KCM | |
|---|---|
| ๐ Image KCM in July 2019 | |
| Born | Kang Chang-mo |
| Spouse |
Unknown โ (m. 2021)โ |
| Children | 3 |
| Musical career | |
| Origin | South Korea |
| Genres | R&B, ballad |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 2003โpresent |
| Label | Image9Coms[1] |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | ๊ฐ์ฐฝ๋ชจ |
| RR | Gang Changmo |
| MR | Kang Ch'angmo |
Kang Chang-mo (Korean: ๊ฐ์ฐฝ๋ชจ), better known by his stage name KCM (Korean: ์ผ์ด์จ์ ), is a South Korean singer.[2] He debuted in 2003 with the song "I Know", from the soundtrack to the Korean drama, Punch (๋๋ ค).[3]
Personal life
[edit]On January 13, 2022, Kang has recently registered for marriage with his non-celebrity girlfriend who is 9 years younger than him. The wedding ceremony has been postponed due to the COVID-19 situation.[4][5] On March 19, 2025, it was revealed that Kang is the father of two daughters and that he had registered his marriage in 2021.[6] The couple welcomed a third child, a boy, on December 20, 2025.[7]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [8][9] | |||
| Beautiful Mind |
|
10 |
|
| Growing Up |
|
6 |
|
| Love Affair |
|
2 |
|
| Kingdom |
|
โ | โN/a |
| One Day (ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ) |
|
โ | |
| Reflection of My Mind |
|
9 |
|
| "โ" denotes release did not chart. | |||
Extended plays
[edit]| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [8][9] | |||
| Espresso |
|
โ | |
| Alone (Part 1) |
|
โ | |
| Alone (Part 2) |
|
14 | |
| Promise |
|
โ | |
| "โ" denotes release did not chart. | |||
Singles
[edit]| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [14] | ||||
| As lead artist | ||||
| "Color Flower" feat. MC Mong |
2010 | 20 | Non-album singles | |
| "Because of You" (๊ทธ๋๋ผ๋ ์ด์ ) |
2011 | 91 | ||
| "Mom, Dad, I Love You" (์๋ง ์๋น ์ฌ๋ํด์) |
โ | |||
| "Hedgehog Love" (์๋ง์ ์ฐฉ๊ฐ) |
2016 | โ | ||
| "Dawn" (์๋ฒฝ๊ธธ) |
โ | |||
| "Count to Three Like a Habit" (๋ฒ๋ฆ์ฒ๋ผ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ค) |
2020 | 95 | ||
| "Dear Love" (์ฌ๋์) |
2022 | 109 | ||
| "There's Still Someone I Love" (์์ง ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์์ด์) |
2024 | 188 | Us | |
| Collaborations | ||||
| "Two Men's Story" with The One |
2011 | 45 | Non-album singles | |
| "The Old Tree" (์ค๋๋๋ฌด) with Navi |
โ | |||
| "I Love You" (์ฌ๋ํ๋์ด๋ค) with Navi |
2016 | โ | ||
| "Speaking Habit" (๋ง๋ฒ๋ฆ) with Zia |
2017 | 93 | ||
| "Journey to Atlantis" (์์๋ํ๊ธฐ) with MSG Wannabe |
2021 | 7 | MSG Wannabe Top 8 Performance Songs | |
| "If" (๋ง์ฝ์) with Jee Seok-jin, Wonstein, Parc Jae-jung |
19 | |||
| "Foolish Love" (๋ฐ๋ผ๋ง ๋ณธ๋ค) with Jee Seok-jin, Wonstein, Parc Jae-jung |
1 | MSG Wannabe 1st Album | ||
| "I Love You" (๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํด) (with MSG Wannabe) |
25 | |||
| "I Luv U" (with Kim Jong-kook and Mirani)[15] |
2022 | 96 | Non-album singles | |
| "Sad Snowman" (์ฌํ ๋์ฌ๋) (with Ja Jung) |
177 | |||
| Soundtrack appearances | ||||
| "Love You to Death" (์ฃฝ๋๋ก ์ฌ๋ํด) feat. Soul Dive |
2010 | 33 | Bread, Love and Dreams OST Part 2 | |
| "Missing You" | 91 | Big Thing OST Part 2 | ||
| "Bad" (๋์ ๋) |
2012 | โ | Immortal Classic OST Part 2 | |
| "Make Me Cry" (์ธ๊ฒ ํ์์) |
2013 | โ | Basketball OST Part 3 | |
| "Closed Heart" (๊ฐํ ๋ง) |
2016 | โ | My Lawyer, Mr. Jo OST Part 4 | |
| "Only You" | โ | Five Enough OST Part 4 | ||
| "Remember" (๊ธฐ์ต) |
โ | W OST Part 4 | ||
| "Now We Love You" (์ด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ๋ํด์)[16] |
2022 | โ | Healer OST | |
| "โ" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Re:fresh | K | [17] |
Web series
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | You Raise Me Up | Cameo | [18] |
Television shows
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Sing Together Season 2 | Host | with Kim Tae-woo | [19] |
| Call me | Host | [20] | ||
| Good.R.Sam | Cast | [21] | ||
| 2022 | Godfather | Cast Member | with Choi Hwan-hee | [22] |
| legendfestival | Participant | [23] | ||
