The Beginning (JYJ album)

The Beginning
Studio album by
JYJ
ReleasedOctober 14, 2010 (2010-10-14)
Recorded2010
Genre
Length29:16
Label
JYJ chronology
The...
(2010) 		The Beginning
(2010) 		Their Rooms "Our Story"
(2011)
Singles from The Beginning
  1. "Ayyy Girl feat. Kanye West, Malik Yusef"
    Released: October 19, 2010
  2. "Empty"
    Released: 2010

The Beginning is the debut studio album by South Korean pop group JYJ, formed by three of the five original members of TVXQ. It is the group's first English release, after their 2010 Japanese language extended play The.... It was released on October 14, 2010 through Vitamin Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Korea.

Two weeks before the release of the album in South Korea, 50,000 copies of the regular edition had been pre-ordered and pre-sales for the 99,999 copies of the special edition of The Beginning reached numbers of 400,000 requests.[1][2]

The album was released on November 16, 2010 in the United States as a digital download,[3] and a wider release, planned by the group for early 2011, did not materialize.[4]

  1. ^ 유, 순호 (October 7, 2010). "JYJ 파워! 하루 70억 수입". MetroSeoul (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "JYJ 첫 앨범 '동방신기' 넘나". Hankooki (in Korean). September 30, 2010. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference USiTunes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "JYJ、来年米国でアルバムリリース". Chosun Online (in Japanese). November 23, 2010. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2010.