BoA for ‘Crazier – The 11th Album’
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SM Entertainment stock popped up nearly five percent on Monday, August 4 following milestone releases and announcements from some of the K-pop company’s representative artists.
According to final reports from the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) trading board, SM Entertainment stock closed at 135,600 Korean won (nearly $98), gaining 6,100 KRW for the day to deliver a 4.71% jump.
The healthy pop comes as BoA releases her 11th 11th full-length album, Crazier, on Monday, marking her 25th anniversary in the K-pop industry in a landmark career where her work helped establish SM not only as a powerhouse in its native Korea but also in Japan, where BoA has seven Number One albums.
The title track single “Crazier” sees the K-diva embrace a playful country-rock sound with lyrical declarations pointing to her longevity in the scene: “Hear you talking loud but I’ll get louder / You should know by now but I don’t ever run away… / It’s a crazy world, I’ve seen it all, but guess what? / I’m crazier.”
BoA co-wrote and co-produced “Crazier” while also contributing to a handful of songs across the new album including penning the seductive dance track “It Takes Two” and the moody, acoustic-guitar-led “How Could” as the sole songwriter.
Beyond new BoA, SM Entertainment and its artists shared other major announcements that have seemingly sparked interest in investors.
Chart-topping girl group aespa shared that their upcoming EP titled Rich Man will be released next month. The quartet has established themselves as reliable hitmakers with nearly all of their singles reaching the Top 10 of South Korea’s charts. The 2025 Billboard Women in Music honoreees’ latest single, “Dirty Work” from June this year, is still a Top 10 hit in Korea while also charting on the Billboard Global 200. But aespa’s 2024 tracks like “Whiplash,” “Supernova,” “Armageddon,” and “UP” are also lasting chart hits today showing the staying power of the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 stars.
The physical single release of “Dirty Work” also moved just over one million physical copies this year with an EP likely to produce at least a million copies as well given aespa’s 2024 releases (1.6 million albums sold for Armageddon since its May release and 1.3 million for Whiplash since November). Rich Man drops in full on September 5.
Meanwhile, Chanyeol of the popular boy band EXO also announced new music.
The new EP titled Upside Down drops before the month’s end. While the 32-year-old has been releasing solo music for over a decade through different movie, television and collaboration projects, it was only last year that Chanyeol released his first official project via his Black Out EP that moved over 415,000 physical copies globally.
According to an announcement poster, Chanyeol is gearing up to release at least two new music videos from the album as well as deliver live performances post-release.
And while it wasn’t an official release from the company itself, KEY of long-beloved boy band SHINee shared over the weekend during his performance at KCON 2025 Los Angeles that his Keyland tour would be hitting the U.S. this year as well.
SM Entertainment has also shared plans for new music this year from more of its artists including JOY, Haechan, NCT 127, NCT WISH and more.
SM’s jump on the KOSDAQ continues its momentum shown in 2025 so far. SM Entertainment stock is up nearly 90% year-to-date.
