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Enemy (2025)
Where the lyrics of Enemy take you, and where it was really made.
Jihyo narrated the trailer for this sixth Japanese album and also served as its visual director.
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Overview
- Enemy: sixth Japanese studio album (tenth overall) by South Korean girl group Twice
- Released 27 August 2025 by Warner Music Japan
- Nine tracks, including the lead single of the same name
- Includes 'The Wish', released as a digital single on 16 December 2024 and featured in a FamilyMart TV commercial
- Track listing includes 'Up to You', 'Fine', 'One Day', 'Blind in Love', 'Love Is More', 'Glow' and 'Like 1'
- Described as the successor to Dive (2024), with a musical style influenced by Japanese rock
Background
- 11 June 2025: Twice announced the album for 27 August
- 22 July 2025: cinematic album trailer released, narrated by member Jihyo
- Jihyo also served as visual director for the album
- 26–27 July 2025: 'Enemy' and 'Like 1' performed during the This Is For World Tour in Osaka
- 30 July 2025: lead single 'Enemy' released as a digital single with its music video
- 20 August 2025: 'Like 1' released as a digital single with an animated music video
- 'Like 1' lyrics credited to Jihyo, Sofia Vivere and Yu-ki Kokubo; music credited to Taka and Toru
- The album followed Twice's This Is For Korean album and the This Is For World Tour in the same year
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org
Tracklist
| 1 | Up to you | |
| 2 | ENEMY | 2:41 |
| 3 | FINE | |
| 4 | One day | |
| 5 | Blind in Love | |
| 6 | Love is more | |
| 7 | The wish | |
| 8 | Glow | |
| 9 | Like 1 |
Sources: musicbrainz.org
Artist
Formation
- Formed under the Mnet survival show Sixteen (2015) by JYP Entertainment
- Nine members: Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, Tzuyu
- Debuted October 20, 2015 with the EP The Story Begins
- Fans are called Once
Members
- Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, Tzuyu
- Jihyo serves as leader
Career
- 2016 single Cheer Up topped the Gaon Digital Chart and was the best-performing single in South Korea that year
- 2016 single TT topped the Gaon chart for four consecutive weeks
- Debuted in Japan in June 2017 with the compilation #Twice; first Korean girl group to earn RIAJ platinum certification for an album and CD single in the same year
- 2017 Twicetagram became the first female K-pop act to top Billboard World Albums and World Digital Song Sales simultaneously
- 2021 The Feels became the group's first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100
- 2024 With You-th topped the US Billboard 200
- Headlined Lollapalooza Chicago in 2025; the This Is For World Tour concluded in July 2026 with 81 shows in 44 cities
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Reception
At release
- Enemy topped the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart, with 836 downloads and 118,853 copies sold for the week of 25–31 August 2025
- Debuted at number 2 on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart with 114,206 copies sold
- Billboard Japan reported a total of 163,745 copies sold on 22 September 2025
Records
- Certified Platinum by the RIAJ in October 2025
- Platinum certification was Twice's first since &Twice in 2020
- Released in the United States in December 2025
- Debuted at number 23 on the Billboard World Albums chart, the first Japanese album by Twice to do so
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Trivia
- Jihyo narrated the album trailer released on 22 July 2025 and also served as visual director.
- The music video for the title track 'Enemy' premiered only on the first day of the Osaka concerts, 26 July 2025.
- 'Like 1' lyrics are credited to Jihyo, Sofia Vivere and Yu-ki Kokubo, with music by Taka and Toru.
- The nine-track listing includes 'Up to You', 'Enemy', 'Fine', 'One Day', 'Blind in Love', 'Love Is More', 'The Wish', 'Glow' and 'Like 1'.
- 'Glow' lyrics are credited to Dahyun, Hiyori Nara and Val Del Prete.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org