The Boys (Girls' Generation album)

The Boys
Korean Version cover
Studio album by Girls' Generation
Released	October 19, 2011 (2011-10-19)
Recorded	2011
Genre	Dance-pop electropop
Length	46:02
Language	Korean English
Label	SM Interscope Polydor Dreamus [1]
Girls' Generation chronology
Girls' Generation (2011) The Boys (2011) Girls & Peace (2012)
Mr. Taxi version

The Boys – Standard edition ^[15]

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"The Boys"	Yoo Young-jin	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	3:48
2.	"Telepathy" (텔레파시;Tellepasi)	Kim Boo-min  [ ko ]	Hitchhiker	Hitchhiker	3:45
3.	"Say Yes"	Young-hu Kim	Young-hu Kim	Young-hu Kim	3:46
4.	"Trick"	Jo Yoon-kyung	Martin Hansen (The Kennel) Sarah Lundbäck Bell (The Kennel) Sam McCarthy	The Kennel Sam McCarthy	3:15
5.	"How Great Is Your Love" (봄날;Bomnal;lit. Springtime)	Sooyoung	Jean T. Na Jenny "Jenzye" Hyun	Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds) Kim Yong-shin (Iconic Sounds)	3:54
6.	"My J"	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	3:53
7.	"Oscar"	Kim Jeong-bae  [ ko ]	Kenzie	Kenzie	3:23
8.	"Top Secret"	Hong Ji-yoo	Mathias Peter Venge Peter Lars Wennerberg Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt Sharon Vaughn	Mathias Peter Venge Peter Lars Wennerberg Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt Sharon Vaughn	2:59
9.	"Lazy Girl (Dolce Far Niente)"	Kim Tae-yoon	Thomas Troelsen Mikkel Remee Sigvardt Lucas Secon	Im Kwang-wook (Devine Channel)  [ ko ]	3:05
10.	"Sunflower" (제자리걸음;Jejarigeoleum;lit. Walking on the spot)	Kim Boo-min  [ ko ]	Hitchhiker	Hitchhiker	3:50
11.	"Vitamin" (비타민;Bitamin)	Hwang Hyun (MonoTree)	Hwang Hyun (MonoTree)	MonoTree	3:10
12.	"Mr. Taxi" (Korean Version)	Jeong Hye-young STY (Digz Inc.)	STY (Digz Inc.) Scott Mann (Echo Brothers) Chad Royce (Echo Brothers)	STY (Digz Inc.) Echo Brothers Paolo Prudencio Allison Veltz	3:32
13.	"The Boys" (English Version)	Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	3:47
Total length:					46:02

The Boys – International edition ^[16]

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"The Boys" (English Version)	Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	3:48
2.	"Telepathy" (텔레파시;Tellepasi)	Kim Boo-min  [ ko ]	Hitchhiker	Hitchhiker	3:45
3.	"Say Yes"	Young-hu Kim	Young-hu Kim	Young-hu Kim	3:46
4.	"Trick"	Jo Yoon-kyung	Martin Hansen (The Kennel) Sarah Lundbäck Bell (The Kennel) Sam McCarthy	The Kennel Sam McCarthy	3:15
5.	"How Great Is Your Love" (봄날;Bomnal;lit. Springtime)	Sooyoung	Jean T. Na Jenny "Jenzye" Hyun	Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds) Kim Yong-shin (Iconic Sounds)	3:54
6.	"My J"	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	3:53
7.	"Oscar"	Kim Jeong-bae  [ ko ]	Kenzie	Kenzie	3:23
8.	"Top Secret"	Hong Ji-yoo	Mathias Peter Venge Peter Lars Wennerberg Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt Sharon Vaughn	Mathias Peter Venge Peter Lars Wennerberg Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt Sharon Vaughn	2:59
9.	"Lazy Girl (Dolce Far Niente)"	Kim Tae-yoon	Thomas Troelsen Mikkel Remee Sigvardt Lucas Secon	Im Kwang-wook (Devine Channel)  [ ko ]	3:05
10.	"Sunflower" (제자리걸음;Jejarigeoleum;lit. Walking on the spot)	Kim Boo-min  [ ko ]	Hitchhiker	Hitchhiker	3:50
11.	"Vitamin" (비타민;Bitamin)	Hwang Hyun (MonoTree)	Hwang Hyun (MonoTree)	MonoTree	3:10
12.	"Mr. Taxi" (Korean Version)	Jeong Hye-young STY (Digz Inc.)	STY (Digz Inc.) Scott Mann (Echo Brothers) Chad Royce (Echo Brothers)	STY (Digz Inc.) Echo Brothers Paolo Prudencio Allison Veltz	3:32
13.	"The Boys"	Yoo Young-jin	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	3:48
14.	"The Boys (Clinton Sparks & Disco Fries Remix)" (featuring Snoop Dogg)	Clinton Sparks Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Nick Ditri Danny Boselovic Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Clinton Sparks Disco Fries Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	4:16
15.	"The Boys *Bring Dem Boys*" (featuring Suzi)	Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley	3:36
16.	"The Boys *Bring The Boys Out*" (David Anthony Remix)	Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	David Anthony Eames Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)]	4:24
17.	"The Boys *Bring The Boys*" (Teddy Riley Remix)	Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley	4:01
Total length:					62:10

