2008: Debut and The
Shinee World
On May 23, 2008, the
group’s first mini-album, Replay was
released from Label company, SM Entertainment.The mini-album debuted at 10 on
the Korean music charts and peaked at 8, selling 17,957 copies in the first
half of 2008.
On June 7, 2008, Shinee participated in the
Dream Concert in the Seoul Olympic Stadium along with other South Korean singers and groups.The group won
their first award, “Rookie of the Month”, at the Cyworld Digital Music Awards
on June 22, 2008.Shinee took part in SMTown Live ‘08, which was held on August 18, 2008 at Seoul Olympic Stadium.On August 23, 2008, they attended Mnet’s 20’s Choice Awards 2008,
where they won the “Hot New Star” award.
Shinee released their first full-length
album, The Shinee World, on August 28, 2008. The album debuted on
the charts at 3, selling 30,000 copies. The first single released from the
album was “Sanso Gateun Neo” (산소 같은 너 (Love
Like Oxygen), lit. You Are Like Oxygen), a cover of
“Show
the World” by Martin
Hoberg Hedegaard, originally
written by the Danish songwriting and production team of Thomas Troelsen, Remee and Lucas Secon. On September 18, 2008, Shinee’s “Sanso
Gateun Neo (Love Like Oxygen)” was the No. 1 song on M! Countdown.
A few days later, Shinee received the “Mutizen” award for the same single on
SBS’s Popular Songs.
Shinee participated in the 5th Asia Song
Festival, where they received the “Best
New Artist” award with Japanese girl group, Berryz Kobo.[15]The group attended the 2008 Style Icon Awards
on October 30, 2008, where they won the “Best Style Icon Award”. On the
same day, a repackage album of “The SHINee World” titled “A.Mi.Go.” was
released. The re-packaged album contained three new songs: “Forever or Never”,
a remix of “Sa. Gye. Han (Love Should Go On)” (사.계.한) and the promotional single “A.Mi.Go” (아.미.고). “A.Mi.Go” is a shortened version of the
Korean phrase “Areumdaun Minyeorueljoahamyeon Gosaenghanda” (아름다운 미녀를 좋아하면 고생한다 lit. Heart Aches When You Fall In Love
With a Beauty).
On November 15, 2008, Shinee won the “Best
Male Rookie” award at the 10th annual Mnet’s KM Music Festival,
beating fellow newcomersU-KISS, 2PM, 2AM and Mighty Mouth. At the 23rd
Annual Golden Disk Awards, they performed a medley of their songs, “Noona Neomu
Yeppeo (Replay)”, “Sanso Gateun Neo (Love Like Oxygen)” and “A.Mi.Go (Amigo)”
and won the award for “YEPP Newcomer Album”.
2009: “Juliette”
and 2009, Year of Us
In early February, 2009, Shinee won “Best Newcomer” award
along with Davichi and Mighty Mouth at the 18th Seoul Music Awards. Later, SM Entertainment
announced that Shinee would make their comeback with their second mini album Romeo on May 21, 2009. On May 18,
“Juliette”, the first single was released, an instrumental remake ofCorbin Bleu’s “Deal
with It”. It was later announced that
their comeback was going to be delayed due to Onew damaging his teeth and the
release of the mini-album was pushed back to May 25, 2009. Shinee eventually
had their return performance on June 5, 2009, on KBS’s Music Bank, where they received the
award for first place.
The group released
their third mini-album, 2009, Year Of Us, on October 19, 2009, five
months after the release of Romeo. SM Entertainment stated that this EP would showcase the group’s
vocals and demonstrate their unique qualities. The lead single, “Ring Ding Dong”,
was released digitally on October 14; the group had their comeback stage on
October 16, on KBS’s Music
Bank. In early December, 2009,
Shinee won the “Popularity” award along with fellow labelmate group, Super Junior, at the 24th Golden Disk Awards. In February, 2010, the group won the main “BonSang”
award at the 19th Seoul Music Awards.
2010: Lucifer and
first concert
SM Entertainment
revealed individual photo teasers of each member for the new album starting
with Minho on July 8, 2010 and ending with Key on July 12. The teaser for the music video of lead single was released
on July 14, 2010 at the official channel of SM Entertainment on YouTube. The group was originally set to have their
comeback stage on KBS Music Bank, July 16, to begin their promotions for the
new album, however, due to Minho injuring his ankle during a Dream Team 2 filming on July 8, the
comeback was postponed to July 23, 2010.
The second full
length studio album, entitled Lucifer, was released on July 19,
2010 in South Korea. The music video promoting the lead single, also named “Lucifer”, was released on the same
day. Within hours of the release, the album topped various physical and digital
sales charts in South KoreaThe songs on the album “were more carefully selected
than ever”, and the album is said to “[give] listeners a great chance to
experience the diverse musical characters and more mature vocal skills of the
members.” The group made their comeback on July 23, 2010 at KBS Music Bank. Choreography of the Lucifer was released on the same
YouTube channel on August 3, 2010. The studio album was re-released a
repackaged version, entitled Hello, on October 1, 2010. The music video of the
promotional single, also named “Hello”, was released on October 4, 2010. The
re-released version included three new tracks.
Amidst their
promotional activities for the second studio album, the group also participated
in the SMTown Live ‘10 World Tour alongside their label-mates
on August 21, 2010 atSeoul
Jamsil Olympic Stadium. They also performed at the concerts in Shanghai and Los Angeles on later dates.
On December 26,
2010, Shinee held their first concert, Shinee
World,
in Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan. The vent was attended by a total audience of
approximately 24,000 attendees. They also revealed the music video for their ballad track “Quasimodo”,
from their second album, Lucifer. The group also announced
that they will be releasing their first Japanese language studio release in
March 2011 under the label of EMI Music Japan.
2011-present: Japanese
debut
On January 1, 2011, Shinee performed in the concert at Olympic
Park Stadium in Seoul as a part of their tour, Shinee
World.
On January 2, 2011, before the second running of the concert in Seoul, Shinee
held a press conference. The group answered many questions related to their
future plans, announcing that in March of 2011 they will be debuting in Japan,
and the members also reflected on their success in 2010.
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