HARDSMini

SHINee – HARD (SMini) is one physical edition of the 8th full album by SHINee, released on June 27, 2023. A platform album holds no disc: the music plays through a QR card or an NFC chip, in the distributor app. The album is released by SM Entertainment.

The box declared by the distributor holds one photocard. One photocard is announced. One photocard is drawn at random out of 4 designs: two copies do not give the same cards. It also holds ARTIST, TITLE, and LABEL, as declared by the distributor.

No POB is listed for this version in pocabase. A POB (preorder benefit) is a bonus from the retailer, never from the label: it changes from one shop to the next and is gone once the preorder window closes.

HARD comes in 6 versions, among them SMini, DIGIPACK, PHOTOBOOK, and PLAY. The tracklist does not change from one version to the next: only the box, the photocards and the artwork do. SMini is the only one in platform album format. The declared contents of SMini match the other versions: the database records no difference in items.

This is an official edition: bought from an authorised retailer, it counts towards the Hanteo and Circle charts, which measure physical sales in South Korea. EAN 8804775256080 points to this exact edition: it is the code to check before buying, because every version carries its own.