jonghyun’s second full length studio album, poet | artist, was released one year age today on january 23rd, 2018. like all of jonghyun’s releases before it, poet | artist was a massive successful though it managed to reach heights that were not only groundbreaking for him as a soloist, but for shinee as a group.
the album debuted at the top of the gaon weekly album chart in it’s first week of release, and topped the gaon monthly album chart with 151,224 in total sales. it remained the highest selling physical release of 2018 though the majority of the first quarter of the year before finishing out the year 235,965 in total sales. it ranked at #20 on gaon’s year end album chart for 2018 as the highest selling solo album of the year. to date it is not only the second highest selling solo album released by an sm artist, but the highest selling album released by shinee both in general sales and in terms of single year sales. it debuted at #1 on the billboard world album chart and at #177 on the billboard 200 chart, a first for shinee. on top of this, the album and it’s title track, “빛이 나 (shinin’)”, made waves around the world digitally. it topped the itunes world album chart on it’s first day of release and charted fairly high and consistently on different itunes charts across the world for the first two months that followed it’s release. both digitally and physically it also debuted on numerous other worldwide charts, including the australian digital albums chart and new zealand heatseakers albums chart.
“빛이 나 (shinin’)” brought in two music show awards through music bank (february 2nd, 2018) and music core (february 3rd, 2018), and the album itself earned jonghyun his second album bonsang at the 33rd golden disc awards on january 6th of this year. the album was also nominated for q1 - album of the year at the 8th gaon chart awards. along with this, it received high praise internationally. it took the silver medal, ranking #2, on the billboard critic’s picks list of the 20 best k-pop albums of 2018, #2 on rolling stone india’s 10 best k-pop albums of 2018, and #35 on genius’s 50 best albums of 2018. all proceeds for the album went directly toward (and will continue to go to) his mother and older sister, who used the money to launch shiny foundation in his name and memory.
in all honesty, this is just the tip of the iceberg. poet | artist is not only a work of art, but a work of beauty and love put together by one of the most beautiful people to ever walk this earth. it is a wonderful gift given to us by a great person, and it received all the love that it deserved … though even the amount of love that it was given will never be enough. thank you for giving us such a wonderful album, jonghyun.
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