Group: Super Junior-M
Main Group: Super Junior
Company: SM Entertainment - Label SJ - Avex Taiwan
Debut Date: April 8, 2008
Status: Hiatus
Average Age at debut: 21.4
Total Years: 14 - Active for: 5
Discography
Studio Albums: 2
Extended Plays: 3
Number of Singles: 11
First Single: U
Members
Name: Sungmin
Birthdate: January 1, 1986
Position: Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer
Unit: Super Junior, Super Junior-T, Super Junior-Happy
Nationality: Korean
Name: Eunhyuk
Birthdate: April 4, 1986
Position: Main Rapper, Sub Vocalist, Main Dancer
Unit: Super Junior, Super Junior-T, Super Junior-Happy, Super Junior D&E
Nationality: Korean
Name: Siwon
Birthdate: April 7, 1986
Position: Sub Vocalist, Visual, Center
Unit: Super Junior
Nationality: Korean
Name: Zhoumi
Birthdate: April 16, 1986
Position: Lead Vocalist
Unit: SM The Ballad
Nationality: Chinese
Name: Donghae
Birthdate: October 15, 1986
Position: Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Sub Rapper
Unit: Super Junior, Super Junior D&E
Nationality: Korean
Name: Ryeowook
Birthdate: June 21, 1987
Position: Main Vocalist
Unit: Super Junior, Super Junior-K.R.Y.
Nationality: Korean
Name: Kyuhyun
Birthdate: February 3, 1988
Position: Main Vocalist, Maknae
Unit: Super Junior, Super Junior-K.R.Y.
Nationality: Korean
Former Members
Name: Hangeng
Birthdate: February 9, 1984
Position: Leader, Sub Vocalist, Lead Dancer
Unit: Super Junior
Nationality: Chinese
Date Left: December 21, 2009
Years Active: 1 Year, 8 Months, 14 Days
Name: Henry
Birthdate: October 11, 1989
Position: Lead Vocalist, Sub Rapper, Main Dancer, Maknae
Nationality: Taiwanese Canadian
Date Left: April 30, 2018
Years Active: 10 Years, 23 Days
Zodiac
Group: Aries - Rat
Western
3 Aries
2 Aquarius & Libra
1 Capricorn & Gemini
Eastern
5 Tigers
1 Dragon, Hare, Rat, & Snake
Notes: Years Active means just the years they were actually releasing as a group. For example if they released two singles every year but skipped a year & weren’t active as a group, I didn’t count that year no singles were released (or albums).
Links
Info: https://kprofiles.com/super-junior-m-members-profile/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Junior-M
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmS-sBfQjLA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ku1XJc-dE
Group Masterlist
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Super Junior (슈퍼주니어) - SORRY, SORRY (쏘리 쏘리)
This week’s rec is one of my absolute favourites: Super Junior’s SORRY, SORRY!
Quick ramble before we get into this: when this song released back in 2009, it was the first time I ever listened to a ‘kpop’ song. I’m not even kidding when I say that this song and entire album was a game changer for me. This was my stepping stone into kpop and, consequently, Korean culture and it really does mean a lot for me! Like, bruh can you even believe that March 2021 will mark me down for being a fan of Korean music for over 12 YEARS. This is honestly such a classic kpop song, as well as being one of the most well known in my opinion.
Anyhow! Back to the point:
watch the MV here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QA3m58DQw&ab_channel=SMTOWN
SORRY, SORRY was released March 3rd, 2009 as a digital single before coming the title track of their 3rd studio album of the same name. The song was their comeback as a complete group since their activities as subgroup in Mainland China and South Korea in 2008. It was Super Junior’s most successful single on the music charts and won them a sum total of 10 recognitions throughout their promoting period.
SORRY, SORRY was a new style for Super Junior, a dance song stimulated with heavy electronic beats in the genre known as ‘urban minimal funky’, and unlike their previous releases. It’s a ‘polished and trendy’ dance song, with an exciting beat and earworm chorus, with influences of American funk and contemporary R&B.
This song was an international hit, though not as we may know it today. Rather, it became the best selling k-pop album in Taiwan, Thailand, China and the Philippines, where they credited Sorry, Sorry to have been the first k-pop album to reach number one in the music charts from the country. It was an instant hit, and stayed number one in Taiwan for an astounding 37-weeks in their k-pop singles chart. Sorry, Sorry achieved both national and international success and this has been their best-selling single in South Korea since.
For fans too, who had been waiting for a return of all 13 members, this was an exciting (if not bittersweet) moment for them, as this marked the last time they came together as a full group again before two members, Hangeng and Kibum, left the group.
Outside of South Korea, SORRY, SORRY, was heavily promoted in other Asian communities. Over 51 subway trains in Taipei were covered in Sorry, Sorry advertisements from April 17th through to May 7th, to promote the Taiwanese release which came out on April 17th. Among these trains was one called the Super Junior Train, which was entirely covered with Super Junior posters.
Not only that, but this song had a big cultural impact, the dance having been covered many times not just by idols, but professional sports players as well. In April 2009, volleyball player Kim Yeonkoung from Heungdeuk Life stated if her team won the 2008-09 NH Nonghyup professional volleyball championship, they would perform the routine. They won and performed this at the award ceremony. Football player Kim Seungyong danced to Sorry, Sorry after scoring a goal against Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in the 2009 K League. Basketball players have danced to it at the Dongbu Promy Professional Basketball season awards ceremony too, an event which marked the end of the season in professional basketball league.
