BOYNEXTDOOR's HOME: DELUXE Tracklist Just Dropped
KOZ Entertainment posted the full HOME: DELUXE tracklist to BOYNEXTDOOR's own SNS at 10 p.m. KST on September 8 — fourteen tracks total, two of them brand new, and the lead single carries Zico's name on the production credits. The repackage lands September 28 at 6 p.m. KST, three weeks out.
This one's a genuine repackage, not a bare rerelease with a bonus track tacked on. The original HOME, out since June, already did real numbers: No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and a No. 1 on both Oricon's weekly and combined album rankings, according to The Korea Herald. DELUXE takes those nine tracks and builds a real second half around them.
What Got Added
Five tracks join the original nine, and they're not filler. "ANIMAL" is the new lead single. "CLICHE" is the second new song. Korean-language versions of two tracks the group already released in Japan — "Count to Love" and "Boom Boom Boom" — round out the set, and the fourteenth slot goes to "400 Years," described as the six-member group's first-ever fan song, per Sports Khan.
That fan-song slot is the one worth sitting with for a second. A lot of groups save that gesture for an anniversary release or a fanmeeting-only single. Putting it on a Billboard-charting repackage, where casual listeners will run into it too, is a choice.
"Count to Love" isn't some throwaway b-side getting a Korean dub, either. As a Japanese single last year, it opened at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and moved 431,795 CDs in its first week, well ahead of the group's previous Japanese single. Redoing it in Korean for a home-market repackage brings a proven Japan hit to the audience that hasn't heard the Korean version yet — that's not the same thing as padding out a tracklist.
For anyone newer to K-pop's release calendar, a repackage isn't the Western "deluxe reissue" move of slapping two bonus tracks on the same cover art. Labels use it to stretch an era's promotion by two or three months without making fans wait for an entirely new album cycle — HOME's own promotion wrapped over the summer, and DELUXE effectively restarts the clock with five new songs and a new lead single instead of just re-running old content. It's also why a repackage can outsell the original on release week: BOYNEXTDOOR's existing fanbase from June is buying in twice, and new tracks like ANIMAL give radio and playlists a reason to cover the group again.
The Zico Credit Isn't Just Marketing
"ANIMAL" lists Zico, Pop Time, and kako on production, per Star News. Zico runs KOZ Entertainment, BOYNEXTDOOR's own label, so his name on a title track isn't exactly a surprise. What's more interesting: three members — Jaehyun, Taesan, and Woonhak — are credited as writers on four of the five new tracks, the lone exception being the re-recorded "Boom Boom Boom." That's a group still doing its own writing on a title track its own label head co-produced, which is a different flex than "the CEO wrote us a hit."
I'll go ahead and take a side here: of the two new songs, ANIMAL is the one worth your first listen when it drops. CLICHE reads more like a comeback-era deep cut from the tracklist description alone. Nothing wrong with that — just don't expect it to be the one clipped for the promo push.
When to Set an Alarm
The teaser dropped September 6, the tracklist followed two days later, and the album itself releases September 28 at 6 p.m. KST — that's 5 a.m. US Eastern and 10 a.m. UK time the same day, an unusually civilized hour for anyone outside Korea who normally has to catch a comeback at midnight KST. Mark it on whichever calendar you check.
Physical pre-orders are already open. US retailer Music Plaza has the Weverse Album version listed for the September 28 release, on top of the usual Navigator/Weaver/Bunker/Sweet Home concept editions Korean fans will be splitting between. Expect the digital tracks on Spotify, Apple Music, and Melon at the same 6 p.m. KST drop, same as the June release.
Fair warning if you're catching up: HOME's original nine tracks aren't going anywhere on DELUXE, so if you already own the full album, this is a five-song add-on wrapped in new packaging, not a start-from-scratch purchase. Worth it for ANIMAL alone, in my opinion. Less so if you're only after "400 Years" and don't care about physical formats.
If you're not chasing a specific concept photocard, the digital release is the realistic option outside Korea anyway. Music Plaza's own listing already flags 10 to 15 days of overseas transit time after the release date, so anyone who wants to hear "ANIMAL" on September 28 itself should plan on streaming it first and letting the physical copy catch up in mid-October.
Three weeks out. What's everyone hoping "CLICHE" turns out to be?
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