Today: Super Junior's 4th Anniversary

It doesn't seem like a very long time does it? Let us travel back in time to appreciate the hardwork they've all been through for us ELFs!!!



The first time they debuted on SBS 'Popular Songs' on November the 6th with "KNOCK OUT aka Twins",



the first time they did "Show me your Love" with TVXQ which became the best selling record (49,945 copies) of December 2005 for Christmas ^^,



In February 2006, Super Junior 05 began performances for "Miracle", the second promotional single from their debut album. "Miracle" was the group's first single to peak #1 in online music charts of South Korea as well as the music charts of Thailand, (Hangeng! ^^)



On May 23th, 2006, We welcomed the 13th member of Super Junior, KYUHYUN! ^^ who was actually discovered through a singing competition in 2005!



Then they released the single "U" on May 25th for free download at their official website and had over 400 thousand downloads within five hours of release! It ultimately exceeded 1.7 million downloads, crashing the server! The physical single of "U" with a total of three tracks was released on June 6, 2006, eventually selling over 81,000 units.



The single became one of Korea's most popular songs of the year, yielding #1 spots for five consecutive weeks on two of Korea's top music programs. By the end of the year, Super Junior collected over seven awards in five of South Korea's top music award ceremonies, winning the title as Best New Group of 2006.

^^ Suju won the 'Best New Group' award that year for "U" and was nominated for 'Best Dance' award at the Mnet MKMF Awards ^^ Snatched a 'Best New Group' and also 'Best Music Video' too for the Golden Disk Awards. And LOADS AND LOADS of others too ^^! Too many to list out ^^ll



Super Junior's first sub-unit, the ballad-singing trio Super Junior-K.R.Y. (Kyuhyun, Ryeowook, Yesung), debuted on November 5, 2006 with a performance of Hyena theme song "The One I Love" on KBS music program Music Bank.





A second sub-unit arrived in February 2007 called Super Junior-T. (Leeteuk, Heechul, Kangin, Sungmin, Shindong & Eunhyuk) The trot-singing group released their first single "Rokkugo" in February 23, 2007 and made a debut performance on Popular Songs two days later.





Then On April 19, 2007, the four beloved members of Super Junior (Shindong, Eunhyuk, Kyuhyun and Leeteuk) and two of the group's managers were involved in a car accident. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the van flipped over on its right side, colliding with the sidewalk.







Kyuhyun, who was sitting behind the driver's seat was severely injured with a fractured hip, pneumothorax from broken ribs, and deep scratches and bruises. He kept slipping in and out of consciousness for the next few days after the accident TT Leeteuk had severe scratches on his back and face, and had to receive stitches. He had a successful operation removing the glass shards on his back, and received a total of 170 stitches on both his back and face! TT

Shindong and Eunhyuk, the least injured with only a few cuts, scratches, and bruises, were both discharged on April 23, 2007. Leeteuk and Kyuhyun recovered faster than expected, and Leeteuk was discharged from the hospital on April 30, 2007. Kyuhyun was discharged two months later on July 5, 2007, but wasn't fully recovered till Febuary 2008.

Super Junior's second official album, DON'T DON was released on September 20th, 2007. (Heechul's red hair days, also when it was reported that he vomitted blood during a rehersal because he strained his voice too much for the song!! TT)



Within the first three days of release, offline album sales for Don't Don passed the 11,000 unit mark, debuting as #1 in all available offline charts. It finished the September monthly album sales as #1. 60,000 units were shipped by the first week of release and additional copies were printed. The album sold more than 160,000 copies by the end of the year, becoming the second best-selling record of 2007. The album also found success in Taiwan; it broke the record for being the highest ranked Korean album on the G-music Combo Billboard Chart, surpassing the albums of TVXQ and Shinhwa.

Supported by the release of Don't Don, Super Junior was nominated in seven separate categories at the 2007 M.NET/KM Music Festival that was held on November 17, 2007. Super Junior won three of those categories including "Netizen Choice Award" and "Mobile Popularity", being the biggest winner of the night. The group also won "Best Artist of the Year" (Daesang), termed by many as the highest recognition of the ceremony. Super Junior collected two more awards on December 14, 2007 at the 2007 Golden Disk Awards. Although defeated by SG Wannabe in winning the "Daesang", Super Junior won a "Bonsang" and the "TPL Anycall Popularity Award", which were reported as expected wins for the group by the media after the success of Don't Don.

On October 2, 2007, SM Entertainment announced a third Super Junior sub-unit Super Junior-M, with Hangeng (the leader), Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kyuhyun, and two non-Super Junior members, Henry and Zhou Mi. A subgroup designated for the Chinese market.



Then the company announced that they would put Zhou Mi and Henry Lau into Super Junior which brought in a big wave of disatisfaction. Initially fans were planning to boycott the company's products, however, most fans agreed on a silent protest instead. Thousands of fans from Super Junior's official fanclub E.L.F. silently sat in front of the SM building and held signs that supported the group to have only thirteen members.

After more rumors regarding adding an Chinese member to the subgroup, the fans decided to gain a legal representation as part of SM Entertainment's stockholders. As of March 20, 2008, Super Junior fans purchased 58,206 stocks of SM Entertainment, holding 0.3% of the company's entire stock. They released a statement that they will obtain all chances to prevent SM Entertainment from adding new members and to keep Super Junior as only thirteen.

But Super Junior-M became a phenomenal success in China, having the opportunity to have two sold-out concerts in Hong Kong, top weekly ratings with their appearance on variety programs, and becoming the idol group with the most endorsement contracts in China! With the absence of almost half of the members in Korea, a fourth Super Junior sub-unit was created that same year to prevent Super Junior from disappearing in the Korean music industry. SUPER JUNIOR HAPPY ^^ or rather, Super Junior Sleepy ^^



Then our Oppas had their first SUPER SHOW concert tour which kicked off on February 22, 2008 in Seoul. The tour covered three countries and had shows on six different cities, including Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing ^^



After that, their third album was released ^^ Presenting this year's hit, SORRY SORRY!



In less than a week after preorders were announced, over 150,000 copies were pre-ordered. Sorry, Sorry was their first album to debut at #1 on the Hanteo Charts, and it sold over 29,000 copies the first day, defeating Seo Taiji's record of 25,000.
Promotions for the album started March 13 with the performance of "Sorry, Sorry" and "Why I Like You" on Music Bank.

Two weeks later, "Sorry, Sorry" became the number one song of the week on the same program. During the group's performance on music program Popular Songs on March 15, ratings went up to as high as 14%, the highest in recent years!

From March to May, "Sorry, Sorry" collected a total of ten #1 awards with consecutive wins in Korea, having the single becoming a national and international success. After only a month of release, the album became South Korea's best-selling album of 2009.

Sorry, Sorry was also a critically and commercially successful hit in other Asian countries, opting the group to become the only overseas representative for the second time at Taiwan's annual Golden Melody Awards. Sorry, Sorry was a best-selling Korean-language album in Taiwan, Thailand, China, and the Philippines, in which the latter listed the album to be the first K-pop album to reach #1 in music charts from the country!!!

Now lets all wait for their 4th album!

2010 album: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
It wasn't official if Super Junior was going to release the album in 2010, but confirmed that the album was going to be recorded in China. ^^