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Don't Mess Up My Tempo (2018)

Where the lyrics of Don't Mess Up My Tempo take you, and where it was really made.

Lay appears on the Chinese version of the lead track, his first appearance with EXO since 2016, yet the repackaged album Love Shot was released without him.

Key places

Recording place in Seoul (2018)

Recording site doobdoob Studio — Doobdoob in Seoul is listed as a recording place for this album. The point uses the coordinates of the listed venue. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Don't Mess Up My Tempo: fifth studio album by South Korean boy band EXO
• Released 2 November 2018 by SM Entertainment
• Available in four versions named after tempo types: Allegro, Moderato, Andante, Vivace
• Eleven songs across different genres
• Lead track 'Tempo'; Lay featured on its Chinese version
• Debuted at number one on the Gaon Album Chart
• Repackaged as Love Shot on 13 December 2018

Background

• Fifth Korean studio album and sixth overall
• Follows the Japanese album Countdown (January 2018); previous Korean release was the EP Universe (December 2017)
• First album since Ex'Act (2016) and its repackage Lotto to feature Lay
• Lay has focused on his own singing and acting career in China
• Lay's first appearance with the group since the Winter EP For Life (2016)

Recording

• Lay participated in recording the Mandarin version of 'Tempo' and appears in its music video
• Repackaged album Love Shot was announced without Lay by Kai and Suho on 11 November 2018

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed by SM Entertainment in 2011, debuted in 2012 as a South Korean-Chinese boy band based in Seoul.
• Debuted with twelve members split into Exo-K and Exo-M, performing in Korean and Mandarin respectively.
• Kris, Luhan, and Tao left the group individually amid legal disputes with SM Entertainment in 2014 and 2015.
• Exo has performed exclusively as one group since the 2014 EP Overdose, though its music continues to use multiple languages.

Members

• The group currently consists of nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai, and Sehun.
• Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin formed the sub-unit Exo-CBX in 2016; Sehun and Chanyeol formed Exo-SC in 2019.

Career

• The first studio album XOXO (2013) sold over one million copies, making Exo the first Korean act to do so in twelve years.
• Exist (2023) is their best selling album in South Korea, with over 2 million copies sold.
• Exo won five consecutive Album of the Year awards at the MAMA Awards and two consecutive Artist of the Year awards at the Melon Music Awards.
• Don't Mess Up My Tempo (2018) became their highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at number 23.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• Debuted at number one on the Gaon Album Chart for the week of 3 November 2018
• Pre-orders exceeded 1.1 million, announced 31 October 2018, 28 days after pre-orders opened
• Sold 1,179,997 copies as of 11 November 2018, officially making EXO a quintuple million-selling group
• First act in South Korea to sell over 10 million copies cumulatively across all albums
• Top-selling album of November 2018 on the Gaon Album Chart with 1,195,334 sales
• Certified 'Million' by Gaon on 10 January 2019
• US Billboard 200 debut at number 23, EXO's highest-charting album in the United States
• US Billboard 200 total of 23,000 album-equivalent units, including 19,000 pure album sales
• EXO became the third K-pop group with an album in the top 40 of the US Billboard 200
• Repackaged Love Shot debuted at number one on the Gaon Album Chart for the week of 15 December 2018
• Love Shot peaked at number 8 on the Billboard World Albums Chart and number 3 on the Oricon Chart in Japan
• Love Shot received a Double Platinum KMCA certification in February

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Lay featured on the Chinese version of the lead track, his first appearance with the group since For Life (2016).
• The teaser for the 'Tempo Concept' short film showed the members as a biker gang, and the promotion used red cube icons.
• In the 'Circuit Exo' puzzle game, fans entered the jersey number of the member whose teaser was released that day to stop the motorcycle.
• The first-week pre-orders passed 1.1 million before the album was released.
• Kai and Suho announced on 11 November 2018 that the repackage would be made without Lay.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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