Super Junior (Korean:
슈퍼주니어) is a South
Korean boy
band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man
of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of
thirteen members at its peak. Super Junior originally debuted with twelve
members, consisting of leader Leeteuk, Heechul, Han Geng, Yesung, Kangin, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook and Kibum. Kyuhyun was added
to the group in 2006.
Super Junior launched into
international recognition following the release of their best-selling single
"Sorry, Sorry" in 2009, the title song of
their most critically successful album Sorry,
Sorry.[1][2]
The group has released and contributed to over 20 records with varying degrees
of success,and was the best-selling K-pop artist for three years in a row. Super Junior proved that
they are the #1 K-pop artist in the Philippines
Over the years, they have been
divided into smaller subgroups, simultaneously targeting different music
industries and audiences. Largely due to Super Junior's success as
entertainers, other Korean entertainment managements began to train their music
groups in other areas of entertainment, such as acting and hosting. In addition
to their commercial success, Super Junior has earned ten music awards from the Mnet Asian Music Awards, thirteen from the Golden Disk Awards, and is the second singing
group to win Favorite Artist Korea at the 2008 MTV
Asia Awards after JTL
in 2003
In December 2009, Han Geng
departed from the group after filing a lawsuit against their agency SM
EntertainmenHan Geng subsequently won the lawsuit in December 2010, though
his departure from Super Junior was not made official until September 27, 2011,
when S.M. Entertainment finally released a statement to that effect Heechul
enlisted for his mandatory military
service on September 1, 2011, joining Kangin, who completed his service in
April 2012. As well as this, Kibum remains absent from the group while pursuing
an acting career, however the remaining members consider the absent four to be
part of the group regardless. This has left Super Junior with ten currently
active members: Leeteuk,
Yesung, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae,
Siwon,
Ryeowook,
and Kyuhyun
n
2000, SM Entertainment held their first overseas casting
auditions in Beijing,
China and recruited Han Geng, who
auditioned against three thousand applicants.[14]
That same year, Leeteuk,
Yesung, and Eunhyuk were
recruited after auditioning for the company's annual casting system in Seoul. Sungmin and Donghae
became trainees after jointly winning first place in an SM-sponsored contest in
2001. In 2002, Heechul
and Kangin were
recruited along with Kibum, who was discovered in Los Angeles,
California by a casting agent. Siwon became a
trainee after being scouted in 2003 and Ryeowook in 2004, who was recruited
into the company after winning the 2004 Chin Chin Youth Festival singing
competition.[15]
Shindong and
Kyuhyun, the
latter winning third place at the 2005 Chin Chin Youth Festival, were cast in
2005.
In early 2005, Lee Soo-man
announced that he had been preparing for an all-boy project group of twelve
members to debut at the end of the year. He called this singing group to be
"The Gateway to Stardom of Asia,"[16]
as most of the members in this group were chosen for their experiences as
actors, MCs, models, and radio hosts
prior debut. Heechul and Kibum were already established actors at the time, and
most of the other members had already made various kinds of appearances in
television and media.[17][18][19]
Inspired by the rotational concept of Japan's girl group Morning
Musume, Lee said that his new group would also experience line-up changes,
with new members replacing selected members every year to keep the group
constantly young and all-rounded. This concept was then newly introduced to the
K-pop market.
For a while the group was rumored
to be called O.V.E.R, the acronym for "Obey the Voice for Each
Rhythm."
However, before the group settled with their current name, the company simply
referred to them as super junior05, a representation of the members' young ages
when they first became SM trainees.After the members' showcased their different talents to the company at a
picnic, the company finalized their group name to Super Junior, and officially
became Super Junior 05, the first generation of Super Junior.Super Junior 05 made their pre-debut performance on the Korean channel Mnet on
September 11, 2005.[b] At
the showcase, they performed various styles of hip-hop
dancing, where they danced to B2K's "Take It to the Floor". Han Geng, Eunhyuk, and
Donghae also performed a separate dance together, dancing to Usher's "Caught Up." However, the performance
did not air on television until May 16, 2006 as a segment in the Super
Junior Show, the group's first television documentary.
The group officially debuted on SBS's music program Popular
Song on November 6, 2005, performing their first single "Twins (Knock Out)". A digital
single with "Twins (Knock Out)", "You Are the One", and
three additional tracks were released online on November 8, followed by the
release of their debut album SuperJunior05 (Twins) on December 6,
2005. The album sold 28,536 copies in the first month of release and debuted at
number three in the monthly chart of December 2005
[edit] 2006–2007:
"U", Don’t Don, and commercial success
In February 2006, Super Junior 05
began performances for "Miracle", the second promotional
single from their debut album. "Miracle" topped the music charts of Thailand,
drawing interest from international markets.
As promotions for "Miracle" ended, SM Entertainment began selecting
new members for Super Junior's second generation, Super Junior 06. The company
even prepared a list of chosen members that were to graduate from the group.
However, the company abandoned the rotational concept after adding a thirteenth
member, Kyuhyun, in 2006. The group then became known as just Super Junior,
without the suffix "05".
After the addition of Kyuhyun,
Super Junior released their single "U" for free download on May 25, 2006 on
their official website. "U" exceeded 400,000 downloads within five
hours of release and ultimately surpassed 1.7 million downloads, crashing the
server.[25][26]
The physical
single of "U" with a total of three tracks was released on June
6, eventually selling over 81,000 units in South Korea.The single became one of Korea's most popular songs of the year, taking up
number one spots for five consecutive weeks on two of Korea's top music
programs.
