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With (2014)

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

An album titled after a wish to stay together became the first foreign act in Japan to top the weekly Oricon Albums Chart four times in a row.

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With: eighth Japanese studio album (fifteenth overall) by South Korean pop duo Tohoshinki
Released by Avex Trax on 17 December 2014
Four physical versions: Version A and Version B (CD+DVD), Version C (CD only with two bonus tracks), Version D (fan club limited edition with a CD-Extra)
Mostly dance-pop songs and ballads with a nostalgic feel, influenced by disco and jazz, with marching drumbeats
Lyrics explore the general concept of love and friendship
Title expresses the wish to stay together and form a closer connection with fans

Recording and writing roughly began in summer 2013
Released about nine months after the previous album Tree, the shortest interval between the duo's album releases
Released as the last album before the members' military enlistment and the activity pause that followed
Unlike the electropop of recent records, adopted retro sounds from disco, jazz, and soul
Earlier works were described by the duo as intense and aggressive dance music
Second nationwide five-Dome tour announced at the a-nation festival on 30 August 2014
Official announcement made on 23 October 2014

Version A: duo posing with two taxidermied wolves inside an abandoned house overgrown with plants
Version B: duo in green suits surrounded by disco balls against a neon background
Version C: duo sitting on a bench
Version D: duo in wool sweaters, Yunho with his right arm raised and Changmin with arms crossed

1	Sweat Music Video
2	Time Works Wonders Music Video
3	Spinning Music Video
4	Chandelier Music Video
5	Sweat (Dance Version) Music Video
6	Time Works Wonders (Sand Art Version) Music Video
7	SURISURI [Spellbound] (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)
8	SCREAM (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)
9	I Love You (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)
10	Something (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)
11	Sweat (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)
12	Summer Dream (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)
13	OCEAN (A-nation 2014 Stadium Fes. Live Clip)

Formed in 2003 by SM Entertainment as a five-member boy band; debuted December 26, 2003 with the single "Hug" (2004).
Yunho was appointed the band's leader; the name Dong Bang Shin Ki was finalized after several alternatives.
Tohoshinki (東方神起) was the Japanese-market name adopted after signing with Avex Group in late 2004.

Current members: U-Know Yunho (leader) and Max Changmin.
Former members Hero Jaejoong, Micky Yoochun and Xiah Junsu left in 2010 and formed JYJ.

Early Korean albums Tri-Angle (2004), Rising Sun (2005), "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. (2006) and Mirotic (2008) topped domestic charts; "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. won Album of the Year at the 21st Golden Disk Awards.
In Japan, the band became mainstream stars after The Secret Code (2009); their Best Selection 2010 was the first album to top the Oricon Albums Chart.
After a 2010 split, Yunho and Changmin returned as a duo with Keep Your Head Down (2011); later albums include Tone (2011), Time (2013), Tense (2014), Tree (2014), New Chapter #1 (2018) and XV (2019).
The duo held a three-day performance at Tokyo Dome on April 27, 2025 for their 20th anniversary.

Topped the daily Oricon Albums Chart on its first day with 162,790 copies
Debuted at number one on the Billboard Japan Top Albums Chart and the weekly Oricon Albums Chart
Sold 233,000 copies in its opening week
Fourth consecutive studio album and fifth overall record to sell over 200,000 copies in its first week, breaking the duo's own sales record
Fourth consecutive album by the duo to debut at number one on Oricon
Made Tohoshinki the first foreign music act in Japan to top the weekly Oricon Albums Chart four times in a row

Third international music act after Simon & Garfunkel and Bon Jovi to release five number one albums in Japan
Earned a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) by the end of 2014 for shipments of over 250,000 copies
Sweat / Answer and Time Works Wonders each debuted at number two on the Oricon Singles Chart
Both singles earned Gold certifications from the RIAJ
Sweat sold over 140,000 copies, and Time Works Wonders sold 107,000 copies in its first week

The title carries the meaning of always being together with Tohoshinki
The album was promoted extensively at the DiverCity Tokyo Plaza shopping center in Odaiba
To mark the release, the duo worked with the cruise ship Hotaluna on an exclusive Tohoshinki-themed cruise, with a one-day trip around Tokyo Bay on 16 December
Believe in U and Chandelier were announced as ending songs for two Japanese variety programs
Version D was sold only on the Bigeast Official Shop, which requires Bigeast membership