The Super Show was the first Asia-wide live

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n boy band, Super Junior. The tour commenced five months after the release of the group's second studio album, ''

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''. The concert covers most songs from the group's first two

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, including their hit single, " U," and also subgroup hits from Super Junior-K.R.Y., Super Junior-T, and

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. The tour kicked off with three stops in

and expanded its routes to

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and China.

History

The Super Show Tour is the first Asia-wide concert tour by Super Junior since their debut in November 2005. The tour was first announced in January, four months after the release of their second studio album, ''

''. 13,000 tickets for the concert in

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were placed for auction online on January 22, 2008. As soon as the auction began at 5:00 PM, over 120,000 fans simultaneously loaded onto the site and crashed the server. As soon as the server was back in commission, all 13,000 tickets were sold out in 18 minutes.슈주 데뷔 3년만에 첫 콘서트 예매 18분만에 매진! 서버도 마비소동!
January 23, 2008. Retrieved January 23, 2008. A second ticket auction occurred on January 28 at 8:00 PM for the remaining seats and was just as successful. Due to the success of the sales, the organizers decided to add an extra show on February 22, and the corresponding tickets were all sold out in five minutes. The tour reached

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on July 12, 2008, and

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on November 22, 2008. A portion of the tickets for Shanghai's concert were scalped for over ¥7 thousand. Two encore concerts were held in Seoul on the first weekend of January 2009 and two weeks later, the concert was held in

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. Super Junior became the first Korean artist to hold a solo concert in Nanjing, having their tickets being scalped for ¥6 thousand. The Super Show Tour also broke the record for being the first concert ever in China to have a "standing" stage. Super Show was also expected to tour

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(

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), and

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( Japan), but due to schedule conflicts, the tour was unable to go to those cities. The last stop for Super Show was in

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( China)in March 2009. The live Super Show Tour Concert Album was released on May 19, 2008, in

and the

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was released on October 1, 2008, selling over 15,000 copies domestically.

Opening acts and special appearances

Zhang Liyin Zhang Liyin (born February 28, 1989) is a Chinese singer and songwriter of Yi ethnicity. She has released singles in both China and South Korea, singing in both languages. Zhang has released only one studio album since her debut in 2006, but it ...

was the opening act for the last Super Show concert in

on March 7, 2009, singing "

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" and " The Left Shore of Happiness." X-Mas of TRAX was also the guest performer of the last Super Show, playing the guitar for Heechul's solo performance, "Crazy." Super Junior-M member

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performed the violin bridge of "Don't Don" of every show, and along with Zhou Mi, performed with the rest of Super Junior-M in the China tour stops.

Set list

Tour dates

Personnel

* Super Junior – performers *

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– organizers
DREAM MAKER ENTERCOM
CREAZONE – promoters
True Music
(Thailand) – overseas organizers

Live album

''Super Show - Super Junior The 1st Asia Tour Concert Album'' is the first live album of

n boy band Super Junior. It was released on May 19, 2008, by

. The songs in this album are direct recordings from their concerts at the

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from February 22 to 24, the first stop of their ''Super Show''. It was also released in Taiwan by

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on June 27, 2008."''Super Show - Super Junior The 1st Asia Tour Concert Album'' info"
''Avex Taiwan''. June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2012 It debuted at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Weekly G-Music J-Pop/K-Pop Chart with a percentage sales of 27.58%.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

*
Super Junior Official Site
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