minisode 2: Thursday's Child is the fourth Korean-language extended play (EP) (fifth overall) by South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together. It was released on May 9, 2022, through Big Hit Music and Republic Records. Centered on an "intense" and "dark" concept, the EP consists of five tracks, including the lead single "Good Boy Gone Bad".[2][3][4]
Background
On April 6, 2022, Big Hit Music announced that TXT would make a comeback in early May.[5]
Critical reception
NME in the review called ‘Thursday’s Child’,another leap forward for TXT, displaying continued inventiveness and improvement, and adding yet more creative credits to their resumes. It also captures TXT's journey of romantic grief, from the stormy "Opening Sequence" to the anger in "Good Boy Gone Bad".[6]
‘Thursday’s Child’ was named the eighth-best K-pop album of 2022 by Billboard, sharing how the group "cover a lot of stylistic ground in just 15 minutes on 'Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child'" while mentioning "Good Boy Gone Bad," "Thursday's Child Has Far to Go" and "Trust Fund Baby" as standouts.[7]
Commercial performance
On April 20, 2022, the pre-orders for Minisode 2: Thursday's Child surpassed 810,000 copies, six days after the announcement, exceeding TXT's previous career high of 520,000 pre-orders for The Chaos Chapter: Freeze.[8] The album surpassed 1.44 million pre-orders on the day of release[9] and sold 910,000 copies on its first day after release.[10]
Track listing
Minisode 2: Thursday's Child track listing
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
Length
1.
"Opening Sequence"
Koda
Sam Klempner
Jo Yoon-kyung
Slow Rabbit
3:12
3.
"Trust Fund Baby"
Cate Downey
Big Hit Music
Slow Rabbit
Danke
Brian Phillips
Taehyun
Yi
Yeonjun
Hwang Yu-bin
Kim In-hyung
Phillips
Slow Rabbit
2:36
4.
"Lonely Boy" (네 번째 손가락 위타투; Ne Bonjjae Songarak Witatu; lit. The Tattoo on My Ring Finger) (sung by Yeonjun and Huening Kai)
Jason Hahns
Andrew Okamura
Yeonjun
El Capitxn
Huening Kai
AObeats
Hahns
El Capitxn
2:49
5.
"Thursday's Child Has Far to Go" (sung by Soobin, Beomgyu, and Taehyun)
^【オリコン年間ランキング2022】 アルバムランキング 1位~25位 [[Oricon Annual Ranking 2022] Album ranking 1st to 25th] (in Japanese). Oricon. December 22, 2022. Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
^Yoon, Sang-geun (October 6, 2020). "투모로우바이투게더, 선주문 30만장 돌파 자체최고[공식]" [Tomorrow by Together surpasses 300,000 copies in pre-order [Official]]. Star News (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2020 – via Naver.