| "Candy" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by H.O.T. | ||||
| from the album We Hate All Kinds of Violence | ||||
| Language | Korean | |||
| Released | September 7, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | SM | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jang Yong-jin | |||
| Producer(s) | Jang Yong-jin | |||
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| "Candy" on YouTube | ||||
"Candy" (Korean: 캔디) is a song recorded by South Korean boy group H.O.T., released as part of the group's debut studio album We Hate All Kinds of Violence through SM Entertainment on September 7, 1996. Along with "Warrior's Descendant", it serves as one of the two singles from the record. "Candy" is a "cheerful" bubblegum pop dance number, and was written and produced by Jang Yong-jin.
Upon the album's release, "Candy" was met with widespread recognition in South Korea and has been credited with sparking a new wave of mainstream music in the country's youth. H.O.T. promoted "Candy" with televised live performances on weekly South Korean music programs in late 1996 and January 1997, and topped the chart rankings for several weeks. In a 2005 survey conducted by MTV Korea, it was voted the most popular song of 1996 in South Korea by netizens.[1]
- ^ "'1996년 최고 인기가요는 H.O.T '캔디''" ["The most popular song of 1996 was H.O.T's 'Candy'"]. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). January 7, 2005. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2022 – via Naver.
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