Editing BoA (section)

===2000–2003: Debut and commercial success in South Korea and Japan===
Kwon Bo-ah was born on November 5, 1986.<ref name="Russell2014">{{cite book |author=Mark Russell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ |title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution |date=April 29, 2014 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1 |page=110}}</ref><ref name="JPTIMES">{{cite news |author=Robert Michael Poole |date=March 20, 2009 |title=No constrictions on BoA's ambitions |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/03/20/music/no-constrictions-on-boas-ambitions/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230082341/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/03/20/music/no-constrictions-on-boas-ambitions/ |archive-date=December 30, 2021 |access-date=December 29, 2021 |publisher=[[The Japan Times]]}}</ref> At the age of eleven, BoA accompanied her older brother to an SM Entertainment talent search.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kang |first=Kyung-yoon |date=September 5, 2021 |script-title=ko:'보아 오빠' 권순욱 감독, 투병 중 결국 세상 떠나 |trans-title=Director Kwon Soon-wook of 'Boa's Oppa' dies after battling a disease |url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=416&aid=0000274721 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905085900/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=416&aid=0000274721 |archive-date=September 5, 2021 |access-date=September 5, 2021 |website= |publisher=SBS Entertainment News |language=ko |via=Naver}}</ref> Though her brother was the one who auditioned as a break-dancer,<ref name="JPTIMES" /> SM [[talent scouts]] instead took notice of BoA and offered her a contract on the same night as the auditions.<ref name="JPTIMES" /> Her parents initially opposed the notion of BoA leaving school to enter the entertainment business but eventually consented at her older brothers' persuasion.<ref name="CNNinterview">{{cite web |last=Rao |first=Anjali |date=December 15, 2006 |title=BoA TalkAsia Transcript |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/15/talkasia.boa.script/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514105256/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/15/talkasia.boa.script/index.html |archive-date=May 14, 2021 |access-date=January 10, 2009 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> She has said that her early influence as a singer was [[Seo Taiji]].<ref name="JPTIMES" />

BoA underwent two years of training (involving vocal, dance, English, and Japanese lessons), and at the age of thirteen she released her debut album ''[[ID; Peace B]]'' in South Korea on August 25, 2000.<ref name="JPTIMES" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lee|first=Rachel|date=July 16, 2012|title=BoA, queen of K-pop, returns with new album|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2022/01/732_115212.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102075115/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2022/01/732_115212.html|archive-date=January 2, 2022|access-date=January 1, 2022|website=[[The Korea Times]]}}</ref> The album was moderately successful; it entered the Top 10 of the South Korean charts and sold around 156,000 units.<ref name="MTVK">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtvk.com/news/story.jhtml?id=1535149|title=The first video on MTV K: BoA "My Name"|date=June 26, 2006|publisher=[[MTV K]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705043754/http://www.mtvk.com/news/story.jhtml?id=1535149|archive-date=July 5, 2006|access-date=September 29, 2008}}</ref> Meanwhile, her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, made arrangements with Japanese label [[Avex Trax]] to launch her music career in Japan. She was forced to quit school to prepare<ref name="JPTIMES" /> and in early 2001, BoA released her first [[extended play|mini-album]], ''[[Jumping into the World|Don't Start Now]]''; it sold around 90,000 units. After its release, she took a hiatus from the Korean music industry to focus on the Japanese market at which time she worked to solidify her skills in Japanese.<ref name="CNNinterview" />

