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Youth (2016)

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

Youth sold 44,547 copies on its release day alone, enough to top Oricon's daily album chart for September 6, 2016.

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Album story

Overview

• Youth: second Japanese-language and third overall studio album by BTS, a South Korean boy band
• Released September 7, 2016 through Pony Canyon
• Contains 13 tracks
• Two editions: Album + DVD (PCCA-4434) and regular (PCCA-4435)
• Album + DVD edition includes music videos for For You, I Need U (Japanese version), and Run (Japanese version)
• Both editions carry the complete track listing; first edition albums came with a photocard
• Includes the original Japanese singles For You and Good Day, Japanese versions of Run, I Need U and Fire, and the new song Wishing On A Star (per Discogs notes)

Background

• Some tracks are Japanese versions of songs from the trilogy The Most Beautiful Moment in Life
• Other tracks are unreleased songs sung in Japanese, including the single For You
• Youth follows the group's earlier Japanese-language studio album in the count of studio releases

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• BTS is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010
• Big Hit Entertainment CEO Bang Si-hyuk wanted to form a hip hop group around the underground rapper RM
• Name is the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan, literally Bulletproof Boy Scouts
• Debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment with single album 2 Cool 4 Skool

Members

• Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook
• Members co-write or co-produce much of their material

Career

• Started out as a hip hop act and expanded into a wide range of genres
• Lyrics cover mental health, troubles of school-age youth, coming of age, loss and the journey toward self-love
• Wings (2016) was their first album to sell one million copies in South Korea
• 2018: first South Korean act to top Billboard 200 with Love Yourself: Tear
• 2020: first all-South Korean act to reach number one on Billboard Hot 100 with Dynamite
• Best-selling musical act in South Korean history
• First Asian act to sell out Wembley Stadium

Around this album

• Crossed into the global market by 2017
• February 2017: repackaged Wings as You Never Walk Alone and began the Wings Tour
• May 2017: won Top Social Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, the first K-pop group to win a Billboard award
• September 2017: released Love Yourself: Her, opening the Love Yourself series

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Youth sold 44,547 copies on its release day
• Topped the daily issue of the Oricon Albums Chart for September 6, 2016
• Sold 76,483 copies in the tracking period September 5–11
• Debuted atop the weekly Oricon Albums Chart issue dated September 19
• Entered the September monthly chart at number four, with 81,763 cumulative sales

Records

• Certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) shortly after release, denoting 100,000 physical copies sold
• Ranked 48th best-selling album of 2016 in Japan on Oricon's annual album chart
• Sales were driven by physical copies, which the RIAJ gold certification counts directly

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Both editions carry the complete track listing, and a photocard came with all first edition albums.
• The Album + DVD edition came with a DVD of music videos for For You, I Need U (Japanese version), and Run (Japanese version).
• The I Need U (Japanese Ver.) video lists Lumpens and Yoojung Ko as directors.
• The Run (Japanese Ver.) video lists Yong Seok Choi as director.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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