"Rain" is a song by South Korean singer
Kim Tae-yeon
Kim Tae-yeon (; born March 9, 1989), known mononymously as Taeyeon, is a South Korean singer. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one ...
, a member of the South Korean girl group
Girls' Generation
Girls' Generation (), also known as SNSD, is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment. The group is composed of eight members: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun. Originally a nine-piec ...
. It was released
digitally by
SM Entertainment
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on February 3, 2016.
Background and composition
In January 2016,
S.M. Entertainment
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announced that they were to launch a digital music platform called
SM Station
SM Station is a digital music project by South Korean record label SM Entertainment. It undertook to release one digital single every Friday starting from February 3, 2016. The project's first season ended on February 3, 2017, with 52 songs. It ...
, in which SM artists would release a new song every week. "Rain" and its
B-side
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track "Secret" served as the opening single of the project and were released on February 3, 2016. "Rain" is described as a
midtempo
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song with
jazz
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and
R&B sounds. Lyrically, it uses rain as a metaphor to describe memories of past love.
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Music video
The music video
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for "Rain" was filmed indoors, having the concept of Taeyeon in a "room of memories", missing a past lover. It alternate between black and white scenes of Taeyeon singing alone in front of a microphone, and colored scenes of her in a flooding room.YouTube
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in February 2016.
Reception
"Rain" debuted atop South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart
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. It won the first place on SBS's music program ''Inkigayo
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'' on February 14, 2016. The song received a Digital Bonsang at the 31st Golden Disk Awards.
Track listing
Credits are adapted from Naver
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History
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.
Charts
Weekly charts
Monthly chart
Year-end chart
Sales
Awards and nominations
Release history
References
External links
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2016 singles
SM Entertainment singles
Songs in Korean
2016 songs
Gaon Digital Chart number-one singles
Taeyeon songs
Songs written by Aaron Benward
Songs written by Matthew Tishler
Songs written by Felicia Barton