It became a Top Five single for the artist, peaking at the number-two position on the Oricon. Jumping into the World (a Japanese re-release of the mini-album Don’t Start Now) and the Japanese single “Don’t Start Now” were released a month later on the same day.Ģ003-05 - Commercial Success: BoA then released her seventh single “ Valenti”. The album sold around 544,000 units and became the fourth-best-selling record of the year in South Korea. After the release of Listen to My Heart, BoA released her second Korean studio album, No.1, a month later.
A single, “Every Heart: Minna no Kimochi” ( Every Heart -ミンナノキモチ-), was released on the same day as the album. The album was a breakthrough in BoA’s career: it became an RIAJ-certified million-seller and debuted atop the Oricon, making it the first album by a Korean artist to reach the top. Her début Japanese album, Listen to My Heart, was released on March 13, 2002. After the Septemattacks, BoA recorded the charity single “The Meaning of Peace” with Kumi Koda ( 倖田來未) as part of Avex’s Song Nation project to raise funds for charity. The single reached #20 on the Oricon chart and was followed by “ Amazing Kiss”, “Kimochi wa Tsutawaru” ( 気持ちはつたわる), and “ Listen to My Heart” the last became the singer’s first single to enter the Oricon’s Top Five. In 2001, she released her début Japanese single, a Japanese version of the song, “ ID Peace B” (originally from the eponymous album). After its release, she took a hiatus from the Korean music industry to focus on the Japanese market at which time she worked to solidify her skills in Japanese.īoA began her Japanese music career singing at the Avex-owned club Velfarre. In early 2001, BoA released her first mini-album, Don’t Start Now it sold around 90,000 units. Meanwhile, her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, made arrangements with Japanese label Avex Trax to launch her music career in Japan. The album was moderately successful it entered the Top 10 of the South Korean charts and sold around 156,000 units. BoA underwent two years of training (involving vocal, dance, and Japanese lessons), and at the age of thirteen released her début album ID Peace B in South Korea on August 25, 2000. Her parents initially opposed the notion of BoA’s leaving school to enter the entertainment business but eventually consented at her brother’s persuasion. Though her brother was the one who auditioned, SM talent scouts instead took notice of BoA and offered her a contract. She is the only non-Japanese Asian to have two million-selling albums in Japan and is one of only two artists to have six consecutive number-one studio albums on the Oricon charts since her début.Ģ000-02 - Debut: At age eleven, BoA accompanied her older brother to an SM Entertainment talent search.
(Though only a few of her songs are self-written, BoA began composing on her own with her Japanese début album Listen to My Heart, in which she co-wrote and composed the song “ Nothing’s Gonna Change”.)īoA’s multilingual skills (she speaks Japanese and conversational English along with her native Korean and has recorded songs in Mandarin Chinese) have contributed to her commercial success in South Korea and Japan and her popularity throughout East Asia. As the singer feels she does not “have any talent for writing ”, the writing and composition of her songs are handled mostly by her staff for this reason, she has drawn some criticism. Influenced by hip-hop & rnb singers - such as Nelly & Janet Jackson - many of BoA’s songs fall into those genres. Her USA début was, the single, “ Eat You Up” (14 Oct '08, SM Entertainment USA), followed by an English-language début album, “ BoA” (17 Mar '09). Two years later, she released her Japanese début album, “ Listen To My Heart” (Avex Trax). In 1998, she signed to SM Entertainment & after two years of training, débuted with “ ID Peace B” ( '00). She was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents, when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. , in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) - a backronym of 'Beat of Angel' (active in South Korea, Japan & USA). 1) A mononym of South Korean singer Kwon Boa / 권보아 (b.
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