2020 EP by Kang Daniel
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Magenta (stylized MAGENTA ) is the third extended play (EP) by South Korean singer and songwriter Kang Daniel . It was released on August 3, 2020, by Konnect Entertainment and distributed by Sony Music Korea . Magenta contains six tracks with "Who U Are" as its lead single. "Waves" featuring Simon Dominic and Jamie was pre-released on July 27.
Background and composition [ edit ]
On July 5, 2020, Konnect Entertainment posted a comeback teaser video for Magenta , the second mini album in Kang's "Color" album trilogy series.[2] Album pre-orders began on July 13. While Cyan showed bright and refreshing colors, Magenta is described as having strong and powerful colors that capture the beginning and end of summer. Kang wanted to show onstage what many think is the most "Kang Daniel-like" and bring energy to listeners through fun dance music. He participated in writing five songs.[3] [4] [5]
Inspired by dancehall and hip-hop , "Waves" has 808 bass drums, Latin guitar, and piano staccato sounds. Lyrically, the song is about succumbing to waves of emotion. "Who U Are" combines 808 bass drums, Latin guitar, flute, synthesizer , and vocal effects and talks about awakening inner emotions unknown to even oneself.[6] [7]
The album cover features two glowing magenta circles merged to form a Venn diagram . In addition, as part of the Color EP trilogy, the hex code for magenta (as well as fuchsia ; #FF00FF) is on the top left corner.[8]
Kang revealed the "Waves" music video at his online fan meeting on July 25 prior to the official music site release.[9] To commemorate the album's release, he held an album countdown V Live show on August 3 and virtual fan-sign events.[10] [11] Kang performed on all music shows[12] and appeared on radio shows Kim Shin Youngโs Song of Hope , Volume Up , and Love Game within the two weeks of promotions.[13] [14] [15] He also appeared on the August 7 episode of You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook and performed "Who U Are", "Interview", as well as a brief cover of Johan Kim 's hit song "I Want to Fall in Love".[16] In addition, Kang made several appearances as a special MC and judge on KBS2 's Fun-Staurant , and performed a snippet of "Who U Are".[17] After Kang wrapped up broadcast promotions, he released a surprise music video for the B-side track "Movie".[18]
Magenta surpassed 320,000 physical album sales within a week[19] and resulted in a Hanteo Chart official certificate.[20] Kang earned a Gaon triple crown by topping the album, download, and BGM weekly charts.[21] [22] The music video for the lead single "Who U Are" surpassed 10 million views within four days of its release, setting a personal record for Kang.[23] The song also took first place on three music shows : The Show , Music Bank , and Show! Music Core .[24]
Digital download/CD[25] Title Lyrics Music Arrangement 1. "Flash" JQ Kang Daniel Lee Ji-won Ameli Shin Sae-rom Anthony Russo Anthony Pavel Kaelyn Behr Rudy Sandapa MZMC 3:48 2. "Waves" (featuring Simon Dominic and Jamie ) ae.patricia BIYA Simon Dominic Jamie Kang Daniel Anthony Russo Julien Maurice Moore Kaelyn Behr MZMC Styalz Fuego 2:44 3. "Who U Are" (๊นจ์ ; kkaewo ; lit. Wake Up) JQ Kang Daniel Bae Sung-hyun Ameli Shin Sae-rom Anthony Russo Anthony Pavel Kyle Buckley MZMC 3:22 4. "Runaway" (featuring Yumdda ) ae.patricia Yumdda Kang Daniel Advanced Charlotte Wilson Jacob Aaron The Hub 88 Advanced 3:15 5. "Movie" (featuring Dvwn ) Kyle Buckley Jeremy Jasper Julien Maurice Moore MZMC 2:59 6. "Night" (๋ฐค ; bam ) Noday Jung Jin-hyung Riskypizza Noday Riskypizza Jung Jin-hyung 3:57 Total length: 20:05
Certifications and sales [ edit ]
Music program awards [ edit ]
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์ (Kang Daniel) โ Magenta" . IZM (in Korean). August 12, 2020. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2021 .
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, 8์ 3์ผ ์ปด๋ฐฑ ํ์ .. MAGENTA ์ปด๋ฐฑ ํฐ์ ์์ ๊ณต๊ฐ[๊ณต์]" [Kang Daniel's comeback confirmed on August 3rd.. MAGENTA comeback teaser video released [Official]]. Herald Pop (in Korean). July 6, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์ ๋ง์ ํ ์ปด๋ฐฑ ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด "๊ฐ๋ ฌํจ+ํ์ํ" " [Kang Daniel Magenta comeback countdown "Intensity + Powerful"]. Star News (in Korean). July 8, 2020. Archived from the original on July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020 – via Naver.
