- SuperJunior05 (TWINS)
Infobox Album
Name = SuperJunior05 (TWINS)
Type = studio album
Artist =Super Junior
Released = flagicon|South KoreaDecember 5 ,2005
flagicon|TaiwanFebruary 10 ,2006
Recorded = 2005
Genre =K-pop , dance,R&B , bubblegum,rap
Length = 39:54
Language = Korean
Label =SM Entertainment , Avex Asia
Producer =Lee Soo Man
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "SuperJunior05 (TWINS)"
(2005)
Next album = "Don't Don "
(2007)
Misc = Singles
Name = SuperJunior05 (TWINS)
Type = studio
Single 1 =TWINS (Knock Out)
Single 1 date =November 8 ,2005
Single 2 = Miracle
Single 2 date =February 12 ,2006 "SuperJunior05 (TWINS)" is the debut studio album by
Korean boy band Super Junior , released onDecember 5 ,2005 inSouth Korea . The album peaked at #3 on the MIAK K-pop albums chart, selling 28,536 copies in the first month of release. [ko icon [http://www.miak.or.kr/stat/kpop_200512.htm] Retrieved February 20, 2008.] It includes Super Junior's first #1 radio single, "Miracle" and the group's successful debut single, "TWINS (Knock Out) ". The album sold over 94,000 copies by 2008.All sales numbers taken from the Music Industry Association of Korea. Last known sales numbers [http://www.miak.or.kr/stat/kpop_2007_2.htm here.] ]History
After achieving critically-acclaimed success from their debut performance of the single "
TWINS (Knock Out) ," which was performed on SBS's "Popular Songs" onNovember 6 ,2005 for the first time, the group was scheduled to release an official single of the song. However, adigital single of "TWINS (Knock Out)" was released instead with three more brand new singles available for download onNovember 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 inSouth 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 a andded dance break and vocal bridge in the song. In contrast to the edgy, rock-influenced feel of "TWINS (Knock Out)", "Miracle" was a lightbubblegum 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.Overview
The album's first single, "TWINS (Knock Out)" is a
rap rock 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 alsoR&B -influenceddance tracks withrap and fast drum beats.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 arelationship breakup . "L.O.V.E" involves around a loss ofhope andconfidence 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.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
Yearly album sales (South Korea)
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