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SM*SH (album)

album by SM*SH

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ7391023 ↗
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SM*SH is the first studio album by the Indonesian boy band, SM*SH, released in Jakarta on June 26, 2011. The album contains pop-dance music produced by Star Signal, Veronica Lukitoand Lidi Management. It was released by Ancora Music and Star Signal.

The album sold over 1 million copies within six months in Indonesia.

Background and songs

The band had already released the main single, "I Heart You" and followed with "Senyum Semangat" as the second single. The album contains ten songs that carry the flow of dance-pop and Indo pop. "I Heart You" appears in two versions, an original and an acoustic version. There are four cover versions: "Ada Cinta" (Bening), "Gadisku" (Trio Libels), "Inikah Cinta" (M.E) and "Oh Ya" (Kelompok 3 Suara).

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“SM*SH (album)” enters the record as album by SM*SH. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7391023. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “SM*SH (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.