^ " '[Interview] KANG DANIEL's 2nd Mini Album MAGENTA Released Today(3rd)!" . Hanteo News . August 3, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
^ " 'I really want to visit:' why a trip to the UAE is on the cards for K-pop star Kang Daniel" . The National . August 19, 2020. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, 'Waves' ํฐ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ๊ธฐ์ต ๊ณต๊ฐ..์ฌ์ด๋จผ ๋๋ฏธ๋-์ ์ด๋ฏธ ํผ์ฒ๋ง" [Kang Daniel reveals 'Waves' teaser image surprise.. featuring Simon Dominic-Jamie]. Herald Pop (in Korean). July 23, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved July 23, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฏธ๋ ์จ๋ฒ ๋ง์ ํ (MAGENTA ) ํ์ด๋ผ์ดํธ ๋ฉ๋ค๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ฐ" [Kang Daniel's 2nd mini album MAGENTA highlight medley released]. Sports Chosun (in Korean). July 24, 2020. Archived from the original on July 24, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, '์ปฌ๋ฌ' 3๋ถ์ ๋๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฏธ๋ 'MAGENTA' ์ปค๋ฒ ์ํธ์ํฌ ๊ณต๊ฐ[๊ณต์]" [Kang Daniel, second mini album of the 'Color' trilogy 'MAGENTA' cover artwork released [Official]]. Osen (in Korean). July 13, 2020. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2022 .
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, '์จ์ด๋ธ์ค' ์ค๋(27์ผ) ๋ฐ๋งค..์๋X์ ์ด๋ฏธ ํผ์ฒ๋ง" [Kang Daniel, 'Waves' released today (27th).. Samdy x Jamie featuring]. Star News (in Korean). July 27, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, ์จ๋ฒ ์๊ฐโ์ธ๋ฐ์ฑ ๋ง์ ํ ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด ๋ผ์ด๋ธ ์๊ณ ..8์ 3์ผ V๋ผ์ด๋ธ ์ถ๊ฒฉ" [Kang Daniel, album introduction โ Unboxing Magenta countdown live preview.. V live sortie on August 3]. Osen (in Korean). July 28, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved July 28, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "[2020.08.05 (์)] ๊ฐ๋ค๋์ 2ND MINI ALBUM MAGENTA ๋ฐ๋งค๊ธฐ๋
์์ํตํ ์ฌ์ธํ (์์ฝํ๋งค-์ฌ์ด๋์จ์ด๋ธ)" [[2020.08.05 (Wed)] Kang Daniel 2ND MINI ALBUM MAGENTA release commemorative video call signing event (pre-order-Soundwave)]. Konnect Entertainment (in Korean). July 14, 2020. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
^ " '์ญ๋๊ธ ๊ฐ๋ ฌ็พ' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์ ๋ง์ ํ ์ปด๋ฐฑ ํฌ์ธํธ[โ
FOCUS]" [Kang Daniel's Magenta comeback point for 'History of intense beauty']. Star News (in Korean). July 18, 2020. Archived from the original on July 18, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020 – via Naver.
^ " '์ ํฌ' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์, ์ปด๋ฐฑ ๊ธฐ๋
ํฌ์ฌ ๊นจ์ด ์
๋ด #ํจ๋ํ๋ ์ค #ํ์ฃผ๋ฌ๋ธ์ฝ [์ข
ํฉ]" ['Junghee' Kang Daniel, awakening fan spirit to celebrate the comeback #Hyodo Flex #Haengju Love Call [General]]. Osen (in Korean). August 10, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via Naver.
^ " '๋ณผ๋ฅจ' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์ "๋
ธ์ถ ๊ทนํ ๊บผ๋ฆฌ๋ ํธ, ์๋ก์ด ๋ชจ์ต ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ํ ๋ฏผ์๋งค ๋์ " " [โVolumeโ Kang Daniel โI'm extremely reluctant to be exposed, I want to show a new look and challenge sleevelessโ]. Newsen (in Korean). August 11, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, '๋ฐ์ํ์ ๋ฌ๋ธ๊ฒ์' ์ถ์ฐโฆ์จ๋ฒ ๋นํ์ธ๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ" [Kang Daniel appeared in "Park So-Hyun's Love Game"โฆ Album behind-the-scenes release]. Sports Donga (in Korean). August 13, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via Naver.
