5-Star (stylized as★★★★★) is the third Korean-language studio album (fourth overall) by South Korean boy bandStray Kids. It was released on June 2, 2023, throughJYP Entertainment andRepublic Records, following their seventh EPMaxident (2022). A combination ofhip-hop,pop, andelectronica elements,5-Star lyrically addresses themes of uniqueness, confidence, and aspirations.
On the album,3Racha worked with songwriters and producers Versachoi, Chae Gang-hae, Restart, Zack Djurich, Millionboy, Trippy, Nickko Young, Kyle Reynolds,Chris LaRocca, and Jun2, as well as member Felix. It comprises twelve tracks, including the lead single "S-Class", the Korean version of "The Sound", originally from the group'sJapanese album of the same name and "Mixtape: Time Out" from the Mixtape Project, and features a guest appearance fromTiger JK on the track "Topline".
5-Star generally received generally positive reviews from music critics. Commercially, the album peaked at number one in South Korea, Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, and the United States. It was certified quintuple million byKorea Music Content Association (KMCA), and gold in France, Poland, and the United States, and became the second global best-selling album in 2023, according to theInternational Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The album won Top K-Pop Album at the2023Billboard Music Awards, Artist of the Year – Album from13th Circle Chart Music Awards, and Best Album (Bonsang) at the38th Golden Disc Awards.
Stray Kids' follow-up Korean-language album toMaxident was first mentioned in an interview with the news outletThe Fact in October 2022, after the group won the Artist of the Year (Bonsang) and Fan N Star Four Star Award atThe Fact Music Awards in 2022. Member Seungmin stated that they would return with an "amazing" album the following year, possibly including new sub-unit combinations and exploring newmusic genres.[1] On New Year's Day in 2023, the group uploaded the video "Step Out 2023" to their social media, outlining their accomplishments in 2022 and plans for the new year, including two album releases.[2]
In early March 2023,Hankook Ilbo first reported that Stray Kids had already finished filming a music video for the new album's lead single and that it was scheduled for release in April.[3] On the same day,JYP Entertainment subsequently confirmed the music video filming, although not the release date.[4]Financial analysts and researchers also estimated that the group's new album would come in the second quarter of 2023.[5][6][7] In late April, after the group concluded theirManiac World Tour,SpoTV News reported that the group would release a new album in early June.[8] JYP Entertainment confirmed the news.[9] Titled5-Star, the album was formally announced via a trailer on April 28, set to be released on June 2.[10] The title refers to the lead single "S-Class", playing around two words "special" and "star".[11]
Tiger JK (pictured) features on the fifth track "Topline".
5-Star is 36 minutes and 35 seconds long, consisting of twelve tracks in the genres ofhip-hop,pop, andelectronica.[12][13]3Racha—an in-house production team of Stray Kids members Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han—wrote and produced all songs on the album. Other contributors include Versachoi, Chae Gang-hae, Restart, Zack Djurich, Millionboy, Trippy, Nickko Young, Kyle Reynolds, Chris LaRocca, and Jun2, as well as member Felix who participated in two tracks, "Super Bowl" and "FNF". Korean-American rapperTiger JK features on and co-wrote the fifth track "Topline".[14] A "strange yet special" release, the album centered on the theme of the group's uniqueness, confidence, aspirations, and achieving their goal, based on their discourse of growth and identity.[15][11]
The opening track, "Hall of Fame", is a fusion ofR&B andtrap metal,[16] expressing Stray Kids' ambition to make their own history and engrave their names on thehall of fame.[11] It includes lyrical references to American inventor and businessmanThomas Edison and astronautNeil Armstrong, English playwright and poetWilliam Shakespeare andtheoretical physicistStephen Hawking, Italian astronomer and physicistGalileo Galilei, and South Korean professionalLeague of Legends playerFaker.[17] "S-Class" is a hip-hop track with elements ofboom bap,old school, and pop,[18] expressing Stray Kids' confidence and "emphasiz[ing] their specialness",[19] and containing a message of being "the most eccentric among the unusual kids, and the brightest among the special kids".[20] "Item", avideo game-themed hip-hop track,[16] displays their confidence of synergy and ability on [their] own without any special items.[11]
Originally titled "God's Menu" and intended to be the lead single from their first studio albumGo Live (2020), the fully English-language track "Super Bowl", showing homage tothe American football championship game of the same name, compares Stray Kids' music as cooking and a food dish,[11] driven bytechno sound,[16] and including whispering in a manner similar toASMR.[21] "Topline" is a minimalistic boom bap, old-school andEast-Coast hip-hop track,[16] comparing their ambition to drawing a line on the top,[11] while "DLC", short for "Dance Like Crazy", is amoombahton,deep house, andtropical house song withEurodance influences, driven by piano, flute-like synth, and brass.[16][22] The song expresses a feeling of leaving any worries behind and dancing like crazy.[23][11] "Get Lit", a mix of moombahton andbounceEDM,[16] depicts an "escape from cramped daily life and dying today",[24] while "Collision" is ajazzy R&B track featuringsaxophone sample,[22][16] conveying the theme of relationship conflict as the collision of two planets.[11]
