{"id":637761,"date":"2026-10-22T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:00:10","slug":"lee-soo-mans-boy-band-a2o-soul-to-release-debut-album-nov-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637761\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Soo-man’s boy band A2O SOUL to release debut album Nov. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"K-pop<\/p>\n

K-pop boy band A2O SOUL poses during the group’s global debut showcase at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Oct. 12. Courtesy of A2O Entertainment<\/p>\n

A2O SOUL, the 15-member boy group launched by K-pop mogul Lee Soo-man, will release its debut album “SUPERSTAR” on Nov. 9, less than a month after unveiling a prerelease single of the same name at its global debut showcase.<\/p>\n

The new album will be available at 6 p.m. on music platforms in Korea and abroad, according to the group’s agency A2O Entertainment, Thursday.<\/p>\n

The five-track EP is led by “SUPERSTAR,” which also serves as the prerelease single, and a second lead track, “Dancing in the Dark.” The agency describes all five songs as “new synthwave,” a genre label the group coined to define its musical identity.<\/p>\n

Lee, the founder of SM Entertainment, set the album’s musical direction and personally picked songwriters he had never worked with before, the agency said.<\/p>\n

“SUPERSTAR,” released Oct. 13, was co-written by longtime SM producer Yoo Young-jin, along with HAAN, who worked on The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s hit “Stay,” and GENT!, whose credits include songs for Drake and Doja Cat.<\/p>\n

The single climbed to No. 18 on YouTube’s trending music chart and made a strong showing on China’s QQ Music, where it ranked second on the new songs chart, sixth on the popular songs chart and fourth on the global music video chart.<\/p>\n

On the QQ Music new songs chart, it trailed only “NEON” by labelmate girl group A2O LITE, giving the agency’s two acts the top two spots.<\/p>\n

The physical album will come in three versions, two photobook editions and one platform album, with preorders open at major online and offline retailers in Korea and overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop boy band A2O SOUL poses during the group’s global debut showcase at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-637761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}