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| ๐ Digital cover of B.D.U's extended play, Wishpool. Digital cover | |
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| Released | June 26, 2024 (2024-06-26) |
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| Length | 16:31 |
| Language | Korean |
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| Producer | Pdogg |
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Wishpool is the debut extended play by South Korean boy group B.D.U. It was released on June 26, 2024, through Orca Music and Genie Music. The EP contains five tracks with the single "My One".
Background
[edit]B.D.U was formed through Build Up: Vocal Boy Group Survival, a reality competition show which aired from January 26, to March 29, 2024.[2] Member Jay Chang who selected Bitsaeon, Seunghun, and Kim Min-seo, formed HunMinJayBit from episode 7 until the finale and eventually won the show which broadcast live on March 29, and would debut under the project group's name B.D.U (abbreviation for Boys Define Universe).[3][4] They would also carry out various activities such as releasing music and albums for two years, as well as domestic and global tours.[4]
In a recent interviews with various media companies from April to May 2024, the quartet announced that they were already in full-scale preparing for their debut and member Seunghun said that they also aimed to release the two album within this year.[5]
On June 10, 2024, Orca Music announced that B.D.U is set to release their debut EP Wishpool on June 26.[6]
Release and promotion
[edit]On June 12, 2024, Orca released the scheduler poster of B.D.U on the group's social media accounts.[7] On June 14, the tracklist was released with a total of five tracks including the lead single "My One" and an English version of it. "My One" was produced by Pdogg who is the exclusive producer of Big Hit Music and the creator of many hit songs by BTS.[8] Concept Photos 1โ5 were released from June 17โ21, along with the album details and pre-order period.[9][10] On June 22, B.D.U released the highlight medley of all the tracks from the EP.[11] Teasers for "My One" were released on June 24 and 25, showing short parts of the music video.[12][13]
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Four hours prior to its release on June 26, B.D.U held a media showcase at Yes24 Wonderlock Hall in Changjeon-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul for the EP.[14] The EP release was accompanied by a music video for "My One" on the same day, which featured three ladies who symbolized their fans.[15] In addition, the group will embark on a world tour titled "Tour for Wishpool: Flash & Light" on 24 cities across Americas and Europe.[16]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Production/Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "My One" |
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| Pdogg | 3:08 |
| 2. | "Everlasting Miracle" (๋ณํจ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ) |
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| 4:25 |
| 3. | "Forget All" (๋ค ์์ด) | VIP | VIP | VIP | 2:59 |
| 4. | "Ah-Ooh!" | Kang Min-seo |
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| 2:51 |
| 5. | "My One" (English version) |
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| Pdogg | 3:08 |
| Total length: | 16:31 | ||||
Charts
[edit]| Chart (2024) | Peak position |
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| South Korean Albums (Circle)[17] | 13 |
Release history
[edit]| Region | Date | Format | Label |
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| South Korea | June 26, 2024 |
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| Various |
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References