^ " '์ ์ค์ผ' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์ "์ 17๋ง์ ๊ณ ์์ ์์ ๋ ์ข์๋คโฆ์ฑ๊ณต ํ ๆฏ ํ๋ณต" [์ข
ํฉ]" ['Yusuke' Kang Daniel "I enjoyed my days at 170,000 won a month and gosiwonโฆ Happy after success" [General]]. Sports Chosun (in Korean). August 8, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via Naver.
^ " 'ํธ์คํ ๋' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์, ์คํ์
ํ๊ฐ๋จ ํฉ๋ฅ (ft.์์์ฑ์ทจ)" [Kang Daniel, โPyeon Restaurantโ, joins the special evaluation team (ft. wish fulfillment)]. Sports Donga (in Korean). August 14, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "KANG DANIEL Prepares a Surprise Gift to the DANITYs After the End of the Promotion!" . Hanteo News . August 19, 2020. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์ ๋ง์ ํ ์ด๋ 32๋ง ์ฅ ํ์๋ค" [Kang Daniel sold 320,000 copies of Magenta ]. Hankyung (in Korean). August 13, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "KANG DANIEL Official Named '320K Initial Chodong Sales' Artist After Receiving Hanteo Chart's Certificate" . Hanteo News . September 25, 2020. Archived from the original on October 19, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020 .
^ "[DA:์ฐจํธ] 32์ฃผ์ฐจ ๊ฐ์จ์ฐจํธ์ ๊ฐ๋ค๋์ 3๊ด์ยท์น์ฐ๋ฆฌ 2๊ด์ ์ฐจ์ง" [[DA: Chart] Kang Daniel's 3 crowns and 2 Sak 3 crowns in the 32nd week of Gaon Chart]. Sports Donga (in Korean). August 13, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, ๊ฐ์จ์ฐจํธ๊น์ง ํฉ์ธ๋ค..3๊ด์ ์์" [Kang Daniel sweeps even the Gaon chart.. 3 crowns honor]. Star News (in Korean). August 13, 2020. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์ '๊นจ์', ๋ฎค์ง๋น๋์ค ์กฐํ์ ์ฒ๋ง๋ทฐ ๋ํ" [Kang Daniel 'Wake Up', music video hits 10 million views]. Xports News (in Korean). August 13, 2020. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020 – via Naver.
^ " 'ํ๋ ์ข
๋ฃ' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์์ ๊ธฐ๋ก, #์ด๋ 32๋ง์ฅ #MV ์ฒ๋ง๋ทฐ #์๋ฐฉ 3๊ด์" ['Activity End' Kang Daniel's record, #320,000 copies of the first episode #10 million views of the MV #3 crowns for Eumbang]. Xports News (in Korean). August 17, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2020 – via Naver.
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^ "Gaon Album Chart - August 2020" . Gaon Chart (in Korean). Retrieved September 10, 2020 .
^ a b Cumulative South Korean Sales of Magenta :
^ "Digital Chart - Week 31 of 2020" . Gaon Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 11, 2020. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
^ "Digital Chart - Week 32 of 2020" . Gaon Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
^ "Korea K-pop Hot 100 - Week of August 22, 2020" . Billboard . Archived from the original on September 11, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2020 .
^ "Korea K-pop Hot 100 - Week of August 15, 2020" . Billboard . Retrieved September 3, 2020 .
^ "South Korean album certifications โ Kang Daniel โ Magenta " (in Korean). Korea Music Content Association (KMCA). Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ "๊ฐ๋ค๋์, '๊นจ์'๋ก ์ปด๋ฐฑ ๋์์ 1์..."์์คํ ์, ๋ค๋ํฐ ๋๋ถ" " [Kang Daniel, #1 at the same time comeback with 'Wake Up'... "Thanks to Daniti, an important prize"]. Maeil Business (in Korean). August 12, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2020 – via Naver.
^ "8์ 2์ฃผ<K-์ฐจํธ>์์ (No. 381)" [August 2nd week <K-Chart> ranking (No. 381)]. KBS Music Bank (in Korean). August 14, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
^ " '์์
์ค์ฌ' ๊ฐ๋ค๋์, '๊นจ์'๋ก ์ปด๋ฐฑ ํ 1์ 3๊ด์ "๋ค๋ํฐ ๊ฐ์ฌ" [โ
๋ฐคTView]" ['Music Core' Kang Daniel, ranked 1st after comeback with 'Wake up' 3 crowns "Thanks to Daniti" [โ
Night TView]]. Star News (in Korean). August 15, 2020. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2020 – via Naver.
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