The ReVe Festival: Finale

The ReVe Festival: Finale (sometimes simply referred as Finale) is the first Korean-language compilation album by South Korean girl group Red Velvet. The album was announced and became available to pre-order on December 12, 2019, before being released by SM Entertainment on December 23, 2019, with Dreamus serving as the South Korea distributor. As the third and final release of the group's trilogy The ReVe Festival, the set contains all twelve tracks taken from two previous extended plays The ReVe Festival: Day 1 and The ReVe Festival: Day 2. With SM founder Lee Soo-man serving as the executive producer, Finale includes four new songs—"Psycho", "In & Out", "Remember Forever" and a previously-unreleased "La Rouge", with the first being the lead single for the album (and subsequently the third and final single from the trilogy.) The album was released in two versions with different package artwork, while a digital EP including only the four new tracks was also released on the same date.

The ReVe Festival: Finale
Digital and Finale version cover
Compilation album by
Red Velvet
ReleasedDecember 23, 2019 (2019-12-23)
Recorded2019
StudioSM Studio, Seoul, South Korea
Genre
Length55:35
LanguageKorean
Label
Producer
Red Velvet chronology
The ReVe Festival: Day 2
(2019)		 The ReVe Festival: Finale
(2019)
Singles from The ReVe Festival: Finale
  1. "Psycho"
    Released: December 23, 2019

Upon its release, the compilation album was a commercial success both domestically and internationally. It was the group's eleventh chart-topper on the Gaon Album Chart for two weeks, while being their tenth top-three entry on the Billboard World Albums Chart. It was also the group's first release to enter several Europe component album charts, namely Spanish Albums Chart, Poland Albums Chart and Belgium Albums Chart. Its lead single was also a success both commercially and critically, becoming the group's highest charting single since "Power Up" and their second chart-topper on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart, following "RBB (Really Bad Boy)" in late 2018.

Background and release

During the group's appearance on Idol League in July 2019, Irene confirmed that their future plans for 2019 would include two more installments of The ReVe Festival trilogy, namely Day 2 (which was later released on August 20) and Finale.[1] The group then performed their first two nights for the third concert, titled "La Rouge" at the Korea University Hwa-jeong Tiger Dome, Seoul in November 2019, where they debuted an exclusive new track for the concert, initially known as "Shining."[2] The album was then announced through social media on midnight of December 12, 2019, with movie-poster style teaser photos with tagline; "Don't be afraid of the dark. The fireworks will light up the sky" and "Stay in the magic even after dark. The fireworks start".[3] The tracklist was also revealed on midnight of December 15, 2019, revealing the title of four new tracks, namely "Psycho", "In & Out", "Remember Forever" and "La Rouge", with the latter being previously known as "Shining."[4][5] It was then released on December 23, 2019 to coincide with the music video premiere for "Psycho." While the physical version contains two different package editions with sixteen songs in its tracklist, the digital version is an extended play only with the four new tracks.[6][7]

Composition
See also: The ReVe Festival: Day 1 and The ReVe Festival: Day 2

The album contains a total of sixteen tracks, with twelve of which were taken from the group's first two installations from the trilogy in the same year. The lead single "Psycho" is an R&B track with trap and future bass influence, starting with a "grandiose operatic" instrumental intro, followed by "dramatic" pizzicato strings, "classical" chords and "trap beats, squelching synths" elements, which marked the song as their seventh single to fall under the "Velvet" concept. It was written by songwriter Kenzie, while production was handled by producer Andrew Scott, songwriter Cazzi Opeia and EJAE with additional arrangement by Druski and Yoo Young-jin.[8] It was proceeded by "In & Out", a "creeping, standout" synth-pop track which was also co-written by Kenzie and Opeia, the latter whom co-produced the song with production team Moonshine. The third track "Remember Forever" is a "sweet" R&B and doo-wop ballad, while the last track "La Rouge" is a "jazzy" showtune, which contains elements from jazz and funk music.[9] The track was written and produced by Andreas Öberg, Simon Petrén, Maja Keuc, Hwang Chan-hee, and Hong So-jin, with the former whom co-produced the group's previous single "Umpah Umpah" (2019).

