2021 EP by Baekhyun
Bambi is the third Korean-language extended play (fourth overall) by South Korean singer Baekhyun. It was released on March 30, 2021, by SM Entertainment and contains six tracks, including the single "Amusement Park", released on December 21, 2020, and the lead single of the same name.
On April 20, 2021, it was announced that a remix version of "Bambi" would be released on April 23 as a single titled, iScreaM Vol.8 : Bambi Remixes, working by DJ and producer BRLLNT and h4rdy.[3][4]
Bambi was announced on March 4, 2021, as Baekhyun's final release before his mandatory military service.[5][6] SM Entertainment began releasing teasers and a mood-sampler video on March 10 through Exo's official social media accounts.
The album and its title track's music video were released on March 30 at 6PM KST both digitally and physically.[7]
An hour before the music video and album's release, Baekhyun appeared on a live broadcast through the Naver app V Live, where he promoted and discussed the album.[8] On April 9, Baekhyun won his first Music Bank trophy with "Bambi". Contrary to his previous album releases, Baekhyun did not attend or perform on any Korean music show, citing his service obligations as the reason.[9]
Commercial performance
[edit]On March 30, hours before the album's release, Korean news media reported that pre-orders had surpassed 833,392 copies, making Bambi the most pre-ordered album by a soloist in South Korean history.[7] The record was previously held by Baekhyun's second mini album Delight (2020).[10] Bambi debuted at number one on the week 14 issue of the Gaon Album Chart for the period March 28โApril 3, 2021 giving Baekhyun his third domestic chart-topper.[citation needed] With only two days of availability,[11] the album sold a total of 591,944 copies and topped the monthly chart for March.[12] On April 19, it was announced that the album had surpassed 1 million copies sold, making it Baekhyun's second to reach this milestone after Delight.[13]
Internationally, the album debuted at number 15 on Billboard's World Albums chart in the United States, giving Baekhyun his third entry on the World ranking.[14]
Bambi track listing| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "Love Scene" | Colde (WAVY) | - Colde (WAVY)
- Stally (WAVY)
| WAVY | 3:37 |
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| 2. | "Bambi" | | | Soultriii | 3:33 |
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| 3. | "All I Got" | Kenzie | Tone Stith | Tone Stith | 4:00 |
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| 4. | "Amusement Park" (๋์ด๊ณต์; Norigongwon) | - iHwak
- Jeon Byung-sun (Royal Dive) (Joombas)
- Hong Young-in (Royal Dive) (Joombas)
| - iHwak
- Jeon Byung-sun (Royal Dive) (Joombas)
- Hong Young-in (Royal Dive) (Joombas)
- $aimon
| - iHwak
- Royal Dive (Joombas)
| 4:17 |
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| 5. | "Privacy" | Jane (Channel 23) | - Junny (Mauve Company)
- Aisle (Channel 23)
- Zayson
- Brian Cho
- Emoji (3rdflr)
- Jane (Channel 23)
| | 3:07 |
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| 6. | "Cry for Love" | Kenzie | | LDN Noise | 3:31 |
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| Total length: | 22:03 |
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Year-end chart performance for Bambi
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12
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Certifications and sales
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Bambi on year-end lists
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Top 20 Best K-pop Albums of 2021
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18
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Release history for Bambi
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March 30, 2021
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- ^ Daly, Rhian (April 5, 2021). "Baekhyun โ 'Bambi' mini-album review: smooth, sultry R&B that vividly explores all sides of love". NME. Archived from the original on September 25, 2024. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
