Transition (Fly to the Sky album)

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Transition
Transition cover
Studio album by Fly to the Sky
Released January 6, 2006
Recorded June 2005
Genre R&B, Pop
Label PFull Entertainment
Producer Hwang Se Jun
Fly to the Sky chronology
Gravity
(2004)		 Transition
(2006)		 No Limitations
(2007)

Transition is a 2006 studio album by Fly to the Sky. This is the first studio album under PFull Entertainment, Fly to the Sky's second record label.

Contents

[edit] Overview

The title of the album was chosen by Brian Joo who felt that the duo "needed to change from teen idols to musicians," and also because the album included genres other than R&B.[1]

Singles "Namjadapge" (Like a Man 남자답게) and "Pi" (Evasion, 피)[2] were heavily promoted by the duo. The songs received heavy airplay and became largely successful. "Like a Man" was selected as the "Mutizen Song"[3] on music program "Ingi Gayo" (Popular Songs) for three consecutive weeks for the first time in their career. Both singles were very strongly promoted, and it allowed Fly to the Sky to stay in the spotlight for many months.

Other tracks that also received publicity were collaborations with female vocalists such as Gummy and Jessica H.o.. Unlike their previous works, the album did not feature any rap. When a question regarding this was directed at Brian Joo, he had said he no longer thinks that there are any opportunities to include rap in the duo's works. He was also displeased with the fact that rap or hip-hop music is merely labeled as "dance music" in Korean music industry and that the genre gives them reputation as teen idols. [4]

[edit] Repackage

To commemorate the commercial success of this album, Fly to the Sky re-released the album with three extra tracks, which are "Hwan Sang (Illusion)", "Hot and Cold" and "When I Say." The tracks are less melodramatic and much lighter than the original tracks of the album. In addition, the repackage came with a bonus DVD with music videos and short clips of both Hwanhee and Brian.

[edit] Track listing

 Audio samples:
  1. Be with you (Im Sun-Ah, Lee Sang-In)
  2. 피 (避) (Evasion) (Park Chang-Hyun)
  3. 남자답게 (Like a Man) (Cho Eun-Hee, Kim Do-Hoon)
  4. 노랑나비(Yellow butterfly) (AND)
  5. 빌고 또 빌어도 (As I plead and plead again) (Cho Eun-Hee, Cho Kyu-Man)
  6. 하루가 가… (As a day passes by) (Lee Hee-Seung, Ha Jung-Ho)
  7. 사랑해요 우리 (Shall We Love) (ft. GUMMY) (Cho Eun-Hee, Hwang Se-Jun)
  8. 다시 돌아온 너에게 (To You Who Came Back Again) (Im Sun-Ah, Hwang Sung-Je)
  9. The girl is mine (ft. Lisa & Jho) (Ahn Young-Min, Kim Tae-Hyun)
  10. 폭풍속에 내 이름 불러주실 (Call my name in midst of a storm)(Kim Jin Yong, Lee Hyun-Seung)
  11. Question (Shim Jae-Hee, Hwang Chan-Hee)
  12. 심장(♡障) (Heart) (Lee Shi-Jin, Cho Joon-Young)

[edit] Credits

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[edit] Chart performance

Release Chart Peak Position Sales Total Chart Run
January 2006 February 2006 Monthly Chart #3
January 2006 2006 Semi-annual Chart #3 144,233 25 weeks
January 2006 2006 Yearly Chart #5 128,383 25 weeks

The number from the yearly chart excludes the sales figures from the repackage version of Transition, which sold 16,664 copies.[5] Including the re-released edition, the total adds up to 145,047 copies.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [엔짱 플라이투더스카이 두배로 커진 '울림']
  2. ^ Although the title literally means "Blood," the hanja of the title is translated to evasion.
  3. ^ "Mutizen" is a portmanteau of netizen and music, and the Mutizen Songs are songs that receive the most votes from the netizens on the website of Ingi Gayo.
  4. ^ FLY TO THE SKY 두개의 목소리, 두 가지 매력, 두 번째 시작…다시 비상하는 네 날개 Retrieved November 17, 2006
  5. ^ Music Industry Association Korea 2006 Yearly Chart Retrieved February 2, 2007.

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