Flame of Love

2017 EP by Taemin

Flame of Love

EP by

Taemin

Released

July 3, 2017 (2017-07-03)

Genre

J-pop^[1]

Length

20:36

Language

Japanese

Label

EMI
Universal Music

Taemin chronology

Sayonara Hitori
(2016)

Flame of Love
(2017)

Move
(2017)

Singles from Flame of Love

"Flame of Love"
Released: June 28, 2017

Flame of Love is the second Japanese extended play (third overall) by South Korean singer Taemin under EMI Records, a division of Universal Music Japan. It was released digitally on July 3, 2017, and physically on July 18, 2017. The title track was released on June 28, 2017.^[2] Taemin performed songs from the EP at his first solo concert in Japan at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, which attracted 28,000 fans.^[3]^[4] The visual contents were co-produced by Mika Ninagawa. A deluxe edition comes with a bonus DVD with a music video for the title song, its dance version, and shooting sketch for cover artwork and music video. After the release, the album immediately ranked number one on Japan's daily albums charts, selling more than 45,000 copies.^[5]

Track listing

*Flame of Love* track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Flame of Love"	Amon Hayashi	Kanata Okajima Andreas Öberg Yuka Otsuki (Mussashi)	Mussashi	3:54
2.	"I'm Crying"	Meg.Me [ja]	Kevin Charge Yumiko Okada Grace Tone Hide Nakamura	Kevin Charge	5:45
3.	"Do It Baby"	Sara Sakurai	Sebastian Thott [sv] Ninos Hanna	Sebastian Thott	2:42
4.	"Door"	Sara Sakurai	Andreas Stone Johansson [sv] Andreas Öberg Fredrik Hult Steven Lee	Andreas Stone Johansson	3:57
5.	"Itsuka Kokode" (いつかここで)	Sara Sakurai	Andreas Stone Johansson Kiyohito Komatsu [ja] Vincent DeGiorgio	Andreas Stone Johansson	4:04
Total length:					20:22

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Flame of Love" (music video)
2.	"Flame of Love" (MV dance version)
3.	"Jacket & MV Shooting Sketch"

Charts

Chart performance for *Flame of Love*
Chart	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[6]	2
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)^[7]	2

Sales

Chart	Amount
Oricon physical sales	51,752+^[8]

References

^ "Genre according to iTunes". iTunes. July 3, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
^ テミン（SHINee）、CGとダンスで世界観を表現した「Flame of Love」MV公開 [Taemin (Shinee) releases music video for "Flame of Love" expressing worldview with CG and dance]. Billboard Japan (in Japanese). June 27, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
^ Jie Ye-eun (April 6, 2017). "SHINee's Taemin to hold solo concert in Japan". K-Pop Herald. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
^ Hajime Kamiiisaka (July 2, 2017). "SHINeeテミン"底知れぬ才能"が武道館で覚醒「今日のステージが、ソロのテミンとしてスタートになる」＜ライブレポ・セットリスト＞" [Shinee's Taemin "unknown talent" awakens at the Budokan arena "Today's stage will start Taemin's solo"]. Modelpress. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
^
Flame of Love sales
- J. K (July 18, 2017). "SHINee's Taemin Reigns Over Oricon's Daily Album Chart With "Flame Of Love"". Soompi. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- "Oricon Album Ranking Daily (2017年07月17日付) - see #1". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon Inc. Archived from the original on July 18, 2017.
^ "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2017-07-31" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on July 26, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
^ "Hot Albums: 2017/07/26 公開". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved August 20, 2022.
^ "Oricon Album Ranking monthly (2017年07月付) - see #10". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon Inc. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017.