Pink Tape (f(x) album)

Pink Tape
Cover art of Pink Tape, a pink cassette with the picture sleeve showing five members of the group f(x)
Digital cover
Studio album by
f(x)
ReleasedJuly 29, 2013
Recorded2013
StudioSM Studios (Seoul)
Genre
LanguageKorean
LabelSM
ProducerLee Soo-man
F(x) chronology
Electric Shock
(2012) 		Pink Tape
(2013) 		Red Light
(2014)
Singles from Pink Tape
  1. "Rum Pum Pum Pum"
    Released: July 29, 2013[1]

Pink Tape is the second studio album by South Korean girl group f(x). The album was released on July 29, 2013, by SM Entertainment. Pink Tape is the first studio album by f(x) in over two years, the last being the repackage of their first album Hot Summer in 2011, and their first Korean release in over a year since 2012's Electric Shock. The album peaked at the number-one position on multiple music charts internationally, including Billboard's World Albums and South Korea's Gaon charts.[2]

Pink Tape garnered widespread critical acclaim; it was the only K-pop album to be featured on US music channel Fuse's list of 41 Best Albums of 2013[3] and was named the Greatest K-pop Album of the 2010s by Billboard.[4] "Rum Pum Pum Pum" was ranked at number 59 on Billboard's 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time list.[5] In a panel of 47 music and pop culture critics organized by The Hankyoreh and Melon, it was ranked at number 96 in their list of the Top 100 Korean Albums of All Time, making it the only album by an idol group to make the list.[6]

  1. ^ "KBS Radio Playlist". KBS International Radio. Korean Broadcasting System. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
  2. ^ "Q&A: f(x) Reacts to Topping K-Pop Hot 100 & World Albums Chart (Exclusive)". Billboard. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  3. ^ "f(x)′s Album Listed as Fuse TV's 'The 41 Best Albums of 2013'". Mwave. December 20, 2013. Archived from the original on June 4, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  4. ^ "The 25 Greatest K-Pop Albums of the 2010s: Staff List". Billboard. December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  5. ^ "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time: Critics' Picks". Billboard. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  6. ^ Jeong, Min-jae (August 28, 2018). "Melon" 한국 대중 음악 명반 100 [100 Korean Popular Music Albums] (in Korean). Melon. Retrieved August 3, 2020.