The honour guard of the South Korean Air Force has danced to Sorry, Sorry (alongside Gee by SNSD) ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony of Airforce Museum at Sanjicheon, Jeju City. Employees of Korean Air created a parody group called 직장인 슈퍼주니어 (jikjjangin super junior) which literally translates to Office Workers Super Juniors, and performed the choreography at an in-house concert held at the Korean Air HQ.
Finally, in the Philippines, a video of inmates known as the CPDRC Dancing Inmates, from the Cebu Provinvial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre, dancing to the song went viral after being uploaded to YouTube.
members, left to right. back row: Ryeowook, Eunhyuk, Kangin, Donghae, Yesung. middle row: Heechul, Sungmin, Kibum, Shindong. front row: Hangeng, Leeteuk, Siwon, Kyuhyun.
Super Junior was originally a 12-member group formed under SM Entertainment in November 2005. They debuted with their single Twins (Knock Out). They later became a 13-member group when their youngest, Cho Kyuhyun, was added in May 2006, in line with their release U. Known by other nicknames such as SJ or SuJu, Super Junior have been dubbed by the media and the Korean Music Awards as the Kings of the Hallyu Wave due to their prominent contributions in the Korean wave.
With the release of Sorry, Sorry, their best-selling single, they launched into international recognition. Throughout the years of their career, they have been divided into smaller groups, being able to target different music industries and audiences at the same time. The members have all individually branched out into other Entertainment Industry roles such as hosting, presenting and acting. Due to their success and popularity as all-rounded entertainers, they have led other Korean entertainment companies to begin training their groups in other aspects of the entertainment industry, rather than just singing, dancing and rapping.
These other groups included: Super Junior-M, their Chinese sub-unit. Super Junior-T, their Trot sub-unit, Super Junior-H, their ‘Happy’ sub-unit. Two other more recent sub-units are Super Junior K.R.Y - Kyuhyun, Ryeowook and Yesung, their ballad sub-unit, and finally - my personal favourite - Super Junior D&E, comprised of Donghae & Eunhyuk, main dancers and best friends within the group, who cover a myriad of genres in comparison.
Super Junior was the best-selling k-pop artist for four years in a row. They have earned 13 music awards from MAMA, 19 from the Golden Disc Awards, are the second singing group to win Favourite Artist Korea at the 2008 MTV Asia Awards after jtL in 2003. 2012: they were nominated ‘Best Asian Act’ in MTV Europe Music Awards. 2015: they won the ‘International Artist’ and ‘Best Fandom’ awards at the Teen Choice Awards. March 2020, Super Junior broke their own record topping the Korean Album Chart of Taiwan’s KKBOX for a jaw-dropping 122 consecutive weeks since 2017, with their 8th album Play, the 8th album repackage REPLAY in 2018, the 9th album Time_Slip from 2019 and the 9th album repackage Timeless, 2020.
As it stands right now, Super Junior have only 9 active members left in their group. In 2009, Hangeng filed a lawsuit against SM, which saw him stop promoting until he finally left the company in 2011. Kibum also took a step back from the group in 2009, opting to focus more on his acting career through a temporary hiatus. Though he appeared in the MV for Sorry, Sorry, and was featured in promotional adverts for their upcoming concert Super Show 2, he did not attend. His contract ended with SM in 2015. Kangin left in 2019, following another DUI incident.
Though Sungmin has not been classified as left and his contract with SM is still active, he has been on hiatus since 2015.
Super Junior’s fandom name is E.L.F, standing for Everlasting Friend and their fandom colour is Pearl Sapphire Blue.
Other songs I would recommend are (it’s long): the entire SORRY, SORRY album, It’s You, Bonamana, Boom, 2YA2YAO!, the entire Sexy, Free & Single album/repackage, A-CHA, Oops!! ft f(x), 라라라라 Be My Girl, Opera, Lo Siento, Black Suit, SUPER Clap, Scene Stealer, Good Day for a Good Day, Magic, Devil, This is Love, MAMACITA, Evanesce, SUPERMAN, Mr. Simple, Twins (Knock Out) and honestly so so so SO much more than I can remember right now!
I don’t listen to their sub-units as often, considering M, T & H are pretty much disbanded at this point.
But recs for D&E are as followed: OPPA OPPA, Danger, ‘Bout You, 너는 나만큼 (Growing Pains), I Wanna Dance (사네), 촉이 와 (Can You Feel It?), 아직도 난 (Still You), B.A.D, Skeleton.
members left to right: Shindong, Kyuhyun, Leeteuk, Donghae, Heechul, Eunhyuk, Siwon, Ryeowook and Yesung.
photo references:
https://www.hellokpop.com/kpop/super-junior-sorry-sorry-ten-years/
https://www.last.fm/music/Super+Junior/SORRY,+SORRY/+images/2549839ddfec45aa8e928b374cf3df2d
https://kprofiles.com/super-junior-profile/
references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry,_Sorry_(Super_Junior_song)
https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/117/0002009158
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Junior
https://kprofiles.com/super-junior-profile/
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