''Wonder World'' is the second Korean-language

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, released on November 7, 2011, through

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. The track "Be My Baby" served as the lead single from album. Both the album and the single was a commercial success, both having topped the Gaon Album and Digital charts respectively. To promote ''Wonder World'', the group appeared on several South Korean music programs; additionally, Wonder Girls embarked on their '' Wonder World Tour'' in July 2012. The album marked the point where the members were more involved in the songwriting in production: Park Yeeun wrote and produced "G.N.O." and "Me, In", Kim Yubin wrote "Girls Girls", "Me, In" and "Sweet Dreams" while Woo Hyelim wrote and produced her solo song "Act Cool", featuring

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. The members also recorded two duets:

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and Yeeun recorded "Long Long Time" while Yubin and

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recorded "SuperB".

Background and composition

On November 4, the album's name was revealed to be ''Wonder World'', consisting of 11 new songs, one remixed song, and an English version of the lead single, "Be My Baby". Various members of the group contributed to composing material for the album. Park Yeeun was the composer and lyricist for the song "G.N.O." and performed the arrangement and composition for "Me, In", a remake of the 1974 hit "The Beauty" by

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. In an interview she commented about the strong American influence that she had received while working on new music in the album as she stated "When I went to a club, I heard songs from

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. We thought it would be nice if we could make club music, done right, in Korean." Woo Hyelim collaborated with rapper San-E for her solo song "Act Cool" for which also helped her write the rap lyrics. Kim Yubin wrote the raps for the songs "Girls Girls" "Me, In" and "Sweet Dreams".

and Yubin recorded a duet together called "SuperB", and Yeeun and

also had a duet titled "두고두고" (Long Long Time). Renowned

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, who worked with American R&B artist

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" and has served as a back-up dancer for " Single Ladies", helped choreograph the group's music video for "Be My Baby". Designer Johnny Wujek, who was also the fashion stylist for American pop artist

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", also worked alongside the group.

Commercial performance

''Wonder World'' entered and peaked at number one on the

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on the chart issue dated November 6–12, 2011. The album stayed in the Top 10 of the chart for four consecutive weeks. The album entered and peaked at number 4 on the chart for the month of November 2011 with 35,051 physical copies sold. The album placed at number 42 on the Gaon Album Chart for the year 2011 for 34,140 physical copies sold. In the United States, the album entered and peaked at number 5 on

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chart on the week ending November 26, 2011. "Be My Baby" went to number 1 on both the Gaon Weekly Digital Charts and the ''Billboard''

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. The song was also featured on the group's TV movie, ''Wonder Girls at the Apollo'', which aired on

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Accolades

Track listing

Sample credits *"Me, In" contains a sample of

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's song "The Beauty".

Credits and personnel

*Sunye – vocals (all tracks except 9, 10) *Yeeun – vocals (all tracks except 9, 10), songwriting, production (tracks 1, 4), rearrangement (track 4) *

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– rapping (all tracks except 8, 10), songwriting (tracks 3, 4, 5) *

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– vocals (all tracks except for tracks 8, 10) *

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– vocals, rapping (all tracks except 8, 9), songwriting, production (track 10) *Lee Woo-min – producer (track 1), rearrangement (track 4) *Fredrik – producer (track 1) *Cho Jong-soo – raps (track 1) *

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– songwriting, production (tracks 2, 8, 11) *Shim Eun-ji – songwriting (track 3), production (tracks 3, 5) *Shin Jung-hyeon – songwriting, production (track 4) *Billion Dollar Baby – songwriting (track 5) *Noday - songwriting (track 5) *DeepFrost - production (track 5) *Hong Ji-sang – songwriting, production (track 6) *Jessica Martinez – songwriting (track 7) *

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– songwriting (track 7) *Fingazz – production (track 7) *DJ Nüre – production (track 7) *

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– songwriting (track 8) *East4A – production (track 8) *

– featured artist, rapping, songwriting, production (track 10) * Woo Seok Rhee – songwriting, production (track 12) *Alexander Kronlund – songwriting, production (track 12) *Lukas Hilbert – songwriting, production (track 12)

Charts

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Sales

Release history

References

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