Tour and live performances

Following the group's early performance for "La Rouge" during their eponymous third concert in November 2019, Red Velvet gave their first live performance for "Psycho" and "Remember Forever" at the ReVe Festival FINALE Party on December 22, 2019, which premiered exclusively on V Live with a limited participation for the group's fandom.[10][11] The group originally planned to perform the lead single live during their attendance at SBS Gayo Daejeon on December 25, however, as fellow member Wendy suffered injuries during rehearsal, a pre-recorded performance was aired instead, which eventually led to the group having to perform as a quartet for their later attendance.[12] The remaining four members eventually covered all Wendy's singing parts for their live performance at the 29th Seoul Music Awards on January 30, 2020, where they also won their fifth consecutive Main Award (Bonsang).[13]

Commercial performance

Upon its release, The ReVe Festival: Finale was a domestic commercial success for Red Velvet, debuting atop the Gaon Album Chart and topping the chart for two consecutive weeks. Not only is Finale the group's first to stay atop the chart more than one week, the album extended their record as the K-pop girl group with more number-one titles on the chart, having achieved a total of eleven chart-toppers. With only one tracking week in December 2019, the album was the third best-selling entry for the December issue of the monthly Gaon Album Chart, and subsequently the fifty-seventh best-selling album of 2019.[14][15] As of March 2020, it has sold 144,855 copies.[16] Additionally, the album peaked at number three on the Billboard World Albums Chart, becoming the group's milestone tenth top five album on the chart and to date, their second release to stay on the chart for at least ten weeks, following Day 2 which spent a total of thirteen charting weeks.[17] It also entered the Billboard Tastemakers Albums chart at number three, making Red Velvet the first K-pop girl group and fourth group overall to enter the chart.[18] The album continued to achieve success in several component Europe albums charts, being the group's first entry on Spanish Albums Chart, Polish Albums Chart and Belgium Ultratop Albums Chart, respectively.

Track listing

Credits adapted from Naver

Tracks 4 to 9 are from The ReVe Festival: Day 2, listed in a way that is inverted from the track listing in the EP, while tracks 10 to 15 are from The ReVe Festival: Day 1, following the same concept of track listing akin to tracks 4 to 9.

The ReVe Festival: Finale
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Psycho"
3:31
2."In & Out"
  • Moonshine
3:13
3."Remember Forever"
  • Royal Dive
3:08
4."Eyes Locked, Hands Locked" (Korean: 눈 맞추고, 손 맞대고; RR: Nun Matchugo, Son Matdaego)
  • Sumin (Hard Carry)
  • Sumin (Hard Carry)
4:11
5."Ladies Night"
  • Park Ji-yeon (MonoTree)
  • Chu Dae-kwan (MonoTree)
3:57
6."Jumpin'"
  • Kenzie
  • Daniel Caesar (Caesar & Loui)
  • Ludwig Lindell (Caesar & Loui)
  • Ylva Dimberg (The Kennel)
  • Caesar & Loui (The Kennel)
3:36
7."Love Is the Way" (Korean: 사랑은 길이다; RR: Sarang-eun Gil-ida)
3:32
8."Carpool" (Korean: 카풀; RR: Kapul)
  • Sophia Ayana
  • Léon Paul Palmen
  • Nathan Cunningham (Space Primates)
  • Marc Sibley (Space Primates)
  • Sophia Ayana
  • Léon Paul Palmen
  • Nathan Cunningham (Space Primates)
  • Marc Sibley (Space Primates)
3:27
9."Umpah Umpah" (Korean: 음파음파; RR: Eumpa-eumpa; lit. Sonic Wave)
  • Jeon Gan-di
3:40
10."LP"
  • Ryan S. Jhun
  • Hanif Sabzevari (Hitmanic)
  • Dennis DeKo Kordnejad (Hitmanic)
  • Pontus PJ Ljung (Hitmanic)
  • Anna Isbäck
3:27
11."Parade" (Korean: 안녕, 여름; RR: Annyeong, Yeoreum; lit. Hello, Summer)
  • Fredrik Häggstam (Trinity Music)
  • Johan Gustafsson (Trinity Music)
  • Sebastian Lundberg (Trinity Music)
  • Ylva Dimberg (The Kennel)
  • Trinity Music
3:13
12."Bing Bing" (Korean: 친구가 아냐; RR: Chin-guga Anya; lit. Not A Friend)
3:27
13."Milkshake"
  • Moonshine
3:30
14."Sunny Side Up!"
  • Jeon Gan-di
  • Moonshine
3:23
15."Zimzalabim" (Korean: 짐살라빔; RR: Jimsallabim)
  • Ollipop (The Kennel)
  • Daniel Caesar (Caesar & Loui)
  • Ludwig Lindell (Caesar & Loui)
  • Hayley Aitken
  • The Kennel
3:10
16."La Rouge" (Special Track)
  • JQ (Makeumine Works)
  • Ahn Young-joo (Makeumine Works)
  • Mola (Makeumine Works)
  • Moon Seoul (Makeumine Works)
3:10
Total length:55:35

Charts

Accolade
Year-end lists
Critic/Publication List Rank Ref
Idology Korea 2019: Album Of The Year 1 [32]

Release history
Region Date Format Label
Various December 23, 2019
SM Entertainment, Dreamus

See also

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