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Face the Sun is the fourth full-length album by SEVENTEEN. It was released on May 27, 2022 with "Hot" serving as the album's title track.

"Darl+ing" was pre-released on April 15, 2022.

A repackage album titled Sector 17 was released on July 18, 2022.

The physical album comes in nine versions: Ep.1 Control, Ep.2 Shadow, Ep.3 Ray, Ep.4 Path, Ep.5 Pioneer; two KiT versions (Ray and Pioneer); a Carat version, and a Weverse version.

Commercial performance[]

According to YG PLUS, as of May 3, Face the Sun has surpassed 1,740,000 stock pre-orders in just a week.[1] On May 20, YG PLUS announced that the album had surpassed 2 million stock pre-orders, marking the group's highest number of stock pre-orders to date.[2]

According to Hanteo Chart, Face the Sun sold a total of 1,758,565 copies on its first day of sales, almost doubling their previous first-day sales record, making them the second artist in Hanteo history to sell over 1 million copies of an album on the first day of its release. Additionally, the album has achieved the third-highest first-day sales of any album in Hanteo history.[3]

As of 1 p.m. KST on May 28, Face the Sun reached Number 1 on the iTunes Top Albums charts in at least 22 different regions while "Hot" hit Number 1 on the iTunes Top Songs charts in at least 26 different regions.[3]

According to Hanteo Chart, Face the Sun surpassed 2 million album sales on June 2, making SEVENTEEN the second artist in Hanteo history to surpass 2 million sales in the first week of release.[4] They later reported that the album sold a total of 2,067,769 copies in the first week of its release (May 27 to June 2), marking the highest first-week sales of any album released in 2022.[5]

On June 10, the day of its release in Japan, Face the Sun debuted at Number 1 on Oricon's daily album chart after selling 297,031 copies. SEVENTEEN's new title track "Hot" also previously topped Japanese streaming service Line Music's daily chart, while Face the Sun topped Line Music's daily album chart for five consecutive days before topping the weekly album chart.[6]

On June 12, Billboard announced that Face the Sun had debuted at Number 7 on their Top 200 Albums chart, marking SEVENTEEN's first time entering the top 10 on the Billboard 200, as well as their third entry on the chart overall.[7]

As of July 23, Face the Sun remained on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart for the sixth consecutive week.[8]

Face the Sun received an official double platinum certification in Japan.[9]

On February 9, 2023, Circle Chart announced that Face the Sun received a triple million certification.[10]

Track list[]

  1. "Darl+ing" - 2:56
  2. "Hot" - 3:17
  3. "Don Quixote" - 2:52
  4. "March" - 3:16
  5. "Domino" - 3:34
  6. "Shadow" - 3:33
  7. "'Bout You (노래해)" - 2:42
  8. "If You Leave Me" - 3:32
  9. "Ash" - 3:21
  10. "A Message From SEVENTEEN" - 1:02 (iTunes/Apple Music only (Regular ver.))
  11. "Darl+ing" music video Behind - 10:57 (Apple Music only (Extended ver.))

Awards[]

Song Music show Date
"Hot" M Countdown (Mnet) June 2, 2022[11]
Music Bank (KBS) June 3, 2022[12]

Gallery[]

References[]

Video links[]

"Hot"
"Don Quixote"
Face the Sun

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