''Rain's World'' is the fourth Korean-language studio album by South Korean recording artist

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. It was released on October 14, 2006, through

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. Building on the success of its predecessor, the album further established him as one of the top musical acts in Southeast Asia. A repackaged edition of the album was released on December 22, 2006. Commercially, the album peaked at number one on the Korean monthly album chart issue for October 2006, becoming Rain's first monthly number-one album. It was the ninth best-selling album of the year in South Korea, selling over 106,000 copies. In 2007, it was named one of the Best Japanese & Korean Releases at the IFPI Hong Kong Sales Awards.

Background and release

''Rain's World'' was released through

and Warner Music Asia on October 14, 2006. Three singles were promoted for the album: "I'm Coming" (featuring

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), "In My Bed", and "With U". Media outlets noted that the single "I'm Coming" "was created after hundreds of revisions over two years". A repackage of the album was released in two versions: A type (CD+DVD Set) and B Type (CD+DVD+Diary Set). CD contains remixed 'Bad Guy', 'I'm Coming', 'I' And 'With U' added to films of 4th album recording, jacket picture shooting session, a music video taping. B Type re-pack, which was limited to 5,000 copies, was a seasonal item for the Fall of the year with a high quality diary that has Rain's pictures undisclosed to the public.

Reception

Commercially, the album debuted at number one on the MIAK monthly album chart in October 2006, his first number-one album on the chart. It sold 108,179 copies in South Korea by January 2007. In Taiwan, the album peaked at number seven on the

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Combo Albums chart and number one on the East Asian Albums chart. Although Rain did not win any music program awards in South Korea while promoting the album, he won Best Male Artist at the

2006 Mnet KM Music Festival The 2006 Mnet KM Music Festival (MKMF) was the eighth of the annual music awards in Seoul, South Korea that took place on November 25, 2006, at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena. Leading the nominees were boy bands TVXQ and SG Wannabe, and solo artis ...

for "I'm Coming" and Best Japanese & Korean Release at the IFPI Hong Kong Sales Awards in 2007.

Accolades

Promotion and live performances

To promote the release, Rain embarked on the Rain's Coming World Tour. The tour started in

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and included stops in the US,

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, and more. The opening show of the tour was a free concert held the day prior to the release of ''Rain's World'' at the

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, which attracting 40,000 people. His concert at the

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on May 25, 2007, attracted nearly 40,000 people and marked the first time a Korean artist performed at the Tokyo Dome. The tour attracted over 280,000 people in total.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Year-end charts

Sales

References

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