I. Introduction
Skool Luv Affair Special Addition is a repackage of BTS' second mini album Skool Luv Affair. It was released on May 14, 2014 with "Miss Right" serving as the album's title track and contains an additional two new songs and six hidden tracks.
The album originally was released with a limited amount of copies, but was re-printed and re-released on October 13, 2020.
II. Background and Release
A limited edition repackage of the album, titled Skool Luv Affair Special Addition, was announced by Big Hit on May 7, 2014. This 3-disc version contained an 18-track CD with two new songs, "Miss Right" and "I Like It (Slow Jam Remix)", followed by the original 10-song tracklist and six additional instrumentals found only on the physical album, as well as two DVDs featuring footage from BTS' showcase held in February that year and making of content.
After the initial pressing sold out, the album remained out of print for six years. On September 7, 2020, Big Hit announced that the repackaged edition would be reprinted and re-released on October 13 due to the overwhelming response from the band's fandom in a survey conducted by the label in August through Weverse—data collected indicated that the Special Addition album was the number one piece of out of stock merchandise fans wanted made available again.
III. Tracklist
Title | Writer | Producer | Length |
All the songs in "Skool Luv Affair" | |||
"Miss Right" | Pdogg, Slow Rabbit, Hitman Bang, RM, Suga, J-hope | Pdogg | 4:01 |
"Slow Jam" | Brother Su, Pdogg, Slow Rabbit, RM, Suga, J-hope | Brother Su, Pdogg | 3:52 |
"Boy in Luv instrumental" | 3:50 | ||
"Where did you come from? instrumental" | 4:00 | ||
"Just One Day instrumental" | 3:59 | ||
"Tomorrow instrumental" | 4:21 | ||
"Spine Breaker instrumental" | 3:58 | ||
"Jump instrumental" | 3:56 |
IV. Spotify Playlist
VII. Reception
BTS entered the Billboard World Digital Songs chart for the second time, with three songs from the album ranking on the chart. Lead single "Boy In Luv" charted at number five, and secondary single "Just One Day" charted at number 25 during its promotional period in April.
The album debuted at number three on South Korea's Gaon Weekly Chart and rose to number one two months later during "Just One Day" promotions. The album also peaked at number three on the Billboard World Albums Chart, marking the first time a BTS album appeared on international charts. The repackaged album debuted at number one on the Gaon Weekly Chart in the second week of May. Skool Luv Affair was the Gaon chart's twentieth best-selling album of 2014.
The 2020 reissue of the repackaged edition debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 chart issue dated October 31 with 28,000 equivalent album units sold. Of this number, 26,000 were pure copies, which landed the album at number four on the Top Album Sales chart. "Boy in Luv", "Just One Day", and "Tomorrow" re-entered the World Digital Songs chart, for the same issue date, and achieved new peaks at numbers three, five, and seven respectively. In South Korea, the album re-entered the Gaon monthly album chart for October at number four, and by the end of the year had sold 670,500 copies, making it the tenth best-selling album of 2020.