The song was released as his first official single and was later included as bonus track on the albums: 2010 Big Show Live Album (2010), fourth live album of his group Big Bang and GD & TOP (2010), first studio album of his hip hop duo GD & TOP.

"Turn It Up" has become public for the first time during BigBang's 2010 Big Show concert in January 2010.

Within 24 hours the song achieved the highest international debut for a Korean Hip-Hop/rap single on iTunes Charts on the Hip-Hop/Rap category.

[4] On June 14, 2010, a teaser of the music video was released on the YG Entertainment channel on YouTube.

His video was officially released June 21, along with the digital single.