generasia:Featured article for 2014 week 36
BoA
BoA (보아) is a Korean pop singer. Her stage name made a backronym which is Beat of Angel. She made her Korean debut in 2000 with the album, ID; Peace B and was soon marketed as a "world" artist and she debuted in Japan. Her first Japanese pop album LISTEN TO MY HEART reached #1 on the Oricon charts and she became the first Korean artist to rank in Oricon's top twenty. BoA has since gone on to have multiple top-charting releases in both Korea and Japan. BoA has also started to learn English; in 2009 she released her debut English-language album, BoA, in the United States. Because of her huge success and achievements through-out Asia, she became No. 1 Female artist in Asia, and one of the leading and role model of new acts today. BoA has approximately sold more than 20,000,000 copies in both Japan and Korea.
In May 2014, Avex Trax announced that BoA will be releasing her 37th Japanese single, "MASAYUME CHASING," on July 23, 2014, which was also used as the fifteenth opening song for the anime, Fairy Tail. Her website also updated that she will be hosting a Japanese tour called "BoA Live Tour 2014 WHO'S BACK?" in September. The tour consists of five concerts total, in four cities. The tour will begin on September 6 in Tokyo at the NHK Hall, and continue on the 7th in Tokyo at the same venue, on the 14th in Aichi/Nagoya, on the 20th in Osaka, and end in Fukuoka on the 23rd. This will be BoA's first Japanese tour in 4 years.
BoA's eighth Japanese album WHO'S BACK? will be released this week on September 3, 2014.
