Rain 2

How to Avoid the Sun
Studio album by Rain
Released	October 16, 2003 (2003-10-16)
Recorded	2003
Genre	Pop R&B
Length	42:37
Language	Korean
Label	JYP Entertainment
Producer	Park Jin-young
Rain chronology
Bad Guy (2002) How to Avoid the Sun (2003) It's Raining (2004)
Singles from How to Avoid the Sun
"How to Avoid the Sun" Released: October 16, 2003 "You Already Knew"

How To Avoid The Sun (Korean: 태양을 피하는 방법), alternately referred to as Rain 2, is the second Korean-language studio album by South Korean pop and R&B singer Rain. Like its predecessor, the album sold well throughout Southeast Asia.

Sales[]

From October 2003 to February 2004, the album sold 166,731 in South Korea.^[1][2]

Singles[]

"How to Avoid the Sun" was released as the first single. The single put Rain on the map in Korea, going to number one on the charts. At the time of the album's release, there were two versions of the song: the radio mix, credited as the guitar remix, and the original version. The song lyrics describe feeling a love so strong that it is impossible to run from. The music video was shot in Seoul. In it, you see Rain running from the sun throughout the city, trying his best to avoid it, but always failing.

On the May 10, 2007, episode of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert presented his audience with a parody of the "Ways to Avoid the Sun" music video. The parody featured Colbert singing in Korean and mimicking elements from the Rain video including running from the sun and dancing in a parking garage. The video was created in response to Rain topping Colbert in Time's open online poll.^[3] In 2021, the song ranked at number 62 in Melon and newspaper Seoul Shinmun's list of top 100 K-pop songs of all-time.^[4]

"You Already Knew" was released as a promotional single as a follow-up to "How to Avoid the Sun".

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