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Love & Letter (2016)

Where the lyrics of Love & Letter take you, and where it was really made.

The title track 'Pretty U' earned the group's first Show Champion win only nine days after this debut album came out.

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Love & Letter, also known as First 'Love & Letter', is the debut studio album by South Korean boy group Seventeen.
Released on April 25, 2016 through Pledis Entertainment.
The album contains 10 tracks.
It focuses on themes such as the experience of a first love.
It is a follow-up to the group's first two EPs, 17 Carat and Boys Be (2015).

The group's members largely created the album, writing or co-writing every track.
Members also composed or co-composed almost every track on the album.
'Pretty U' was chosen to be the title track.
The group performed the title track on multiple music shows over the following two and a half months.
In that period the group earned their first two consecutive wins on Show Champion.
The first Show Champion win came on May 4, 2016, and the second on May 11, 2016.

1	엄지척	2:58
2	예쁘다	3:27
3	이놈의 인기	3:26
4	유행가	3:43
5	Say Yes	3:50
6	떠내려가	3:09
7	아낀다 (Vocal Team ver.)	3:44
8	만.세 (Hiphop Team ver.)	3:23
9	Shining Diamond (Performance Team ver.)	2:30
10	사랑쪽지 (Love Letter)	2:58

Seventeen is a South Korean boy band formed by Pledis Entertainment.
The name comes from the formula "13 members + 3 teams + 1 group = 17", reflecting its three units.
The group was initially planned in April 2012 with 17 members averaging age 17, later reduced to 13 members.
Debut was delayed multiple times; the 13-member lineup was confirmed in April 2015.
Members trained together for about four years before debut.

The group has thirteen members: S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon, and Dino.
Members are divided into hip-hop, vocal, and performance teams.

Debuted on May 26, 2015 with the EP 17 Carat; it was the longest-charting K-pop album of the year in the US.
Known as a self-producing idol group, with members involved in songwriting, production, and choreography.
Five studio albums have all peaked atop South Korea's Circle Album Chart.
The 2023 EPs FML and Seventeenth Heaven set sales records; FML was the best-selling album of 2023 per IFPI.
Both earned MAMA Album of the Year awards in 2023 and 2024.
Signature songs include "Very Nice", "Super", and "Fallin' Flower".
Performed on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2024, the first K-pop act to do so.
Named UNESCO's first Goodwill Ambassador for Youth in June 2024.

Billboard K-Town writer Monique Menendez described the single 'Pretty U' as a bright love song with choreography reminiscent of West Side Story.
Her review also noted that the group brought a sugary sound with this latest single.
The group performed at KCON in New York on June 24, 2016, their first American appearance.

The album charted at number three on Billboard's World Albums chart.
The album reached number five on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
The promotional single 'Pretty U' charted at number three on the World Digital Songs chart.
That World Digital Songs ranking was the group's highest on that chart to date.
The group earned their first two consecutive wins on Show Champion, on May 4 and May 11, 2016.

Pretty U was chosen as the title track and performed on multiple music shows for two and a half months.
On June 24, 2016, Seventeen performed at KCON in New York, their first American appearance.
The track listing credits were adapted from KOMCA, and the personnel credits were adapted from Dork.
Track numbers 1 to 10 refer to Love & Letter itself.