Bonamana (Hangul: 미인아; RR: Miina; literally: Beauty) is the fourth studio album of South Korean boy band Super Junior. It was released on May 13, 2010 by SM Entertainment. It is the first album with ten out of the original 13 members to take part.^[1]

The album, as to the information provided by South Korean album chart Gaon, sold a cumulative total of 300,000 copies of all versions, awarding the album as the "best selling album of 2010" and outselling their previous award-winning studio effort Sorry, Sorry.^[2]

Recording and production[link]

The group first announced that they were working on their fourth full-length studio album in January 2010 while presenting an award at Thailand's KPN Awards. A week after, Kibum, who participated very little in the group's last studio album Sorry, Sorry due to acting pursuits, discussed the possibility of participating in the production of Bonamana during an interview.^[3] After a thorough discussion with producers, Kibum decided to continue his acting career instead. With Kang-in fulfilling his two-year mandatory military service and Han Geng's lawsuit against SM Entertainment, only ten members were able to work on the album.^[4]

Shindong tweeted about preparing for the fourth album in early April.^[5] On April 19, SM Entertainment formally announced through online media outlets about the release and production of the album. After Super Junior finished their Super Show 2 Asia concert tour in the Philippines, the members postponed solo activities to fit more time on working in the album in time for a mid-May release.^[6] On May 6, SM announced the album release date to be on May 13, 2010.^[7] Like most of Super Junior's past lead singles, the first single off of Bonamana is also self-titled.^[8]

Music[link]

Super Junior consistently described the main concept style of Bonamana to be "mature" and "sophisticated". Following the music genre that they settled for in Sorry, Sorry, the music in Bonamana is largely mainstream and is composed of a variety of genres including R&B ballads, pop dances, and hip hop.^[9] However, unlike Sorry, Sorry, a majority of Bonamana maintains a handful of cheerful, medium-tempo pop songs that Super Junior had been known for performing since debut.

The album starts off with "Bonamana", an upbeat electropop song. SM described that "Bonamana" is the "completion of the SJ Funky genre", a genre that Super Junior will pursue continuously since its development in Sorry, Sorry. Eunhyuk created the dance choreography for "Boom Boom," hip hop dance track characterized for its "dark and powerful groove."^[10] Super Junior invites Park Chang-hyun a fourth time to write the soft vocal ballad "Coagulation", performed by Super Junior-K.R.Y. Similar to "Coagulation" is "One Fine Spring Day", a solo song by Ryeowook. The fourth track, "Your Eyes" is described as a "regular Super Junior R&B ballad", with emphasized characterization on the differences between Yesung's and Kyuhyun's voices. Surprisingly, on the seventh track "Shake It Up," Han Geng who was currently in a lawsuit with SM Entertainment, did not have his vocals scratched out on the track. It was revealed later by the representative of SM Entertainment that this song was recorded before Han Geng filed the lawsuit. The album ends with the cheerful electropop song "Here We Go" that will "[refresh] the listeners' hearings."

For the repackaged album, Bonamana Version C, there are four new songs. The first one, "No Other," received great feedback, so it was followed up with a music video released on July 7, 2010. The next song, "All My Heart" is written by Leeteuk and Henry Lau. The other Super Junior member, Eunhyuk and Donghae also wrote and compose the song "A Short Journey" as a tribute for fellow member Kangin who currently serving in the military. This song is performed mainly by Kangin, accompanied by Donghae, Yesung, Kyuhyun, and Ryeowook.

Promotion[link]

Super Junior's first comeback performance was on May 14 with the performance of "Boom Boom" and "Bonamana" on KBS2TV's Music Bank,.^[11] The group performed again with the roster the following weekend on MBC's Show! Music Core on May 15^[12] and on SBS's The Music Trend on May 16.

Singles[link]

"Bonamana" was announced as the lead single on May 6, 2010, ^[8] with a music video teaser, unveiled on May 7, revealed a brief and blurred preview of the song's chorus.^[7] "Bonamana" was available for digital download from May 10.^[8] with the full MV released on 12 May.^[13] Naming the genre as "SJ Funky" (Super Junior Funky), "Bonamana" consists of "African rhythms, with catchy grooves and club house beats." The song is widely defined to be in a electropop funk style, and a majority of the song is concentrated on autotuned vocals.^[9]

Reception[link]

Over 200,000 copies were pre-ordered a week after the release date was announced, setting a new high record for the group.^[14] According to South Korea's Hanteo chart, version A of Bonamana, debuted at #1 on the charts, selling over 36,000 copies on the first day of release, making it the biggest opening day of the group's career.^[15] After four more days of release, over 70,000 copies were sold.^[16] Bonamana charted at #1 again on real time and daily charts after the release of version B, selling over 13,000 copies, totaling the offline sales to over 100,000.^[17]

On February 2011, according to Gaon Chart's 2010 year-end summation chart, the album's A and B versions sold a cumulative total of 200,193 copies, awarding the album as the "best selling album of 2010". Meanwhile, the repackaged album sold 99,355 copies, ranking at the ninth spot in the same chart,^[2] bringing to a total of almost 300,000 units sold in South Korea. While in Taiwan, the album sold a cumulative total of 57,000 copies.

Track listing[link]

Charts[link]

Release history[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Super Junior official homepage (Korean)

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SM Town (stylized as SMTown or as SMTOWN) is the project name used by S.M. Entertainment for their vacation compilation albums. SM Town consists of current recording artists under the company. Each year the company organizes their artists to come together and perform on a five-hour long concert that tours around Asia.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Tours[link]

• 2002 SM China
• Smile Concert 2003
• 2007 SMTown Summer Concert - 30 June and 1 July 2007 - Olympic Gymnastics Arena^[2]
• SMTown Live '08^[3]
• SMTown Live '09 (cancelled)^[4]
• SMTown Live '10 World Tour^[5]
• SMTown Live '12 World Tour^[6]

Filmography[link]

• I AM. - SM Town Live World Tour in Madison Square Garden (May 10, 2012)^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• SM Entertainment official homepage (Korean)
• SM Entertainment official Japanese homepage (Japanese)
• SMTOWN on Weibo (Verified) (Chinese)

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