"Four Seasons" () is a song recorded by South Korean singer Taeyeon. Written by Kenzie, who also co-composed the song with AFSHeeN, Andrew Allen and Josh Cumbee, the reggae-tinged ballad was released as a digital single on March 24, 2019, by SM Entertainment and Dreamus, with an accompanying music video released two days prior to its digital release. Initially a standalone single, both the song and the B-side track "Blue" were later included as bonus tracks in the Korean release of Taeyeon's second album Purpose, released on October 28.

Upon its release, "Four Seasons" received positive reviews from music critics for solidifying the singer's growth as a "full-time" vocalist. The song achieved great commercial success, earning Taeyeon her fifth chart-topper as a lead artist (sixth overall) on the Gaon Digital Chart for two weeks and to date, her longest charting performance on the chart. It eventually became her first single to receive a Platinum certificate by KMCA for achieving over 100,000,000 streaming units in November 2019, only six months after its release. The singer eventually promoted both songs during her concert "’s…one" on March 28. It won the Digital Daesang award at the 29th Seoul Music Awards in January 2020.

Background and release On March 17, 2019, Taeyeon was announced to be releasing a digital single titled "Four Seasons" with its b-side track "Blue". The song is described as a ballad with an instrumental structure that is centered on acoustic guitars. It compares the ups and downs of love to the four seasons. While the B-side track "Blue" is a ballad song with Taeyeon's affectionate vocals and lyrics that capture the double meaning of 'blue' (푸른) and 'gloomy/feeling blue' (우울한) and the longing for an old lover and feelings after a break-up. The music video for "Four Seasons" was released on March 22, two day before the single album. Taeyeon later filmed a live performance of the song from her concert "’s…one", which was released on March 28.

Chart performance

"Four Seasons" debuted at number one on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart for the chart issue dated March 24–30, 2019. It was the best-performing single of March 2019 on the Gaon Digital Chart. It claimed the number one spot on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 for two consecutive weeks and reached number 6 on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart.

Accolades +Awards and nominations Year Award Category Result 2019 Melon Music Awards Best Ballad Mnet Asian Music Awards Best Vocal Performance – Solo Song of the Year 2020 Gaon Chart Music Awards Song of the Year – March Golden Disc Awards Digital Daesang Digital Bonsang Seoul Music Awards Digital Daesang

+Music program awards Program Date Show! Music Core April 6, 2019 Inkigayo April 7, 2019 +Melon Popularity Award Award Date (2019) Weekly Popularity Award April 1 April 8

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts +"Four Seasons" weekly chart performance Chart (2019) Peakposition South Korea (Gaon) 1 South Korea (K-pop Hot 100) 1 US World Digital Songs (Billboard) 6

Monthly charts +"Four Seasons" monthly chart performance Chart (2019) Peakposition South Korean Albums (Gaon) 2

Year-end charts +"Four Seasons" year-end chart positions Chart (2019) Position South Korea (Gaon) – 2019 9 South Korea (Gaon) – 2020 81 South Korea (Gaon) – 2021 158

Certifications and sales

Credits and personnel Credits are adapted from the CD booklet of Purpose.

Studio SM Big Shot Studio – recording, engineered for mix Seoul Studio – recording Prelude Studio – recording Doobdoob Studio – digital editing SM Yellow Tail Studio – mixing 821 Sound – mastering

Personnel

SM Entertainment – executive producer Lee Soo-man – producer Yoo Young-jin – music and sound supervisor Taeyeon – vocals, background vocals Kenzie – lyrics, composition, arrangement, vocal directing Josh Cumbee (Nonfiction) – composition, arrangement Afshin Salmani AFSHeeN (Nonfiction) – composition, arrangement Andrew Allen – composition Choi Hoon – bass Hong Jun-ho – guitar Nile Lee – strings conducting, strings arrangement On The String – strings Lee Min-kyu – recording, engineered for mix Jeong Ki-hong – recording Lee Chang-sun – recording Choi Da-in – recording assistant Jang Woo-young – digital editing Koo Jong-pil – mixing Kwon Nam-woo – mastering

Release history Region Date Format Label Various March 24, 2019 SM Entertainment

See also List of Inkigayo Chart winners (2019) List of Show! Music Core Chart winners (2019) List of Gaon Digital Chart number ones of 2019 List of K-pop Hot 100 number ones List of certified songs in South Korea

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