Psycho - Red Velvet

 

Red velvet’s Psycho was released on December 23, 2019 and was the lead single from the album the ReVe Festival: Finale. Featured as the first track on the album, the song's lyrics were written by Kenzie with music composed by Andrew ‘druski” Scott, Cazzi Opeia, and EJAE and arrangements by Andrew “Druski” Scott, and Yoo Young-jin.

The song features members Wendy, Irene, Yeri, Joy, and Seulgi with the average age between them being 24.2 when Psycho was released.

Psycho features 331 words total with the average per member being around 33.8 words. The song has a standard deviation of 33.8 and a margin of error at 4.8. Mainly sung in Korean with around 57.1% (189 words) and 42.9% (142 words) in English, Psycho is nearly split down the middle in terms of individual parts and groups singing. Sitting at 152 words (45.9%) sung together 179 words (54.1%) sung by the members. Member Seugli has the highest amount while member Yeri has the least. [see chart below for # and percentages]

In terms of time and line distribution, the total time of the song is around 3:31 seconds while they sing around 3:30 seconds. The average time between members is around 23 seconds with a standard deviation being 8.7 and a margin of error being 3.9. They sing the majority of the song in individual sections or pairs around 1 minute and 58 seconds (60.1%) and all of them singing in unison around 1 minute and 32 seconds (39.9%). In this case the word count was correct in that Seulgi has the highest amount of time on the track and Yeri being the least. [see chart below for # and percentages]

Psycho earned Red Velvet 9 music show wins. The song was nominated for 12 awards, winning 5 of them during the award circuit. In Singapore and US World Digital charts, they topped it by placing number 1, and in South Korea Gaon, Kpop hot 100, and Malaysia they reached number 2 on the charts. The song was featured on 6 end of the year lists with paper magazine listing it as number 1 on their kpop list of the year.


Overall Red Velvet’s Psycho earned 1,888.9 points. 

Psycho also earned an A for both Word & Time Distribution.

Rank

Words	Line
Rank Member Words Percent 1 Seulgi 50 15.1 2 Wendy 43 13 3 Joy 36 10.9 4 Irene 27 8.2 5 Yeri 23 6.9	Rank Member Seconds Percent 1 Seulgi 0:36 17.1 2 Wendy 0:29 13.8 3 Joy 0:25 11.9 4 Irene 0:16 7.6 5 Yeri 0:12 5.7

Awards	Charts	Lists
Music Show Awards - 9 Nomination - 7 Won - 5	Singapore - 1  US World Digital - 1  South Korea Gaon  - 2  South Korea Hot 100 - 2  Malaysia - 2  South Korea Gaon Monthly - 3  UK Indie - 9  South Korea Gaon Yearly (2020) - 9  New Zealand - 10  UK Singles Downloads - 99  UK Singles Sales - 99	Billboard - 28  CNN Philippines - Placed  Melon - 85  The Forty-Five - 5  Paper - 1  Tonplein - 1

Points

Standard Deviation	180.6
Margin of Error	191.3
Music Show	90
Awards	564
Charts	863
Total	1,888.9
Word Distribution Grade	A
Time Distribution Grade	A