Baekhyun - Garden in the Air (SM Station Our Beloved BoA)

I. Introduction

Garden In the Air is a digital single from Baekhyun as part of the SM Station Our Beloved BoA season. The singles began launching in July 2020 to celebrate BoA's 20th debut anniversary. This was the first single of the season, styled Our Beloved BoA and was released on July 31, 2020.

II. Background & Release

SM Station is a digital music project under SM Entertainment that involves solos or duets from members in existing SM groups, as well as opportunities for singers to experiment in other genres or collaborate with artists inside and outside of SM Entertainment. The project releases a number of singles digitally each year on digital platforms, including streaming audio like Spotify.

To celebrate BoA's 20th anniversary of our debut, a special SM Station season was created, featuring special cover versions of several of BoA's signature songs. Five songs were released over 5 weeks, including a version from SM Classics, the classical division which debuted in June 2020.

This was Baekhyun's sixth SM Station song outside of his group EXO, which also had two of its songs in the project. This release followed Baekhyun's highly successful million selling album Delight, bringing extra attention to the project as the lead song. This song was the first song to be released in the Our Beloved BoA season.

"Garden in the Air" originally appeared on BoA's fifth studio album, Girls on Top, in 2005. According to SM, "new producers Moonchi Park and Lee A-il played the arrangement and it was reborn as a piano-oriented minimalist and sophisticated R&B song with Baekhyun's sweet vocals providing harmonies."

A live video was released with the song on July 31.

III. Tracklist

IV. Spotify Playlist

V. Video

VI. Concept Photo

VII. Reception

The song reached #83 on the Korean Gaon charts.