2016 EP by Lay
Lose Control is the debut extended play by Chinese singer Lay (Zhang Yixing). It was released on October 28, 2016 in South Korea and China by SM Entertainment and distributed by KT Music. The EP features six tracks in total, including the two singles "what U need?" and "Lose Control".
The EP was a commercial success, peaking at number one on the Gaon Album Chart. It was the seventh best-selling album of 2016 in South Korea according to Gaon, and was the number one performing album of the year on the YinYueTai chart in China.
Background and release
[edit]On September 21, 2016 it was announced that Lay would release his first solo album in October.[1] "what U need?" was released on October 7 as Lay's birthday gift for his fans.[2] On October 21 it was revealed that Lay would release his first mini-album Lose Control on October 28 in South Korea and China and that the album consists of 6 Chinese tracks. The single "what U need?" was included in this mini-album. Lay was a producer, and personally in charge of the composition, arrangement and writing the lyrics of all the songs.[3][4] On October 25, 2016, S.M. Entertainment released a teaser for the music video of "Lose Control". Lose Control was officially released on October 28 through online and regular stores.[5]
The song "Lose Control" stayed as #1 on Billboard's China V Chart for 6 weeks in a row. It also topped "Alibaba Top 100 Weekly Songs" for 14 weeks in a row and ranked #1 on YinYueTai's TOP 100 Songs of 2016. "what U need?" hit the #4 spot on the China V Chart as well as in Billboard's World Digital Songs. The song reached number one on the Alibaba real time music chart in China.[6]
On October 27, Lay held a press conference for the mini-album at Shanghai Town & Country Community in China.[7] Lay performed "what U need?" for the first time on October 9 at the 2016 Asia Song Festival in Busan, South Korea.[8][9] On November 15, Lay made his debut performance on the music program The Show.[10]
Commercial performance
[edit]The physical album sales exceeded 50,000 copies a day after its release.[11] On the first weekend have exceeded 97,000, and had sold more than 125,000 in 7 days.[12] Over 1,000,000 copies of the digital album have been sold on Xiami.[13] The album ranked at #1 for consecutively 6 weeks on the YinYueTai China Weekly Song Charts. The album sold 260,000 physical copies in 2016.[14]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "Lose Control (ๅคฑๆง)" | Lay, CC | Devine Channel, Lay | Devine Channel, Lay | 3:31 |
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| 2. | "what U need? (ไฝ ่ฆไปไน)" | Lay, CC | Devine-Channel, Lay | Devine-Channel, Lay | 4:00 |
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| 3. | "Tonight" | Wang Ya Jun, Lay, CC | Devine-Channel, Lay | Devine-Channel, Lay | 3:33 |
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| 4. | "MYM" | Lay | Command Freaks, Lay | Command Freaks, Lay, Maeng Yonze | 4:03 |
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| 5. | "MYM" (acoustic version) | Lay | Lay | Lay, Maeng Yonze | 4:47 |
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| 6. | "Relax (ๅฎๆ)" | Lay | Devine-Channel, Lay | Devine-Channel, Lay | 4:21 |
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| Total length: | 24:05 |
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| Chart (2016)
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| South Korean Albums (Gaon)[19]
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1
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| China (digital)[22]
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1,169,584
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| Japan[23]
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2,689
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| South Korea[24]
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277,439
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] ์์ ์ฒซ ์๋ก ์ถ๊ฒฉโฆ๋ ์ด, ไธญ ์๋ก๋ฐ๋ท". September 21, 2016. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ "๋ ์ด, ์ค๊ตญ ์๋ก ์จ๋ฒ ์๋ก ๊ณก ์์ผ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ Kang, E. (October 20, 2016). "Release Date And Details Of EXO Member Lay's First Mini Album Revealed". Soompi. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ EXO. "[Vyrl] EXO : #์์ #๋ ์ด, ์ฒซ ๋ฏธ๋์จ๋ฒ 'LOSE CONTROL' 10์ 28์ผ ์ค์ 1์ ํ์ค ๋์ ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ค๊ตญ์ด ๊ณก 6ํธ๋์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ". Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ^ "EXO's Lay To Release First Mini Album 'LOSE CONTROL' On Oct. 28". International Business Times. 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
- ^ "์์ ๋ ์ด, ไธญ ๊ฐ์ ์ค ์ต๊ณ ์ฑ์ 'ํด์ธ์ฐจํธ ์ฌํฌ'" (in Korean). 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
- ^ EXO_EN. "[Vyrl] EXO_EN : #LAY to drop his 1st solo album '#LOSECONTROL' and #MV Oct 28, 1AM (KS". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ Han Hyuk-seung (October 9, 2016). "EXO ๋ ์ด '์๋ก๋ก ๋ฉ์ง๊ฒ'". My Daily (in Korean). Retrieved October 9, 2016.
- ^ "KPOP NEWS โ [Video] EXOโฒs Lay Surprises Fans with โฒwhat U need?โฒ on Birthday | Mwave". mwave.interest.me. Archived from the original on October 10, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
- ^ "[๋จ๋
] ์์ ๋ ์ด, ์๋ก๋ก ้์์
๋ฐฉ์ก ํ๋โฆ'๋ฃจ์ฆ์ปจํธ๋กค' ์ฒซ์ ". Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ^ "[๋ธ๋ ์ดํฌ๋ด์ค] ์์ ๋ ์ด, 'LOSE CONTROL'๋ก ๊ตญ๋ด ์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋ 20๋ง์ฅ ์ด์ด ไธญ ์ฐจํธ๊น์ง ์ ์". ๋ธ๋ ์ดํฌ๋ด์ค. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ^ "Lay's new album "Lose Control" sets impressive records โ cpoplove". cpoplove. 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ^ "Lose Control on Xiami". h.xiami.com.
- ^ "์์, ์ฌํด ๋์ ์๋ฐํ๋งค๋ 213๋ง์ฅ ๋ํ..'์ญ๋๊ธ ๊ธฐ๋ก'". entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Naver Corporation. December 28, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ "Gaon Album Chart โ Week 46" (in Korean). Gaon. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ^ "Oricon Album Chart โ October Week 5" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ^ "Lay Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
- ^ "Lay Chart History (World Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
- ^ "Gaon Album Chart โ November, 2016". Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ "Vchart Album Sales Chart" (in Chinese). YinYueTai. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "2016 Gaon Album Chart". Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ *"Lose Control on Xiami". Xiami. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Oricon Album Chart โ November Week 1". Oricon. 21 November 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ^ Cumulative sales for "Lose Control":
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