BOYNEXTDOOR — ‘HOME: DELUXE’ (1st full album repackage)

‘HOME: DELUXE’ is a repackage — a re-release with extra songs — of ‘HOME’, the first full album from six-member BOYNEXTDOOR (Myung Jaehyun, Sungho, Taesan, Woonhak, Leehan, Riwoo). It came out September 28 at 6 p.m. KST with 14 tracks: the nine songs from ‘HOME’ plus the new ‘ANIMAL’ and ‘CLICHE’, a Korean version of their Japanese song ‘Count To Love’, ‘Boom Boom Boom’ and ‘400 Years’, their first song for fans. Title track ‘ANIMAL’ is the group’s first electro-funk song, comparing pushing past your limits toward a better tomorrow to the way animals move.

It sold 700,028 copies in its first week (through October 5) and topped Hanteo’s weekly album chart — past half a million even though it’s a repackage. In Japan it opened at No. 1 on Oricon’s daily album ranking on its October 2 release, and ‘ANIMAL’ passed 1 million Spotify streams on October 3. On October 8 the song won its first music-show trophy, on Mnet’s M Countdown, with 6,453 points.

The official ‘ANIMAL’ MV, filmed in Daejeon, Paju and Incheon, is on the HYBE LABELS YouTube channel. The group performed the song on Mnet’s M Countdown and SBS’s Inkigayo. Stage points: member Riwoo choreographed the dance — his first choreography credit — and the chorus uses real ad-libs from crowds at their live shows. Their tour ‘KNOCK ON Vol.2’ was set to open October 10–11 at LaLa Arena Tokyo Bay in Chiba, Japan.