Brand New (Shinhwa album) explained

Brand New
Type:	studio
Artist:	Shinhwa
Cover:	Shinhwa-Brand New.jpg
Caption:	Brand New cover
Recorded:	2004
Genre:	K-pop dance-pop
Language:	Korean
Label:	Good Entertainment Avex Marketing
Prev Title:	Winter Story
Prev Year:	2003
Next Title:	Winter Story 2004-2005
Next Year:	2004

Brand New is the seventh studio album of South Korean boy band Shinhwa. It was released on August 27, 2004, by Good Entertainment. It is their first album since leaving SM Entertainment and signing with Good Entertainment. The four lead singles are "Brand New", "Angel", "Crazy" and "Oh". Brand New sold 324,772 copies in 2004 and was the fifth best-selling album of the year.

Background

The members of Shinhwa began taking charge as lyricist in the release of the album. Eric wrote some rap lyrics for some of the songs while Minwoo took charge and began writing full lyrics. Some songs that he wrote are: "All of My", "Oh" and "U". He later went on to write the song "Superstar" for the group Jewelry, which became a hit.

Commercial performance

Brand New debuted at number 3 on the MIAK monthly album chart, and made its way to number 2 before dropping to number 11. However, it made a large jump from number 11 to number 1, with a large jump in sales from 168,654 copies to 320,337 copies. The lead track "Brand New", was composed by Park Geun-tae and Cho Young-soo, won the Triple Crown, i.e. first place for three consecutive weeks, on Mnet's live music program M Countdown.^[1]

Accolades

In 2006, "Brand New" was ranked number 58 in a Gallup Korea poll of top 100 favorite Korean songs of all time.^[2] Melon and Seoul Shinmun ranked the single number 68 in their 2021 list of the top 100 K-pop songs of all time.^[3]

2004	Golden Disc Awards	Album Bonsang (Main Prize)		^[4]
		Album Daesang (Grand Prize)
	Mnet KM Music Video Festival	Best Dance Performance (for "Brand New")		^[5]
		Best Male Group Video (for "Angel")
		Overseas Viewers' Award (for "Brand New")
	SBS Gayo Daejeon	Grand Prize (Daesang)		^[6]
		Main Prize (Bonsang)
	Seoul Music Awards	Popularity Award

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Date
"Brand New"	M Countdown	September 30, 2004
		October 7, 2004
		October 14, 2004
	Inkigayo	October 10, 2004
		October 17, 2004
"Crazy"		December 12, 2004
		December 19, 2004

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Brand New.^[7]

• Park Geun-tae – producer
• Shinhwa – producer
• Kim Young-seong – recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Yoon Won-kwon – recording engineer
• Song Kyeong-jo – recording engineer
• Kang Hae-gu – recording engineer
• Jeong Doo-seok – recording engineer
• Ha Jeong-soo – recording engineer
• Ko Seung-wook – mixing engineer

• Park Hyeok – mixing engineer
• Jo Kyu-beom – mixing engineer
• Sam Lee – guitar
• Tommy Lee – guitar
• Hong Joon-ho – guitar
• Ko Tae-young – guitar
• Lee Tae-yoon – bass
• Im Seung-beom – keyboard
• The String – strings

Charts and sales

Sales

Release history

Country	Date	Distributing label	Format
South Korea	August 27, 2004	Good EMG, IO Music	CD (EKLD-0444)^[11]
	November 4, 2004		Special Edition (CD+DVD) (EKLD-0492)^[12]
Japan	December 8, 2004	Avex Trax	CD (AVCD-18067/B)^[13]

Notes and References

1. News: Lee. Nancy. M Countdown Hall of Fame: Shinhwa's 'Brand New'. June 7, 2013. enewsWorld. June 7, 2013. CJ E&M. https://web.archive.org/web/20130609210940/http://enewsworld.interest.me/enews/contents.asp?idx=38009. June 9, 2013. dead.
2. Web site: December 1, 2006 . ko:2006 한국인이 좋아하는 가요 100곡 . http://www.gallup.co.kr/gallupdb/reportContent.asp?seqNo=159 . 2024-01-12 . Gallup Korea . ko.
3. Web site: Hicap . Jonathan . August 29, 2021 . Top 100 K-pop songs of all time revealed . 2024-01-12 . Manila Bulletin.
4. Web site: History . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220108103741/https://www.goldendisc.co.kr/en/history . January 8, 2022 . May 7, 2022 . . ko.
5. Web site: December 4, 2004 . ko:비, m.net Kmtv 뮤비페스티벌 최고인기상 . Rain, m.net Kmtv Music Video Festival Best Popularity Award . https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=001&aid=0000842212 . May 28, 2021 . . ko . Naver.
6. Web site: 2004-12-30 . 신화, SBS가요대전 대상 수상 . Shinhwa wins the grand prize at SBS Gayo Daejeon . 2024-01-09 . My Daily . . ko.
7. Brand New . 2004 . Good EMG.
8. Web site: Album Sales For The Month of November 2004. Recording Industry Association Korea. October 12, 2007 . Korean . https://web.archive.org/web/20070711172224/http://www.miak.or.kr/stat/kpop_200411.htm . July 11, 2007.
9. Web site: http://www.riak.or.kr/chart/riakpdf.asp?hit_year=2004. ko:2004년 가요음반판매량. 2004 Album Sales Figures. Recording Industry Association of Korea. ko. https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055251/http://www.riak.or.kr/chart/riakpdf.asp?hit_year=2004. July 18, 2018. dead. November 28, 2014.
10. Web site: Album Sales For The Month of January 2005. Recording Industry Association Korea. https://web.archive.org/web/20051219050951/http://www.miak.or.kr/stat/kpop_200501.htm . December 19, 2005 . October 12, 2007 . Korean.
11. Web site: Brand New album info . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20181026104220/http://hanteo.com/search/nalbum_info2.asp?mcode=800109623 . October 26, 2018 . March 20, 2015 . Hanteo . Korean.
12. Web site: Brand New Special Edition album info . dead . https://archive.today/20150418020430/http://hanteo.com/search/nalbum_info2.asp?mcode=800109759 . April 18, 2015 . March 20, 2015 . Hanteo . Korean.
13. Web site: Brand New album info (Japan) . March 20, 2015 . Oricon . Japanese.