Face the Sun | ||||
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Released | May 27, 2022 | |||
Recorded | December 2021 – April 2022 [1] | |||
Genre | K-pop | |||
Length | 29:03 | |||
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Seventeen chronology | ||||
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Singles from Face the Sun | ||||
Sector 17 cover | ||||
Singles from Sector 17 | ||||
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Face the Sun is the fourth studio album by South Korean boy band Seventeen. It was released on May 27,2022,by Pledis Entertainment through YG Plus. The album contains nine tracks,with "Hot" serving as lead single. The first track,"Darl+ing",was pre-released on April 15,2022. [2] The repackaged version of the album,titled Sector 17,released on July 18 alongside its lead single "World". The fourth track,"Cheers",was pre-released on July 7,2022. [3]
In March,seven months after the release of the commercially successful EP Attacca ,Pledis Entertainment announced that Seventeen would be releasing a studio album,their first since An Ode (2019),in May. [4] Following the release of the group's first-ever English single "Darling" on April 15,the label confirmed that Seventeen would return on May 27 with a fourth studio album titled Face the Sun. [5] [6] Starting on April 26,the group released "Inner Shadows",a 13-part trailer on YouTube to tease the new album. [7] Described by band member Hoshi as marking the "shedding [of their] former image and becoming more mature",the album greatly contrasts with their earlier,more cheerful concepts. [7]
Pre-orders for Face the Sun opened on April 22. [5] On May 23,a highlight medley was released,as a preview of the 9 tracks of the album. [6] The album will be supported by the Be The Sun World Tour,their first tour after the Ode to You Tour,which ended prematurely in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [8] The Be the Sun tour began in Seoul,followed by stops in North America and Asia. [9]
Seventeen released a trailer for the reissue of the album,titled Sector 17,at their concert in Seoul. Sector 17 was released on July 18,2022. [10]
Face the Sun surpassed 1.74 million pre-orders in one week,exceeding Seventeen's previous career high of 1.41 million pre-orders for Attacca . On May 20,it was reported that the album had recorded two million pre-orders. [11] According to the Gaon Music Chart,the album sold 2,239,351 copies in the month of May. [12] Face the Sun debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200,earning 44,000 album-equivalent units,including 42,000 pure album sales,in its first week. It is Seventeen's highest-charting and first top-ten album on the chart,having previously reached the top 20 twice in 2021 with their EPs Your Choice and Attacca. [13]
According to Hanteo,Sector 17 sold 1,126,104 copies in its first week. [14] Later it was reported that the EP sold 2 million copies in its first week,making Seventeen the second K-pop group to sell over 2 million copies in the first week of release. [15]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [16] |
Clash | 7/10 [17] |
NME | [18] |
Both Face the Sun and Sector 17 were met with generally positive reviews. In a positive review for Teen Vogue ,Sara Delgado praised Face the Sun for its "sonic versatility." [19] For NME ,Abby Webster gave Face the Sun four out of five stars,and wrote that the album's singles paled in comparison to the album's "familiar yet sublimely inventive B-sides." [18] Abbie Aitken for Clash wrote that "Face the Sun is a testament of Seventeen's influence as a key group within K-pop." [17] AllMusic 's Neil Z. Yeung gave both Face the Sun and Sector 17 four out of five stars,praising Face the Sun's use of various genres,writing that the album was an "excellent mix of party-starting anthems". [16] [20]
Sarina Bhutani of MTV named Face the Sun one of the albums of the year,saying that "with the release of this album,[Seventeen] created their most sonically settled,emotionally confident record yet". [21] Time Magazine named Sector 17 as one of the best K-pop albums of 2022,describing Face the Sun as an "artistic feat",though writing that the repackaged album,Sector 17 is "superior". [22]
Year | Organization | Category | Nominated Work | Result | Ref. |
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2022 | Genie Music Awards | Album of the Year | Face the Sun | Nominated | [23] |
MAMA Awards | Album of the Year | Nominated | [24] | ||
Circle Chart Music Awards | Album of the Year - 2nd Quarter | Won | [25] | ||
Album of the Year - 3rd Quarter | Sector 17 | Nominated | [26] | ||
2023 | Golden Disc Awards | Album Bonsang | Face the Sun | Won | [27] |
Japan Gold Disc Award | Best 3 Albums (Asia) | Won | [28] |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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1. | "Darl+ing" |
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| 2:56 | |
2. | "Hot" |
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| 3:17 | |
3. | "Don Quixote" |
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| 2:52 | |
4. | "March" |
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| 3:16 |
5. | "Domino" |
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| 3:34 | |
6. | "Shadow" |
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| 3:33 | |
7. | "'Bout You" (노래해) |
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| 2:42 |
8. | "If You Leave Me" |
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| 3:32 | |
9. | "Ash" |
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| 3:21 | |
Total length: | 29:03 |
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10. | "A Message from Seventeen" (spoken by Vernon) | 1:02 |
Total length: | 30:05 |
No. | Title | Length |
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10. | "Darl+ing Music Video Behind the Scenes" (Apple Music Exclusive) | 10:57 |
Total length: | 40:00 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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1. | "Circles" (돌고 돌아) |
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| 3:59 |
2. | "_World" |
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| 2:58 | |
3. | "Fallin' Flower" (Korean version) |
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| 3:30 |
4. | "Cheers" (performed by Seventeen leaders) |
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| 3:01 |
Total length: | 42:31 |
Notes
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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South Korea (KMCA) [68] Physical album | 4× Million | 4,000,000^ |
South Korea (KMCA) [69] Weverse album | Platinum | 250,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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South Korea (KMCA) [70] Physical album | Million | 1,000,000^ |
South Korea (KMCA) [71] Weverse album | Platinum | 250,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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