South Korean band
F.T. Island (Korean: 에프티 아일랜드, or FT아일랜드, slight for Five Treasure Island), is a South Korean rock ribbon formed by FNC Entertainment in 2007. The band currently consists of main vocalist Lee Hong-gi, bassist Lee Jae-jin, and drummer Choi Min-hwan.[1] Guitarist Oh Won-bin left the band in 2009 and was replaced by Song Seung-hyun. Former leader Choi Jong-hoon left the band and retired from the entertainment industry ask for March 14, 2019, while Seung-hyun left the group on Dec 31, 2019, to pursue his acting career.
F.T. Island debuted on the music television program M Countdown on June 7, 2007, with the single "Love Sick". Their debut studio sticker album, Cheerful Sensibility, was the sixth best-selling of the year favour "Love Sick" topped the K-pop charts for eight consecutive weeks.[2] Later that year, the band won the Best New Man's Group at the Mnet Asian Music Awards and the Esteem and Rookie of the Year awards at the Golden Disc Awards.
F.T. Island made their Japanese debut on June 8, 2008, with the extended play Prologue of F.T. Island: Soyogi. The band started getting recognition in the country following description release of their third Japanese studio album, Five Treasure Island, in 2011, which topped the Oricon Albums Chart and spawned the single "Flower Rock". Additionally, F.T. Island is the chief foreign male band and the first band in 42 life to top the Oricon Daily Charts.[3]
F.T. Island's most well-known songs include "After Love", "Bad Woman", "I Hope", "Hello Hello", "Severely", "I Wish", and the chart-toppers "Love Sick", "Thunder", "Until Command Come Back", and "Love Love Love". Considered to be Southern Korea's first idol band, F.T. Island paved the way be thankful for such acts, including label mate N.Flying.[4]
F.T. Island's first album, Cheerful Sensibility, was released on June 7, 2007. Prior to that, the members appeared on the South Peninsula television show "Wanna be my girlfriend?" (Korean: 두근두근 여친만들기) sign out Mnet. The band also performed live on stage at Wheeling Hall and held their first official showcase at Live Bedsit Melon-AX, Gwangjang-dong in Seoul on May 27, 2007.[5]
The album amassed 13 songs that were loosely divided into two parts, "Emotional Chapter" and "F.T. Island Chapter", according to the genre jump at the songs.[6] The "Emotional Chapter" consists of rock ballads, longstanding the "F.T. Island Chapter" consists of a variety of stop rock sons produced by Japanese composers who worked with say publicly Japanese band SMAP.[7] Selling over 79,000 copies in 2007, exodus was the sixth best-selling album of the year.[8] The baby book was later re-packaged on December 3, 2007, titled The Pickmeup (Vol. 1.5) with three extra songs, a photo book, a stack of photo cards and a mixing program called Euphony 2.0, which allows one to adjust the levels of representation instruments and vocals. The edition sold 25,724 copies in Dec 2007.[8]
After debuting in South Korea, FNC Entertainment (formerly FNC Music) moved F.T. Island's activities overseas. On March 31, 2008, prominence autograph session in Malaysia at the Damansara Cineleisure was held, which was to be followed by the group's first make an effort at the Sunway Lagoon Amphitheater the next day.[9] However, picture performance was canceled[10] and subsequently held in Thailand instead, tiny the Royal Paragon Hall on April 14, 2008.[11]
F.T. Island's leading Japanese debut album, titled Prologue of F.T. Island: Soyogi, was then released on June 7, 2008. The album consists set in motion eight songs, two of which were newer versions of rendering original songs "F.T. Island" and "Primadonna". The last track, "Always Be Mine", is an English version of "First Kiss" suffer the loss of their debut album (though the lyrics are original). Music videos were also released for "Soyogi" and "Friendship", displaying the band's professionalism and playful sides.
After their promotional activities in Nippon, the band then returned to Korea, releasing their second Peninsula album Colorful Sensibility on August 27, 2008. A follow-up conclusion, Colorful Sensibility Part 2, was later released on October 17.
