The 8th Japanese Single "Galaxy Supernova"

   

                                                        "Galaxy Supernova" is the eighth Japanese single by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. 

                                                               It was released on September 18, 2013 in Japan.After being on top of the Tower Record's pre-order chart, the single landed fourth on the Japanese Oricon Daily Singles Chart a day prior to its official release day and topped the chart afterwards.

Background

It was announced on August 11, 2013, that Girls' Generation would be releasing their eighth Japanese single, "Galaxy Supernova", on September 18, 2013. The single was released in two versions: a regular edition and a limited CD+DVD edition. The regular edition contains the title track "Galaxy Supernova" and its the B-Side, "Do the Catwalk". The DVD edition contains the full music video, dance version of the music video and a Behind the Scenes video of "Galaxy Supernova".

Girls' Generation's Japanese website announced that "Galaxy Supernova" will be used in an advertisement campaign for Samantha Thavasa Jeans, the very first jeans brand from Samantha Thavasa, a Japanese fashion company. Girls' Generation will be featured in commercials for Samantha Thavasa with possible projects in the future related to the advertisement campaign.

Music video

The dance version music video for "Galaxy Supernova" was released on September 4, 2013 and the music video was released on September 5, 2013.
The video begins in silence with the girls lining up in colored denim, which is reminiscent of the music video for "Gee" music video, and also features the girls wearing metallic and futuristic-looking dresses while dancing in a box set with LED lights serving as the background. The group also reuses the "arrow dance" from previous video "Hoot" in the first chorus.
A behind the scenes video was released on September 20, 2013, featuring scenes from the photo shoot for the collection as well as the group practicing their choreography.

"GALAXY SUPERNOVA" MV:

 

Reception

Seoulbeats criticized SM's infamous walled setting in the music video, calling it boring. The article also noted the choreography as too tame for the group's standards. However, the review complimented the song's catchiness and cuteness as well as the effort to place extra focus on member Sooyoung.

 

                                                              Commercial performance

Galaxy Supernova achieved the number one spot on Tower Record’s pre-order charts. The single took the number four spot on its debut in Oricon Daily Single Chart but rose to the number one spot afterwards. The single managed to sell 14,564 physical copies on its second day achieving first place in the Oricon Daily Singles Chart.
Galaxy Supernova debuted on 38th spot in Japan Hot 100 and 75th spot on Japan Adult Contemporary Airplay. It debuted at 5th spot on Recochoku Chaku-Uta-Weekly 6th spot on Recochoku Digital Single-Weekly. Galaxy Supernova managed to rank 3rd on the Recochoku Daily Single. The single sold 50,793 physical copies on its first week.

Promotion

The group gave a "Secret Live" performance of "Galaxy Supernova" and "Gee" to 200 lucky fans in Tokyo on the release day of the single and held a "Premium Talk" event on September 19 in Osaka to promote the release of “Galaxy Supernova”. The group had a live event for 500 people who bought the single on November 4, 2013 in Tokyo.

 

 

Track listing

CD
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Galaxy Supernova"	Kamikaoru, Frederik Tao Nordsoe Schjoldan, Fridolin Nordsoe Schjoldan, Martin Hoberg Hedegaard	Kamikaoru, Frederik Tao Nordsoe Schjoldan, Fridolin Nordsoe Schjoldan, Martin Hoberg Hedegaard	Jeff Miyahara	03:09
2.	"Do the Catwalk"	Junji Ishiwatari	Kanata Okajima, Andreas Öberg, Maria Marcus	Maria Marcus	04:01
Total length:					07:10

DVD (First Press Limited Edition)

Charts

Oricon Chart

Released	Oricon Chart	Peak	Debut sales	Sales total	Chart run
September 18, 2013	Daily Singles Chart	1	50,793 (weekly)	69,296	9 weeks
	Weekly Singles Chart	3
	Monthly Singles Chart	8
	Yearly Singles Chart	—

Billboard Japan Charts

Charts	Peak position
Billboard Japan Adult Contemporary Airplay	6
Billboard Japan Hot Top Airplay	22
Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales	2
Billboard Japan Hot 100	4

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Japan	September 11, 2013	Digital Download	Nayutawave Records, Universal Music
	September 18, 2013	CD, Digital Download
Hong Kong	September 25, 2013	CD	Universal Music
Taiwan	October 7, 2013

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