| Crazy Encounter Season 4 | Host | with Yerin | [24] | |
| 2023 | For the First Time in Our Lives | Cast Member | [25] |
Web show
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ranking Gourmet | Host | [26] |
| 2022 | Why Not Crew | [27] |
Music video appearances
[edit]| Year | Song Title | Artist | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | "Keep your head up" (๋ค๊ฐ ์๋ ๋) | Lee Dong-hwi | [28] |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Nominee / Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul International Drama Awards | 2021 | Excellent Korean Drama OST | "I'm more afraid" | Nominated | [29][30] |
References
[edit]- ^ Lee Hye-min (May 10, 2022). "KCM, ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋์ธ์ปด์ฆ์ ์ฌ๊ณ์ฝ "ํจ๊ป ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ ์ด์ด๊ฐ ๊ฒ" [KCM renews contract with Image9Coms, "We will continue our heyday together] (in Korean). Newsis. Archived from the original on May 10, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2022 โ via Naver.
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- ^ a b "Gaon Album Chart" (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
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- "Alone (Part 2) charting". Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
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- "Journey To Atlantis, If โ Week 22 of 2021". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
- "Foolish Love โ Week 27 of 2021". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 8, 2021. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
- "I LUV U โ Week 29 of 2022". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 21, 2022. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
- "Dear Love โ Week 44 of 2022". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on January 10, 2023. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
- "Sad Snowman โ Week 51 of 2022". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
- "There's Still Someone I Love โ Week 3 of 2024". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
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- ^ Jeong Hee-yeon (January 7, 2022). "KCM ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋คโฆ์ฃผ์ฐ ์ํ '๋ฆฌํ๋ ์ฌ' 2์ ๊ฐ๋ด [๊ณต์]" [I'm also acting in KCM... Starring movie โRefreshโ released in February [Official]] (in Korean). Sports Donga. Retrieved January 7, 2022 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim No-eul (August 12, 2021). "[๋จ๋ ]KCM, ์ค์์คx์ํฌ์ฐ '์ ๋ ์ด์ฆ ๋ฏธ ์ ' ์นด๋ฉ์ค ์ถ๊ฒฉ" [[Exclusive] KCM, Yoon Si-yoon x Ahn Hee-yeon's 'You Raise Me Up' cameo scramble]. Newsen (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 12, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Choi Jin-kyung (June 15, 2021). "์ฑํฌ๊ฒ๋ ์์ฆ2', ๊นํ์ฐยทKCM ๊ณต๋ MCโฆ7์6์ผ ์ฒซ๋ฐฉ์ก" [Sing Together Season 2', Kim Tae-woo and KCM joint MC... First broadcast on July 6th] (in Korean). Newsis. Archived from the original on June 16, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim Hye-young (October 8, 2021). "๋๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ค' ์ ์ธ์คยท์ฅ๋์ฐโ๊น์ ๋ฏผยทKCM ์์ ํ ํฌ์ผ MC ํ์ " [โCall Meโ Yoo Se-yoon, Jang Do-yeon โ Kim Jung-min, KCM Music Talk Show MCs confirmed]. iMBC (in Korean). Retrieved October 8, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim Ye-ji (November 11, 2021). "๋ฏธ์น ํ ์ ' ์ด์๋ฏผยท์ง์๋ ฌยทKCMยท์๋น, ๋ญ์ณค๋คโฆ'์ข.์.์ค" ['Crazy Tension' Lee Sang-min, Ji Sang-ryeol, KCM, Subin, united... 'Good. R. Sam] (in Korean). Newsis. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021 โ via Naver.
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- ^ Moon Ji-yeon (January 12, 2022). "[SC๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ] ์ฐ์๋ถ๊ฐ ์ต์ฝ์ฒด? ๊น์ฌํยท์ด์ด๊ฒฝ ๋ฐ์ ํ์ฝ('์ ์ค์ฒด์ ')" [[SC Review] Is the entertainment department the weakest? Kim Jae-hwan and Lee Yi-kyung's reversal performance ('Legendary Competition')]. Sports Chosun (in Korean). Retrieved January 15, 2022.
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