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Twice News team wish you to have Happy Holidays and to eat well.
HEADLINE
Comeback Announcement
TWICE announced the release of their 12th mini album, 'Our Youth' in March 2023 to be preceded by a pre-release in January.
Fans have speculated the members have filmed the music video (for the now revealed pre-release single) as they recently mentioned having schedules that finish late in the night on several days.
Christmas Holidays
We gathered Twice's little messages, activities during holidays.
TWICE went to JYP's concert along with some of the JYP family. Jihyo received some vitamins from Itzy's Ryujin to grow taller. Dahyun's update & Chaeyoung's update.
Jihyo & Nayeon showed gifts that they received from Jeongyeon. Momo & Chaeyoung wished everyone happy holidays. Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Jihyo & Tzuyu had a party. Sana recently hung out with WJSN's Yeonjung. Tzuyu went to a theatre performance.
An Once made a drawing of Twice Christmas.
Jihyo went on Sung Si-kyung's concert as Christmas gift.
With the festivities, Merry & Happy surpassed 2 million unique listeners on Melon streaming platform (StayC covered the song, more into Tidbits below).
Tzuyu recorded a cover of Ava Max's 'Christmas Without You', she shared a post hoping ONCE like her gift. She teased some photos on Bubble when she recorded in the studio and the she hinted at the song choice when she recommended the track.
A fan recreated the boot recording with Tzuyu in Lego.
TWICE filmed a 2022 version of Merry & Happy during filming of their recent TTT series. Dahyun said on her Bubble live that she was touched when 'leader Jihyo unnie' asked & requested the MV to be re-edited to include clips of Dahyun as she originally wasn't included in the video.
Twice also appeared in a concert... more about it in Misc section !
Upcoming
Twice will be performing Celebrate at 73rd NHK Kouhaku Uta Year End Show on New Years Eve.
SUPPLEMENTS
Chaeyoung x GQ Korea
Chaeyoung will be in the January 2023 issue of GQ Korea. She did a shoot and interview where she talked about her personality, perspective of the future, potential solo album, and more.
Chaeyoung's Instagram update
[Update] Lotte Duty Free
LDF posted behind cuts of TWICE from the shoot day.
Links to pics: NaJeongMo - SaJiMi - DaChaeTzu&Group
[Update] Celebrate Vinyl & Japan content
The Celebrate performance from their Fan meeting was posted on Youtube and all the special videos, selcas and co' are full and available below:
Celebrate Special Video Member versions - 2022.12.28 Vinyl release
Wonderful Day Unit Dance Videos
NaMoDa - JeongJiChae - SaMiTzu
Member Select Playlists
Member Christmas Message Video
Member Photos with Signed Vinyl Album
ONCE Japan Baby Lovelys
Other:
Nayeon Louis Vuitton Twicetagram post
Nayeon Olive Des Olive post
Nayeon Cosmopolitan Korea YouTube short
Sana Prada Twicetagram post
Sana took part in 2022 JYP EDM Day
Elle Japan post
The appointment of TWICE as models for Pearly Gates was a success
Jeongyeon x PearlyGates
MISC
Surprise Performance
TWICE surprised fans when they perfomed at Psy's concert, 'All Night Stand 2022' in the early hours of the morning. They performed Feel Special, Talk That Talk & Heart Shaker. Nayeon mentioned it's been a year since they started off their 4th World Tour where they performed at the same venue and Dahyun said it was one of her bucket list items. Momo felt like an idol again since it's been a while since they were able to do a performance for fans. Dahyun's update & Momo's update with Chaeyoung. Full fancam here.
End of Year for Twice
The end of year means the usual tier list from the fans, with their top songs/album of the year and reveal of your real statistics with the Wrapped, Replay, Recap of your year in music from different music platform like Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music (those works for non subscribers, on phone app).
Twice also got their first Gold RIAA US Certification with The Feels reaching 500k certified digital units.
Music critics shared their top songs, albums of the year and Nayeon made an appearance with "Pop" at #86 within the Best Songs of 2022 list from the magazine Rolling Stone.
Twice appears twice in the Genius Year End Chart of 2022, that count only the Kpop Japanese songs, with #1 Doughnut and #4 Celebrate.
"Basic" from the album Between 1&2, with lyrics written by Chaeyoung was choose as one of the Best Song of 2022 by Uproxx.
On Tiktok, Twice ranked #2 int he most viewed artist in South Korea, and Nayeon's "Pop" #5 in "The Playlist: Top Trak in Korea".
Dazed released their ranking for The best K-pop tracks of 2022 with Nayeon's "Pop" in 8th and Twice's "Talk That Talk" in 9th.
BPM shared their own with Twice's bside track "When We Were Kids" from "Between 1&2" being #50 in the list. After that Dahyun shared her surprised when the song charted on Billboard digital last 24h.
On Consequence Sound, Twice had an interview, choosing which moment as part of their 10 K-Pop Acts That Dominated 2022.
Nayeon's "Pop" is nominated for the Gaon Music Awards as June nominee for Artist of the Year.
NME choose Nayeon's "Pop" as #22 best kpop song in 2022
The Staff Picks of Billboard in term of Kpop in 2022 have "Talk That Talk" in #16 in their ranking.
Twice is the most streamed Kpop girl group on Spotify with 290M streams just inside the US.
Twice is the best selling girl group in pure sale in the US in 2022.
What is Love? is now certified Platinium in RIAJ Japan for streaming
Celebrate and Talk That Talk is now Gold in RIAJ Japan for streaming
Upcoming (No update but vote still open)
Twice "Between 1&2" and Nayeon "IM NAYEON" albums are nominees for the 32nd Seoul Music Awards, you can cast your votes, counted as 30% of the finale points.
The 37th Golden Music Awards will happen on January 7th (8PM KST) and Twice is nominees with "Between 1&2" and Nayeon's "IM NAYEON" for Best Album division. Nayeon's will also appears in the Best Digital Song division with her title track "Pop".
Other News Tidbits of Interest:
Nayeon & Chaeyoung doing Youngji's 'Not Sorry' challenge
English subtitles - 220607 Nayeon on 'Gap of Itzy'
Thread of Dicon D'Festa Mini Edition scans
Stayc covered TWICE's Merry & Happy. Sumin also covered The Best Thing I Ever Did on livestream
Pop! challenge by KARA's Jiyong & Youngji
Jihyo watched and left comments on Itzy Yuna's Instagram live stream
TWICE's support video for JYP Annual Audition 2023
Twice first Japanese MV (original song), "One More Time" reach 100M views on Youtube
Heardle for Twice
2 themed Heardle daily
What To watch ?
Twicebot Vlive archive
Vlive archive on YouTube
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Thanks to Dubuman for his albums compilation!
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