▲ This image, provided by SM Entertainment on Jan. 14, 2025, promotes "2025 SMTOWN: THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE," a special compilation album to mark the company's 30th anniversary. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Koeran entertainment giant SM Entertainment announced on Tuesday that it will release a special compilation album next month to mark the company's 30th anniversary.

Titled "2025 SMTOWN: THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE," the album will be released on on Feb. 14. 
 

The project marks the agency’s first group album in approximately two years and two months since the SMTOWN Winter Album was released in December 2022.

The album features 17 tracks, including the title track Thank You, a collective anthem from SM artists. Additionally, it includes remakes of SM’s past hits, reimagined by its current roster of artists.

Highlights from the tracklist include:

Kangta covering S.E.S.’ Just A Feeling

BoA singing SHINee’s Jonghyun’s End of a Day

TVXQ reinterpreting Red Velvet’s Psycho

Super Junior performing Shinhwa’s I Pray 4 U

Girls’ Generation taking on The Grace’s Passion

EXO remaking H.O.T.’s Hope (T.O.P)

Red Velvet reinterpreting Girls’ Generation’s Run Devil Run

NCT 127 covering Hyun Jin-young’s That Girl in My Memory

NCT Dream singing EXO’s Love Me Right

WayV remaking SHINee’s Juliette

aespa performing f(x)’s Rum Pum Pum Pum

RIIZE reimagining TVXQ’s Hug

SM’s newest unit, NCT WISH, covering Super Junior’s Miracle

AI artist NAVIS performing BoA’s Game

SM's sub-labels, ScreaM Records and SM Classics, will also contribute unique reinterpretations of SHINee’s View and BoA’s My Name in dance and classical/jazz styles, respectively.

SM Entertainment stated, "Through this album, we aim to showcase the timeless strength of SM music that transcends generations."

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