2009: Romeo, rising popularity and 2009, Year of Us In early February, 2009, Shinee won "Best Newcomer" award along with Davichi and Mighty Mouth at the 18th Seoul Music Awards.[21] Later, SM Entertainment announced that Shinee would make their comeback with their second mini album Romeo on May 21, 2009.[22] On May 18, "Juliette", the first single was released,[23] an instrumental remake of Corbin Bleu's "Deal with It".[24] It was later announced that their comeback was going to be delayed due to Onew damaging his teeth and the release of the mini-album was pushed back to May 25, 2009.[23][25] Shinee eventually had their return performance on June 5, 2009, on KBS's Music Bank, where they received the award for first place.[26] On July 16, 2009 S.M. Entertainment released Shinee's first part of their first photobook called Day. On September 25 the 2nd part Night was released.[27] The group released their third mini-album, 2009, Year Of Us, on October 19, 2009, five months after the release of Romeo. SM Entertainment stated that this EP would showcase the group's vocal talents and demonstrate their unique qualities.[28][29] The lead single, "Ring Ding Dong", was released digitally on October 14; the group had their comeback stage on October 16, on KBS's Music Bank.[30] In early December, 2009, Shinee won the "Popularity" award along with fellow labelmate group, Super Junior, at the 24th Golden Disk Awards.[31] In February, 2010, the group won the main "BonSang" award at the 19th Seoul Music Awards.[32] In December, Shinee also started promoting their song "Jo Jo" with live performances on local music programs.

2008 debut and shinee world

On May 25, 2008, the group's first mini-album, Replay was released from label company, SM Entertainment. The mini-album debuted at #10 on the Korean music charts and peaked at #8, selling 17,957 copies in the first half of 2008.

Shinee released their first full-length album, The Shinee World, on August 28, 2008.The album debuted on the charts at #3, selling 30,000 copies. The first single released from the album was "Sanso Gateun Neo (Love Like Oxygen)", a cover of "Show the World" by Martin Hoberg Hedegaard,^[13] originally written by the Danish songwriting and production team of Thomas Troelsen,Remee and Lucas Secon. On September 18, 2008, Shinee's "Sanso Gateun Neo (Love Like Oxygen)" was the #1 song on M! Countdown. A few days later, Shinee received the "Mutizen" award for the same single on SBS's Popular Songs.

SHINee

Shinee ( /ˈʃaɪniː/ shy-nee; 샤이니; Japanese: シャイニー; stylized as SHINee) is a South Korean contemporary R&B boy group formed by SM Entertainment in 2008.^[1] The group consists of Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho, and Taemin. They made their debut on May 25, 2008 on SBS's Inkigayo with their single, "Replay" (Korean: 누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay)).
Since their debut, Shinee has released three full-length albums, four mini-albums, one live album and various singles. They have also won many awards, held a concert tour and starred in their own reality shows. Shinee is considered to be a fashion icon having started the "Shinee Trend"^[2] and are known for their highly synchronized and complicated dancing.
They made their Japanese debut on June 22, 2011 by releasing a Japanese version of their single, Replay,^[3] and gained the title "The artist who managed to get in top 3 for 3 continuous releases since debut" for the foreign artist category. Such an achievement had never been gained by anyone else ever since the single ranking chart was established 44 years ago in January 1968 ^[4], followed by their first Japanese studio album, The First on December 7, 2011.