''Twins'' (also known as ''Super Junior 05'') is the debut studio album by South Korean
boy band
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Super Junior 05, now known as just
Super Junior. It was released through
SM Entertainment
SM Entertainment Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean multinational entertainment agency established in 1995 by Lee Soo-man. It is one of South Korea's largest entertainment companies and has been responsible for fostering and popularizing the car ...
on December 5, 2005. The album spawned two singles: the group's debut single "
Twins (Knock Out)
"Knockout" is the debut single recorded by the United Kingdom, British pop music, pop/rock music, rock group Triple 8, released on 21 April 2003 in the United Kingdom. The single reached a peak position of number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
Track ...
" and "
Miracle
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary define"Miracle"as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divi ...
". Commercially, ''Twins'' peaked at number three on the South Korean monthly MIAK album chart in December 2005, selling 28,536 copies within its first month of release. Since then, the album has sold over 100,000 copies.
History
After achieving critically acclaimed success for their debut performance of the single "
Twins (Knock Out)
"Knockout" is the debut single recorded by the United Kingdom, British pop music, pop/rock music, rock group Triple 8, released on 21 April 2003 in the United Kingdom. The single reached a peak position of number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
Track ...
", which was performed on
SBS's ''Popular Songs'' on November 6, 2005, for the first time, the group was scheduled to release an official single of the song. However, a
digital single of "Twins (Knock Out)" was released instead with three more brand new singles available for download on November 8, 2005.
The full album, which included all of the singles in the "Twins (Knock Out)" digital release and several other new tracks, was released on December 5, 2005, in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
.
On February 12, 2006, Super Junior started to promote their second promotional single for the album "
Miracle
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary define"Miracle"as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divi ...
". The performance version of the single differs from the one released in the album as the performance single has an added dance break and vocal bridge in the song. In contrast to the edgy, rock-influenced feel of "Twins (Knock Out)", "Miracle" is a light
bubblegum pop
Bubblegum (also called bubblegum pop) is pop music in a catchy and upbeat style that is marketed for children and adolescents. The term also refers to a more specific rock and pop subgenre, originating in the United States in the late 1960s, th ...
love song with light-hearted
dance choreography. It was the second and last song to be promoted from the album.
Only twelve of the thirteen members of Super Junior are featured in this album as
Kyuhyun was not added to the group until six months after this album's release.
Overview
The album's first single, "Twins (Knock Out)" is a
rap rock release. Featuring eagle-like dancing, the
dance choreography arranged for the song became warmly welcomed and extremely popular. The follow-up single, "Miracle", is a typical K-pop bubblegum pop song, a genre still very welcomed by children and young adults. Like the song itself, the dance choreography for the single is also simpler and softer. The rest of the tracks in their first studio album mainly consist of
pop love ballads and also
R&B-influenced
dance
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tracks with
rap and fast
drum beats.
The main themes involved in the album are about situations that are related to love or trust. Soothing ballads like "You are the one" and "So I" intend to create a positive environment in one's love relationship. Fast tracks with light-hearted melodies like "Miracle" and "Way for love" contain bubblegum pop lyrics with positive views of love and trust. However, fast,
rap-influenced dance tracks like "Twins (Knock Out)", "Over", "L.O.V.E", and "Keep in Touch" have negative connotations about love and relationships. For example, in "Over", the lyrics hovers around a confident persistence after a relationship breakup. "L.O.V.E" involves a loss of hope and confidence after love is shattered. Likewise, Super Junior's debut track "Twins (Knock Out)" speaks of self-deception and the indecisive aspects of a man's mind, contrasting the feelings between a man towards love and how he has to decide whether or not he should continue to love or fight with sticking to his own destiny.
"Keep in Touch" and "Believe" are cover songs of the Japanese band,
EXILE
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.
Reception
As soon as the album was released, the album hit #1 and stayed at the position throughout the whole week on Korea's Hanteo Weekly Chart. Although ''Twins'' was a commercial success after the much anticipated debut of the group in November, the album debuted at #3 spot in the MIAK K-pop Monthly Charts selling 28,536 copies. Later in the same month, Super Junior collaborated with TVXQ and debuted at #1 on MIAK K-pop, selling 49,945 copies.
''Twins'' stayed in the charts throughout 2006, selling an extra 26,510 copies. It sold 10,408 more copies in 2007 and sold 86,659 copies by mid-2008. It remained within the top 60 best-selling albums from 2005 to 2008. When it was released in Taiwan on February 16, 2006, it debuted on the G-Music J-pop Weekly Album Chart at number 16.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
See also
* Twins
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* Miracle
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References
External links
Super Junior – Official website
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2005 debut albums
SM Entertainment albums
Super Junior albums
2000s Korean-language albums
Avex Taiwan albums
Bubblegum pop albums