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| ๐ B.D.U's Kim Min-seo, Jay Chang, Seunghun, and Bitsaeon on their debut showcase. B.D.U in June 2024 LโR: Kim Min-seo, Jay Chang, Seunghun, and Bitsaeon | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Boys Define Universe |
| Origin | Seoul, South Korea |
| Genres | K-pop |
| Years active | 2024 (2024)โpresent |
| Label | Orca Music |
| Members |
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| Website | artist.mnetplus.world/main/stg/bdu |
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B.D.U (Korean: ๋น๋์ ; an abbreviation for Boys Define Universe) is a South Korean project vocal boy band formed through Mnet's reality competition program Build Up: Vocal Boy Group Survival and managed by Orca Music. The group consists of four members: Bitsaeon, Seunghun, Jay Chang, and Kim Min-seo. They debuted on June 26, 2024, with the extended play (EP) Wishpool. The quartet will remain active for the following two years.
Name
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B.D.U is an abbreviation for Boys Define Universe, where the four members' originate a new universe from their different personas.[1]
History
[edit]Formation through Build Up: Vocal Boy Group' Survival and other activities
[edit]B.D.U was formed through Mnet's reality competition program Build Up: Vocal Boy Group Survival, which aired from January 26, to March 29, 2024.[2] The show brought 40 contestants, consisting of current and former idol members, soloists, singer-songwriters, musical actors and individual trainees.[3] Out of the pool of 40 contestants down to five groups with four members, only one group would make to debut.[4] Team HunMinJayBit was announced as the eventual winner on the finale episode which was broadcast live on March 29, 2023, and they also received a โฉ100 million cash prize.[5]
Before appearing on the program, all the members had already been active in the entertainment industry. Bitsaeon is a member of M.O.N.T and was a contestants in Mix Nine (2018โ2019) where he was eliminated on episode seven while his group placed sixth in the final episode of Peak Time (2023). Seunghun is a member of CIX and was a contestants in YG Treasure Box (2018). Jay Chang is a solo artist and a member of One Pact and was a contestant in Under Nineteen (2018โ2019) where he was eliminated in the first round while in Boys Planet (2023) he placed at 10th position. Kim Min-seo was a contestant in The Origin โ A, B, Or What? (2022).[6]
2024โpresent: Debut with Wishpool and world tour
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On June 10, Orca Music announced that B.D.U is set to release their debut EP Wishpool on June 26.[7] The next day, the group announced that they will embark on a world tour titled "Tour for Wishpool: Flash & Light" on 24 cities across Americas and Europe.[8] B.D.U officially debuted on June 26, with their first EP Wishpool along with their lead single "My One" and its music video.[9] On the same day, they held a media showcase for the EP in the afternoon at Yes24 Wonderlock Hall in Changjeon-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul.[10]
Members
[edit]- Bitsaeon
- Seunghun
- Jay Chang
- Kim Min-seo
Discography
[edit]Extended plays
[edit]| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [11] | |||
| Wishpool |
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13 |
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Singles
[edit]| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR DL [13] | |||
| "My One" | 2024 | 93 | Wishpool |
| "Must Have Love" (2024 Version) | โ | Non-album singles | |
| "Friends to Lovers" | 2026 | TBA | |
| "โ" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory | |||
Videography
[edit]Music videos
[edit]| Song title | Year | Director(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| "My One" | 2024 | Choi Jae-ho | [14] |
Filmography
[edit]Reality shows
[edit]| Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Build Up: Vocal Boy Group Survival | Reality competition program determining B.D.U's members | [5] |
