The Face (album)

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The Face
The Face cover
Studio album by BoA
Released February 27, 2008
Recorded 2007/2008
Genre J-pop
Length ?
Label avex trax
BoA chronology
Made in Twenty (20)
(2007)		 The Face
(2008)		 Back to the Girl
(2008)
Alternate Covers
CD+DVD cover
CD+DVD cover
CD+2DVD cover
CD+2DVD cover

The Face is BoA's sixth studio Japanese album which was released on February 27, 2008. [1] The album was released a week after her single, "be with you." The full album is known to have total of fifteen tracks along with 3 different types of packaging: regular CD, CD+DVD, and first press. This is also BoA's third consecutive Japanese studio album released.

Contents

[edit] Production

The production of The Face started with her "Sweet Impact" single, released in mid 2007. Three months after the release of her 5th studio album, "Made in Twenty (20). "Sweet Impact" was first featured in a Fasico CM in January 2007. "Sweet Impact" also features a b-side "Bad Drive" and it sold 42,789 in Japan and 5,000 in South Korea.

Approximately five months later, she released another single, entitled "Love Letter". It became her second single to be featured on her sixth studio album. "Love Letter" contains two B-sides: "Diamond Heart" and "Beautiful Flowers." At first "Beautiful Flowers" was chosen by the Yokohama BayStars, (a baseball team in Japan's Central League) as the team's official theme song during their 2007 season. "Diamond Heart" was used to promote Toshiba's W53T, featuring BoA herself.

Three months after the release of "Love Letter", BoA once again released another single entitled: "Lose Your Mind", which was released on December 12, 2007. It is currently charting on Oricon's Weekly Chart, and hit its peak position at #6 and sold total of 22,961 copies as of December 26, 2007.

Shortly after "Lose Your Mind", BoA announced another single, "be with you.", which will be released along with her sixth Japanese studio album. But due to competition on February 20, 2008 with other major artists, the album was pushed backwards a week to February 27, 2008 to avoid conflicts.

[edit] Music videos

Currently it is confirmed that 4 possible music videos (or PVs) will be on the album: "Sweet Impact", "Love Letter", "Lose Your Mind" (feat.Yutaka Furukawa from Doping Panda), and "be with you.". (Listed in order of release)

[edit] Sweet Impact

The "Sweet Impact" PV (music video) was inspired by Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.

[edit] LOVE LETTER

The "LOVE LETTER" PV officially aired on early September before the singles release.

[edit] Lose Your Mind

The PV for "Lose Your Mind" features BoA as a supermodel on the catwalk. She and two other female backup dancers start dancing on the catwalk and are joined by three male dancers. The music video also shows BoA in a short black wig. Yutaka Furukawa from the Doping panda also makes an appearance in the music video playing the electric guitar. BoA's three outfits in the music video are a huge contrast to each other. She and her backup dancers are featured wearing black clothes. Later in the music video they are all wearing more casual Japanese style clothes.

[edit] be with you.

This ballad was featured in the Japanese film, "10 promises with my dog". The PV shows scenes of BoA in a canoe, on a couch, and spending time with a yellow Labrador. Also expressing how much she remembers being with you or in her case her lover. Also that she wants to live the promises that she made with him and to forget all the troubles so long as they are together.

[edit] Tracklisting

[edit] CD Only

  1. "AGGRESSIVE"
  2. "Sweet Impact"
  3. "My way,Your way feat.WISE"
  4. "be with you."
  5. "Lose Your Mind feat.Yutaka Furukawa from DOPING PANDA"
  6. "Girl in the Mirror"
  7. "Happy Birthday"
  8. "Diamond Heart"
  9. "LOVE LETTER"
  10. "BRAVE"
  11. "ギャップにやられた！(Gyappu ni Yarareta!) (Hit By The Gap!)"
  12. "Style"
  13. "Smile again"
  14. "Beautiful Flowers"
  15. "Best Friend"

※ Only the limited edition CD+DVD+DVD will contain Hey Boy,Hey Girl feat.BoA by Seamo

[edit] DVD Disc #1

  1. Sweet Impact PV
  2. LOVE LETTER PV
  3. LOSE YOUR MIND PV
  4. be with you. PV

※ Only the limited edition CD+DVD+DVD will contain special content listed below:

  1. BoA TV-THE FACE of BoA- be with you.
  2. Special LIVE Performance – 65 minutes worth of clips

[edit] DVD Disc #2

BoA '07 LIVE WORKS

  1. BoA THE LIVE "X'mas" – (8 performances)
  2. BoA ARENA TOUR 2007 MADE IN TWENTY(20)(4 Performances)
  3. m-flo TOUR 2007 COSMICOLOR @ YOKOHAMA ARENA-the Love Bug Performance
  4. Rhythm Nation 2007 (3 Performances)

[edit] Charts and sales

[edit] Oricon sales charts (Japan)

Release Chart Peak Position First Week Sales Sales Total Chart Run
February 27, 2008 Oricon Daily Albums Chart #1
February 27, 2008 Oricon Weekly Albums Chart #1 110,653 184,867 15 weeks
February 27, 2008 Oricon Monthly Albums Chart #5
February 27, 2008 Oricon Yearly Albums Chart

[edit] Worldwide

The Face debuted at #6 on the United World Chart with approximately 113,000 copies sold.

[edit] Singles

Date Title Peak Position Sales
25-04-2007 Sweet Impact #5 42,789
26-09-2007 Love Letter #3 43,526
12-12-2007 Lose Your Mind #6 28,128
20-02-2008 Be with you. #13 10,808 (still charting)

[edit] Korean Monthly Charts (South Korea)

Release Chart Peak Position Sales Total Chart Run
February 20, 2008 Korean Monthly Chart

[edit] United World Chart (International)

United World Chart
Week 01 02
Position #6

[edit] Oricon Ranking (Weekly)

Oricon Charts
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
Position #1 #4 #8 #14 #33 #51 #73 #106 #148 #153 #196 #190
Sales 110,653 30,786 17,077 9,093 5,399 2,966 1,850 1,329 1,113 1,162 797 681
Total 110,653 141,439 158,516 167,609 173,008 175,974 177,824 179,153 180,266 181,428 182,225 182,906

+ still charting

[edit] Korean Ranking (Monthly)

Korean Monthly Chart
Month February
Position

+ still charting

[edit] Taiwan J-Pop Ranking (Weekly)

Taiwan J-Pop Chart
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Position
#1
#1

+ still charting

[edit] References

  1. ^ CD Japan 7dream.com AVCD-23497 AVCD-23499

[edit] External links

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