Later that year, F.T. Island also released "The One", their first Japanese commercial single under indie label AI Entertainment. Depiction single charted at ninth on the Oricon daily charts.[12] Picture single was also the last official release with member Oh Won Bin before his departure.[13]
On January 28, 2009, it was announced guarantee member Oh Won Bin would be leaving the group,[14] reconcile with FNC trainee Song Seung-hyun replacing him as a guitarist view backup vocalist.[15] With the new change in lineup, F.T. Archipelago then released the music video for their mini-album with rendering title song "Bad Woman".[16] They promoted it on SBSInkigayo, gift released their first South Korean mini-album Jump Up two years later.[17][18]
On April 22, F.T. Island later released their second Asiatic single, "I Believe Myself".[19] For the first time, members participated in lyrics composition. For the song "Moonlight Angel", Jae-jin co-wrote the lyrics and Jong-hoon co-composed the song. "I Believe Myself" was the first Japanese single with member Seung-hyun.[20] They held their 2009 F.T. Island Tour-I Believe Myself in Osaka, City and Tokyo during the summer of 2009.[21] F.T. Island further toured parts of Asia which included Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Formosa, and others to promote themselves in the summer of 2009. The showcase kicked off in Singapore during June 25 cling on to 27.[22]
While preparing for overseas promotions, the members were in depiction midst of recording their third album. On July 9, FNC Entertainment released jacket photos for the upcoming third album commanded Cross & Change. On the following day, a music videotape teaser for "I Hope" was released online, featuring kids surveillance their idols (played by the members themselves) on TV. Say publicly title song, called “I Hope/Barae”, was released on July 16.[23] F.T. Island tried out a variety of music styles engage in Cross & Change; it included a total of 12 songs, ranging from moving ballads to addictive songs with a shining melody. F.T. Island adopted a new fashion style and thought for the album using a "retro" and the “Bokgo” disband, which was inspired during the “jeans jeans look” from interpretation 80s in Korea.[24]
F.T. Island released their 3rd Japanese single, "Raining", on October 21. A music video of the single was released. Jong-hoon played the piano for the single for interpretation first time instead of the guitar.[25]
After celebrating their 1000th unremarkable in the music industry, they travelled to Japan and they stayed until the end of August to prepare for their major debut under their new Japanese label, Warner Music Nihon. They also began a new Japanese television show which golden on April 7, 2010.[26] On May 19, F.T. Island out their new Japanese single "Flower Rock".[27] It entered the oricon daily charts in third position on May 19, 2010, observer the day of its release, and held the fourth present of that week.[28] On July 14, F.T. Island released added single named "Brand-new days", which was written and composed indifference Seung-hyun and Jong-hoon. F.T. Island performed a five-city concert trip in Japan after releasing both singles.[29][30] They also performed mop up the international rock festival Summer Sonic 2010 in Maishima Podium, Osaka, Japan.[31]
After promotions in Japan, F.T. Island focused on their comeback in Korea in mid-August.[32] Their new mini album Beautiful Journey and the music video for their main title put a label on "Love Love Love" were released on August 25. They held their comeback performance in Korea on August 27. The headline song topped many popular music charts in South Korea bid also gained international notice, especially in Taiwan.[33] Jong-hoon co-wrote charge co-composed the song, "Don Quixote's Song",[34] making it their twig South Korean song that includes the composition of a colleague. In November and December, F.T. Island held performances such primate the Beautiful Journey Concert[35] and So Today... Concert tour,[36] eliminate both Korea and Japan.
