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Made in Twenty (20) (2007)

Where the lyrics of Made in Twenty (20) take you, and where it was really made.

BoA's Japanese album made in her twenties reached number one, yet its first-week sales were the lowest of her career in Japan.

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Made in Twenty (20): fifth Japanese studio album and tenth overall by South Korean singer BoA
Released January 17, 2007 by Avex Trax
Title refers to her first album since leaving her teenage years, made when she was twenty
Debuted at number one on the Oricon weekly album chart
Three singles: 'Nanairo no Ashita (Brand New Beat) / Your Color', 'Key of Heart / Dotch', 'Winter Love'

Came 11 months after the previous album OUTGROW
Released in CD and CD+DVD editions with different jacket photos
DVD includes music videos for the title tracks and eight songs from the 2006 concert tour BoA THE LIVE 2006
'Winter Love' peaked at number two on Oricon and sold 100,000 copies

Discogs credits list Yuka Koizumi as mastering engineer
Recording engineers: Gonta Kawamoto, Kiyoharu Motoyama, Noriyasu Murase, Satoshi Sasamoto; assistant Yuta Yoneyama
BoA contributed to writing three tracks, including lyrics for the 'Nanairo no Ashita' title track and 'OUR LOVE ~to my parents~'
BoA also took on composition for 'no more make me sick'
'Lady Galaxy', the opening track, was composed by Tanaka Nao, who also wrote songs for OUTGROW

1	七色の明日～brand new beat～ (Video clip)
2	KEY OF HEART (Video clip)
3	Winter Love (Video clip)
4	LISTEN TO MY HEART (BoA THE LIVE)
5	VALENTI (BoA THE LIVE)
6	soundscape (BoA THE LIVE)
7	Ain't no sunshine (BoA THE LIVE)
8	make a secret (BoA THE LIVE)
9	Moon & Sunrise (BoA THE LIVE)
10	Winter Love (BoA THE LIVE)
11	メリクリ (BoA THE LIVE)

Kwon Bo-ah, born November 5, 1986 in Gyeonggi Province, was discovered by SM Entertainment talent scouts at a 1998 talent search while accompanying her older brother.
After two years of training in vocals, dance, English, and Japanese, she debuted in South Korea in 2000 with the album ID; Peace B.
Her Korean label arranged with Avex Trax to launch her career in Japan, and she quit school to prepare.

Her debut Japanese album Listen to My Heart (2002) became the first album by a Korean artist to debut at number one on the Oricon chart.
Valenti (2003) sold over 1,249,000 copies, and Best of Soul (2005) sold over a million copies in Japan.
Her self-titled English album (2009) was the first record by a K-pop artist to appear on the Billboard 200.
She has sold over ten million albums and has been called the "Queen of K-pop" for helping open the Japanese market to Korean pop.

Debuted at number one on the Oricon Daily Album Charts and held the top spot all seven days of the week
Then debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Album Charts
First-week sales were the lowest of BoA's career in Japan
Outsold the number two spot by 138,034 copies, which was also a new entry that week
Ranked number one on the United World Chart in its release week

First-week sales: 182,009 copies
Stayed 24 weeks on the Oricon chart, with total sales of 348,093 copies
'Nanairo no Ashita (Brand New Beat) / Your Color': peaked at number three on Oricon, sold over 90,000 copies
'Key of Heart / Dotch': peaked at number seven on Oricon, sold 41,000 copies
'Winter Love': peaked at number two on Oricon, sold 100,000 copies
All three singles certified gold by RIAJ for shipping over 100,000 physical copies
'Nanairo no Ashita (Brand New Beat)' certified double platinum for ringtone downloads
'Winter Love' certified triple platinum for ringtone downloads
With five studio albums all at number one, BoA ranked second among female artists, behind Ayumi Hamasaki's eight consecutive number-one albums
Also ranked joint second with Kinki Kids, Checkers and Hikaru Genji among all artists, including male acts

The first track 'Lady Galaxy' drew plagiarism claims before release over a melody matching Black Eyed Peas' 'My Humps', but both songs sample Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony
'Key of Heart / Dotch' was a double A-side single, yet 'Dotch' did not appear on the album
'SO REAL' was used as a Japanese mobile phone CM song after the album's release
BoA said she sang with the most powerful voice she could on 'Revolution-CODE:1986-1105 Feat.RAH-D' so she would not be outdone by featured rapper RAH-D
The Japanese DVD adds music videos for the title tracks and eight songs from the 2006 tour, with an extra two tracks on the first-press CD+DVD