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Face Yourself (2018)

Where the lyrics of Face Yourself take you, and where it was really made.

Its Oricon first-week sales broke a record of six years and five months that Kara had held for the highest first-week sales by a Korean artist on the chart.

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Album story

Overview

• Third Japanese studio album and fifth overall by South Korean boy band BTS
• Released April 4, 2018 through Big Hit, Virgin, Universal Music Japan and Def Jam Recordings
• Contains Japanese versions of songs from the Korean album Wings (2016) and the Love Yourself: Her (2017) EP
• Three new original Japanese-language tracks: "Don't Leave Me", "Let Go", "Crystal Snow"
• Debut at number 43 on the Billboard 200, the third-highest-charting Japanese album in the chart's history

Background

• Announced February 1, 2018, with an April 4 release date and details for three limited editions
• Tentative tracklist included new Japanese recordings of "Go Go" and "Best of Me" from Love Yourself: Her
• "Crystal Snow" was originally released in December 2017 as part of a triple A-side single album with the Japanese versions of "Mic Drop" and "DNA"
• Completed tracklist released March 8, 2018
• Japanese translations for six songs were done by Japanese rapper and arranger KM-Markit
• Four versions: three Limited editions and a CD-only Regular edition
• Type A and B each had a 32-page booklet; Type C had a 68-page booklet; Regular had a 24-page booklet

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• BTS is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010
• Big Hit Entertainment CEO Bang Si-hyuk wanted to form a hip hop group around the underground rapper RM
• Name is the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan, literally Bulletproof Boy Scouts
• Debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment with single album 2 Cool 4 Skool

Members

• Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook
• Members co-write or co-produce much of their material

Career

• Started out as a hip hop act and expanded into a wide range of genres
• Lyrics cover mental health, troubles of school-age youth, coming of age, loss and the journey toward self-love
• Wings (2016) was their first album to sell one million copies in South Korea
• 2018: first South Korean act to top Billboard 200 with Love Yourself: Tear
• 2020: first all-South Korean act to reach number one on Billboard Hot 100 with Dynamite
• Best-selling musical act in South Korean history
• First Asian act to sell out Wembley Stadium

Around this album

• Crossed into the global market by 2017
• February 2017: repackaged Wings as You Never Walk Alone and began the Wings Tour
• May 2017: won Top Social Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, the first K-pop group to win a Billboard award
• September 2017: released Love Yourself: Her, opening the Love Yourself series

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Debuted at number one on Oricon's Daily CD Album chart
• Stayed at number one for seven consecutive days
• Ranked number one on the Weekly Album chart with over 282,000 accumulated units sold
• Broke the six-year-five-month record held by Kara for the highest first-week sales by a Korean artist on the Oricon chart
• Reached as high as number two after surging back over the following weeks
• Spent thirteen successive weeks on the Oricon chart
• Tower Records Japan reported it as the second best-selling album by a Korean artist in Japan for 2018

Records

• Billboard 200 debut at number 43
• Became BTS' first Japanese album to receive Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) on May 10
• Double Platinum from RIAJ in January 2019 for over 500,000 copies sold
• First album by a Korean act to reach Double Platinum since Kara's Super Girl in December 2011

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• "Don't Leave Me" was the opening theme song for the Japanese drama Signal, a remake of the 2016 South Korean series of the same name
• A preview of "Don't Leave Me" aired on March 15 and charted on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 at number 25 before its official release
• "Don't Leave Me" debuted atop the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart with 9,000 sales, earning the band its record seventh number-one
• "Let Go" debuted at number 40 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100
• Four of the album's singles ranked on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart in the US

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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