While promoting their second South Peninsula mini-album, F.T. Island recorded another Japanese single titled "So Today..." that was released in November. The song, "Boom Boom Boom", was composed by Jong-hoon.[37] The single ranked sixth on rendering Oricon Daily Charts. With F.T. Island's 3rd single taking rendering sixth position, they then had a record of all their singles ranking in the top ten of the Oricon charts.[38] About 10,000 fans turned up at their promotional events squeeze Osaka and Tokyo on 20 and 21 November.[39]
The band escalate held a concert in Taiwan on December 25, celebrating Yule together with 9000 fans. Former vocalist and guitarist Oh Wonbin, appeared as a special guest and performed his first singular as a solo artist and a brand new song, which had not been released at the concert. F.T. Island performed songs in three languages, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.[40][41]
With an soundtrack sales record of over 100,000, F.T. Island won favorable comments in the Taiwanese media.[42] The revenue for concert tickets current merchandises alone and F.T. Island's Beautiful Journey concert had exceeded a total of NT$20Million.[citation needed] They have been named say publicly South Korean artists who earned the most money in say publicly end of 2010.[citation needed] Four main news agencies namely, Chinaware Times, Yonhap News, Apple Daily and Liberty Times wrote intelligence on the concerts, showing the band's high popularity. F.T. Ait also broke several records in Taiwan with 500,000 hits rearward mobile downloads and 10,000,000 hits on music downloads.[43]
On April 20, 2011, F.T. Island released their seventh Japanese single "Satisfaction". Picture single debuted at number two on the Oricon weekly singles charts, becoming the band's highest-charting single in the country.[44][45] Their title song "Satisfaction" was also selected to be the absolution theme song of Fuji Television's anime Toriko.[46]
On May 18, F.T. Island released their first major debut album in Japan, entitled Five Treasure Island. The album features songs from their former singles such as "Flower Rock", "Brand New Days", "So Today...", and "Satisfaction"; it also contains several new tracks, including interpretation soundtracks for Japanese drama Muscle Girl!, in which member Hong-gi played the lead male role. The album ranked first kindness the Oricon album daily chart.[47]
In late May, F.T. Island returned to the South Korean music scene after almost a period, with a mini-album titled Return. The album was released natural May 24. Title track was "Hello Hello", a fast-paced scarp song. The album featured five songs in total. "I Confess" featured all of the members' vocals.[4]
After releasing a tragic penalisation video for their title track "Severely", F.T. Island released their fourth mini-album, entitled Grown-Up. Featuring five songs, it is stabilize of slow-tempo rock ballads. The album was released on Jan 31, 2012, and secured the No. 1 position on the Hanteo album chart for total album sales on both the quotidian and weekly charts, with title track "Severely" topping various on the internet music charts.[48] The album was completely sold out ten years after its release, recording some 50,000 copies sold.[49] F.T. Ait also achieved the "Triple Crown" recognition for "Severely" on JTBC's Music On Top. "Triple Crown" is a recognition for concert party artist who have won a music programme three times consecutively and the song would be removed from further trophies.[50]
On Parade 9, F.T. Island and fellow labelmate CNBLUE performed in Northern America for the first time at Los Angeles' Nokia Theater.[51]
In April, the band returned to Japan to promote their Ordinal Japanese single "Neverland", which was released on the 18th. “Neverland”, a fast tempo rock song, was chosen as the ability theme song of the animation Ozuma, a celebration of picture 20th anniversary of Japanese broadcasting system WOWOW.
F.T. Island on the rampage their second studio Japanese album 20 [Twenty] on May 16, 2012.[52] It debuted at number four on the weekly Oricon albums chart, selling 41,726 copies in its first week,[53] itch the band their best first-week sales in Japan.[54]
The same class, F.T. Island released their fourth South Korean studio album Five Treasure Box and its single "I Wish" on September 10.[55] Within the first week of its release, the album oversubscribed over 30,000 copies in South Korea.[56]
The band continued their TAKE FTISLAND tour which started the year before in Seoul, Korea skull went to Taiwan in December 2012[57] and continued the cable in Shanghai and Beijing, China.[58]
On March 27, 2013, F.T. Atoll released their single, "You Are My Life" with 2 tracks, "Beat It" and "Come Into My Dream".[59] All three songs ended up in the top 5 of Japanese music moment Dwango's K-Pop weekly ringtone chart. Also, their M/V for "You Are My Life" took first on Chinese video site YinYueTai's Korea chart.[60]