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- Ji, Min-kyung (April 25, 2024). B.D.U "'๋น๋์ ' ์ฐ์น, ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง ์์..1์ต ์๊ธ์ ์ ์ถํ ๊ฒ" [์ธํฐ๋ทฐโ ] [B.D.U "We can't believe we won 'Build Up'...We will save the 100 million won prize money" [Interviewโ ]] (in Korean). Osen. Archived from the original on July 3, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- Kwak, Hyun-soo (April 25, 2024). [Yํฐ๋ทฐ] B.D.U "ํฌ๋ค์ด ๋น๋นํ๊ฒ ์ถ์ฒํ ์ ์๋ ํ ๋ ๋์" [[Y Interview] B.D.U "We will become a team that fans can confidently recommend"] (in Korean). YTN. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- Kim, Ji-hye (April 26, 2024). "์ธ์์์ ์ฒซ 1์" B.D.U, ์๋ฐ์ด๋ฒ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ง์ด ํ์๋ฆฌ์ [IS์ธํฐ๋ทฐ] ["For the first time in my life," B.D.U. experienced survival workers all in one place [IS Interview]] (in Korean). Ilgan Sports. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- Chu, Seung-hyun (April 28, 2024). [์ธํฐ๋ทฐ]๋ณด์ปฌ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋น๋์ , ๊ฐ์ ํจ์ผ๋ก '๋น๋์ 'ํ ์์ฌ [[Interview] Vocal group B.D.U, a narrative 'Build Up' with earnestness] (in Korean). Newsis. Archived from the original on May 22, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- Kang, Joo-il (May 3, 2024). ์ฒซ '์ผ์ด์ฝ' ๊ฐ๋ ๋น๋์ (B.D.U) "3๋ง ๋ช ์ ๋ฌด๋, ์ค๋ ์"[์ธํฐ๋ทฐโ ] [B.D.U going to 'KCON' for the first time "We're excited to be on stage in front of 30,000 people" [Interview โ ]] (in Korean). Sports Kyunghyang. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- Kim, Hyun-sik (May 6, 2024). B.D.U, ๋น๋ฐ ํนํ ๋ '๋น๋์ ' ์ฐ์น..."Kํ ๋ํ ๋ณด์ปฌ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ ๊ฒ์"[์ธํฐ๋ทฐ] [B.D.U wins 'Build Up' after secret special training..."We will become a representative K-pop vocal group" [Interview]] (in Korean). E Daily. Archived from the original on May 22, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 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). E Daily. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024. Retrieved June 26, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Jang, Jin-ri (June 12, 2024). '๋น๋์ ์ฐ์น' ๋น๋์ , ์ค์ผ์ค๋ฌ ๊ณต๊ฐ...'๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ณด์ปฌ๋' ๋ฐ๋ท ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด ['Build Up winner' B.D.U reveals scheduler...'Global Vocal Idol' Debut Countdown] (in Korean). SPOTV News. Archived from the original on June 20, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Shin, Ah-ram (June 14, 2024). ๋น๋์ 'Wishpool' ํธ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ ๊ณต๊ฐ...ํ์ดํ๊ณก 'My One' ํ์ [BDU 'Wishpool' tracklist revealed...Title song 'My One' confirmed] (in Korean). Celuv Media. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Nate.
- ^ Kim, Soo-jin (June 19, 2024). '๋น๋์ ์ฐ์น' ๋น๋์ , 26์ผ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฏธ๋ ์จ๋ฒ 'Wishpool' ๋ฐ๋ท ['Build Up winner' B.D.U debuts first mini album 'Wishpool' on the 26th] (in Korean). Star News. Archived from the original on June 20, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ "B.D.U 1st Mini Album [Wishpool] specifications & pre-order". Mnet Plus. June 17, 2024. Archived from the original on June 17, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
- ^ Kim, Soo-jin (June 22, 2024). ๋น๋์ , 'Wishpool' ํ์ด๋ผ์ดํธ ๋ฉ๋ค๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ฐ..'BTS ํ๋ก๋์' ํผ๋ ํ๋ก๋์ฑ [BDU releases highlight medley of 'Wishpool'..Produced by 'BTS producer' Pdogg] (in Korean). Star News. Archived from the original on June 26, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim, Soo-jin (June 24, 2024). '๋น๋์ ์ฐ์น' ๋น๋์ , ๋ฐ๋ท๊ณก 'My One' MV ํฐ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ..'์ต๊ฐ ๋ณด์ปฌ๋' ['Build Up winner' B.D.U releases MV teaser for debut song 'My One'...'Best vocal idol'] (in Korean). Star News. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
- ^ Myung, Hee-sook (June 25, 2024). ๋น๋์ , 'BTS ํ๋ก๋์' ํผ๋ ํ๋ก๋์ฑ '์ถ๊ฒฉ ์ค๋น ์๋ฃ' [B.D.U, 'BTS producer' Pdogg producing 'ready to go'] (in Korean). Xports News. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024 โ via Naver.
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