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===2008: U.S. debut===
===2008: U.S. debut===
On September 2, 2008, BoA's Korean record label, SM Entertainment announced that she will make her American debut under SM's new subsidiary label [[SM Entertainment USA]].<ref name=america/> A press conference was held on September 10, 2008 at the Seoul Imperial Palace Hotel, to clarify the details of her American debut, with the slogan "Best of Asia, Bring on America".<ref name=america>{{citeweb|url=http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080902-00000024-yonh-musi|title=BoA American debut plans|publisher=YONHAP NEWS|accessdate=2008-09-02|language=Korean}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2008/09/178_30413.html|title=BoA Plans Debut in US|publisher=koreatimes.co.kr|accessdate=2008-09-02|language=English}}</ref> SM announced that her debut single, "[[Eat You Up]]", would be released on October 14, 2008; a remix of the song features rapper [[Flo Rida]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.boaamerica.com/disco_newrelease.htm | title=BoA's official English-language website | accessdate=2008-09-15 | publisher=[[SM Entertainment|SM America]]}}</ref> The single was recently posted on BOA's Myspace and leaked online Oct.02,2008.
On September 2, 2008, BoA's Korean record label, SM Entertainment announced that she will make her American debut under SM's new subsidiary label [[SM Entertainment USA]].<ref name=america/> A press conference was held on September 10, 2008 at the Seoul Imperial Palace Hotel, to clarify the details of her American debut, with the slogan "Best of Asia, Bring on America".<ref name=america>{{citeweb|url=http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080902-00000024-yonh-musi|title=BoA American debut plans|publisher=YONHAP NEWS|accessdate=2008-09-02|language=Korean}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2008/09/178_30413.html|title=BoA Plans Debut in US|publisher=koreatimes.co.kr|accessdate=2008-09-02|language=English}}</ref> SM announced that her debut single, "[[Eat You Up]]", would be released on October 14, 2008; a remix of the song features rapper [[Flo Rida]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.boaamerica.com/disco_newrelease.htm | title=BoA's official English-language website | accessdate=2008-09-15 | publisher=[[SM Entertainment|SM America]]}}</ref>


==Image and artistry==
==Image and artistry==
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===Korean studio albums===
===Korean studio albums===
* 2000: ''[[ID; Peace B]]''
* 2000: ''[[ID; Peace B]]''
* 2001: ''[[Don't start now - Jumping into the World]]''
* 2001: ''[[Jumping into the World]]'' (mini-album)
* 2002: ''[[No.1 / 늘..]]''
* 2002: ''[[No.1]]''
* 2002: ''[[Miracle (BoA album)|Miracle]]''
* 2002: ''[[Miracle (BoA album)|Miracle]]'' (mini-album)
* 2003: ''[[Atlantis Princess]]''
* 2003: ''[[Atlantis Princess]]''
* 2003: ''[[Shine we are!]]''
* 2003: ''[[Shine We Are!]]'' (mini-album)
* 2004: ''[[My Name (BoA album)|My Name]]''
* 2004: ''[[My Name (BoA album)|My Name]]''
* 2005: ''[[Girls On Top]]''
* 2005: ''[[Girls on Top]]''


===English studio albums===
===English studio albums===

Revision as of 21:10, 4 October 2008

BoA
BoA
Hangul
권보아
Revised RomanizationGwon Boa
McCune–ReischauerKwŏn Poa

Template:KoreanText Template:JapaneseText Template:Two other uses Boa Kwon (born November 5, 1986),[1] commonly known by her stage name BoA, is a Korean singer, active in both South Korea and Japan. Born and raised in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, BoA was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. In 2000, after two years of training, she released ID; Peace B, her debut Korean album, under SM Entertainment. Two years later, she released her debut Japanese album, Listen to My Heart, under the Avex label.

BoA's multilingual skills (she speaks Japanese and conversational English along with her native Korean and has recorded songs in Mandarin Chinese)[2][3] have contributed to her commercial success in South Korea and Japan and her popularity throughout Asia. She is one of only two non-Japanese Asians who have had million-selling albums in Japan and is one of only two artists to have six consecutive number-one albums on the Oricon charts.[4]

Career

2000–2002: Debut

At the age of thirteen, after two years of training,[5] BoA released her debut album ID; Peace B in South Korea on August 25, 2000. The album was successful, entering the Top 10 of the South Korean charts. Meanwhile, her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, made arrangements with Japanese label Avex Trax to launch her music career in Japan.

In early 2001, BoA released her first mini-album Jumping into the World. After its release, she took a hiatus from the Korean music industry to focus on the Japanese market. During this time she struggled to solidify her skills in Japanese.

