As a whole, Super Junior has released four studio albums and one physical single, including occasional contributions to drama soundtracks. They are acclaimed for their vocal harmonization and unison as each member contributes a different position range in their music. Some members are credited for their vocal belting techniques.
Super Junior works closely with Young Jin Yoo, who has produced and arranged most of the group's promotional singles since debut. Yoo's also known for creating the renowned SMP style, a genre that includes a balanced infusion of rock, R&B, and rap, with complementing musical elements such as the electric guitar, bass, and other different percussion instruments. Super Junior has prominently used this SMP style in Don't Don.
Super Junior has covered a few songs in their albums. Their debut single "TWINS (Knock Out)" is a cover of Triple Eight's "Knockout," which was released in 2003. While the musical style is mostly maintained as the original, "TWINS (Knock Out)" touches closer to rap rock, with quicker rap and more emphasis on the bass. In most of their covers, the original titles are kept. Examples include Cape's "L.O.V.E" and Exile's "Believe." However, most of these covers are re-arranged to different accompaniments, such as H.O.T's "Full of Happiness".
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Dance Style:
Super Junior are known for doing performances that are heavily centered around their choreography, and are acclaimed for their highly synchronized dances. The group's pre-debut performance was a hip hop dance and they have also joined B-boy battles and performances throughout their career.
Their dance styles are widely termed as street dancing, with a majority of their choreography containing hip hop dance moves such as popping, waving, floating, and liquid dancing. Dances in the form of martial arts are widely used in their dance routines as Han Geng and Sungmin are professionally trained in that area. Shindong was the main choreographer for "U" and for a majority of the group's other dance sequences. Eunhyuk choreographed the dance for "Boom, Boom" (Fourth Album) and also worked with the other members to create the dance choreography for "Don't Don" and "Marry U", both promotional singles for the group's second album. The dance for their hit single "Sorry, Sorry" was choreographed by Nick Bass and Trent Dickens, who has also worked with Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. Nick Bass also choreographed the dance for "BONAMANA". The dance for "No Other" was choreographed by THE GEMINIZ, Rino Nakasone and Maryss From Paris. Super Junior M "Perfection" was choreographed by Misha Gabriel who had worked with other well known acts and choreographed Justin Timberlake's "Future Love Sex Show," Pussycat Dolls' "Doll Domination World Tour," "Dancing with the Stars" and more. Han Geng's "My Logo" was choreographed by Travis Payne and Stacy Walker, who are renowned for being Michael Jackson's choreographers.
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Popularity:
On December 8, as the leaders of Hallyu Wave, idol group Super Junior was guested in CNN TV station’s 《Talk Asia》 program. Members Siwon and Leeteuk talked about the secret of their huge popularity and their strategy for advancing into the world music industry.
Even receiving attention worldwide beyond Asia, they have won numerous awards and titles in foreign countries:
- Brazil: According to the Korea Cultural Foundation, Super Junior was selected by fans as the Korea best group. Earlier this year, in a survey conducted by Rede TV, Super Junior was chosen as the number one Korean singer who should come to Brazil. The results concluded with Super Junior being the top artist of choice with 30.9% of the vote.
- China: For the 2008 Beijing Olympic, Han Geng was featured in the official music video "Beijing Welcomes You" (北京欢迎你) and became the first every boy-band member to be a torch bearer.
- England: Also, England’s BBC acknowledged Super Junior as the icon noted for creating Hallyu effect.
- Iran: Super Junior also appeared in a publication of a specialty magazine recently in Iran that contains a personal interview with all of the Super Junior members and their individual profiles, which is explained briefly in Persian.
- Peru: In the year 2010, Listas put up the top 30 rankings of The Sexiest Men in the World, whereby all of the members’ names appeared on the list and a Slovenian newspaper also reported about their agency and album sales.
- Spain: Recently, Super Junior was chosen as the most popular Korean singers in a survey conducted by Spain’s TV Azteca.
- Taiwan: Their song "Bonamana" from the fourth album topped first on the Taiwanese Music Charts for 55 weeks, more than a full year, breaking all previous records by far.
- United States: They also won "Must-Follow Personality" at the Mashable Awards 2010 which was held in Las Vegas.
- Europe: On the first day of SMTown's concert in Paris, France, over 3,000 fans who were unable to get tickets performed "Sorry Sorry" as a flash mob to ask for an extension of SMTown's stay in Europe.
- Internationally: Member Yesung was the winner of 2010 Cyworld Digital Music Award OST with song "It has to be you." Super Junior was picked number one in the survey, the Hallyu star that you want to travel Korea with. Super Junior received overwhelming votes from Asia including China, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries as well as Europe such as France.
From: Wikipedia.org "Super Junior" and related articles
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