D×D×D

DxDxD
Digital and regular cover
Studio album by Shinee
Released	January 1, 2016 (2016-01-01)
Recorded	2015
Genre	J-pop
Length	44:08
Language	Japanese
Label	EMI
Shinee chronology
Odd (2015) DxDxD (2016) 1 of 1 (2016)
Singles from D×D×D
"Your Number" Released: March 11, 2015 "Sing Your Song" Released: October 27, 2015 "D×D×D" Released: December 13, 2015

D×D×D (pronounced "D D D") is the fourth Japanese studio album by South Korean boy band Shinee. It was released on January 1, 2016, by Universal Music Japan sub label EMI Records. The album features three previously released singles, "Your Number", "Sing Your Song" and the Japanese version of previous Korean single "View", and one new single, "DxDxD".[1] The album reached number one on the Oricon weekly chart, becoming the first album to do so in 2016.[2] It was Shinee's second number one album in Japan following their 2014 release I'm Your Boy.[3]

Background and release

D×D×D is the fourth Japanese album released by Shinee. It was released in three versions: a limited CD+Blu-ray edition "A", a limited CD+DVD edition "B" and a regular edition. Both limited editions were housed in a digipack and a slipcase and came with 48-page photo booklet (type A), a trading card (one of five) and a special event application sheet. The Blu-ray of limited edition A, in addition to the music videos and making-ofs, also included a high-resolution (48 kHz / 24bit) recording of the album. The regular edition came with a 28-page photo booklet (type B) and a special event application sheet. The album includes all tracks from the group's last two Japanese singles "Sing Your Song" and "Your Number", a Japanese version of their Korean track "View", and seven new songs.^[citation needed]

The Fourth Japan Tour

Shinee World 2016 is the fourth Japan nationwide concert tour by Shinee to promote their fourth Japanese studio album. The tour kicked off in Fukuoka on January 30, 2016, and ended in Hokkaido on April 24, 2016, with a total of 16 concerts in eight cities.[4]

After the success of their first two-day Tokyo Dome stage in March 2015, Shinee returned with a more formal dome tour as part of their Japan Arena Tour. They performed at Kyocera Dome on May 14 and 15, 2016, and were back to Tokyo Dome on the 18th and 19th of the same month.[4] In total, the tour attracted 350,000 people, bringing their cumulative concert attendance in Japan to over one million.[5][6]

Commercial performance

The album sold 44,921 copies in its first week.[7]

Track listing

D×D×D track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"D×D×D"	Hidenori Tanaka (Agehasprings) [ja; id]	Kevin Charge (TG Publishing) Ricky Hanley Hide Nakamura Yumiko Okada	Charge	3:27
2.	"Wishful Thinking"	Kami Kaoru	Andreas Öberg Daniel Caesar (Caesar & Loui) Ludwig Lindell (Caesar & Loui)	Jeff Miyahara	3:12
3.	"Wanted"	Sara Sakurai (T's Music)	Christian Fast Didrik Thott Henrik Nordenback [ja]	Nordenback	3:17
4.	"Boys Will be Boys"	Kanata Okajima	Erik Lidbom [simple]	Lidbom	3:58
5.	"View" (Japanese version)	Jonghyun Sakurai	LDN Noise Ryan S. Jhun Adrian McKinnon	LDN Noise Jhun McKinnon	3:13
6.	"Your Number"	Junji Ishiwatari	Charge Chris Meyer	Charge Meyer	4:19
7.	"Good Good Feeling"	Sakurai	Charge Meyer	Charge Meyer Kim Jin-hwan	3:46
8.	"Photograph"	Ishiwatari	Hanley Rob Derbyshire	Full Flava G-High (MonoTree)	3:14
9.	"Sweet Surprise"	Ishiwatari	Öberg Andreas Stone Johansson [sv] Steven Lee	Johansson Lee Kim	3:35
10.	"Sing Your Song"	Ishiwatari	Öberg Carlos Okabe (Scoop Music) Michael Lee Cheung (MLC)	Scoop Music Lidbom	4:05
11.	"Moon Drop"	Sakurai	Meyer Shunsuke Harada (FRH Sounds)	FRH Sounds Kim	3:40
12.	"Love"	Sakurai	Kenzie	Takefumi Haketa [ja; ko; zh; es; arz]	4:22
Total length:					44:08

Charts

Weekly charts Chart performance for D×D×D Chart (2016) Peak position Japanese Albums (Oricon)[8] 1 Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[9] 3

Monthly charts Monthly chart performance for D×D×D Chart (2016) Peak position Japanese Albums (Oricon)[10] 7 Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for D×D×D Chart (2016) Position Japanese Albums (Oricon)[11] 72

References

1. "SHINee Official Japanese Website". Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
2. Kim, Soo-hyang (January 6, 2016). "Shinee tops first 2016 Oricon weekly chart". Kpop Herald. Archived from the original on July 11, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
3. "【オリコン】SHINee、2作連続アルバム首位" [[Oricon] Shinee's second consecutive number one album]. Oricon (in Japanese). January 6, 2016. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
4. "SHINee、ドーム公演発表 さらなる高みを目指す"特別なステージ"" [Shinee announces dome performance "special stage" aiming for further heights]. Modelpress (in Japanese). December 11, 2015. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
5. SHINee、日本初上陸のワールドツアーでファン45,000人を魅了 [Shinee attracts 45,000 fans on Japan stop of world tour]. Billboard Japan (in Japanese). December 12, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
6. Kwak, Kyung-min (September 2, 2016). 샤이니, 다섯 번째 단독콘서트 스타트..감각적+완성도 높은 무대 연출 기대 [Shinee's fifth solo concert.. Expectations for high-quality stage production]. Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Retrieved April 29, 2023 – via Naver.
7. "Oricon Charts article".
8. "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2016-01-11" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
9. "Billboard Japan Hot Albums: 2016/01/06 公開". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved August 28, 2022.
10. "Oricon Top 50 Albums: January 2016" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on February 10, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
11. "2016 Annual Album Chart" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on February 19, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2022.