BoA began her Japanese music career singing at the Avex-owned club Velfarre. In 2001, she released her debut Japanese single, a Japanese version of the song, "ID; Peace B" (originally from the eponymous album). The single reached the number-twenty position on the Oricon chart and was followed by "Amazing Kiss", "Kimochi wa Tsutawaru", and "Listen to My Heart"; the last became the singer's first single to enter the Oricon chart's Top Five. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, BoA recorded the charity single "The Meaning of Peace" with Kumi Koda as part of Avex's Song+Nation project. Her Japanese debut album, Listen To My Heart, was released on March 13, 2002. The album was a breakthrough in BoA's career: it debuted at the top spot on the Oricon and became an RIAJ-certified million-seller as well as the first album by a Korean artist to top the charts.[6][7] A single, "Every Heart -Minna no Kimochi-", was released on the same day as the album.

A month later, BoA released her second Korean studio album, No.1. This album is her most successful Korean album to date, selling over 650,000 copies. The album peaked at #15 on the Japanese charts. In September of the same year, her second mini album Miracle became another commercial success, selling 327,000 copies. Later in the year she became the youngest artist ever to receive a "Artist of the Year" in South Korea.

2002–2005: Commercial success and image change

BoA's second Japanese studio album, Valenti (2003), became her best-selling album, with over 1,249,000 copies sold.[8] "Don't Start Now", the first single from the album, contained a Japanese edition of the promotional track of her Korean mini-album, Don't Start Now. "Valenti", the second single from the album, became a Top Five single for the artist, peaking at the number-two position on the Oricon.[9] Later on that year, she released two Korean albums, Atlantis Princess and Shine We Are!. Valenti was followed by BoA's third Japanese studio album, Love and Honesty (2004); it was a musical "change in direction" for the singer, as it contained a rock single ("Rock With You") and contained "harder" R&B.[10] Though the album failed to match the sales of Valenti, it topped the Oricon chart for two weeks and became RIAJ-certified triple-platinum.[11] Her first compilation album, Best of Soul (2005), however, sold over a million copies, making BoA the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two albums sell over a million copies in Japan.[8]

BoA reinvented her image on her fourth Korean album, My Name (2004); she left the "cute" and "youthful" style that had characterized previous years and presented herself as "sexy" and "sultry".[7] Her fifth Korean album, Girls on Top, continued her image change. The album portrayed the singer as more "mature and self-confident"; the "bohemian" look of the cover photograph represented "freedom and depth", while music videos and album photographs that portrayed BoA in traditional Korean dress brought the "idea of Korean womanhood" into her music.[12][13]

2006–2008: Decline in sales and continued image change

In 2006, BoA was mostly inactive in South Korea as she focused her attention on Japan; however, on September 21, 2006, she released her first digital single in Korea, a Korean version of "Key of Heart". Her fourth Japanese studio album Outgrow was released on February 15, 2006. The limited CD+DVD edition of the album contained music videos of the album's singles and a secret password to unlock a special version of the official website. The album reached the number-one spot on the Oricon chart for its first week of release, making it her fourth consecutive Japanese album to do so. It had low debut sales, however; with 220,000 copies sold, it became her lowest-selling first-week debut for a studio album at that point. "Do the Motion," the first single from the album, reached the top spot on the Oricon, making her the fifth non-Japanese singer to have #1 single, the first in over twenty-one years. "Merry Christmas from BoA", the last single from the album, was the singer's first digital single. In support of Outgrow, BoA launched a special Zepp tour, B0A The Live, on September 29, 2006. The tour, which lasted until October 29, started from Nagoya and contained twelve shows, two in each of the following cities: Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka, Tokyo, Sendai, and Sapporo.[14] She staged her first Christmas concert on December 7 2006.[15]

BoA's fifth Japanese studio album, Made in Twenty (20) (2007), continued her transition from a "teenage girl" image to a more mature image. The album, which contained R&B and dance songs as well as ballads, debuted at the top of the weekly Oricon charts, making the album her sixth in a row to do so.[16] On March 31, 2007, she launched a nationwide tour of Japan in support of the album. The tour, which sold about 70,000 tickets, was, according to BoA, "the biggest concert" she had ever given.[17] Two tracks from the singles of Made in Twenty (20) were used as theme songs; "Your Color", from the single "Nanairo no Ashita~brand new beat~ / Your Color" (2006), was used as the ending theme song for the Japanese release of the Xbox 360 game Ninety-Nine Nights. "Key of Heart", from the single "Key of Heart / Dotch", was the ending theme of Over the Hedge in Japan. She also released an English version of "Key of Heart," which was only available on the first press edition of the single. The album's last single, "Winter Love" (2006) became another number-one single for the artist.