Mr. Taxi – The Boys Version B

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Mr. Taxi" (Korean Version)	Jeong Hye-young STY (Digz Inc.)	STY (Digz Inc.) Scott Mann (Echo Brothers) Chad Royce (Echo Brothers)	STY (Digz Inc.) Echo Brothers Paolo Prudencio Allison Veltz	3:32
2.	"The Boys"	Yoo Young-jin	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	3:48
3.	"Telepathy" (텔레파시;Tellepasi)	Kim Boo-min  [ ko ]	Hitchhiker	Hitchhiker	3:45
4.	"Say Yes"	Young-hu Kim	Young-hu Kim	Young-hu Kim	3:46
5.	"Trick"	Jo Yoon-kyung	Martin Hansen (The Kennel) Sarah Lundbäck Bell (The Kennel) Sam McCarthy	The Kennel Sam McCarthy	3:15
6.	"How Great Is Your Love" (봄날;Bomnal;lit. Springtime)	Sooyoung	Jean T. Na Jenny "Jenzye" Hyun	Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds) Kim Yong-shin (Iconic Sounds)	3:54
7.	"My J"	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	Hwang Seong-je (BJJ Music)  [ ko ]	3:53
8.	"Oscar"	Kim Jeong-bae  [ ko ]	Kenzie	Kenzie	3:23
9.	"Top Secret"	Hong Ji-yoo	Mathias Peter Venge Peter Lars Wennerberg Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt Sharon Vaughn	Mathias Peter Venge Peter Lars Wennerberg Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt Sharon Vaughn	2:59
10.	"Lazy Girl (Dolce Far Niente)"	Kim Tae-yoon	Thomas Troelsen Mikkel Remee Sigvardt Lucas Secon	Im Kwang-wook (Devine Channel)  [ ko ]	3:05
11.	"Sunflower" (제자리걸음;Jejarigeoleum;lit. Walking on the spot)	Kim Boo-min  [ ko ]	Hitchhiker	Hitchhiker	3:50
12.	"Vitamin" (비타민;Bitamin)	Hwang Hyun (MonoTree)	Hwang Hyun (MonoTree)	MonoTree	3:10
13.	"The Boys" (English Version)	Tiffany Young Yoo Young-jin Teddy Riley	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	Teddy Riley Dominique "DOM" Rodriguez (Audity) Richard Garcia (Audity) Taesung Kim (Iconic Sounds)	3:47
Total length:					46:02

Personnel

Credits for The Boys are adapted from AllMusic. ^[17]

David Anthony – Remixing Boo Min Kim – Composer Byung Seok Kim – Bass Byung-Ok Seo – Make-Up Chan Yong Eom – Engineer, String Engineer Hanna Cho – Repertoire Jane Choi – Marketing, Promoter Disco Fries – Remixing Eui Seok Jung – Engineer Eun-a Kim – Publicity, Public Relations Eun-Jeong Kwak – Engineer Eun-Kyeng Jung – Engineer Lola Fair – Vocals (Background) Gang-Mi Kim – Make-Up Richard Garcia – Arranger, Composer Gi-Hyun Kim – Publicity, Public Relations Girls' Generation – Primary Artist, Vocals (Background) Hae Young Jung – Composer Hae-Young Lee – Copyright Coordinator, Publishing Nikki Semin Han – Supervisor Martin Hansen – Arranger, Composer Hee-Jun Yoon – Artist Development Ho-Jin Kim – Management, Promoter Hoon Jeon – Mastering Greg Hwang – Choreographer, Direction Hye-Young Eom – Management Hyoyeon – Group Member Hyun Hwang – Arranger, Composer, Director Hyun-Jung Ryu – Make-Up Neil Jacobson – A&R Jae Myoung Lee – Vocal Director Gabriella Jelena Jangfeldt – Arranger, Composer Kyle Chang-Hwan Jeong – Director Jeung-Ah Lee – Artist Development Ji-Hong Kim – Management, Promoter Ji-Young Choi – Hair Stylist Ji-Young Lee – Make-Up Ji-Yu Hong – Composer John Hyun-Kyu Lee – English Supervision Jong-Pil Gu – Engineer, Mixing Jung Bae Kim – Composer Jung-Ah Kang – Management, Promoter Jam3s K3nn3dy – Additional Production Ji Hyun Kim – Vocals (Background) John Kim – Management (US), Marketing Tae Woo Kim – Photography Yongdeok Kim – Management, Promoter Young-Hu Kim – Arranger, Composer, Director, Engineer Young-Min Kim – Executive Supervision Kwang Wook Lim – Arranger Chris Sung-Su Lee – A&R, Coordination, Direction Jinny Lee – Marketing, Promoter Ji-Sun Lee – Publicity, Public Relations Nile Lee – Conductor, String Arrangements Seongho Lee – Engineer, Mixing Soo-Man Lee – Producer Sung Ho Lee – Marketing, Promoter Lin Kang – Marketing, Promoter