By the end of the year, Super Junior collected over seven awards in five of South Korea
In late 2006, Kyuhyun, Ryeowook,
and Yesung formed the subgroup Super Junior-K.R.Y., Super Junior's first
sub-unit. They performed their first single "The One I Love", theme
song to the Korean television drama Hyena, on the KBS music program Music Bank on November 5, 2006.In February
2007, Leeteuk, Heechul, Kangin, Sungmin, and Eunhyuk formed Super
Junior-T, a trot-singing group. They released their first single
"Rokuko"
on February 23, 2007, and made a debut performance on Popular Songs two
days later
Super Junior's second official
album was intended for a late 2006 release, but due to several accidental setbacks, Don't Don
was not released until September 20, 2007. Don't
Don sold over 60,000 units the first day of release and debuted at number
one on the monthly chart of September 2007.Although
Don't Don received mixed reviews from critics, the album went to sell
more than 160,000 copies by the end of the year, becoming the second
best-selling record of 2007.
Super Junior received seven nominations at the 2007 Mnet/KM Music Festival,
winning three of them which included Artist of the Year, termed by many as the
highest recognition of the ceremony Super Junior collected two more
recognitions at the 22nd Golden Disk Awards, including a Disk Bonsang award
(Record of the Year
2008–2009: Sorry, Sorry and career breakthrough
Super
Junior performing at SMTown Live '08 in Bangkok, Thailand
Super
Junior-M, Super Junior's Mandopop subgroup comprising members Han Geng, Siwon,
Donghae, Kyuhyun, Ryeowook, and Super Junior-M members Henry and Zhou Mi, was formed in April 2008.
Although the creation of the subgroup initially created a strife between the
group's fans and their management,[d]
Super Junior-M went on to become Super Junior's most successful subgroup,
selling out two concerts in Hong Kongtopping weekly ratings with their appearance on
Chinese variety programs,and
was the idol group with the most endorsement contracts in China. They
won numerous awards at Chinese music festivals, and achieved critical acclaim
after the release of their single "Super Girl" from their second record Super
Girl, which garnered them a nomination for Best Vocal Group at the 21st Golden Melody Awards. A fourth Super
Junior subgroup was created soon after Super Junior-M's debut. With five
members from Super Junior-T and Yesung, they formed the subgroup Super Junior-Happy, releasing their first extended
play (EP) Cooking? Cooking! on June 5, 2008. In
November 2008, Super Junior-T made a debut in Japan
Super Junior's first Asia-wide
concert tour, Super Show, started on February 22, 2008, in Seoul.[39][47][48][49][50][e]
The group held a successful two-day fan meeting in Japan at the Nippon
Budokan in Tokyo,
selling out 12,000 tickets in several days
The group released a compiled single "U/Twins", which includes the
Japanese version of "U" in the limited release version, to complement
the event. The single peaked at number four on Japan Japan
The group released their third
studio album Sorry, Sorry on March 12, 2009.
It was
their first album to debut at number one on the Hanteo Charts, selling over
29,000 copies the first day.[11]
After only a month of release, the album became South
Korea 's best-selling album of 2009, and ultimately sold
over 250,000 copies in South
Korea
The album's title single
"Sorry, Sorry" became an instant hit,
collecting a total of ten number-one awards for ten consecutive weeks in Korea , and stayed as number one for a
record-breaking 37 weeks in Taiwan South Korea
After the success of Sorry,
Sorry, Super Junior commenced their second Asia-wide concert tour Super
Show 2, on July 17, 2009 in Seoul
2010–2011: Bonamana, lineup changes, and international
recognition
Despite their critical and
commercial success, the group was plagued by legal turmoils and lineup changes
during their concert tour. Though Kibum was shown in the ads and promotional
videos for Super Show 2, he did not officially participate in the concert tour,
and announced his temporary leave from the group to pursue his acting career.
In October 2009, Kangin was charged with a DUI and hit-and-run after crashing
into a parked taxi holding three passengers.
In December 2009, Han Geng filed for contract termination from SM
Entertainment, claiming that the provisions of his contract were unlawful,
harsh, and against his rights He
parted with the group and released his solo album Geng Xin in July 2010,
which sold over 510,000 copies. That same month, Kangin announced his hiatus to
fulfill his two-year mandatory military
service.
With only ten members left, Super
Junior went off to release their fourth studio album, Bonamana in
May 2010. Although the album did not fare well as Sorry, Sorry
critically, it sold over 300,000 copies in South Korea Taiwan
To promote the album, Super
Junior embarked on their third Asia-wide tour Super
Show 3 in 2010 and 2011,and
had sold-out concerts for each stop
In February 2011, Super Junior released a 3D movie version of their tour,Super
Show 3 3D in all CGV and Primus movie theaters. The
movie debuted at number six on the box office charts and went off to become the
best-selling 3D movie in Korea
Between
Super Show 3 stops, the group took part in the SMTown Live '10 World Tour and toured in
Los
Angeles, Paris,
Tokyo and New York
along with other SM Entertainment-managed artists, performing outside of Asia
for the first time.Super
Junior's performances were well-received by the media,and
they were honored as Korea's National Pop Culture Icon for their role in
spreading the Hallyu Wave (Korean Wave), receiving the Minister of Culture Awards
by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the Pop Culture Art Awards.
They were featured on CNN's
Talk Asia program, and talked about their popularity and strategy for
advancing into the world music industry. The
group has achieved recognition beyond Asia, reaching notability in Europe,
North America, and South America . Peru’s Top
30 ranking of The Sexiest Men in the World included all of the members
on the listThey
gave exclusive interviews to Slovenian and Iranian magazines, and
were selected by Brazilian Hallyu fans to be the number-one Korean artist they
want to visit BrazilBoth Mexico's TV Azteca and the United Kingdom's BBC acknowledged Super
Junior to be the leading icon of the Hallyu effect
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