Candy Pop (Twice song)
"Candy Pop" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Twice. It is the group's second Japanese maxi single, featuring three other tracks. The song was pre-released as a digital single on January 12, 2018, and the CD single was released on February 7 by Warner Music Japan.
The single album recorded the highest number of copies sold on the first day of sales out of all Korean girl groups who debuted in Japan.
Background and release
On December 22, 2017, Twice announced the release of their second Japanese single titled "Candy Pop", along with several teaser images for the new track. A sneak peek of its B-side track titled "Brand New Girl" was also released the same day, as it was selected as the commercial music for Line's Clova Friends speaker. On January 12, 2018, "Candy Pop" was pre-released as a digital single on various online music portals. On January 23, "Brand New Girl" was pre-released as a digital single on Line Music.The CD single was officially released on February 7. "Candy Pop" and "Brand New Girl" were also digitally released on various South Korean music sites the same day.
Composition
"Candy Pop" was composed by Woo Min Lee "collapsedone" and Mayu Wakisaka, who previously collaborated with Twice on "Knock Knock".Music video
The full music video of "Candy Pop" was uploaded online on January 12, 2018. The anime-style video was directed by Takahiko Kyōgoku, best known for his work as the director of anime television series Love Live!, in collaboration with Naive Creative Production, the team behind most of Twice's previous music videos. The story line was written by Park Jin-young. There are also hidden characters which were illustrated by member Chaeyoung.It features the nine members as cartoon singers in a candy-coated realm, filming on set of a music video that a human girl is watching. They see the girl who looks lonely and sad, and want to encourage her. With the help of the animated character of Park Jin-young, Twice transforms into human, escapes the candy land and heads to the human world in a candy car to meet the girl.
The music video ranked at No. 6 on 2018 YouTube's Top Trend Music Video in Japan, the second group's song on the list.
Promotion
"Candy Pop" and "Brand New Girl" were first performed during Twice Showcase Live Tour 2018 "Candy Pop", which began on January 19, 2018 in Seto, Aichi. "Candy Pop" was also performed on Music Station on February 2. "Candy Pop" and "Brand New Girl" were also featured on TBS's Count Down TV on February 3 and 10, respectively.Commercial performance
The CD single debuted atop the daily ranking of Oricon Singles Chart with 117,486 units sold on its release day. It recorded the highest number of copies sold on the first day of sales out of all Korean girl groups who debuted in Japan. The CD single topped the weekly Oricon Singles Chart with 265,758 copies sold. On Oricon Digital Singles Chart, it debuted at number 14 with 7,517 downloads. It was also reported that it sold 333,633 copies in pre-orders, while Billboard Japan recorded 303,746 unit sales from February 5–11, 2018. On February 24, "Candy Pop" exceeded 400,000 shipments.Track listing
Content production
Credits adapted from CD single liner notes.Locations
; Recording- JYPE Studios, Seoul, South Korea
- Mirrorball Studios, North Hollywood, California
- I to I Communications, Tokyo, Japan
- Sterling Sound, New York City, New York
Personnel
- Song Ji-eun "Shannen" – executive producer
- Jimmy Jeong – executive producer
- Cho Hae-sung – executive producer
- J. Y. Park "The Asiansoul" – producer
- Yasuhiro Suziki – strategic planning
- Rinko Narita – A&R
- Lee Ji-hoon – A&R
- Choi Ji-yeon – A&R
- Ayumi Saiki – artist and fan marketing
- Lee Seong-ah – artist and fan marketing
- Kim Sung-bub – artist and fan marketing
- Hong Mina – artist and fan marketing
- Kang Min-ju – artist and fan marketing
- Shin Hyun-kuk – Twice team
- Chung Hae-joon – Twice team
- Joo Bo-ra – Twice team
- Shin Seon-hwa – Twice team
- Shin Sae-rom – Twice team
- Kim Na-yeon – Twice team
- Yoo Jong-beom – Twice team
- Park Rae-chang – Twice team
- Jun Yong-jin – Twice team
- Yang Da-seol – Twice team
- Jung Kyoung-hee – administration
- Park Nam-yong – performance director
- Kim Hyung-woong – performance director
- Yun Hee-so – performance director
- Na Tae-hoon – performance director
- Yoo Kwang-yeol – performance director
- Kang Da-sol – performance director
- Lee Tae-sub – recording engineer
- Choi Hye-jin – recording engineer
- Eom Se-hee – recording engineer
- Lim Hong-jin – recording engineer
- Jang Han-soo – recording engineer
- Lee Jeong-yun "Lia" – publishing
- Kim Min-ji – publishing
- Shin Da-ye – publishing
- Cho Hyun-woo – publishing
- Kaz Kobayashi – executive producer
- Hayato Kajino – supervisor
- Rie Sawaoka – supervisor
- Yukiyasu "German" Fujii – chief A&R
- Toshio Kai – A&R
- Nao Fuse – A&R
- Norihiro Fukuda – A&R
- Hidetsugu Sato – sales promotion
- Naoki Takami – digital planning and marketing
- Mamoru Fukumitsu – WMJ "JYP room"
- Han Gui-taek – WMJ "JYP room"
- Kimi Yoneda – WMJ "JYP room"
- Eom Eun-kyung – WMJ "JYP room"
- Hong Mina – WMJ "JYP room"
- Kim Jang-ho – WMJ "JYP room"
- Masayo Kuroda – product coordination
- Mizuho Makizaka – A&R secretary
- Momoko Kitasato – A&R secretary
- Goei Ito – music director
- Yu-ki Kokubo – recording director
- Satoshi Sasamoto – Pro Tools operation
- Toshiyuki Suzuki – art direction
- Yasuhiro Uaeda – design
- Tommy – photography
- Masaaki Mitsuzono – jacket photo style director
- Choi Hee-sun - music video style director
- Lim Ji-hyun - music video style director
- F. Choi - music video style director
- Lee Jin-young - music video assistant stylist
- Heo Su-yeon - music video assistant stylist
- Jung Nan-young – hair director
- Choi Ji-young – hair director
- Son Eun-hee – hair director
- Jo Sang-ki – makeup director
- Jeon Dallae – makeup director
- Zia – makeup director
- Won Jung-yo – makeup director
- Choi Su-ji – assistant makeup director
- Kim Young-jo – music video director
- Yoo Seung-woo – music video director
- Takahiko Kyōgoku – music video animation director
- Hiroyuki Katō – music video animation producer
- Han Gui-taek – music video making and jacket shooting making movie director
- Yu Yamaguchi – DVD authoring
- Min Lee "collapsedone" – all instruments and computer programming
- Na.Zu.Na – all instruments
- Twice – background vocals
- Ikuko Tsutsumi – background vocals
- Mayu Wakisaka – background vocals and vocal recording director
- Tony Maserati – mixing engineer
- Naoki Yamada – mixing engineer
- Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound – mastering engineer
Charts