With her sixth Japanese album, The Face (2008), BoA took more creative control over her music. She began writing her own lyrics and co-composed one of the songs ("Girl in the Mirror").[18] Influenced by a The Jackson 5 album, BoA used mostly electro-pop in the album.[18] Additionally, BoA included "happy spring" songs ("Sweet Impact" and its B-side, "Bad Drive" (2007), the album's first single), a guitar-driven "groovy dance" song ("Lose Your Mind" (2007)), and ballads.[19][20][21] Lyrically, BoA focused mainly on love, though "be with you." (2008) was about a person's relationship with his dog. The album debuted at the top of the weekly Oricon charts, making BoA one of only two artists in Japan to top the Oricon weekly charts six consecutive times (the other being Ayumi Hamasaki, who has eight consecutive number-one albums). Following The Face, BoA released her twenty-sixth single, "Vivid", on June 4, 2008.

Later in the year, BoA signed a contract with Samsung (via Anycall) for the "AnyBand" concept and released their first single AnyBand featuring two songs "TPL" (Talk Play Love) and "Promise U". This commercial also included Xiah Junsu (from boyband DBSK), Tablo (from Epik High), and the jazz pianist Jin Bora.

2008: U.S. debut

On September 2, 2008, BoA's Korean record label, SM Entertainment announced that she will make her American debut under SM's new subsidiary label SM Entertainment USA.[22] A press conference was held on September 10, 2008 at the Seoul Imperial Palace Hotel, to clarify the details of her American debut, with the slogan "Best of Asia, Bring on America".[22][23] SM announced that her debut single, "Eat You Up", would be released on October 14, 2008; a remix of the song features rapper Flo Rida.[24]

Image and artistry

The Japanese BoA official site lists her musical influences as hip-hop, and her favourite music and artists as R&B and the musicians Nelly, Britney Spears, Brian McKnight, Janet Jackson, P!nk, and Jay-Z[25] as a result, much of BoA's music is either dance pop or R&B. As she also sings ballads, she is often compared to Ayumi Hamasaki and Hikaru Utada. Her debut album, ID; Peace B, contained urban pop, "slickly produced" ballads, and "upbeat dance tunes". As her career went on, she began experimenting with different styles: Valenti contained mostly ballads; Love and Honesty was an experiment with "harder" R&B and rock music.[10]

BoA has collaborated with "high-profile" artists. Among the Japanese artists she has performed with are the hip-hop group m-flo (for the single "The Love Bug"), Kumi Koda, and house DJ Mondo Grosso. She has performed with Western artists: the song "Flying Without Wings" from her album Next World was a collaboration with Irish band Westlife covering the original song; the Bratz single "Show Me What You Got" was performed with Howie D of the American band Backstreet Boys.[10] Other artists she has collaborated with are the Soul'd Out, Dabo, Verbal (of m-flo), RAH-D, and Yutaka Furakawa (of the band Doping Panda). American rock band Weezer covered "Meri Kuri" on the album Weezer (The Red Album).[26]

BoA is a "top artist" in South Korea and Japan; her popularity in the latter is attributed to her linguistic skills (she speaks and records in Japanese, Korean, and English) and a Japanese interest in Korean pop culture started in the early 2000s when the two countries began promoting cultural exchanges.[27][28][29] BoA's popularity extends throughout Asia; she has fans in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. She has expressed plans to enter a global market; she stated in an interview, “I will [...] get recognition in the U.S. and Europe to become a world-renowned Diva."[30][5] In June 2006, the music video of her Korean song "My Name" became the first music video ever shown on MTV K, an MTV music channel directed at Korean Americans.[7]

Because of her wide appeal, BoA has appeared in advertisements for many brands.[5] Among the brands she has promoted are Olympus,[31] Nike,[32] L'Oreal,[33] Japanese cosmetic company Kosé,[34] Sketchers,[35] and GM Daewoo.[36] Three of her songs have been used as themes. "Every Heart" was used as the theme for the anime InuYasha;[37] "Key of Heart" was the theme song for the Japanese release of Over the Hedge;[38] and "Your Color" was the theme song of the video game Ninety-Nine Nights.[39][40] Her widespread popularity has also made her a "cultural ambassador"; she has represented South Korea in inter-Asian musical events [41][42] and has appeared in an Oxford University Press English-language textbook.[43]

Other activites

From 2001 to 2007, BoA hosted Beat it BoA's World, a radio program on the Japan FM Network.[44]

In 2008, Korean jewelry brand Ramee released Ramee by BoA, a line of jewelry designed by the singer herself.[45][46]

BoA voiced Heather the opossum in the Korean and Japanese version of Over the Hedge.[47]

On June 9, 2008, BoA and nine other artists from around the world recorded an English cover of Wei Wei's "Dedication of Love". Produced by Roald Hoffmann and Brian Alan, the single was used to raise funds for victims of the Sichuan Earthquake. [48][49]

Discography

Main articles: BoA discography and BoA videos

Awards

Main article: List of BoA awards

References

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  32. ^ "BoA Sole Non-Sports Star in Nike Commercial". Digital Chosunilbo. July 31, 2006. Retrieved 2008-08-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  33. ^ "BoA Becomes W700 Million 'World Model'". Digital Chosunilbo. August 2, 2004. Retrieved 2008-08-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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