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Go Live (2020)

Where the lyrics of Go Live take you, and where it was really made.

The Korean title, 고생 (gosaeng), means hardship, and that hardship is one of the album's core themes.

Key places

Recording credited to JYPE, Seoul (2020)

Recording site Big Hit Studios, Seoul — The album's credits list JYPE in Seoul as a recording location. The point is placed at the city centre because the exact building is not confirmed. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: Private company studio, not open to visitors.

Album story

Overview

• Go Live: debut studio album by South Korean boy group Stray Kids
• Released 17 June 2020 by JYP Entertainment, distributed through Dreamus
• Lead single "God's Menu" released the same day
• Korean title GO生, pronounced gosaeng

Background

• Release announced 27 May 2020 on the group's official Twitter account
• First full-length album of the group
• Members Bang Chan, Changbin and Han were heavily involved in writing and production as the collective "3Racha"
• Title translates to hardship, relating to one of the album's core themes
• English title references the group's desire to keep moving forward and living without inhibition

Recording

• Members said the project experimented with a variety of genres
• Genres include trap, hip hop, acoustic rock and EDM
• Recording location credited to JYPE in Seoul

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Stray Kids is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017 through the reality show of the same name.
• Leader Bang Chan personally handpicked each member from JYPE trainees rather than the agency selecting them.
• The name was conceptualized by the members themselves, originally referring to a lost child chasing dreams.

Members

• The band has eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N.
• Former member Woojin left the band in 2019 for personal reasons.
• Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han form the in-house production team 3Racha and largely produce the group's music.

Career

• The group officially debuted on March 25, 2018 with the EP I Am Not, followed by the I Am series.
• The Clé trilogy was released in 2019; the Japanese debut came in 2020 with SKZ2020 via Epic Records Japan.
• The first studio album Go Live (2020) became the first platinum-certified album by KMCA; Noeasy (2021) was the first million-selling album.
• After signing with Republic Records in 2022, the Billboard 200 streak of consecutive No. 1 debuts reached eight by Do It (2025).
• As of May 2026 the group had sold over 40 million albums in Korean and Japanese releases.
• Stray Kids won Kingdom: Legendary War in 2021 and was recognized by TIME's Next Generation Leaders in 2023.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Reappraisal

• Billboard named Go Live the 10th best K-pop album of 2020

Records

• Debuted at number one on the weekly Gaon Album Chart
• Ranked number five on the monthly Gaon Album Chart with 243,462 copies sold
• Became Stray Kids' best-selling album at the time of release
• Certified Platinum by the Gaon Chart as of August 2020, for sales of 250,000 copies
• The group's first album to earn that certification
• Lead single "God's Menu" debuted at number 144 on the Gaon Weekly Download Chart
• That debut made it the group's first single to appear on the Gaon Weekly Download Chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album title, gosaeng, is Korean for hardship and relates to one of its core themes.
• Bang Chan, Changbin and Han wrote and produced much of the album as the collective 3Racha.
• The lead single "God's Menu" debuted at number 144 on the Gaon Weekly Download Chart.
• The group announced the release on its official Twitter account on 27 May 2020.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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