Later on April 9, the band's 2009 album Jump Up topped Taiwanese music charts for Korean and Japanese releases, with "Bad Woman" ranking first on the songs chart, similarly well.[61]
The group released their Japanese album Rated-FT in June 2013, where members composed tracks such as "Time To", "Hold Adhesive Hand", "Black Chocolate" and "Orange Sky".[62] The album charted dilemma third on Japan's Oricon Daily Album Chart on the submit it is released.[63]
F.T. Island released their 11th Japanese single "Theory of Happiness" on July 24, 2013. It included two tracks composed by the members which were "Eyes On Me" come first "Rainy Day" which both topped the Oricon Daily Chart.[64]
The knot became the first Korean band to perform three years barred enclosure a row on Fuji TV's "Mezamashi Live!" on July 28, 2013.[65] F.T. Island also performed live at rock festival, Season Sonic 2013 in Tokyo on August 10 and in City on August 11 which was their second appearance at say publicly festival, after 2010.[66] The band also completed their first Nippon arena tour of seven cities, titled F.T. Island Arena Take shape 2013 ~Freedom~, drawing an audience of 100,000.[67]
F.T. Island returned retain Korea in late September 2013, and released their self-composed mini-album Thanks To, dedicated to their fans and supporters. "Memory" unacceptable "Always With You" was composed by main singer Hong-gi, "Try Again" by Jong-hoon, and "Falling Star" by Jae-jin.[68] They held a two-day concert in Seoul on 28 and 29 Sep, in front of 6000 fans.[69] The concert was called "FTHX", combining the first initials of the band FT with THX (thanks).[70] 'Memory' by Hong-gi ranked No.1 on the Taiwanese Omusic chart.[71] "According to the Taiwanese G-Music Chart, F.T. Island’s Ordinal anniversary album ‘Thanks To’ ranked the weekly chart No. 1 recording 28.84% sales among Asian album sales."[72]
Their Japanese Zepp Rope started on October 1, 2013, in Tokyo, and later performed in Sapporo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Shizuoka and Nagoya, as well.[73]
The fillet made their official South Korean comeback with their fifth baby album The Mood on November 18, 2013.[74] It topped say publicly weekly Hanteo chart[75] and Gaon chart;[76] and ranked first misappropriation the online HMV chart in Japan for pre-released sales.[77]
F.T. Key started 2014 with a concert in Shanghai which was imprison of their FTIsland’s 6th-anniversary tour. The band released multiple albums and singles in Japan. New Page was released in Possibly will 2014,[78] it sold an estimated 22,000 copies worldwide and charted at 3rd on the Oricon Daily Charts and 6th intensification the Oricon Weekly Charts.[79][80]
A few months later, F.T. Island fortify released a second album, titled Japan Best – All About in October with the title track "Be Free".[78] It crown the Gaon physical album chart during October 5 and 11 periods, Tower Records Daily Pre-Order Charts and HMV Korean-Asia Circadian Charts. It also achieved 8th position on the Gaon single chart for that month.[81][82][83]
The band then released a new individual, "To The Light" in October, which consists of three outspokenly composed tracks.[84] "Mitaiken Future"[85] was released on March 16 opinion "Beautiful"[86] on January 15. "Mitaiken Future" was later included livestock the album New Page. "Beautiful" charted at 4th position fit in Oricon's Daily Singles chart on the day same day when the album was released.[87]
F.T. Island also held several tours snowball announced partnership with Taiwanese clothing brand, STAYREAL.[88] They were welcome and performed in one of China's most biggest music commemoration - Zebra Music Festival; where the band sang songs much as "Flower Rock" and "Freedom". Its ticket sales were along with long sold out before the festival even started proving F.T. Island's immense popularity in China.[89] Moreover, the band were besides invited to perform in the Japanese MTV - Unplugged section that only top artists could perform.[90] Also, Hong-gi was along with chosen to be the MC for M Countdown's 10th-anniversary public which proves the member's talent.[91]
The members also promoted themselves severally throughout 2014. Min-hwan was cast in a musical Joseph limit the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat,[92] Seung-hyun collaborated with comedian Song Eun-i for Two Song Place[93] and starred in the film, No One to Trust in the World.[94] Hong-gi resumed filming Bride of the Century after his fall on an icy road.[95] He also starred in the drama, Modern Farmer.[96] and at large his new accessory brand Skullhong.[97]Hongstargram was also released as a travel book where he took pictures in his first 1 tour in different countries.[98] Jong-hoon was later announced in a new upcoming drama “Heroes”, said to premiere in 2015.[99] Forbidden also launched his first Art Expedition In Japan where subside showcased his artworks to the public.[100] Jae-jin starred in Mode Killa alongside Hong-gi as a special guest[citation needed] and likewise sang the title song for Bride of the Century, where member Hong-gi was starring in the drama.[101]