- ^ "์์ ๋ฐฑํ 'Bambi', ์ฌ๋ ํ
๋ง R&B ์์
6๊ณก ์๋ก". Archived from the original on 2023-11-26. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "์์ ๋ฐฑํ, 23์ผ 'Bambi' ๋ฆฌ๋ฏน์ค ์ฑ๊ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ..BRLLNTยทh4rdy ์ฐธ์ฌ". Archived from the original on 2023-11-26. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "๋ฐฑํ, 23์ผ 'Bambi' ๋ฆฌ๋ฏน์ค ๊ณต๊ฐ". Archived from the original on 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ [๋จ๋
]์์ ๋ฐฑํ, ์ํฑ ์๋ก๊ฐ ๋์์จ๋ค..3์ ๋ง ์ ์จ๋ฒ ์ปด๋ฐฑ [[Exclusive] Exo's Baekhyun, One Top Solo is back.. New comeback at the end of March]. Herald Pop (in Korean). March 4, 2021. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ Lee, Gyu-lee (March 12, 2021). "Exo's Baekhyun confirms solo comeback, drops duet single with NCT's Doyoung". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- ^ a b Lee, Da-kyum (March 30, 2021). ์์ ๋ฐฑํ, '๋ฐค๋น' ์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋ 83๋ง์ฅ ๋ํ '์์ฒด ์ต๊ณ ' [EXO's Baekhyun, Bambi's pre-orders surpassed 830,000 copies "His personal best"]. Maeil Business News (in Korean). Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ "EXO Official Twitter: Baekhyun's Bambi Forecast". Twitter (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ "'๋ฎค์ง๋ฑ
ํฌ' ๋ฐฑํ, ๋ฐฉ์ก ์ถ์ฐ ์์ด 1์..๋ ๋๋ฒจ๋ฒณ ์ฌ๋ ์ปด๋ฐฑ(์ข
ํฉ)". Naver News (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ Kim, Mi-ji (March 30, 2021). ๋ฐฑํ, ์ ์จ๋ฒ ์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋ 83๋ง์ฅ ๋ํโฆ์์ฒด ์ต๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ก[๊ณต์์
์ฅ] [[Official] Baekhyun, pre-orders for his new album exceeded 830,000 copies...His own best record]. X Sports News (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Hwang, Hye-jin (April 8, 2021). ๋ฐฑํ 'Bambi' ๋ฐ๋งค ์ดํ๋ง 3์ ์๋ฐ ์ฐจํธ 1์ ์ฌํฌ [Baekhyun's "Bambi" was released two days ago. It topped the March album chart.]. Newsen (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Hwang, Hye-jin (April 8, 2021). '์ฐจํธ ํ์ด๋ก' ์์์
, 3์ ๊ฐ์จ์ฐจํธ 4๊ด์ ์น์ธ์ด ["Chart Hero" Lim Young-woong sweeps four Gaon Charts in March]. Newsen (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 7, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim, Mi-ji (April 19, 2021). '์ํฑ ์๋ก' ๋ฐฑํ, '๋ฐค๋น'๋ก ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ์
๋ฌ ๋ฌ์ฑโฆ๊ทธ๋ฃนยท์๋ก ํต์ฐ 7๋ฒ์งธ[๊ณต์์
์ฅ] [[Official Position] 'One Top Solo' Baekhyun achieves a Million-seller with 'Bambi'โฆThis is the seventh time in his group and solo career.]. X Sports News (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 17, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ McIntyre, Hugh (April 11, 2021). "BTS, Baekhyun And IU: Watch These Titles On The World Albums Chart". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
- ^ "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2021-04-19" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
- ^ "Gaon Album Chart โ Week 14, 2021". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
- ^ "Official Album Downloads Chart on 2/4/2021 โ Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- ^ "Baekhyun Chart History (World Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
- ^ "2021๋
Album Chart". Gaon. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
- ^ 2021๋
4์ Album Chart [April 2021 Album Chart]. Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). May 5, 2021. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "South Korean album certifications โ Baekhyun โ Bambi - The 3rd Mini Album" (in Korean). Korea Music Content Association (KMCA). Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ^ Ribeiro, Ana Clara (November 29, 2021). "The 20 Best K-Pop Albums of 2021, Page 1". PopMatters. Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
- ^ "BaekhyunThe 3rd Mini Album - Bambi (Jewel Case Ver.) (Random cover ver.)". SM Town Store. Archived from the original on July 5, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
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