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Rec.
''Rec.'' (stylized as '' EC.'; read as "recording") is the debut solo extended play (EP) by South Korean singer Yuju. It was released by Konnect Entertainment on January 18, 2022. The album consists of five songs, including the title track " Play". This is her first solo release since she joined Konnect Entertainment after GFriend's disbandment. Background and release On September 1, 2021, following GFriend's disbandment and her departure from Source Music, Yuju signed an exclusive contract with Konnect Entertainment as a soloist. On January 3, 2022, it was reported that Yuju will debut on January 18 with the extended play titled '' EC.'. The following day, the schedule of the EP was released. Preorders began on January 5. On the same day, it was confirmed that the title track of the album is called "Play" and was written and composed by herself. On January 6, a concept film for the EP was published on Konnect Entertainment official YouTube YouTube is a global onlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuju (singer)
Choi Yu-na (; born October 4, 1997), better known by her stage name Yuju (), is a South Korean singer. She participated in various singing competitions and signed with Source Music in 2014. She is best known for being a former member of the South Korean girl group GFriend. Yuju is the first Korean female idol to be declared as the winner on ''Fantastic Duo 2''. Career 2011–2021: Pre-debut and career with GFriend In 2011, she competed in the first season of ''K-pop Star'', where she was eliminated in the first round. In January 2015, Yuju made her debut as a member of GFriend with the song "Glass Bead". A few months later the group released their second single, named " Me Gustas Tu". During the promotions of the song, while performing on a slippery stage, GFriend members fell on the stage eight times, gaining international attention. The group was praised for their professionalism, especially Yuju, who suffered a twisted finger during the performance. Their next song, " Roug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play (Yuju Song)
"Play" () is a song recorded by South Korean singer Yuju for her debut extended play '' Rec.''. It was released as the lead single on January 18, 2022, by Konnect Entertainment. The song was written by Yuju alongside Chancellor, Amelia Moore, and MZMC, composed by Yuju, Chancellor, and MZMC, and arranged by Pinkslip, Inverness, and MZMC. Background and release On January 3, 2022, Konnect Entertainment announced that Yuju will be making her solo debut with extended play '. The following day, the promotional schedule was released. On January 5, "Play" was announced as the lead single for the extended play, in the same announcement, Yuju was announced to have written the lyrics and composed the song. On January 12, the first teaser for the music video was released. On January 17, the second teaser for the music video was released. On January 18, the song along with the music video was released. Composition "Play" was written by Yuju alongside Chancellor, Amelia Moore, and MZMC, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konnect Entertainment
Konnect Entertainment (; stylized as KONNECT Entertainment) is an independent South Korean entertainment company founded on June 5, 2019 by Kang Daniel. The company is based in the Gangnam District of Seoul in South Korea. As of September 2021, Konnect fully manages solo artists Kang Daniel, Chancellor, and Yuju while domestically managing solo artist CL. It is also home to dance crew We Dem Boyz (WDBZ). History Konnect Entertainment was founded on June 5, 2019 as a one-man agency for and by Kang Daniel. The name "Konnect" is a fusion of the words "Korea" and "connect", which reveals his goal to connect Korea to the rest of the world through his future activities. Immediately after the disbandment of project boy group Wanna One, it was revealed that Kang was in a legal dispute with his former agency due to the transfer of his exclusive contract rights to third parties without his prior consent. This dispute resulted in his six-month hiatus from the entertainment industry unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O (EP) by South Korean singer Yuju. It was released by Konnect Entertainment on March 7, 2023, and contains five tracks, including the lead single "Without U".
''O'' is the second extended play An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. Background and release On February 14, 2023, Konnect Entertainment announced Yuju would be releasing her second extended play titled ''O'' on March 7, the promotional schedule was also released on the same day. On February 16, the mood teaser video was released. On February 27, the track listing was released with "Without U" announced as the lead single. On March 1, the highlight medley video was released. Two days later, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Album Chart
The Circle Album Chart, previously known as the Gaon Album Chart, is a record chart ranking the 100 most popular albums, extended plays and single albums in South Korea based on their Record sales, pure sales. It is a part of the Circle Chart, previously known as the Gaon Chart. It compiles shipments in weekly, monthly and year-end format with detailed album sales. History The Gaon Album Chart was launched as a part of the Gaon Chart in February 2010 by Korea Music Content Association and South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In February 2011, Gaon Chart published information on both online and offline albums sales of 2010, including a detailed breakdown of online chart data and was the first time that offline album sales was released since 2008 when the Music Industry Association of Korea stopped compiling data. In July 2022, Gaon Chart was rebranded as Circle Chart with reformation in the album chart that would also provide weekly physical album sales data in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Media
Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content itself. Distinguishing delivery method from the media applies specifically to telecommunications networks, as most of the traditional media delivery systems are either inherently ''streaming'' (e.g. radio, television) or inherently ''non-streaming'' (e.g. books, videotape, audio CDs). There are challenges with streaming content on the Internet. For example, users whose Internet connection lacks sufficient bandwidth may experience stops, lags, or poor buffering of the content, and users lacking compatible hardware or software systems may be unable to stream certain content. With the use of buffering of the content for just a few seconds in advance of playback, the quality can be much improved. Livestreaming is the real-time delivery of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Music Chart
The Circle Chart (), previously known as the Gaon Music Chart or the Gaon Chart (), tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in South Korea. It is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Founded in 2010. History Gaon Chart was launched in February 2010 by the Korea Music Content Association, under the sponsorship of the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with the aim to create a domestic national chart similar to the ''Billboard'' charts of the United States and the Oricon charts of Japan. The word ''gaon'', which means "middle" or "center" in Korean, was chosen to represent fairness and reliability. The chart started tracking sales from the beginning of that year. A small awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the launch ceremony on February 23, at the Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul. Girl group Girls' Generation was awarded the Top Artist of January, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancellor (musician)
Kim Jung-seung (; born October 22, 1986), better known by his stage name Chancellor (), is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Born in Seoul, his family immigrated to the United States in his youth where he lived until returning to South Korea in 2009. He debuted in the trio One Way the following year, which found little success. He partnered with Park Jang-geun to form the songwriting and production duo Duble Sidekick, which garnered success from 2012. Chancellor left the team two years later to pursue a solo career. He released his debut studio album ''My Full Name'' in 2016. Life and career Chancellor was born Kim Jung-seung on October 22, 1986, in Seoul, South Korea. He is the son of former Songgolmae bassist Kim Sang-bok. His family immigrated to Los Angeles, California, when he was five or six years old, where his father managed a restaurant. Influenced by his father's musical background, Chancellor took interest in music and enjoyed rapping, singing, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