On April 28, 2023, Stray Kids uploaded a three-minute trailer to announce5-Star.[30] Based on Korean gameI Am Ground, the trailer sees the members each introducing themselves with their chosen nickname in individual shots before uniting in the same scene.[31][32] Pre-orders of album opened on the same day as the trailer's release, being made available in five versions with 12 different covers: limited, standard A, B and C, and eightdigipacks.[33] The album'sSolar System-styled track listing,constellation-styled scheduler, and digital cover artwork were posted to social media on April 30. The track listing confirmed "S-Class" as thelead single, and included the Korean version of "The Sound", originally from theirJapanese album of the same name and the 2022 single "Mixtape: Time Out" from the Mixtape Project as part of the album.[34]
Prior to the release, the group teased snippets of five tracks of5-Star via the series "Unveil: Track": "DLC",[35] "FNF",[36] "Get Lit",[37] "Topline",[38] and "Youtiful",[39] as well as the other tracks via thelive action-and-comics-fusionmashup video.[40] The album's teaser photos were revealed in four sets. The first depicts the members wearing colorful outfits and posing in front of 1980s-styled backgrounds combiningKorean traditional art and everyday life items.[41][42] The second, alongside accompanying mood films, shows the melancholy-eyed members, wearing "mix-and-matched" outfits, posting on the street at night illuminated by street light.[43][44] The third expresses the members, wearing the same outfits as the trailer, posting with various music instruments and loudspeakers,[45] while the fourth shows the members in black clothes with thevintage cars background, addingoriental-styled "kitsch" illustrations ofpine trees, clouds, tigers, andcranes.[46]
5-Star was released on June 2, 2023, in conjunction with the music video for "S-Class",[47] preceded by two music video teasers.[48][49] The documentary seriesIntro "5-Star", consisting of three episodes, was released between June 1 and 11.[50] Starting on the release date, Stray Kids promoted the album and performed the lead single at severalmusic programs, such asMusic Bank,[51][52]Show! Music Core,[53][54]Inkigayo,[55][56] andM Countdown.[57] To commemorate the release, Stray Kids partnered with Soundwave for launching apop-up store from June 3 to 18 atSeongdong-gu, Seoul,[58] as well as launching SKZoo characters'sticker set forKakaoTalk on June 27.[59] Stray Kids' space-themed third fan meetingPilot: For 5-Star supported the album, held atKSPO Dome from July 1 to 2, which they previously specified as a mysterious "What's Next" on the promotional scheduler,[60] and debuted the performance of "Item".[61] The group headlined theLollapalooza music festival inParis on July 21, performing songs from5-Star: "S-Class", "Topline", "Item", and "Super Bowl",[62] and embarked on their all-domeconcert tour5-Star Dome Tour in South Korea and Japan from August to October.[63]
South Koreanmusic critic Kim Do-heon praised the album as "a clever piece of work" and "a well-thought-outK-popblockbuster", because of "the performance shown by the members who claim to be madmen, the spectacular production, and the mature narrative of growth."[66] Crystal Bell fromNME awarded the album five out of five stars, writing that it "will make you feel like you arrived at a party that's already in full-swing. [...]5-Star is disorienting in that way. But once your senses adapt to the frenzy and your body syncs to the rhythm, you lose yourself in itsluminescence."[22]
Writing forIze, Kim Sung-dae revealed that he "does not want to give [5-Star] five stars as the title", and questioned, "Isn't it a blessing in some way that incompleteness can be a compliment?" He summarized that "to critics, five stars mean a perfect score, but to Stray Kids,5-Star just means 'weird and brilliant.'"[15] Lee Jae-hoon ofNewsis dubbed the album as a "K-pop adventure".[67]AllMusic's Neil Z. Young described that the album "wild ride[s] through genres and emotions," and "playing out like a hit to the head with a dozen anthems that only briefly allow for a breather."[64] Jeong Da-yeol fromIZM commented the album "although the instrumental source and composition of each section with irregularities in the genre may take on a crude appearance, it took a familiar ride, arranged addictive repetitions, and hit the listeners' brains safely."[65]
On May 30, 2023, two days before the release, JYP Entertainment reported that5-Star had exceeded 4.93 million pre-orders, and 5.13 million two days later.[79] It became the most pre-ordered release inK-pop history, breaking the record ofSeventeen'sFML (2023) with 4.64 million copies.[80] Later, it was surpassed bySeventeen's EPSeventeenth Heaven in October.[81] According to the Hanteo Chart, the album sold 2,392,666 copies on its first day of release,[82] and later 4,617,499 in its first week, becomingthe fastest first-week selling album in South Korea, bestingFML.[83]5-Star debuted at number one on theCircle Album Chart for the issue dated May 28 – June 3, 2023, and topped for two consecutive weeks.[84] It sold 4,330,039 copies in its first week,[85] and 5,242,486 copies in June,[86] certified quintuple million byKorea Music Content Association (KMCA).[87]
5-Star debuted at number one on theBillboard 200 for the issue dated June 17, 2023, becoming the group's third entry and third consecutive number-one album in the United States. With 249,500equivalent album units, it marks the fourth-largest week by any album released in 2023, including 235,000 pure album sales—231,000 CDs and 4,000 digital albums—the biggest sales week of 2023 and sinceTaylor Swift'sMidnights (2022), opened with over 1.1 million units.5-Star is also the 19th overall non-English-language number-one album, and the third of 2023, followingKarol G'sMañana Será Bonito, andTomorrow X Together'sThe Name Chapter: Temptation.[88] It also topped the specific-genreWorld Albums.[89] The album reached number 82 on the 2023Billboard 200 year-end chart, the highest charted K-pop album in the year.[90]5-Star receivedgold certification fromRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 27, their first album to do so.[91]
^The IFPI Global Albums chart ranks, in order, the albums that generated the most money globally across streaming, download, and physical record sales (combined) in a calendar year. The Global Album Sales Chart measures global unit sales across all physical formats, as well as full album downloads.
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