Concerts
[edit]- Tour for Wishpool: Flash & Light[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Yoon, Ki-baek (March 30, 2024). '๋น๋์ ' ์ ์ด์ฐฝยท๋น์์จยท์นํยท๊น๋ฏผ์ ๋ฐ๋ท ํ์ ... 'B.D.U' ํ์ ['Build Up' Jay Chang, Bitsaeon, Seunghun, Kim Min-seo confirmed for debut... The birth of 'B.D.U'] (in Korean). Edaily. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Gong, Mi-na (December 26, 2023). ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋ณด์ปฌ ๋ณด์ด๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ฝ๋๋ค...Mnet '๋น๋์ ' 1์ 26์ผ ์ฒซ๋ฐฉ [Pick the best vocal boy group...Mnet 'Build Up' first broadcast on January 26th] (in Korean). The Fact. Archived from the original on February 9, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Park, Jung-sun (January 22, 2024). '๋น๋์ : ๋ณด์ปฌ ๋ณด์ด๊ทธ๋ฃน ์๋ฐ์ด๋ฒ' ์ฐธ๊ฐ์ 40์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ ['Build Up: Vocal Boy Group Survival' 40 Contestants Revealed] (in Korean). Dailian. Archived from the original on February 2, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Cho, Yong-jun (January 22, 2024). "Mnet audition program 'Build Up' looks to produce vocal quartet". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on January 22, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ^ a b Kim, Hyun-rok (March 30, 2024). ์ ์ด์ฐฝยท๋น์์จยท์นํยท๊น๋ฏผ์, '๋น๋์ ' ์ฐ์น...B.D.U ๊ฒฐ์ฑ[์ข ํฉ] [Jay Chang, Bitsaeon, Seunghun, and Kim Min-seo, 'Build Up' winners...B.D.U formation[Comprehensive]] (in Korean). SPOTV News. Archived from the original on March 30, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Lee, Tae-soo (April 25, 2024). ๋น๋์ "๋ ธ๋ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํ๋ณต...๊ฑธ์ด์จ ๊ธธ์ด ํ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์์ฃ " [BDU "I'm happy when I sing...The path I've taken wasn't wrong"] (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim, Hyun-sik (June 10, 2024). '๋น๋์ ' ์ฐ์นํ ๋น๋์ , 26์ผ ์ฒซ ์จ๋ฒ '์์ํ' ๋ฐ๋งค ['Build Up' winning team B.D.U releases first album 'Wishpool' on the 26th] (in Korean). Edaily. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ a b Kim, Soo-jin (June 11, 2024). '๋น๋์ ์ฐ์น' ๋น๋์ , ๋ฐ๋ท ๋์ ์๋ ํฌ์ด..๋ฏธ์ฃผยท๋จ๋ฏธยท์ ๋ฝ 24๊ฐ ๋์ ์ํ ['Build Up winner' BDU, world tour at the same time as debut...touring 24 cities in North America, South America, and Europe] (in Korean). Star News. Archived from the original on June 11, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Lee, Ha-na (June 26, 2024). "๋๋์ง ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ" ๋น๋์ , ์ฌ๋ฆ ์ ์กฐ์ค ์ฒญ๋ ํฌ์ก 'My One'[๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ณ ์] ["Our story that will never end" B.D.U, aiming for summer with refreshing fan song 'My One' [Listen report]] (in Korean). Newsen. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim, Hyun-sik (June 26, 2024). ๋น๋์ "์ด๋ค ๋ฌด๋๋ ํธ๋๋ง์ดํฌ ๋ผ์ด๋ธ, ๋ณด์ปฌ ์๋ฐ์ด๋ฒ ์ถ์ ์ด๋๊น์"[์ข ํฉ] [B.D.U "No matter what stage it is, it's a hand-mic live, because I'm from a vocal survival show" [Comprehensive]] (in Korean). Edaily. Archived from the original on June 26, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ "Wishpool". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Cumulative Sales of Wishpool:
- "Circle Album Chart โ July, 2024". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
- "Circle Album Chart โ Week 32, 2024". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 15, 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
- ^ "Download Chart โ 2024 Week 26". Circle Chart. June 23โ29, 2024. Archived from the original on July 5, 2024. Retrieved July 4, 2024.
- ^ B.D.U (๋น๋์ ) - 'My One' M/V (in Korean). B.D.U. June 26, 2024. 4:22 minutes in. Archived from the original on June 26, 2024. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
External links
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- Official website ๐ Edit this at Wikidata
(in English and Korean)
