Merry & Happy

Merry & Happy is the reissue of South Korean girl group Twice's first studio album, Twicetagram. The Christmas-inspired album was released on December 11, 2017. In addition to the original track listing, it has two new songs: the first track is titled "Heart Shaker" and the eponymous second track "Merry & Happy" was written by Park Jin-young.[1][2][3] The album and "Heart Shaker" debuted at No. 1 on four charts of Gaon—Album Chart and Digital Chart, Download Chart and Social Chart respectively, while "Merry & Happy" entered and peaked at No. 24 on Digital Chart.[4][5]

Merry & Happy
Digital and Merry version cover
Studio album (reissue) by Twice
Released	December 11, 2017
Studio	JYPE Studio Instinct E.one Sound Heavymental NUPLAY Studio567 Banzak
Genre	K-pop Christmas
Length	50:38
Language	Korean
Label	JYP Republic
Producer	J.Y. Park "The Asiansoul"
Twice chronology
Twicetagram (2017) Merry & Happy (2017) What Is Love? (2018)
Singles from Merry & Happy
"Heart Shaker" Released: December 11, 2017

Twice performed both "Heart Shaker" and "Merry & Happy" on music programs—Music Bank, Show! Music Core and Inkigayo on December 15–17, respectively.[6][7][8] The music video of "Merry & Happy" was set for release on December 21, but was uploaded online the next day instead in respect to Kim Jong-hyun, whose burial service was held on December 21.[9][10]

Track listing

Merry & Happy

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Heart Shaker"	Galactika	David Amber Sean Alexander	David Amber Avenue 52	3:08
2.	"Merry & Happy"	J. Y. Park "The Asiansoul"	Joe Lawrence Dawn Elektra Sam Hocking	Joe Lawrence	3:16
3.	"Likey"	Black Eyed Pilseung Jeon Gun	Black Eyed Pilseung Jeon Gun	Rado	3:28
4.	"Turtle" (거북이; Geobugi)	Jeong Ho-hyun (e.one)	Jeong Ho-hyun (e.one)	Jeong Ho-hyun (e.one)	3:18
5.	"Missing U"	earattack Dahyun Chaeyoung	earattack	earattack Yooki	3:00
6.	"Wow"	Mafly Ponde Lee Mi-so Kako	Pop Time Kriz	Pop Time	3:01
7.	"FFW"	Kiggen Assbrass	Reign Write NAOtheLAIZA	NAOtheLAIZA	3:46
8.	"Ding Dong"	Jowul	Risto Asikainen Antti Hynninen	Antti Hynninen	3:32
9.	"24/7"	Nayeon Jihyo	Daniel Caesar Ludwig Lindell Cazzi Opeia	Caesar & Loui	3:36
10.	"Look at Me" (날 바라바라봐; Nal Barabarabwa)	Frants Hyerim	Frants Hyerim	Frants	3:13
11.	"Rollin'"	earattack Yooki	earattack Fox Stevenson	Fox Stevenson earattack	3:11
12.	"Love Line"	Jeongyeon	Darren Smith Tammy Infusino	Darren "Baby Dee Beats" Smith	3:17
13.	"Don't Give Up" (힘내!; Himnae!)	Chaeyoung	Chris Wahle Thomas Harsem Andreas Ohrn	Chris Wahle	2:58
14.	"You in My Heart" (널 내게 담아; Neol Naege Dama)	Jeong Ho-hyun (e.one) Choi Hyun-jun (e.one)	Jeong Ho-hyun (e.one) Choi Hyun-jun (e.one)	Jeong Ho-hyun (e.one) Choi Hyun-jun (e.one)	3:29
15.	"Jaljayo Good Night" (잘자요 굿나잇; Jaljayo Gunnait)	Kevin Oppa (mr. cho)	Kevin Oppa (mr. cho)	Kevin Oppa (mr. cho)	4:23
Total length:					50:38

Content production

Credits adapted from album liner notes.[11]

Locations

Recording JYPE Studios, Seoul, South Korea Studio Instinct, Seoul, South Korea E.one Sound, Seoul, South Korea Heavymental Studios, Seoul, South Korea NUPLAY Studio, Seoul, South Korea Studio567, Seoul, South Korea Banzak Studio, Seoul, South Korea

Mixing Mirrorball Studios, North Hollywood, California JYPE Studios, Seoul, South Korea Studio Sean, Seoul, South Korea Cube Studio, Seoul, South Korea Mastering Honey Butter Studio, Seoul, South Korea Sterling Sound, New York City, New York 821 Sound Mastering, Seoul, South Korea