Sarah Lundback – Arranger, Composer Scott Pearson Mann – Arranger, Composer Tony Maserati – Mixing Sam McCarthy – Arranger, Composer Hee Jin Min – Art Direction, Design, Visual Direction Mina Jungmin Choi – Marketing, Promoter Min-Kyong Kim – Copyright Coordinator, Publishing Mirae Seo – Vocals (Background) Jean T. Na – Composer Rino Nakasone – Choreographer So Young Nam – Managing Director Jin Namkoong – Engineer, Mixing Hun-Young Park – Visual Direction Hye Jin Park – Repertoire Jun-Young Park – Video Director Paolo Prudencio – Arranger, Composer Teddy Riley – Arranger, Composer, Director, Engineer, Mixing, Remixing, Vocals (Background) Adros Rodriguez – Mixing Chad Royce- Arranger, Composer Sang-Hee Jung – Publicity, Public Relations Lucas Secon – Composer Seohyun – Group Member Seong Je Hwang – Arranger, Composer, Director, Engineer Jae Shim – Choreographer, Direction Agnes Shin – Vocals (Background) Mikkel Remee Sigvardt – Composer Snoop Dogg – Featured Artist Soo Wan Jung – Guitar Soo-Koung Suh – Stylist Soonsoo-a-Reum Kim – Hair Stylist Soonsoo-Kyoung-Mee Shin – Jacket Design, Make-Up Clinton Sparks – Remixing Sung Gun Oh – Engineer, String Engineer Sung-Woo Choi – Management, Promoter Tae Yoon Kim – Composer Taeyeon – Group Member Tesung Kim – Arranger, Composer, Director, Engineer Thomas Troelsen – Composer Sharon Vaughn – Arranger, Composer Allison Veltz – Arranger, Composer Mathias Peter Venge – Arranger, Composer Peter Lars Wennerberg – Arranger, Composer Yong Shin Kim – Arranger, Conductor, Piano, String Arrangements Janie Yoo – A&R, Coordination, Direction Yoo Young-jin – Composer, Director, Engineer, Mixing, Vocals (Background) Yoo-Da Soonsoo-Heewon – Hair Stylist Young Hyun Kim – Conductor, Guitar, String Arrangements, Supervisor, Vocal Editing Young Shin Kim – Director Young Son – Video Director Soo Young – Composer Young-En Kweon – Hair Stylist Young-Jun Tak – Choreographer, Director Yung Strings – Strings Yun-Kyoung Cho – Composer

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2011–12) Peak position French Albums (SNEP) [18] 130 Japanese Albums (Oricon) [19] 2 South Korean Albums (Gaon) [20] 1 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [21] 64 Taiwanese Albums (G-Music) [22] 3 US World Albums ( Billboard [23] 2 US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [24] 17

Year-end charts Chart (2011) Position Japanese Albums (Oricon) [25] 95 South Korean Albums (Gaon) [26] 1 Chart (2012) Position South Korean Albums (Gaon) [27] 33

Sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan	—	107,800 [28]
South Korea	—	471,620 [29]

Release history

Region	Date	Edition	Format	Distributor(s)	Ref.
South Korea	October 19, 2011	Standard	CD digital download	SM KMP Holdings	[30]
Hong Kong	October 26, 2011		CD	Universal Hong Kong	[31]
Japan	November 5, 2011			Universal Japan	[32]
Australia	November 11, 2011		Digital download	Universal Australia	[33]
Taiwan	November 18, 2011		CD	Universal Taiwan	[34]
South Korea	December 9, 2011	Version B: Mr. Taxi		SM	[35]
Taiwan	January 13, 2012			Universal Taiwan	[36]
United States	January 17, 2012	International	CD digital download	Interscope	[37] [38]
France	February 13, 2012			Polydor Universal France

See also

• List of Gaon Album Chart number ones of 2011
• List of best-selling albums in South Korea

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