Update on February 12th, 2014:
“Set Me Free”, Taeyeon’s solo featured on S.M the Ballad’s upcoming “Breath” album, was recently released on MelOn (one-minute preview), Bugs!, and Mnet.
Update on February 10th, 2014:
The “Breath” track from S.M. the Ballad’s “Breath” album, featuring Taeyeon and SHINee’s Jonghyun, has been released on iTunes and various Korean music portals, including MelOn (one-minute preview), Mnet, and Olleh.
Update on February 7th, 2014:
Teaser videos in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese were revealed by SM Entertainment for S.M. the Ballad’s upcoming album “Breath”. The clips give a short preview of each of the songs featured on the album, including Taeyeon and SHINee’s Jonghyun’s duet, “Breath”, and Taeyeon’s solo song, “Set Me Free”. The clips also give a very brief glimpse at the “Breath” music video and show scenes from TVXQ!’s Changmin’s Mnet drama, “Mimi”.
Shortly after the videos were uploaded, Taeyeon posted a short audio snippet for her songs on her Instagram account, clearly exuding her excitement and anticipation. At the end of her video post, Taeyeon is seen singing herself.
On February 4th, Taeyeon posted a photo on her Instagram account with a caption telling fans about her feature in S.M. the Ballad’s new album. The caption reads, “I’m overflowing with emotions, thinking of letting you listen to a new song for the first time in a while. ‘Breath’ that I sang together with Jonghyun. And my first solo song that isn’t an OST, ‘Set me free’. Please look forward to it. I’ll see you next week”.
It has also been revealed that the Korean version of the “Breath” track will be released on February 10th and that “Set Me Free” will be released on February 12th through major online music portals in Korea. Finally, Taeyeon and Jonghyun will perform “Breath” on Mnet’s “M! Countdown” on February 13th.
Original article from February 4th, 2014:
SM Entertainment’s project group, S.M. the Ballad, will release a new album, “Breath”, on February 13th featuring Taeyeon. Taeyeon will sing for two songs in the album: the Korean version of “Breath”, the album’s title track, and “Set Me Free”. The Korean version of “Breath” will be a duet with SHINee’s Jonghyun, and “Set Me Free” will be a solo song for Taeyeon.
Other artists to be featured in S.M. the Ballad’s new album include TVXQ!’s Changmin, Super Junior’s Yesung, Super Junior-M’s Zhou Mi, f(x)’s Krystal, EXO’s Chen, and Zhang Liyin, in addition to Taeyeon and SHINee’s Jonghyun.
“Breath” will be the second S.M. the Ballad album. The first, released in 2010, did not feature a member of Girls’ Generation.
Source: Osen via Daum, leesmusic, enews24 via Naver, Taeyeon’s Instagram 1, Taeyeon’s Instagram 2, [email protected] 1, [email protected] 2, [email protected] 3
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Taengoo is awesome.