New Albums And Singles Preview - 2010 January Week 1

Zi-A (mini-album) – Atelier (released)

01 Can’t Forget
02 Like Her
03 After That Day
04 Love Me
05 Let’s Have a Drink
06 Like Her INST
07 Let’s Have a Drink INST

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Zi-A
who had debut in 2007 with the song, Gaze continued making hits after
hits. She had recently released a digital single, “Let’s Have a Drink,”
which hit number one on various music sites on the day of its release,
and continues this month with the release of mini-album, Atelier. The
mini album, which has seven new tracks, is her first release since the
release of Orchestra, eight months ago. The title track is “Like Her”
which was composed by Lee Joo Ho who also wrote “Let’s Have a Drink”
and penned by Ecobridge (Lee Jong Myung), making this song more
anticipating. One can hear Zi-A go three octaves in this song. A 14
member orchestra also took part in the song, bringing out more sadness
and feelings to the melody.

Lee Seung Ki (single) – Like The First Time, Like that One Time (released)

01 Like The First Time, Like that One Time (feat. Kang Min Kyung of Davichi)

Lee
Seung Gi has definitely accomplished a lot this past 2009 with the
release of his fourth album with the title track, “Let’s Break Up” and
the holding of his concert at the end of this year. He is to continue
with a repackaged album next year which is to include two new singles.
However, as a Christmas present, Lee Seung Gi has released one of the
singles, “Like The First Time, Like that One Time” earlier to thank his
fans. The song was composed by Kim Do Hun, one of Korea’s top
composers. The song is about a man who learns about the preciousness of
his past lover. It is a bright medium tempo track which features
Davichi member, Kang Min Kyung.

Beast (single) – Crazy (released)

01 Crazy

Beast,
one of Korea’s most anticipated rookie groups of 2010 is to take part
in the soundtrack for the movie, Attack the Gas Station 2 with the
song, “Crazy.” The music video for the song includes a brief greeting
from the group in the beginning as well as scenes and clips of them
singing, practicing the dance moves to the song, as well as a bit of
self-camera. The video will capture the interests of Beast and the
movie fans alike.

Other releases:

Lee Jae Hoon (Cool) (single) – First Whisper (released)
9 And The Numbers Vol. 1 – 9 And The Numbers (released)
Lee Jung Woo Vol. 1 – Parisien (released)
Kim Hyung Chan Vol. 1 – Music News 2009 (released)
HAM (single) – Girls, Falling In Love (released)
Leeds (singles) – Love You (released)
Park Ki Young (single) – My Boyfriend (released)
Yoon Seo Jin – Ballad.ear (January 5)
Disko Rocket – Into The Diskostation (January 5)
Islander – Islander (January 5)
Kim Yeon Woo (mini-album) – Jung (January 8)

Sources: Hanteo, Kyobobook, YesAsia, Dosirak, Naver
translations credit to: motoway065