SM Leisure shares 2022 version of annual compilation, ‘2022 Winter SMTOWN: SMCU Palace’

SM Leisure has shared this 12 months’s version of its annual end-of-year compilation, ‘2022 Winter SMTOWN: SMCU Palace’.

The album sees artists from throughout the label – together with members of Pink Velvet, EXO, Ladies’ Era, aespa, NCT, SHINee, Tremendous Junior, TVXQ and soloists Kangta and BoA – group up in new combos.

‘SMCU Palace’ options the title monitor ‘The Treatment’, which based on a press launch, “shares a message of solidarity with the worldwide motion to fight local weather change”. Soloists and group leaders Kangta, BoA, TVXQ’s U-Know, Tremendous Junior’s Leeteuk, Ladies’ Era’s Taeyeon, SHINee’s Onew, EXO’s Suho, Pink Velvet’s Irene, NCT’s Taeyong, Mark and Kun, and aespa’s Karina seem on the tune.

Elsewhere, the Pink Velvet and aespa collaboration ‘Lovely Christmas’, which was shared earlier within the month, additionally options on the tracklist, alongside ‘Sizzling & Chilly’, a pop-dance tune starring EXO’s Kai, Pink Velvet’s Seulgi, NCT’s Jeno and aespa’s Karina. A “stage video” has been launched for the latter, discovering the 4 artists performing it stay in entrance of a wintry, grand backdrop of a palace.

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The tracklist for ‘2022 Winter SMTOWN: SMCU Palace’ is as follows: 

‘Welcome To SMCU Palace’
‘The Treatment’
‘Sizzling & Chilly’
‘Lovely Christmas’
‘Jet’
‘Precedence’
‘원 (Time After Time)’
‘난 어디에 (The place You Are)’
‘Happier’
‘Good To Be Alive’

On January 1, SM’s artists will maintain the free livestream live performance ‘2023 SMTOWN LIVE: SMCU Palace @Kwangya’, performing tracks from the album. The present will likely be obtainable to stream on SMTOWN’s YouTube channel and Past Reside.

In the meantime, the label has confirmed that the supergroup GOT The Beat will make their first comeback in January, a 12 months after they debuted with ‘Step Again’. The sub-unit consists of BoA, Ladies’ Era’s Taeyeon and Hyoyeon, Pink Velvet’s Seulgi and Wendy, and aespa’s Winter and Karina.

Talking to NME in October, Seulgi mirrored on being part of GOT The Beat. “I used to be actually honoured to be invited to be part of that venture and this cross-generational group is the type of mixture you possibly can solely see at SM Leisure,” she mentioned. “Seeing the contemporary, younger, energetic vibe from aespa and the skilled experiences and well-developed expertise from Ladies’ Era and BoA in the identical place was an incredible alternative.”