| Hoot | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Girls' Generation |
| Cover: | SNSD Hoot.jpg |
| Released: | 27 October 2010 |
| Recorded: | August–September 2010 |
| Genre: | K-pop |
| Language: | Korean |
| Label: | |
| Prev Title: | Oh! |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | Girls' Generation |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
Hoot (; subtitled 009) is the third extended play by the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. The extended play contains five songs and was released on 27 October 2010, by SM Entertainment.[2] Hoot was the third best-selling album of 2010 on the Gaon Album Chart, with 163,066 copies sold.[3]
Contributions to the album's production came from Wheesung, Jinu (Hitchhiker), Kenzie and the former Roommate and Nadia member Hwang Hyun. The title song, "Hoot", was composed by the Danish songwriter-producers Martin Michael Larsson and Lars Halvor Jensen, of Deekay, together with the British songwriter Alex James, with the intention of creating an "exciting up-tempo record for a female artist or group". It was originally titled "Bulletproof" and written with English lyrics.[4]
"Mistake" is the second track and a R&B ballad with lyrics by Kwon Yuri which is about a girl who can't move on from a relationship with a guy who asked her to "wait" for him but in the end he found another and she blames herself for not trying harder to keep the love between them. The third track "My Best Friend" is a contemporary R&B song with lyrics by Wheesung that talks about each other's friendship of Girls' Generation. The fourth track "Wake Up" is an electropop song carrying dark synth beat-sounds with medium tempo shuffle rhythm. "Snowy Wish" is the fifth track and a bright dance-pop song.[5]
The song demo was written and recorded in the UK, with Nina Woodford singing the vocal, and then finished and mixed in Denmark. Girls' Generation held their comeback stage show on 29 October 2010 on KBS's Music Bank. It was also performed on Show! Music Core, Inkigayo and M! Countdown. They held their final stage show on 4 December 2010 on MBC's Show! Music Core.
Music critic Joiseul of IZM gave the EP an unfavorable review and rated it 1 stars out of 5.[6] Commercially, it was reported that Hoot received over 150,000 sales in pre-orders a day before its official release. The album achieved gold status in Japan for selling 100,000 copies.[7] The album is listed by Gaon Album Chart as the third best-selling album of 2010 in South Korea, with 163,066 copies sold.[3] The title track "Hoot" debuted at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart on the chart issue dated 30 October 2010.[8] The song won "triple crown" on Inkigayo on 28 November 2010 and won five times on Music Bank.
Credits adapted from Naver
| Chart (2010–11) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Japan (Oricon)[9] | 2 |
| Japanese Top Albums (Billboard)[10] | 2 |
| Chart (2011) | Position |
|---|---|
| Japan (Oricon)[12] | 42 |
| Japanese Top Albums (Billboard)[13] | 43 |
| Korean Albums (Gaon)[14] | 88 |
| Region | Date | Format | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide[15] | 25 October 2010 | Digital download | SM Entertainment |
| South Korea[16] | 27 October 2010 | CD | SM Entertainment, KT Music |
| Hong Kong[17] | 2 November 2010 | Universal Music Hong Kong | |
| Japan[18] | 22 December 2010 | Nayutawave Records, Universal Music Japan | |
| Taiwan[19] | 24 December 2010 | Universal Music Taiwan | |