Girls' Generation: Beginning


Beginning 

by Girls’ Generation is the second track from the single album Into the New World. Released on August 2, 2007, the song is written by Yoon Hyo-sang with composition by Anna-Lena Margaretha Hogdahl, Mattias Lindblom, Anders Wollbeck and arrangement by Hwang Seong-Je.

The track features members Hyoyeon, Jessica, Seohyun, Sooyoung, Sunny, Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yoona, and Yuri at the average age of 17.6 years old.

Beginning has around 237 words with about 61.2% (145 words) in Korean versus 38.8% (92 words) in English. The song is mainly sung in individual sections with 151 words (63.7%) divided amongst the members while 86 words (36.3%)) were sung in unison by all members. The average per member is 19.9 words with a standard deviation of 22.5 words and a margin of error of 7.5 words. Member Jessica had the highest amount of words while member Sunny had the least.

Rank
  1. Jessica - 60 words
  2. Taeyeon - 56 words
  3. Tiffany - 35 words
  4. Sooyoung - 7 words
  5. Yoona, Yuri - 5 words
  6. Hyoyeon, Seohyun - 4 words
  7. Sunny - 3 words
Jessica - Highest Word Count

The total track time is 3 minutes and 3 seconds while the total singing time is 3 minutes and 6 seconds. The total time sung is longer than the track time due to members overlapping in individual sections. About 30.1% (56 seconds) sung by all members with 69.9% (2:10 minutes) sung in individual sections. The average was 16.7 seconds per member with a standard deviation of 18.5 seconds and a margin of error of 6.2 seconds. Member Taeyeon had the highest amount of time while members Seohyun and Sunny had the least.

Rank
  1. Taeyeon - 56 seconds
  2. Jessica - 42 seconds
  3. Tiffany - 23 seconds
  4. Hyoyeon - 6 seconds
  5. Sooyoung, Yoona, Yuri - 5 seconds
  6. Seohyun, Sunny - 4 seconds
Taeyeon - Highest Time Count

Complete did not earn any music show awards, nor did the song place on any chart. It is to note that complete did come out before the Gaon digital charts were established. (Now circle charts)

Beginning by Girls’ Generation earned a total of 333 points. Beginning earned a grade of C+ for word distribution and a grade of B for time distribution.


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