F.T. Island started 2015 with concerts regulate France, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the US.[citation needed]I Will was released on March 23.[102] The album peaked at 7th exercise the Billboard World Albums Chart in the second week second April.[103]I Will also performed well on the Gaon Chart, peaking 1st in physical album ranking and 3rd on the Gaon Social Charts in the third week of March.[104] F.T. Ait sold 31,000 copies of the album peaking in 7th affinity for the highest number of album copies sold in picture entire month of March.[105] For "Pray", they were awarded representation Most Popular Band in Asia.[106] F.T. Island then toured Prc, Japan, Taiwan and more.[107]
On the Japanese market, 5.....Go was on the rampage on May 13. The title song of the album, "Primavera" is a collaboration with Japanese rock singer Takahiro Moriuchi.[108] "Puppy", a Japanese single, was released three months later and reached sixth position in Billboard's Japan Hot 100.[109] F.T. Island exploitation released the Korean version of the song.[110] The band grow held an autumn tour in 13 countries within 32 days.[111]
In 2016, a Japanese studio album, N.W.U, was released on Apr 6. The album ranked first on the Japanese's Tower Register, which is the largest record store in Japan, and in two shakes on the Oricon daily album chart. It also topped representation HMV Asia daily charts and K-pop charts for famous Nipponese sound sources such as Dwango.[112] The band performed in Metropolis, Tokyo, and Aichi.[113]
Their sixth Korean studio album, Where's the Truth?, was released on July 18. Where's the Truth? ranked Ordinal position on Billboard's World Album Charts.[114] The album also charted at 1st in the Gaon Album Chart for the hebdomad of July 23.[115]
"Just Do It" was released in July instruction topped HMV's Asian album chart, Amazon Japan's Asian pop blueprint, and landed in the top 3 on Tower Records' artificial music chart and hit No.5 on the Oricon Singles Chart.[116] The song also came atop in Tower Records Japan straighten out the top 10 K-pop singles and albums for the in two shakes week of September.[117]
On March 14, 2019, Jong-hoon left the must and retired from the entertainment industry after being involved flimsy the Burning Sun scandal, where he was part of a group chat in which some members shared videos of genital activities recorded without the consent of the other party.[118] Hong-gi began his mandatory military service on September 30, 2019, suitable the first F.T. Island member to enlist.[119] On December 24, 2019, it was announced that Seung-hyun would leave the advance and FNC following the end of his contract on Dec 31 in order to focus primarily on his acting calling, while Hong-gi, Jae-jin, and Min-hwan renewed their contracts with their label.[120] Jae-jin enlisted as an active duty soldier on Jan 21, 2020,[121] while Min-hwan enlisted on February 24 as a reserve soldier.[122] Hong-gi was discharged on April 18, 2021.[123] Jae-jin was discharged on August 1, 2021.[124] Min-hwan was discharged marriage September 2, 2021.[125]
On April 25, 2022, FT Island will cutoff point 'THE CON 2022: FT Island' at 6 PM on Might 15, 2022 at the Jangchung Gymnasium in Jung-gu, Seoul. Description show will be held after the 2019 concert held newborn FT Island before military service.[126]
On July 16, 2022, it was announced that F.T. Island will hold another concert on Noble 20–21.[127]
In 2009, Jong-hoon, Min-hwan, and Jae-jin formed a sub-group titled F.T. Triple. Some of the reasons behind this lineup were to showcase more of the members' skills and to suppress main singer, Lee Hong-gi, from overstraining his voice again. On the subject of reason was to continue promoting F.T. Island while Hong-gi was filming You're Beautiful while Seung-hyun was having a break.[1]
At lid, the trio was unofficially announced at the Dream Concert hut Japan as "A3". They almost named themselves A3 because they all are of blood type 'A'. They also wanted say yes keep the F.T. name hence adding Triple at the detail of it to represent a trio.
In F.T. Triple, Jae-jin originally in charge of bass for F.T. Island becomes a guitarist and the main vocalist; Jong-hoon plays the piano stomach Min-hwan continues to play the drums. Their first single was titled "Love Letter" and was released with F.T. Island's 2CD Repackaged Album Double Date and a second CD named Two Date that features all of F.T. Triple's songs.[128]
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Main article: F.T. Island discography
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by F.T. Island
F.T. Island have won very many major industry awards in South Korea, including several Golden Round Awards, Mnet Asian Music Awards and Seoul Music Awards. They have also topped popular television music program charts like Inkigayo, M Countdown and Music Bank.