BDZ (album)


BDZ is the debut Japanese studio album by South Korean girl group Twice. It was released on September 12, 2018, by Warner Music Japan. The album contains five previously released songs and five new ones, including the title track of the same name produced by Park Jin-young. The title "symbolizes the members' wish to be tough and live strong".
A repackaged edition with one additional song was released on December 26, 2018.

Background and release

On June 3, 2018, at Twice 2nd Tour: Twiceland Zone 2 – Fantasy Park in Osaka, it was announced that Twice would release their first Japanese album in the autumn. The title track "BDZ" was pre-released as a digital single on August 17, along with the accompanying music video. The full album was released on September 12, along with a "document video" of "Be as One" featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Twice's first year in Japan.
A repackage was released on December 26, 2018, containing "Stay by My Side", the theme song of the Japanese television drama . "Stay by My Side" was released as a digital single on October 22 along with a "making" music video showing Twice recording the song.

Promotion

"BDZ" was first performed on Music Station on August 31, 2018, and it was performed on the opening stage of Tokyo Girls Collection the next day. All songs from the album were performed during Twice 1st Arena Tour 2018 "BDZ", which began on September 29 in Chiba.

Commercial performance

BDZ debuted at number 1 on the daily ranking of the Oricon Albums Chart with 89,721 units sold, setting a record for the highest first day sales of albums released by K-pop girl groups in Japan. It also topped the weekly ranking with 181,069 units sold, making Twice the fifth foreign female artist in Oricon history to top both the weekly singles and albums chart, after The Nolans, BoA, Kara, and Girls' Generation. On the Oricon Digital Album Chart, it debuted at number 1 with 3,103 downloads.
The album topped the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart, selling 181,605 copies and 3,239 downloads from September 10–16, 2018. On September 15, it was reported that it sold more than 292,300 copies in pre-orders. It was certified Platinum by the RIAJ on October 11 – Twice's fifth consecutive platinum certification.

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD album liner notes.
JYP Entertainment staff
  • Song Ji-eun "Shannen" – executive producer
  • Jimmy Jeong – executive producer
  • Cho Hae-sung – executive producer
  • J. Y. Park "The Asiansoul" – producer
  • Min Lee "collapsedone" – assistant producer
  • Kim Seung-soo – assistant producer
  • Park Nam-yong – performance director
  • Kim Hyung-woong – performance director
  • Yun Hee-so – performance director
  • Na Tae-hoon – performance director
  • Yoo Kwang-yeol – performance director
  • Kang Da-sol – performance director
  • Park Gyeong-seok – performance director
  • Sim Kyu-jin – performance director
  • Bock Mi-ran – performance director
  • Lee Tae-sub – recording engineer
  • Choi Hye-jin – recording engineer
  • Eom Se-hee – recording engineer
  • Lim Hong-jin – recording engineer
  • Jang Han-soo – recording engineer
  • No Min-ji – recording engineer
  • Lee Sang-yeop – recording engineer
Japanese recording staff
  • Goei Ito – music director
  • Yu-ki Kokubo – recording director
  • Satoshi Sasamoto – Pro Tools operation
  • Manubu Ohta – Pro Tools operation
Design staff
  • Toshiyuki Suzuki – art direction
  • Yasuhiro Ueda – design
  • Tommy – photography
  • Choi Hee-sun - style director
  • Seo Ji-eun - style director
  • Lee Ga-young - style director
  • Lee Jin-young - assistant stylist
  • Noh Hee-ha - assistant stylist
  • Jung Nan-young – hair director
  • Choi Ji-young – hair director
  • Son Eun-hee – hair director
  • Jo Sang-ki – makeup director
  • Jeon Dallae – makeup director
  • Zia – makeup director
  • Won Jung-yo – makeup director
  • Choi Su-ji – assistant makeup director
  • Naoyuki Hashimoto – production designer
  • Yuzo Morota – production manager
Other personnel
  • J. Y. Park "The Asiansoul" – all instruments
  • Hae Sol Lee – all instruments and computer programming
  • Jaepil Jung – guitars
  • Twice – background vocals
  • Ikuko Tsutsumi – background vocals
  • Dr. Jo – vocal recording director
  • Tony Maserati – mixing engineer
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering engineer
  • Na.Zu.Na – all instruments
  • Min Lee "collapsedone" – all instruments and computer programming
  • Mayu Wakisaka – background vocals and vocal recording director
  • Naoki Yamada – mixing engineer
  • Mussashi – all instruments
  • Brian – recording engineer
  • Shin Bong-won – mixing engineer
  • Atsushi Shimada – all instruments
  • Kim Seung-soo – all instruments
  • Choi Hyun-jun – all instruments and vocal recording director
  • Chung Soo-wan – guitars
  • Jo Jun-sung – mixing engineer
  • Yuichi Ohno – all instruments except guitars
  • Akitoshi Kuroda – guitars

Locations

Recording
Mixing
Mastering

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart Position
Japan Hot Albums 66
Japanese Albums 60