Less than 5 days are remaining until fans will be able to enjoy one of the biggest SMTOWN concerts yet. SM Entertainment has brought the third world tour of SMTOWN to Anaheim, California this year, and will be performing at the Honda Center on May 20th at 7PM PST. 

It seems like forever ago that SMTOWN held their first New York concert at Madison Square Garden last year. However, fans can look forward to experiencing the concert once again with the special SMTOWN movie coming up.

SM Entertainment's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/smtown) has been receiving a lot of popularity among fans worldwide. According to the social media website statistics, Social Bakers, SMTOWN's Facebook ranks #1 in terms of "Like" among the Asian music record labels, while it is #2 in world music record labels, proving SM Entertainment's global power of the Hallyu Wave. 

The Facebook account officially opened last June and has since then accumulated over a million "likes" from fans worldwide (current count: 1,016,325). SM Entertainment has also created Facebook pages for some of their entertainers, including BoA, TVXQ, CJSH DANA&SUNDAY, Super Junior, Girls' Generation, SHINee, f(x), EXO-K and EXO-M, Go Ara and Lee Yeonhee, which has together accumulated over 10 million "likes," showing the artists' high influences and popularity.

Through the pages, SM Entertainment has updated fans regarding concerts such as SMTOWN Live concert tours, news, teasers and more. 

Some of SM Entertainment's artists such as Zhang Liyin and Kangta still remains without an official Facebook page.

Source: enews24

SM Entertainment has revealed Korean member Kai ('94), also known under his real name Kim Jongin, as well as Chinese members Lu Han ('90) and TAO ('93), and Chen (19) who performed in the SMTOWN Orchestra stage last week. 

Today, SM Entertainment revealed Kai's third teaser, the fifth EXO teaser overall. The teaser is full of visual effects and is filmed entirely in black and white. The song in the teaser is EXO's "Machine." Kai shows his powerful dance skills again, this time with a different dance.

Check out Kai's powerful dance teaser below!















Source: SMTOWN

Just recently, it was announced that SMTOWN would be releasing a Winter album titled "2011 SMTOWN Winter [The Warmest Gift]." While one of the covers was revealed with the original announcement, another cover for the album has been released as well.

The picture is composed of all the members of SMTOWN ranging from TVXQ, SHINee, Super Junior, f(x), and Girls' Generation (SNSD). All of the members are dressed festively in Christmas colors such as green and red. They are especially ready for the spirit of giving and warmth. This picture has heightened the anticipation of many fans for this highly anticipated album. SMTOWN's last Winter album was released in 2007.

Check out the additional cover, below!



Will you be purchasing the album?

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SM Entertainment has revealed that they will be releasing a new SMTOWN Winter album, the first since 2007, on December 13th. The album will be titled, "2011 SMTOWN Winter [The Warmest Gift]" and will include songs from Kangta, BoA, TVXQ!, TRAX, THE GRACE DANA & SUNDAY, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, f(x), Zhang Li Yin and J-min.

The album will include 11 songs, including 7 new songs and 4 covers (such as "Last Christmas" and "Sleigh Ride"). The title track, "Santa U Are The One", will feature Super Junior, who portray Santa Clause, carrying presents. The lyrics of the song describe how Santa is the "greatest for bringing the world joy and presents". SMTOWN revealed that the "cute lyrics, quick rhythm and melody" will showcase a very Christmas atmosphere. With Super Junior's " bright and cheerful voice", the atmosphere of the song is sure to be very jolly.

TVXQ's song, "Sleigh Ride" is described to be a very "light swing rhythm accompanied by [an] orchestra's grandeur and big band's powerful charm". SHINee's song, "Last Christmas", is said to "feature SHINee's own unique color and dreamlike and powerful charms of synthpop".

Girls' Generation will be expressing warm and happy feelings throughout their song, "Diamond". f(x) is said to be "[working] with Peppertones for winter songs "1, 2, 3", which features Peppertone's own bright and healthy music colour with [a] cute and lovely atmosphere".

BoA will be releasing a new track, titled, "Distance", which is an R&B ballad "featuring simple rhythm, dreamlike piano melody [with a] mournful and graceful voice". Kangta will also be gracing the album with his track, "For The First Time" which is an "acoustic ballad which reminisces about the days with [a] woman he [once] loved".

