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| Released | June 9, 2020 | |||
| Recorded | 2019–2020 | |||
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| Length | 33:12 | |||
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Awaken the World is the first studio album by the Chinese boy band WayV. It was released digitally on June 9, 2020, and physically on June 18, 2020, by Label V and SM Entertainment, with Dreamus as the South Korean distributor and Owhat as the distributor for China. A full-length release that consists of ten songs that fall mostly in the hip-hop and R&B genres with influences from synth-pop. Awaken the World saw the participation of various songwriters and production teams that have worked with SM previously, namely Moonshine, Tay Jasper, Adrian McKinnon, Mike Daley, Mitchell Owens, Deez, Dsign Music, Cazzi Opeia, Ryan S. Jhun, Vedo, LDN Noise, MZMC, and others. Members Hendery and Yangyang also participated in lyric writing for some of the album tracks.
Upon its release, Awaken the World attained commercial success in China and South Korea, earning the group top-three entry on both Tencent Music's UNI Chart and the Gaon Album Chart, as well as their third entry on the Billboard World Albums Chart. It was also WayV's first release to enter the Oricon Albums Chart, peaking at number nineteen. To promote the album, the group performed the lead single "Turn Back Time" on several South Korean television music programs, with an accompanied Korean version of the song released separately on June 18, 2020.[1] Subsequently, the group released an English version of the track "Bad Alive" as a digital single on June 29 which managed to rank at number one on QQ Music Daily Digital Sales chart and earned Gold certification hours after it was released.[2]