Hurricane Venus (album)

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***Hurricane Venus*** is the sixth Korean studio album by South Korean singer BoA, released in South Korea on 5 August 2010 by SM Entertainment. The release marks the tenth anniversary of BoA's career debut, and is her first Korean album since the release of *Girls on Top* in 2005. A repackaged edition of the album, retitled ***Copy & Paste***, was released on 27 September.

## Announcement

In March 2010, SM Entertainment announced that BoA was to release a new Korean-language album—her first since 2005—to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her 2000 debut. BoA was said to be in the process of selecting songs for the album, and would return to South Korea following the completion of her Japanese tour to promote *Identity* in April.

## Promotion and distribution

The music video for "Game" was released to various websites on the weekend of 24–25 July, while the tracks for both "Game" and " Stand By" (옆사람; "The Person Next to Me") were released on 28 July. "Game" entered the Gaon weekly singles chart at number eleven.

A music video for the album's title track has been filmed in 3-D by Pace HD—who worked on the 2009 film *Avatar*—and Samsung Electronics. The song "Hurricane Venus" was released ahead of the album on 2 August.

*Hurricane Venus* was released in South Korea on 5 August 2010. Following its release the album was ranked number one on the Hanteo album sales chart, and in the top five of other music charts such as Naver and Soribada. The album is also due to be released in other Asian countries, including Thailand, the Philippines (not yet released as of this time in the country), China, Indonesia and Japan.

On 6 August, BoA performed "Hurricane Venus" and "Dangerous" on the Korean television programme *Music Bank*. On the same day, *Hurricane Venus* was the third most talked about topic on the social networking site Twitter. The album sold 44,745 units in the first ten days of its release and ranked first in the month of August sales with 54,659 units. By the end of the year *Hurricane Venus* sold 55,776 units making it the 22nd best selling album in South Korea for 2010.

## Songs

"Romance", described as a "pop jazz ballad", was arranged by jazz pianist Song Young-joo. "Don't Know What to Say" is a collaboration with BoA's brother Kwon Soon-hwon, a classical pianist.For two of the album's highly promoted tracks, "Dangerous" and "Adrenaline", BoA again teamed up with Danish producer Thomas Troelsen, who also produced her American debut single, "Eat You Up", in 2008.

## *Copy & Paste*

A repackaged version of the album was released on 27 September 2010. Retitled ***Copy & Paste***, the repackaged album included two new songs, "Copy&Paste" and "보고 싶더라 (I'm OK)". A teaser video for the album unveiled on 20 September, and BoA promoted the album with a performance on *Music Bank* on 24 September.

"Copy & Paste" is the third and final single released from BoA's sixth album effort. On 19 September BoA released the official teaser to the upcoming single, followed by an official digital single release on 23 September. The following day promotions started for the single on television shows such as Music Bank, Music Core and Inkigayo. The official music video was released on September 28.

The track list of "Copy & Paste" was a little altered: with the title track being the number one song, and "I'm OK" being the fourth song; "Game" is now the fifth song in the album. Also, the tracks from 4 to 11 of "Hurricane Venus" become the tracks from 6 to 13 of "Copy & Paste". Only "Hurricane Venus" and "Dangerous" have the same position in both albums.

## Track listing

### Copy & Paste

 **4** | "I'm OK (보고 싶더라 *lit. I miss you*)"

## Video gallery

* Music videos
* Audio

BoA 보아 'Hurricane Venus' MVBoA 보아 'Game' MVBoA 보아 'Copy&Paste' MV

Hurricane VenusCopy & Paste
## References

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7. ↑ BoA shoots new music video in 3D with "Avatar" creators. *10asia* (26 July 2010). Retrieved on 31 July 2010.
8. ↑ Kim, Hannah (29 July 2010). BoA video shot with high-tech ‘Avatar’ production team. *JoongAng Daily*. Retrieved on 31 July 2010.
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11. ↑ Current Twitter trends: Dinamo Kiev, 'Hurricane Venus'. *The Independent* (6 August 2010). Retrieved on 5 August 2010.
12. ↑ :: 가온차트와 함께하세요 ::. *gaonchart.co.kr*. Retrieved on 9 August 2011.
13. ↑ BoA stirring hype with new album release this week. *10asia* (2 August 2010). Retrieved on 5 August 2010.
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 BoA to release repackaged album on Sept 27. *10asia* (16 September 2010). Retrieved on 18 September 2010.
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 BoA to release teaser video for new album on Monday. *10asia* (17 September 2010). Retrieved on 18 September 2010.