''SKZ-Replay'' is the third compilation album by South Korean boy band
Stray Kids
Stray Kids (; often abbreviated as SKZ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment through the 2017 Stray Kids (TV series), reality show of the same name. The group is composed of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunji ...
. It was released digitally on December 21, 2022, through
JYP Entertainment
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and
Republic Records
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. Consisting of 25 tracks, the album split into two sides: the A-side contains ten songs, eight performed solo and two performed by the group as a whole, and the B-side includes fifteen original songs from their video series ''SKZ-Player'' and ''SKZ-Record''.
Background
Stray Kids released the video series ''SKZ-Player'' and ''SKZ-Record'' to showcase their self-written songs and
covers, as well as other non-promotional projects published unofficially on various
online video platform
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s. ''SKZ-Player'' was released as music videos, while ''SKZ-Record'' was released as audio-only videos. The first video from the ''SKZ-Player'' series was Lee Know, Hyunjin, and Felix's choreography video, uploaded on August 26, 2018. The first video of ''SKZ-Record'' was Seungmin's cover of "Start Over", originally performed by
Gaho for the television series ''
Itaewon Class
''Itaewon Class'' () is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Park Seo-joon, Kim Da-mi, Yoo Jae-myung, and Kwon Nara. Based on the webtoon of the same name, it is the first series to be produced by the film distribution company Showbox ...
'', published on May 4, 2020. "Fam" was originally recorded in Japanese and included on Stray Kids' debut Japanese-language EP ''
All In'', released on November 4, 2020. The music video for the unreleased track "#LoveStay" was uploaded on December 31, 2021, as a tribute to the group's fans, collectively called "Stay".
Release and promotion
On January 1, 2022,