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Love & Peace (2013)

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

Girls' Generation's third Japanese album came out in December 2013 and was the last full studio album featuring Jessica before she left the group in September 2014.

Key places

Love & Peace live show at Yokohama Arena (2013)

Live show Yokohama Arena — A live show titled Love & Peace was held at the Yokohama Arena on December 14, 2013. Tickets were distributed by lottery to buyers of the third album, and the event named the album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Third Japanese studio album and seventh studio album overall by Girls' Generation
• Digital download released on December 10, 2013 in selected Asian countries by Nayutawave Records (Universal Music Group)
• Physical release in Japan the next day, December 11, 2013
• Last overall studio album featuring member Jessica before her departure in September 2014
• Released in four physical editions, each containing the same twelve songs
• Four editions use three different album covers; the Blu-ray limited edition and DVD limited edition share one cover

Background

• Three singles released before the album: Love & Girls, Galaxy Supernova, and My Oh My
• Third Japanese album release was revealed on October 25, 2013, with a December 11 date
• Several songs were released before the album, including Do The Catwalk, Lingua Franca, and Beep Beep (B-side of Flower Power)
• A live show titled Love & Peace was held on December 14, 2013 at the Yokohama Arena
• Tickets for that show were distributed by lottery to people who had bought the third album
• The album was promoted with the Girls' Generation Japan 3rd Tour 2014, which started on April 26, 2014 at Marine Messe Fukuoka and ended on July 13, 2014 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo

Cover

• Four editions carry three different covers, so the artwork differs depending on the edition bought

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed by SM Entertainment; known as SNSD and SoShi
• Originally a nine-member group; Jessica departed in September 2014, leaving eight members
• Members: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, Seohyun
• Debuted August 5, 2007 with "Into the New World"

Career

• 2009 breakthrough with "Gee", a record nine consecutive weeks at No. 1 on KBS Music Bank
• Oh! (2010) won the Disk Daesang at the Golden Disc Awards, the first and only female act to win the Album Daesang
• Japanese debut in 2011; first non-Japanese girl group to have three number-one albums on the Oricon Albums Chart
• Called "The Nation's Girl Group" in South Korea
• First Asian girl group to reach five YouTube music videos with over 100 million views
• Subgroups TTS, Girls' Generation-Oh!GG, and Girls' Generation-HRS; members have pursued solo careers since 2017
• Reunited for the 15th anniversary in 2022 with Forever 1

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Love & Peace garnered generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics.
• Patrick St. Michel of The Japan Times praised the record's composition and wrote that its production quality is still top notch.
• Kazuma Namba of Rolling Stone Japan complimented the production quality and wrote that even listeners who find Japanese albums a bit unsatisfactory will be satisfied with the result.

Records

• On the day of its physical release, the album debuted at number one on the daily Oricon Albums Chart.
• After its first week, with sales of about 129,000, it debuted at number one on the weekly Oricon chart and number two on Billboard Japan.
• Certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) less than a month after release, for sales of 100,000.
• Debuted at number two on the monthly Oricon albums chart.
• Motorcycle charted at number 54 on the Adult Contemporary Airplay chart of Billboard Japan.
• All tracks charted on the South Korean Gaon international Digital Chart at positions from number 10 to 126.
• Debuted at number ten and peaked at number nine on the Taiwanese albums chart.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The music video for My Oh My shows the girls in brightly colored outfits taking revenge on a cheating boyfriend by using magic to teach him a lesson.
• Motorcycle was released as the second promotional single on December 5, 2013.
• Galaxy Supernova debuted at number four on the Oricon Daily Singles Chart and reached first place on its second day.
• Beep Beep was released as the B-side of Flower Power and was made available before this album came out.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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