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Sweet (2023)

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

Sweet is partly built from songs the band had already released, yet it debuted at number one on Japan's Oricon Albums Chart.

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Sweet: second Japanese-language studio album and fourth studio album overall by South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together
Released 5 July 2023 by BigHit Entertainment and Universal Music Japan
Twelve tracks, including four new original songs
Partly a compilation of tracks from the 2021 EP Chaotic Wonderland and later standalone singles
Lead single "Sugar Rush Ride" (Japanese ver.), released 28 June 2023 with a music video
Second single "Hydrangea Love", released 30 June 2023
Bookended by the intro "Floating" and the outro "Falling"

Follows the band's first Japanese album, Still Dreaming (2021)
In between, the band released EPs and singles containing Japanese versions of earlier Korean songs
Chaotic Wonderland released late 2021, with Japanese versions of "0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You)" and "MOA Diary (Dubaddu Wari Wari)", plus the new song "Ito" and the English song "Magic"
Japanese version of "Good Boy Gone Bad" followed in 2022, with two original B-sides, "Ring" and "Hitori no Yoru"
Album announced by BigHit Music on 28 April 2023, with twelve tracks planned
In support of the album, the band held two concerts at Kyocera Dome Osaka on 1 and 2 July as part of their Act: Sweet Mirage tour

1	Intro : FLOATING	1:51
2	Hydrangea Love	3:52
3	Sugar Rush Ride (Japanese Version)	3:06
4	0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) [Japanese Version]	3:25
5	Ito	4:03
6	Ring	3:24
7	Magic	2:39
8	Good Boy Gone Bad (Japanese Version)	3:11
9	Hitori no Yoru	3:38
10	MOA Diary (Dubaddu Wari Wari) [Japanese Version]	3:08
11	Ring (Unplugged Version)	3:25
12	Outro : FALLING	2:09

Tomorrow X Together (TXT) is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment.
The group was officially revealed on January 10, 2019, and debuted on March 4, 2019 with the EP The Dream Chapter: Star.
The name refers to five individuals who come together under one dream to build a better tomorrow.

The debut EP topped the Gaon Album Chart and Billboard World Albums Chart and entered the US Billboard 200 at number 140, the highest-charting debut album by any male K-pop group at the time.
The band was the first Korean boy band to perform and headline at Lollapalooza, and the first K-pop act to perform there twice.
Early awards include Rookie of the Year at the 34th Golden Disc Awards and Best New Male Artist at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards.
In 2020 the group made its Japanese debut and topped the Oricon Albums Chart with The Dream Chapter: Eternity.
The Chaos Chapter: Freeze debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, the band's highest US chart placement.
The group announced in 2025 that all five members renewed their contracts with their agency.

Sold 216,257 copies in Japan in its first 24 hours, more than tripling the first-day sales of Still Dreaming
Debuted at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart with 303,000 copies in its first week
With Sweet, the band became the first foreign artist to have eight consecutive number-one albums on the Oricon chart
Billboard counted 388,677 copies and ranked the album number one on the Top Albums Sales chart dated 12 July

United States: debuted at number 54 on the Billboard 200 chart dated 19 August
At that time, one of only two Korean acts to chart on the Billboard 200 with a Japanese album, the other being BTS
Certified 2× Platinum by the RIAJ for sales exceeding 500,000

"Ito" was the opening theme of the TV Tokyo drama Rasen no Meikyu in 2021, the band's first appearance on a Japanese soundtrack
"Hydrangea Love" became the theme song of Nippon TV's drama Saiko no Seito, which began airing shortly after the album's release
"Sugar Rush Ride" was cowritten by American songwriter Salem Ilese
"0X1=Lovesong" is an emo rock influenced song co-written by BTS's RM
"Ring" is the band's first Japanese-language self-composed song, with Yeonjun, Taehyun and Hueningkai
The bridge of "Magic" was compared to S Club 7