"Love Shot" is a song by South Korean–Chinese boy band Exo, released on December 13, 2018, for the album Love Shot, a repackage of the group's fifth studio album Don't Mess Up My Tempo (2018). The music video was released on the same date.
Background and composition Produced by Rice N' Peas, "Love Shot" is described as a pop dance track. Members Chen and Chanyeol wrote the song, with lyrics on rediscovering the meaning of true love. Louis Tomlinson has writing credits.
Talking to Billboard about co-composing the song, Mike Woods stated that the song was developed in January 2017, and stated that he and the other composers MZMC, Bazzi, Kevin White and Anthony Russo, "wanted something that was very, very performance-driven, very dance-driven — something that would sound good loud and in an arena. We like the fact that it's kind of in a different time signature — it's in , so that's not like a generic pop song.", Woods also stated that the original title of the song is "Love Shop". Despite comments by Woods that the song is in time signature, this track makes use of timing at the tempo of 72 BPM, and is in the key of C minor. Both the instrumental and vocal melodies feature the use of sixteenth note triplet rhythms.
Music video On December 6, the first teaser of "Love Shot" music video was released. On December 11, the second teaser of "Love Shot" music video was released. The official Korean music video of "Love Shot" was released on December 13. The Chinese version of the music video was released on December 14.
The music video shows the members switching places between the gritty locale of a gas station and luxurious trappings, before participating in a shoot-out with unexpected enemies. The video also shows the group's sensual choreography. On March 4, 2019, the Korean music video surpassed 100 million views on YouTube. It surpassed 200 and 300 million views on October 15, 2019, and August 18, 2020, respectively, becoming their fastest music video to reach all three milestones.
Promotion Exo began promoting "Love Shot" without member Lay on South Korean music shows starting from December 14.
Reception "Love Shot" topped Billboards World Digital Songs for three consecutive weeks, making Exo the second K-pop act to do so. British fashion magazine i-D ranked the song number seven in their list of K-pop highlights of the year while SBS PopAsia ranked it the 18th best K-pop dance of 2018.
Accolades +Awards and nominations Year Organization Award Result 2019 Melon Music Awards Song of the Year style="text-align: center;" Best Male Dance Track style="text-align: center;" 2020 Golden Disc Awards Digital Bonsang Gaon Chart Music Awards Song of the Year – December style="text-align: center;"
+Music program awards Program DateMusic BankDecember 21, 2018December 28, 2018Show! Music CoreDecember 22, 2018
+Melon Popularity Award Award Date (2018–19) Weekly Popularity Award December 24 December 31 January 7 January 14 January 21
Credits and personnel Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
Studio doobdoob Studio – recording, digital editing SM Big Shot Studio – engineered for mix SM LVYIN Studio – engineered for mix SM Blue Ocean Studio – mixing Sterling Sound – mastering
Personnel
SM Entertainment – executive producer Lee Soo-man – producer Kim Young-min – executive supervisor Yoo Young-jin – music and sound supervisor Exo – vocals Chen – Korean lyrics Chanyeol – Korean lyrics Jo Yoon-kyung – Korean lyrics Lu Yiqiu – Chinese lyrics Mike Woods (Rice N' Peas) – producer, composition, arrangement Kevin White (Rice N' Peas) – producer, composition, arrangement Andrew Bazzi – composition, background vocals MZMC – composition Anthony Russo – composition Onestar – vocal directing, background vocals Eugene Kwon – recording Min Sung-soo – recording Jang Woo-young – digital editing Lee Min-gyu – engineered for mix Lee Ji-hong – engineered for mix Kim Cheol-sun – mixing Chris Gehringer – mastering
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2018)Peakposition Malaysia (RIM) 7 New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) 19 Singapore (RIAS) 3 South Korea (Gaon) 9 South Korea (K-pop Hot 100) 1 UK Indie Breakers (OCC) 14 US World Digital Songs (Billboard) 1
Year-end charts Chart (2019) Position South Korea (Gaon) 65
Sales +DownloadsRegionSalesChinaLove Shot's Cumulative Sales in China:20,380United States10,000
Release history + Release history for "Love Shot" Region Date Format Label South Korea December 13, 2018 Various SM
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