# Taemin drops 'PHASE 1 : Soft Violence' EP with double title tracks, announces LiMiNaL world tour

Release page: https://ktrenz.com/article/2026/09/taemin-phase-1-soft-violence-ep-liminal-world-tour
Reach map: https://ktrenz.com/reach-graph/taemin-phase-1-soft-violence-ep-liminal-world-tour
Artist: SHINee — https://ktrenz.com/artisttag/shinee
Category: comeback
Published: 2026-09-01

## How measured
Server-side crawler hits on this article, counted per vendor and per bot. "Answer-time" means the vendor fetched the page while composing an answer (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User); "training" means bulk collection. These are requests we served — not impressions, not audience, not estimated reach. Crawlers we block are excluded from every number here.

## AI reach
- Answer-time citations: 3
- Total AI reads: 16
- Distinct vendors: 5
- Window: 5 days from first to last crawl

| Vendor | Reads | Kind | Bots |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meta | 9 | training | Meta-ExternalAgent 9×/2d |
| OpenAI | 3 | answer-time | OAI-SearchBot 2×/2d; ChatGPT-User 1×/1d |
| Apple | 2 | training | Applebot 2×/1d |
| Anthropic | 1 | training | ClaudeBot 1×/1d |
| Amazon | 1 | training | Amazonbot 1×/1d |

## Human reach
- Media outlets that picked this up: 2
- Social posts tracked: 14

| Outlet | Lang | Date | Headline | URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KoreaPortal | EN | 09-06 | TAEMIN Returns With Double Title Track EP 'Phase 1: Soft Violence' | https://en.koreaportal.com/articles/54751/20260831/taemin-returns-double-title-track-ep-phase-1-soft-violence.htm |
| InMusic Blog | EN | 09-06 | TAEMIN Announces LiMiNaL World Tour North American Dates | https://inmusicblog.com/k-pop/taemin-liminal-world-tour-north-america-dates/ |

| Platform | Account | Date | URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| X | @_Kpop_Stats_ | 09-05 | https://x.com/_Kpop_Stats_/status/2096327665913409676 |
| X | @CreativeDisc | 09-05 | https://x.com/CreativeDisc/status/2096160909332775240 |
| X | @TuMedio | 09-05 | https://x.com/TuMedio/status/2096048418204340509 |
| X | @shimkung_kpop | 09-04 | https://x.com/shimkung_kpop/status/2096007810110910825 |
| X | @Pinkmix17_ | 09-04 | https://x.com/Pinkmix17_/status/2095884971047088216 |
| X | @KpopChartNet | 09-04 | https://x.com/KpopChartNet/status/2095749488287912417 |
| X | @cokodive | 09-04 | https://x.com/cokodive/status/2095734980265840728 |
| X | @wikipicky_kr | 09-03 | https://x.com/wikipicky_kr/status/2095423551104803023 |
| X | @asia__wave | 09-02 | https://x.com/asia__wave/status/2095231231843778808 |
| X | @latamshinee | 09-02 | https://x.com/latamshinee/status/2095185565368852701 |
| TikTok | jenchangwook09 | 09-02 | https://www.tiktok.com/@jenchangwook09/video/7681008314452315414 |
| TikTok | shineefever | 09-02 | https://www.tiktok.com/@shineefever/video/7680926346905750805 |
| TikTok | thearsh017 | 09-01 | https://www.tiktok.com/@thearsh017/video/7680538819569028373 |
| TikTok | passthatauxx | 09-02 | https://www.tiktok.com/@passthatauxx/video/7680981883701759240 |

## Attribution
Measured and published by KTRENZ (https://ktrenz.com). Cite as: "KTRENZ Release Reach, Taemin drops 'PHASE 1 : Soft Violence' EP with double title tracks, announces LiMiNaL world tour".