Hurricane Venus is the sixth Korean languagestudio album by South Korean singer BoA, released in South Korea on 2 August 2010 by SM Entertainment. The release marks the 10th anniversary of BoA's career debut, and is her first Korean-language album since the release of Girls on Top in 2005. A repackaged edition of the album, retitled Copy & Paste, was released on 27 September.
Announcement
In March 2010, SM Entertainment announced that BoA was to release a new Korean-language album—her first since 2005—to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her 2000 debut. BoA was said to be in the process of selecting songs for the album, and would return to South Korea following the completion of her Japanese tour to promote Identity in April.
Promotion and distribution
The music video for "Game" was released to various websites on the weekend of 24–25 July, while the tracks for both "Game" and "Yeop Saram " were released on 28 July. "Game" entered the Gaon weekly singles chart at number eleven. A music video for the album's title track has been filmed in 3-D by Pace HD—who worked on the 2009 filmAvatar—and Samsung Electronics. The song "Hurricane Venus" was released ahead of the album on 2 August. Hurricane Venus was released in South Korea on 5 August 2010. Following its release the album was ranked number one on the Hanteo album sales chart, and in the top five of other music charts such as Naver and Soribada. The album is also due to be released in other Asian countries, including Thailand, the Philippines, China, Indonesia and Japan. On 6 August, BoA performed "Hurricane Venus" and "Dangerous" on the Korean television programme Music Bank. On the same day, Hurricane Venus was the third most talked about topic on the social networking siteTwitter. The album sold 44,745 units in the first ten days of its release and ranked first in the month of August sales with 54,659 units. By the end of the year Hurricane Venus sold 55,776 units making it the 22nd best selling album in South Korea for 2010.
Songs
"Romance", described as a "pop jazz ballad", was arranged byjazz pianist Song Young-joo. "Don't Know What to Say" is a collaboration with BoA's brother Kwon Soon-hwon, a classical pianist. For two of the album's highly promoted tracks, "Dangerous" and "Adrenaline", BoA again teamed up with Danish producer Thomas Troelsen, who also produced her American debut single, "Eat You Up", in 2008.
''Copy & Paste''
A repackaged version of the album was released on 27 September 2010. Retitled Copy & Paste, the repackaged album included two new songs, "Copy & Paste" and "보고 싶더라 ". A teaser video for the album unveiled on 20 September, and BoA promoted the album with a performance on Music Bank on 24 September. "Copy & Paste" is the third and final single released from BoA's sixth album effort. On 19 September BoA released the official teaser to the upcoming single, followed by an official digital single release on 23 September. The following day promotions started for the single on television shows such as Music Bank, Music Core and Inkigayo. The official music video was released on 28 September.
