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[Soompi] Here's What SM Entertainment's Digital Music Project SM STATION Looks Like By It's Numbers

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One year, 52 releases and many collaborations later, SM Entertainment's SM STATION has finished it's "first season" on February 3, with the release of EXO's Suho and pianist Song Young Joo's "Curtain"

 

SM STATION is the agency's digital music project that aims to showcase it's artists and producers in music that's often harder to find in their albums or normal releases. It also branched out to feature many other artists from other agencies, and brought much attention to many lesser known singers and composers. Several international artists such as Steve Barakatt, Orphée Noah, and Alesso also released collaborative tracks through the project.

 

In total, 85 different teams of artists took part in SM STATION, not just as singers or rappers, but also as producers, composers and lyricists.

 

f(x)'s Luna participated in five different SM STATION tracks, making her the artist who featured the most in this project. Right behind her is fellow f(x) member Amber, who was involved in four of the tracks. EXO's Chen, Red Velvet's Wendy, and Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon also had strong showing, each being a part of three respective songs.

 

The SM STATION releases were noted for being experimental, featuring a wide variety of genres such as dance, EDM, R&B, hip-hop, rock, jazz, proggresive metal, ballad, trot, and even classical. Many of these tracks bought together artists from different musical backgrounds, resulting in refreshing new sounds. 18 of the songs were solo tracks, some of them self-written like Lay of EXO's "Monodrama" and Amber's "Borders," while the remaining 34 were collaborations.

 

While the project gained popularity and recognition for these atypical releases, many of these tracks recorded first place on the music charts as well.

 

The project started out with the release of "Rain" by Girls' Generation's Taeyeon on February 3, 2016. It did so well that it even earned the singer an "Inkigayo" win and a Digital Bonsang at the 31st Golden Disk Awards.

 

SM STATION also included collaborations with two variety shows, MBC's "Infinite Challenge" and JTBC's "Ask Us Anything," which proved to be extremely popular. EXO's highly anticipated collaboration with Yoo Jae Suk, "Dancing King" proved to be a "chart king" while Super Junior's Kim Heechul and Min Kyung Hoon's "Sweet Dream" had equally as sweet results.

 

Notably, the proceeds from several of SM STATION releases, such as "Dancing King" and "Sound Of Your Heart," were donated to charity as well.

 

f(x)'s "All Mine" and Girls' Generation's "Sailing (0805)" also received a lot of love and marked first place on the charts as well. Both songs are particularly meaningful as the music video for "All Mine" was directed by Amber herself, and "Sailing (0805)" featured lyrics penned by Sooyoung herself in honor of Girls' Generation's 9th debut anniversary.

 

Some other noteworthy tracks include Hyoyeon's first solo track, S.E.S's release in honor of their 20th anniversary, TRAX's reunion in 5 years and a tribute to South Korea's Olympic and national athletes.

 

What were some of your favourite SM STATION tracks over the past year?

 

CR: Soompi

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sort of oot but the fact that sooyoung wrote sailing makes the lyrics even more meaningful.

 

Even though it may
Become faint over the years
I won’t stop like the promise
On that summer day

 

SNSD debuted in summer

 

I need a minute

 

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Stay together sailing into the night

For you, who made the deep
Darkness in all the sea turned pink

 

 

RIGHT in the feels

 

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What's the most downloaded song from SM station? Thankx

it stated in article , song that won digital bonsang Taeyeon Rain , almost 1.4M DL

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