Brand New (Shinhwa album)

Brand New is the seventh studio album of South Korean boy band Shinhwa. It was released on August 27, 2004, by Good Entertainment. It is their first album since leaving SM Entertainment and signing with Good Entertainment. The four lead singles are "Brand New", "Angel", "Crazy" and "Oh". Brand New sold 324,772 copies in 2004 and was the fifth best-selling album of the year.

Background
The members of Shinhwa began taking charge as lyricist in the release of the album. Eric wrote some rap lyrics for some of the songs while Minwoo took charge and began writing full lyrics. Some songs that he wrote are: "All of My", "Oh" and "U". He later went on to write the song "Superstar" for the group Jewelry, which became a hit.

Commercial performance
Brand New debuted at number 3 on the MIAK monthly album chart, and made its way to number 2 before dropping to number 11. However, it made a large jump from number 11 to number 1, with a large jump in sales from 168,654 copies to 320,337 copies. The lead track "Brand New", was composed by Park Geun-tae and Cho Young-soo, won the Triple Crown, i.e. first place for three consecutive weeks, on Mnet's live music program M Countdown.

Accolades
In 2006, "Brand New" was ranked number 58 in a Gallup Korea poll of top 100 favorite Korean songs of all time. Melon and Seoul Shinmun ranked the single number 68 in their 2021 list of the top 100 K-pop songs of all time.

Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Brand New.


 * Park Geun-tae – producer
 * Shinhwa – producer
 * Kim Young-seong – recording engineer, mixing engineer
 * Yoon Won-kwon – recording engineer
 * Song Kyeong-jo – recording engineer
 * Kang Hae-gu – recording engineer
 * Jeong Doo-seok – recording engineer
 * Ha Jeong-soo – recording engineer
 * Ko Seung-wook – mixing engineer


 * Park Hyeok – mixing engineer
 * Jo Kyu-beom – mixing engineer
 * Sam Lee – guitar
 * Tommy Lee – guitar
 * Hong Joon-ho – guitar
 * Ko Tae-young – guitar
 * Lee Tae-yoon – bass
 * Im Seung-beom – keyboard
 * The String – strings