The Light is the debut studio album of Filipino boy band BGYO. It was released by Star Music on 7 October 2021. The album contains twelve tracks, with "When I'm With You" as its key single, four new tracks "Kundiman," "Fly Away," "Sabay," and "Rocketman", which BGYO co-written, four versions of the band's debut single in Bahasa, Japanese, Spanish and Thai, along with the group's signature hits The Light, He's Into Her and The Baddest. The album's lyrical content transcends the spirit of resilience, empathy, and love.For citations about "The Light" album as BGYO's debut album.
The album debuts and peaks at number 1 on iTunes Albums Chart in 5 countries—Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. It also charted in Canada, Thailand, Qatar, Australia, Norway, Malaysia and Mexico;For citations of The Light as No. 1 album in iTunes. and has achieved the coveted feat of being the longest consecutive charting album by a Filipino act to stay at number one on iTunes Philippines of all time.
The album surpassed 5 million Spotify streams, 2 weeks since its release.
Background and release On 11 June 2021, ABS-CBN Entertainment head Laurenti Dyogi made a statement during the official debut of BGYO's sister group Bini on the upcoming projects of the sibling groups—full-length albums, merch and the "One Dream: The BINI x BGYO Concert". On 28 September 2021, the group's official social media account announced the schedules and the release of the debut album. Tracklist of the album was revealed on 29 September 2021 and audio sampler on 6 October 2021.
Composition
Singles The Light yielded four singles. The debut single, "The Light", was released in January 2021. The music video of "The Light" has received more than a million YouTube views, 6 days after its release, and its the fastest debut music video by a P-pop group to reach 1 Million views in YouTube. It also broke the record for being the "Most Liked Music Video in a Debut Song" by a P-pop group of all time.For citations about the accolades received by the official music video of "The Light." The album's second single "He's Into Her" was released in April 2021 and became the official soundtrack of the original iWantTFC series He's Into Her.For citations about He's Into Her as the official soundtrack of the series He's Into Her, "The Baddest" was released in August 2021 as the group's sophomore single and released as the album's fifth single.For citations about "The Baddest" being the sophomore single of BGYO. American hip-hop dance crew Jabbawockeez posted a dance cover of the track in social media and went viral in October 2021.For citations that Jabbawockeez got viral after the dance cover of "The Baddest". "When I'm with You" was released in October 2021 as the album's third single and key track.
Track listing All song credits are adapted from the album sampler released by BGYO's label Star Music in YouTube, unless otherwise noted.
Awards and nominations + Award ceremony Year Category Nominated work Result Asian Academy Creative Awards2021Best Theme Song or Title Theme (Philippines)He's Into Her For citations of He's Into Her accolade in Asian Academy Creative Awards,Best Theme Song or Title Theme (Asia) RAWR Awards Song of the Year The Light 7th Wish Music Awards Wishclusive Pop Performance of the Year The Light
Release history Country Date Format LabelVariousOctober 7, 2021Airplay, Digital download, streaming, video streamingStar Music
See also BGYO discography List of BGYO live performances
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