Personnel

• J. Y. Park "The Asiansoul" – producer
• Lee Ji-young – direction and coordination (A&R)
• Jang Ha-na – music (A&R)
• Kim Yeo-joo (Jane Kim) – music (A&R)
• Park Sun-hyeong – music (A&R)
• Kim Ji-hyeong – production (A&R)
• Choi A-ra – production (A&R)
• Kim Je-na (Jenna Kim) – production (A&R)
• Gong Da-yoon – production (A&R)
• Kim Bo-hyeon – design (A&R)
• Kim Tae-eun – design (A&R), web design, album art direction
• Choi Hye-jin – recording, mixing and assistant mixing engineer
• Eom Se-hee – recording and assistant mixing engineer
• Jang Han-soo – recording and assistant mixing engineer
• Friday of Galactika – recording engineer and chorus (on "Heart Shaker")
• Jowul – recording engineer, vocal producer (on "Merry & Happy"), vocal director and background vocals (on "24/7")
• Jeong Ho-hyun – recording engineer, all instruments and keyboard (on "Turtle" and "You in My Heart")
• Earattack – recording engineer, and all instruments and computer programming (on "Missing U" and "Rollin'")
  • bass (on "Missing U"), background vocals (on "Rollin'") and director (on "Don't Give Up")
• Jeong Gyu-chang – recording engineer
• Kevin Oppa (mr. cho) – recording engineer, vocals producer (on "Love Line"), computer programming, piano and digital editing (on "Jaljayo Good Night")
• Frants – recording engineer, all instruments and computer programming (on "Look at Me")
• Tony Maserati – mixing engineer
• James Krausse – mixing engineer
• Lee Tae-seob – mixing engineer
• Lim Hong-jin – mixing and assistant mixing engineer
• Staytuned – mixing engineer
• Yoon Won-kwon – mixing engineer
• Jossi Ahjussi – mixing engineer
• Jeon Bu-yeon – assistant mixing engineer
• Bae So-yoon – assistant mixing engineer
• Park Jeong-eon – mastering engineer
• Chris Gehringer – mastering engineer
• Kwon Nam-woo – mastering engineer
• Naive Production – video director
• Kim Young-jo – video executive producer
• Yoo Seung-woo – video executive producer
• Choi Pyeong-gang – video co-producer
• Kim Young-joon at Agency SEED – photographer
• Kang Hye-in at Normallogic – album design
• Kang Hye-in at Normallogic – album design
• Choi Hee-seon at F. Choi – style director
• Son Eun-hee at Lulu – hair and makeup director
• Jung Nan-young at Lulu – hair and makeup director
• Choi Ji-young at Lulu – hair and makeup director
• Jo Sang-ki at Lulu – hair and makeup director
• Zia at Lulu – hair and makeup director
• Jeon Dal-lae at Lulu – hair and makeup director
• Won Jung-yo – makeup director
• Yoon Hee-so – choreographer
• Kang Da-sol – choreographer
• Today Art – printing
• David Amber – all instruments, computer programming (on "Heart Shaker")
• Avenue 52 – all instruments, additional programming (on "Heart Shaker")
• Galactika – vocal director (on "Heart Shaker")
• e.Na – chorus (on "Heart Shaker")[12]
• Joe Lawrence – all instruments, computer programming (on "Merry & Happy")
• Jihyo of Twice – background vocals (on "Merry & Happy", "Likey", "Ding Dong" and "Love Line")
• Nayeon of Twice – background vocals (on "Merry & Happy" and "Likey")
• Kim Cho-young – background vocals (on "Merry & Happy")
• Rado – all instruments, computer programming and background vocals (on "Likey")
• Choi Hoon – bass (on "Turtle" and "You in My Heart")
• Yoon Tae-woong – guitar (on "Turtle" and "You in My Heart")
• Kim Yoon-ji – chorus (on "Turtle")
• Kim Jong-seong – guitar (on "Missing U")
• Nam Joo – background vocals (on "Missing U", "FFW" and "Rollin'")
• Jeong Yoo-ra at Cassette08 – digital editing (on "Missing U", "Rollin'" and "Don't Give Up")
• Jeong Dong-hwan & Park Ji-yong & Nusoul – keyboards (on "Wow")
• Kriz – background vocals (on "Wow")
• Park Gi-tae – guitar (on "Wow")
• NAOtheLAIZA – all instruments and computer programming (on "FFW")
• Antti Hynninen – all instruments and computer programming (on "Ding Dong")
• Caesar & Loui – all instruments and computer programming (on "24/7")
• Oh Han-sol – background vocals (on "Look at Me")
• Hyerim – background vocals (on "Look at Me")
• Fox Stevenson – all instruments and computer programming (on "Rollin'")
• Bin – background vocals (on "Rollin'" and "Don't Give Up")
• Darren Smith – all instruments and computer programming (on "Love Line")
• Chris Wahle – all instruments and computer programming (on "Don't Give Up")
• Kim So-ri – chorus (on "You in My Heart")
• Kim Jun-soo – guitar (on "Jaljayo Good Night")
• Lee Da-jeong – background vocals (on "Jaljayo Good Night")

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2017) Peak position Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon)[13] 15 Japan Hot Albums (Billboard)[14] 38 South Korean Albums (Gaon)[15] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2017) Position South Korean Albums (Gaon)[16] 19 Chart (2018) Position South Korean Albums (Gaon)[17] 77

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
2018	1st Korea Popular Music Awards	Best Album	Nominated	[18]

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Distributor	Ref.
Worldwide	December 11, 2017	Digital download	JYP Entertainment Genie Music	[19]
South Korea				[20]
	December 12, 2017	CD		[21]
United States	March 1, 2020	Streaming	JYP Republic	[22]

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