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Une Année

2012 album by Apink

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ1392821
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Une Année is the first full-length studio album by South Korean girl group Apink. It was released on May 9, 2012, and would mark the final release for member Yookyung before her departure from the group due to scheduling conflicts and continuing with her studies in college. The title track, "Hush", was used to promote the album.

Background and composition

Two of the songs from the album, "I Got You" and "Sky High", were a collaboration with Joker. The group also worked with Shinsadong Tiger, Super Changddai, and Kim Geonwoo.

Singles

The first single from the album, "April 19th", was released digitally on April 19, 2012.

The album's title track, "Hush", was released on May 9, 2012. The song's music video was released on May 8, and a dance practice music video was released on May 14. A Japanese version of "Hush" was later included as a B-side on Apink's Japanese single, "Mr. Chu".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Une Année” is 2012 album by Apink. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Année, album and Apink, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-05-09. For this dossier, Année, album and Apink is the immediate research focus.
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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 Dec 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1392821. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Une Année” 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.