SuperM (EP)

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SuperM
SuperM - SuperM.png
Digital cover
EP by
SuperM
ReleasedOctober 4, 2019 (2019-10-04)
Recorded2019 [1]
Studio
  • Doobdoob (Seoul)
  • Seoul
  • SM Booming System (Seoul)
  • SM Blue Cup (Seoul)
  • SM Blue Ocean (Seoul)
  • SM LVYIN (Seoul)
  • SM SSAM (Seoul)
  • Sound POOL (Seoul)
Genre
Length24:57
Language
Label
Producer Lee Soo-man
SuperM chronology
SuperM
(2019)		 Super One
(2020)
Singles from SuperM
  1. "Jopping"
    Released: October 4, 2019

SuperM is the eponymous debut extended play (EP) by South Korean supergroup SuperM. [2] [3] [4] [5] It was released on October 4, 2019 by SM Entertainment, Capitol Records and Dreamus. [6] [7] The CD version of the EP has eight different versions: one individual edition for each member and a "united" version. [8] [9]

Contents

The EP debuted at the top spot of the United States' Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming the first Korean act to top the chart with their debut release.

Background and release

On August 7, 2019, Capitol Music Group chairman Steve Barnett and SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man announced SuperM's debut at Capitol Congress. [10] A teaser revealed the members of the group, with each having performance, vocal, and rap abilities. [11]

On August 28, the instrumental of one of the album's songs, "I Can't Stand the Rain", was released. [12] SM Entertainment began releasing teasers and concept videos on September 1 through SuperM's official social media accounts. [13]

The album and its title track's music video were released on October 4 both digitally and physically. [6]

Promotion

SuperM held their debut concert at the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles on October 5, [14] and made their television debut on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on October 9. [15] The group then started to embark on their first tour, We Are the Future Live, in November 2019. [16] The last leg of the tour which included a Tokyo Dome concert on April 23, was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [17]

Commercial performance

SuperM debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 by the end of its first week of release with 168,000 album-equivalent units (of which 164,000 were in album sales), earning the group their record as the first Korean act to hit number one with a debut album. [18] [19] [20] The EP earned the top spot on the Billboard World Albums Chart and remained number one for the next eight consecutive weeks. [21]

Following the EP release, the group topped Billboard's Artist 100 chart as the top musical act in the US for the week ending 19 October, making the group the second K-pop act to ever lead the chart, following BTS. [22] The EP placed itself on the eleventh spot with 31,000 units for the following week and continued to chart on the Billboard 200 for the next six weeks (eight weeks in total). [23] [24]

In South Korea, the EP debuted at the third spot of the Gaon Weekly Albums Chart [25] and sold 153,590 copies in just one day of tracking. [26]

Track listing

SuperM track listing [27]
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Jopping"
  • Jeremy "Tay" Jasper
  • Adrian McKinnon
  • Kim Min-ji
  • Hwang Yoo-bin
  • LDN Noise
  • Jeremy "Tay" Jasper
  • Adrian McKinnon
  • Nasia Jones
  • Geoffrey McCray
  • Zachary Chicoine
  • Marcus Scoutt
4:11
2."I Can't Stand the Rain"
3:28
3."2 Fast" (performed by Taemin, Baekhyun, Mark, and Lucas)
  • Danke (lalala Studio)
  • LDN Noise
  • Adrian McKinnon
  • Ebenezer Olaoluwa Fabiyi
3:00
4."Super Car" (performed by Taemin, Baekhyun, Taeyong, Ten, and Mark)
  • Jonatan Gusmark (Moonshine)
  • Ludvig Evers (Moonshine)
  • Bobii Lewis
  • Charite Viken Reinås
  • Moonshine
3:34
5."No Manners" (performed by Taemin, Kai, Taeyong and Ten)
  • Jonathan Santana
  • Shae Jacobs
  • Tyler Holmes
  • Taeyong
Jonathan Santana3:03
6."Jopping" (Instrumental) 
  • LDN Noise
  • Jeremy "Tay" Jasper
  • Adrian McKinnon
  • Nasia Jones
  • Geoffrey McCray
  • Zachary Chicoine
  • Marcus Scoutt
4:11
7."I Can't Stand the Rain" (Instrumental) 
3:28
Total length:24:57

Charts

Accolades

Year-end lists
Critic/PublicationListWorkRankRef.
Dazed The 20 best K-pop songs of 2019"Jopping"15 [48]
Billboard The 25 best K-pop Songs of 201925 [49]
South China Morning Post The 10 best K-pop songs of 20197 [50]
BuzzFeed Best K-pop Music Videos of 201913 [51]
MTV The Best K-pop B-sides of 2019"2 Fast"12 [52]
Refinery29 The Best K-Pop Songs Of 2019"I Can't Stand The Rain"10 [53]
PopCrush Best Pop Albums of 2019SuperM— [54]

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
United StatesOctober 4, 2019
Various
  • Digital download
  • streaming
  • CD
South KoreaOctober 31, 2019CD

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