Sticker is the third studio album by NCT 127 and was released on September 17, 2021.
The physical album comes in three versions: Sticker, Sticky (2 different covers), and Seoul City.
Official Description[]
‘K-POP Megatrend,’ NCT 127, Releasing The 3rd Full Album, ‘Sticker,' on September 17th!
Containing 11 Songs in Total in Various Genres!
‘K-POP Megatrend,’ NCT 127 (SM Entertainment), is making a glorious comeback with the third full album, ‘Sticker,’ on September 17th.
This is the new album released in a year and a half after their second full album, ‘NCT #127 Neo Zone,’ released in March last year. It consists of eleven songs in various genres that are enough to enjoy NCT 127's unique songs to the fullest.
Global hitmakers, such as Yoo Young Jin, Dem Jointz, Harvey Mason Jr., Simon Petrén, Andreas Öberg, Cutfather, and Hitchhiker, each from U.S., Sweden, and Denmark, worked together to raise the album quality. NCT 127 members, TAEYONG and MARK, also participated in the rap making to add fascination to the album.
Especially, NCT 127 is gaining the global popularity with their unique music style and performances and has demonstrated their significant influence by selling over a million copies of the second full album and spending ten weeks on the US ‘Billboard 200’ chart. The new album is much anticipated to bring greater performances.
Addictive Title Track, ‘Sticker,’ Continuing NCT 127's Global Promotion!
The title track, ‘Sticker’, is a hiphop-based dance song with powerful bass lines and rhythmical vocals along with the addictive signature flute sounds. NCT 127 members, TAEYONG and MARK, partially participated in the rap making, saying they will always be with their loved ones who are the purpose of their lives in this complicated world and write their own history.
Also, ‘Lemonade’ is a hiphop-based dance song, saying they will effortlessly skip all the noises from the world. ‘Far’, a pop-dance song that conveys a bold message that they will go towards their dreams beyond the universe without hesitating, and ‘Bring The Noize’, a hybrid trap hiphop song that highlights the ambition to go their own paths, show the energetic charms of NCT 127.
‘Breakfast’, an up-tempo future house dance song that illustrates the magical feeling of love, wanting to stay with their lover until the morning, ‘Focus’, a medium-tempo R&B song, which describes deepening love expressed in how lovers are looking at each other's eyes, and ‘The Rainy Night’, a pop ballad song that depicts the desperate situation of not being able to move on after a break-up., also mesmerize our ears.
The total 11 songs in the album are completed with the following tracks: ‘Magic Carpet Ride’, a dreamy contemporary ballad song that gives the feeling of swimming in the night sky with the lover, ‘Road Trip’, a medium pop song that delivers warm emotions from the road trip with the lover, ‘Dreamer’, an up-tempo pop dance song with a hopeful message to dream and to enjoy together, and ‘Promise You’, a medium pop song with a frank message they’d like to tell the old lover when they meet again.Background[]
On June 28, 2021, SM released a presentation on the company's future and the comebacks of their artists. The presentation explained that NCT 127 planned to release a third studio album and repackage it before year's end. At a fan meet for the group's fifth anniversary, they confirmed the album would have a September release window.
Promotion[]
The album was teased with a concept trailer titled "Who Is Sticker," released on August 21, which depicted the members of NCT 127 as engineering students by day and computer hackers by night. On August 22, SM announced the release of Sticker September 17 on their social media accounts. On September 10, NCT 127 released a playlist named "Welcome to NCT 127 Sticker, the Enhanced Playlist" exclusively on Spotify.
Commercial Performance[]
On August 24, 2021, after just one day of availability, what reported that Sticker had surpassed 1,329,000 pre-orders and surpassed 2.2 million pre-orders on the day of release, breaking their previous record of 530,000 pre-orders for Neo Zone.
On September 24, 2021, NCT 127 broke their record and became a double million-seller, with over 2.15 million copies of Sticker being sold in just a week.
Tracklist[]
- Sticker
- Lemonade
- Breakfast
- 같은 시선 (Focus)
- 내일의 나에게 (The Rainy Night)
- Far
- Bring The Noize
- Magic Carpet Ride
- Road Trip
- Dreamer
- 다시 만나는 날 (Promise You)
Awards[]
| Chart (2021) | Peak Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA) | 16 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) | 14 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 39 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 94 |
| Croatia International Albums (HDU) | 23 |
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) | 25 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 16 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) | 1 |
| Japan Hot Albums (Billboard Japan) | 9 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) | 11 |
| South Korean Albums (Gaon) | 1 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) | 65 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) | 37 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 40 |
| US Billboard 200 | 3 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 1 |
| US World Albums (Billboard) | 1 |
Accolades[]
| Song | Program | Network | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sticker | M Countdown | Mnet | September 23, 2021 |
| September 30, 2021 | |||
| Music Bank | KBS | September 24, 2021 | |
| October 1, 2021 | |||
| Show! Music Core | MBC | September 25, 2021 | |
| October 2, 2021 | |||
| The Show | SBS MTV | September 28, 2021 | |
| Show Champion | MBC M | September 29, 2021 | |
| Inkigayo | SBS | October 3, 2021 |
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