SMTOWN released a statement saying, "The album also contains the English version of TRAX’s ‘Like A Dream’ from their 3rd mini album, Zhang Li Yin’s cover version of ‘The First Noel,’ THE GRACE DANA & SUNDAY’s pop ballad ‘Amazing’ and J-min’s remake version of ‘Happy X-Mas (Original version by John Lennon and Yoko Ono)’ so 11 songs of various genres are expected to receive an explosive response."

Are you looking forward to this SMTOWN packed album?

In the past year, SM Entertainment has been making progress in expanding its SMTOWN Live World Tour, making stops in the United States, China, Japan, and France. More and more fans from around the globe have been organizing activities such as flash mobs and Twitter trends in hopes of attracting the tour to their own countries and cities. In particular, Taiwan has been a place which has been fully invaded by the Hallyu wave in the past couple of years, and Taiwanese fans have been patiently waiting for SMTOWN to make a stop. Recently, the concert organizer for many K-Pop concerts in Taiwan has finally indicated that SMTOWN will likely make a stop in Taiwan during the second half of 2012!

Super Dome, the organizer who planned concerts for groups such as Super Junior, SHINee, and Girls’ Generation, stated, “In terms of SMTOWN, it was originally scheduled to take place in December 2011. The artists’ schedules were blocked off for the event, but we were waiting for availability at an appropriate venue. At the end, the wait was too long and the artists’ schedules had to be freed up, and the venue ended up being available two to three weeks after that. When we went to Korea for a meeting, we discussed the issue in regards to SMTOWN once again. It was difficult to work out a time for the first half of 2012 due to the artists’ and venue’s availability, so we are looking at scheduling the concert in Taiwan within the second half of 2012.”

For the fans that can’t wait to see SMTOWN Live, they will be able to see the show in theatres soon, as SM Entertainment has planned on releasing footage of SMTOWN Live in New York in the form of a movie during the first half of 2012.

Source: China Times and Super Dome

SM Entertainment recently revealed a new set of Christmas decorations on the company's building. With earlier hints of an SMTOWN Christmas album, fans are anticipating news from SM Entertainment's side.

The Christmas decoration mentions "SMTOWN" and sparked the interest of people who believe a new winter album might be in the works. After years of rumours and speculations, it would be the first release since SMTOWN's last winter album "2007 Winter SMTown – Only Love" back in 2007. 

Singer Zhang Liyin hinted at a recording and photoshoot for the album before as she updated her personal Weibo account on the 11th of November with details of her recent activities, including recording for an SMTOWN album.

Will you be anticipating this new SMTOWN release?

SM Entertainment unveiled two video teasers featuring SHINee's Onew and Key as they revealed small glimpses of their upcoming photobook. The book will feature travel essays from SHINee's Onew, Key and Taemin from their recent trip in Barcelona, Spain.

The teasers feature Onew and Key, in two separate clips, as they reveal stunning photos taken from the trip. The travel essays will also contain personal stories, along with travel tips to tourists. The book will feature the three members in tourist attractions, famous restaurants and street and town sceneries seen from their own eyes.

Since the announcement of the upcoming publication, SHINee has received favorable response from their fans and travel enthusiasts.

The book "Children of the Sun" will be published by Woongjin Living House and is available on preorder via Kyobo Book, Yes 24, Interpark among many others. Preorder started on November 21st and a photo card set will be given to a limited number of people who preorders it.

Meanwhile, SHINee's "Children of the Sun" travel essay and photobook will be released on December 8th.

Here are Onew and Key's versions and stay tuned for Taemin's video teaser soon.





Source: SMTOWN

TRAX will be making their return to the music scene a year after the release of their last mini album "Oh! My Goddess." With the release of their upcoming third mini album, the band will be promoting with a rock ballad genre song. The song, "Windows (Blind)," is a mid-tempo rock ballad song that captures the emotional atmosphere of the season, which will undoubtedly attract the attention of fans. 

It was earlier also revealed that the song is the product of guitarist Jungmo's composing skills. The tracks "Like a Dream" and "Silent River" were also composed and written by both members, giving another personal feel to the mini album. "Like a Dream" is said to arouse sympathy with love stories, while the acoustic ballad "Silent River," features poetic lyrics and a lyrical melody.

"Goodbye to Romance," on the other hand, was written, composed, and arranged by Jungmo, and is a rock ballad song with lyrics based on his own experience. It talks about being hurt and the lonely feeling after letting someone go.

The album also includes a groovy rock track called "Knock Knock Knock," which incorporates Spanish guitar riffs, while "Good News" has a sentimental melody.

TRAX will be making their comeback through Mnet M!Countdown on November 10th, the day of the album's release.