Just like every year, the boy group Treasure is celebrating its anniversary in 2023 with an Anniversary Magazine, which includes, among other things, a thick photo book and lots of colorful extras. If you bought the magazine back in 2022 and loved it, you'll be happy to hear that the new edition has even more to offer!
Treasure debuted on August 7, 2020 with the Single Album “The First Step: Chapter One”. Hard to believe that was already three years ago.
Take a deep breath, because what's coming next will definitely take your breath away:
You can look forward to a 160-page photo book and a 44-page bonus book.
As you can imagine, the photo book contains countless high-quality photos of Hyunsuk, Jihoon and the rest of the group. The bonus book isn't quite so easy to figure out, but we can still imagine very well what awaits us. Last year there was also a so-called bonus book, and it contained even more photos of Treasure plus personal messages from the members.
The two books are reason enough to buy the magazine, but they're really only a small part of the whole package. On top of that, there's a whole lot of extras!
We'll start right away with a highlight: every magazine includes a 10-piece photocard set and two of 40 possible selfie photocards. Do you still have enough space in your collector's binder?
You can also look forward to five of 30 possible instant photos, a unit postcard set (3 pcs.), a message postcard set (10 pcs.) and a sticker set (2 pcs.).
And as if that weren't enough, every buyer also gets a double-sided printed folded poster and a tag video. The tag video runs for about 80 minutes of footage. The enclosed instruction manual explains how you can access the digital video.
The Anniversary Magazine leaves nothing to be desired, doesn't it? It will be released on August 31 and is the perfect collector's item for everyone who has supported Treasure over the past year.
And what a year it was!
Since the second anniversary on August 7, 2022, Treasure has hardly taken a break, has released several albums and has once again outdone themselves.
Treasure kicked off their third year with the second Mini Album “The Second Step: Chapter Two”, including the title track “Hello”.
It was released on October 4, 2022 and was the boy group's first album to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan! It was also the first album without Bang Yedam and Mashiho. The two left the boy group shortly afterwards.
Since November 8, the group has officially been only ten members.
The remaining members weren't thrown off by this and set out on their first Japan tour “Treasure Tour Hello (2022 - 2023)” in the same month. Even more dates across Asia were added. In the end, the tour comprised 30 concerts that drew a total of around 420,000 visitors!
The tour only ended at the end of May 2023, but in the meantime fans didn't have to go without new music:
On March 29, 2023, a soundtrack titled “Here I Stand” was released for the anime film “Black Clover”. It is part of the Japanese single album of the same name. With “Here I Stand”, Treasure topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart for the first time. This showed once again that the boy group has a big fanbase not only in South Korea but also in Japan.
The year ended the way it began: with a new Korean album.
On June 28, Treasure presented their second studio album “Reboot”, which sold more than 1.7 million copies in just two days! In addition, shortly before that the boy group formed their very first subunit T5, consisting of So Junghwan, Junkyu, Jihoon, Yoon Jaehyuk and Doyoung. Their debut single “Move” served as the pre-release track for “Reboot”. The album topped both the Korean Circle Charts and several major Japanese charts.
So the year was a complete success! And we're sure that we'll be able to congratulate Treasure on new milestones again and again in the future.
We're looking forward to another year with the talented boy group!
Sources: Newsen, RIAJ, Billboard
