-hearted melodies like "Miracle" and "Way for love" contains bubblegum pop lyrics with positive views of love and trust. However, fast, rap-influenced dance tracks like "Twins (Knock Out)", "Over", "L.O.V.E", etc. usually gives in negative connotations about love and relationships. For example, in "Over", the lyrics hovers around a confident persistence after a relationship breakup
Relationship breakup
A relationship breakup, often referred to simply as a breakup, is the termination of a usually intimate relationship by any means other than death. The act is commonly termed "dumping [someone]" in slang when it is initiated by one partner...
. "L.O.V.E" involves around a loss of hope
Hope
Hope is the emotional state which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. It is the "feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best" or the act of "look[ing] forward to with desire and reasonable confidence" or...
and confidence
Confidence
Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself. Arrogance or hubris in this comparison, is having unmerited...
after love is shattered. Likewise, Super Junior's debut track "Twins (Knock Out)" speaks of self-deception and the indecisive aspects of mind, contrasting the feelings between a man towards love and how he has to decide whether or not he should continue to love or fight with sticking to his own destiny.
"Keep in Touch" and "Believe" are cover songs of the Japanese band, EXILE.
Reception
As soon as the album was released, the album stayed at #1 throughout the whole week on Korea's Hanteo Weekly Chart. Although SuperJunior05 (Twins) was a commercial success after the much anticipated debut of the group in November, the album failed to reach the top spot in the MIAK K-pop Monthly Charts. Instead it debuted as #3, selling 28,536 copies. However, the single Super Junior collaborated with TVXQ that same month debuted as #1, selling 49,945 copies.SuperJunior05 (Twins) stayed in the charts throughout 2006, selling an extra 26,510 copies. It sold 10,408 more copies in 2007 and sold 86,659 copies by mid-2008. It remains as within the top 60 best-selling albums from 2005 to 2008.
When it was released in Taiwan on February 16, 2006, it debuted in the G-music J-pop Weekly Album Charts as #16.
Track listing
| # | Title | Writers | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Miracle Miracle (Super Junior song) "Miracle" is a bubblegum pop dance song written by Yoon Hyosang, and produced by Lee Soo Man for Super Junior 05's first album, SuperJunior05 ... " |
Yoon Hyosang | 2:56 |
| 2. | "Twins (Knock Out) TWINS (Knock Out) "Twins " is the debut single by Super Junior 05, which was released online as a digital single on November 8, 2005 and later as an official in the group's first studio album, SuperJunior05 on December 5, 2005.... " |
Yoo Young-jin Yoo Young-jin Yoo Young-jin is a singer-songwriter and producer for various SM Entertainment artists. He has composed and written songs for H.O.T., S.E.S, BoA, Shinhwa, TVXQ, The Grace, Super Junior, Girls' Generation, Shinee and F.... |
3:20 |
| 3. | "You are the one" | Kenzie Kenzie (songwriter) Kenzie is a composer signed under SM Entertainment. She composed a lot of songs for SM artists like BoA, Isak N Jiyeon, Super Junior, CSJH, TVXQ, Girls' Generation, Shinee and f... |
3:52 |
| 4. | "Rock this house" | Yoon Hyosang | 3:07 |
| 5. | "차근차근 (Way for Love)" ["Carefully (Way for Love)"] | Lee Yoonjae | 3:17 |
| 6. | "So I" | Kyun Hojoong, Sangwon (the Anomi) | 3:43 |
| 7. | "Over" | Young-hu Kim | 3:16 |
| 8. | "Keep in Touch" | Hitoshi Harukawa | 4:31 |
| 9. | "L.O.V.E." | Shin Jiwon | 3:36 |
| 10. | "Believe" | Seikou Nagaoka | 4:54 |
| 11. | "Twins (Knock Out)" [Instrumental] | 3:21 |
Release history
| Country | Release date | Format |
|---|---|---|
| South Korea | December 5, 2005 | CD, cassette |
| Taiwan | February 10, 2006 | CD |
South Korea
| Chart | Debut position | Peak position | Chart run | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanteo Weekly Charts | 1 | 1 | (10 weeks) | 86,659 |
| MIAK K-pop Monthly Charts | 3 | 3 | (still charting) |
Taiwan
| Chart | Debut position | Peak position | Chart run |
|---|---|---|---|
| G-Music Weekly J-POP Charts | 16 | 16 | (1 week) |
External links
- SM Entertainment – Official website
- Super Junior – Official website
- Super Junior – Official website at Avex Taiwan
- Super Junior – Official website at Avex Trax