BoA began her Japanese music career singing at the Avex-owned club [[Velfarre]].<ref name="boaprofile">{{cite web|url=http://boa.smtown.com/pages/boa/version03/profile.sm|title=BoA's profile|publisher=SM Entertainment|access-date=October 9, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527075539/http://boa.smtown.com/pages/boa/version03/profile.sm|archive-date=May 27, 2009}}</ref> Her debut Japanese album, ''[[Listen to My Heart (BoA album)|Listen to My Heart]]'', was released on March 13, 2002. The album was a breakthrough in BoA's career, becoming an [[RIAJ]]-certified million-seller and debuted atop the Oricon, the first album by a Korean artist to do so.<ref name="MTVK" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/million_list/2002.html|title=List of million sellers in 2002|publisher=[[RIAJ]]|access-date=September 29, 2008|language=ja}}</ref> It was promoted with several singles: the Top 20 hit "[[ID; Peace B (song)|ID; Peace B]]" (originally from the eponymous album), "[[Amazing Kiss]]", "[[Kimochi wa Tsutawaru]]", the Top 5 hit "Listen to My Heart", and the Top 10 "[[Every Heart: Minna no Kimochi]]". After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], BoA recorded the charity single "[[The Meaning of Peace]]" with [[Kumi Koda]] as part of Avex's [[Song Nation]] project to raise funds for charity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chosunonline.com/article/20050121000046|title=BoA and Hamasaki Ayumi Join Song+Nation's South Korean Release|work=[[Chosun Ilbo|Chosunonline.com]]|publisher=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] Co.|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207020747/http://www.chosunonline.com/article/20050121000046 <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=December 7, 2008|access-date=December 1, 2008}} (Paid access required to view article)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avexnet.or.jp/songnation/index.htm|title=Song+Nation|publisher=[[Avex Trax]]|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120210120/http://www.avexnet.or.jp/songnation/index.htm|archive-date=January 20, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=January 24, 2008}}</ref> From 2001 to 2007, BoA hosted ''Beat it BoA's World'', a radio program on the [[Japan FM Network]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Beat it BoA's World|url=http://www2.jfn.co.jp/boa/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301013454/http://www2.jfn.co.jp/boa/|archive-date=March 1, 2007|access-date=August 13, 2008|publisher=[[Japan FM Network]]|language=ja}}</ref>

After the release of ''Listen to My Heart'', BoA released her second Korean studio album, ''[[No. 1 (BoA album)|No. 1]]'', a month later on April 12, 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|title=No. 1 album information|url=http://www.melon.com/album/detail.htm?albumId=16305|url-status=live|access-date=January 2, 2022|website=[[Melon (online music service)|Melon]]|language=ko|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030205827/https://www.melon.com/album/detail.htm?albumId=16305|archive-date=October 30, 2021}}</ref> The album sold around 544,853 units and became the fourth-best-selling record of the year in South Korea. ''Jumping into the World'' (a Japanese re-release of the mini-album ''Don't Start Now'') and the Japanese single "[[Don't Start Now (BoA song)|Don't Start Now]]" were released a month later on the same day.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} At the end of the year, BoA released her second Korean mini-album ''[[Miracle (BoA album)|Miracle]]''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

BoA's second Japanese studio album, ''[[Valenti (album)|Valenti]]'' (January 2003), became her best-selling album, with over 1,249,000 copies sold.<ref name="BoAmillion">{{cite web|date=May 24, 2005|title=BoA、ベスト盤が100万枚を突破!|trans-title=BoA, best compilation album tops 1 million!|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/4676/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225193841/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/4676/|archive-date=February 25, 2021|access-date=September 30, 2008|publisher=[[Oricon]]|language=ja}}</ref> Three singles preceded its release: "[[Valenti (song)|Valenti]]", which peaked at the number-two position on the Oricon chart,<ref>{{cite web|date=December 1, 2004|title=BoA, her memory of Xmas...|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/041201_01.html|url-status=dead|access-date=September 30, 2008|publisher=[[Oricon]]|language=ja|archive-date=December 16, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216135115/http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/041201_01.html}}</ref> "[[Kiseki / No.1]]" and "[[Jewel Song / Beside You: Boku o Yobu Koe]]", both which also peaked at the number-three position. In support of the album, BoA launched ''BoA 1st Live Tour Valenti'', her first Japanese concert tour.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} Later in the same year, BoA released her third Korean-language studio album, ''[[Atlantis Princess]]'' on May 30, 2003,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hong|first=Je-sung|date=May 26, 2003|script-title=ko:<연합인터뷰> 3집 발표 앞둔 가수 보아|trans-title=<Yonhap Interview> Singer BoA ahead of her 3rd album release|url=https://entertain.v.daum.net/v/M0IYMq7rWD|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102082313/https://entertain.v.daum.net/v/20030526041739474|archive-date=January 2, 2022|access-date=January 2, 2022|website=|publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]|language=ko|via=Daum}}</ref> and then released a mini-album ''[[Shine We Are!]]'' on December 4, 2003. The former was the fifth-best-selling South Korean record of the year with around 345,000 units sold; the latter sold around 58,000 units.