G-Dragon in Thailand, 2007. |
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| ↙Live albums | 1 | |
| ↙Singles | 8 | |
| ↙Music videos | 8 | |
| ↙Collaboration albums | 1 | |
Korean rapper G-Dragon began his career as the leader of the Korean hip-hop group Big Bang. His discography, as a solo artist, began in 2009 and includes one studio albums, one collaboration album, one live album, five singles as a lead artist, three as a featured artist, and four promotional singles.
In 2009, during the hiatus of Big Bang, G-Dragon released his debut solo album Heartbreaker, featuring collaborations with several artists, including Teddy of 1TYM, Taeyang, S-Kush, and CL and Dara of 2NE1. Propelled by its lead-single of the same name, an electronic pop song, the album sold over 248,000 copies[1] and went on to win Album of the Year from the 2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards.[2] The second single, "Breathe", manage to chart within the Top 20[3] while his other songs — "The Leaders", "A Boy", "Hello", and "She's Gone" — went on to top various charts upon their release.[4]
Aside from Big Bang, G-Dragon also made several solo appearances. After helping produce Taeyang's debut album, he recorded his own version of the album's lead single "Only Look At Me" (Korean: 나만바라봐; Revised Romanization: Naman Barabwa), titled as the part two version to the song. The single was released digitally. Along with Taeyang and T.O.P, G-Dragon was featured on singer Lexy's song "Super Fly" for her album Rush. In May 2009, he collaborated with the Japanese boy band W-inds. for their single, "Rain Is Fallin'/Hybrid Dream."[5][6]
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| 2010 | GD & TOP (with TOP)
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| 2010 | Shine a Light
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| 2007 | "This Love"[A] | — | 70 | Bigbang Vol.1 | |||||||||
| 2008 | "Naman Barabwa Part 2" | — | — | non-album release | |||||||||
| 2009 | But I Love U | — | 122 | Hot Issue | |||||||||
| 2010 | "High High" (with TOP) |
— | 1[12] | GD & TOP | |||||||||
| "Oh Yeah" (with TOP feat. Park Bom) |
— | 2[13] | |||||||||||
| "Knock Out" (with TOP)[12] |
— | 3[14] | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were released before the official records chart of Korea launched. | |||||||||||||
| Promotional singles | |||||||||||||
| Year | Title | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||
| JPN [8] |
KOR [7] |
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| 2009 | "Heartbreaker" | — | 1 | Heartbreaker | |||||||||
| "Breathe" | — | 20 | |||||||||||
| "Butterfly" | — | 158 | |||||||||||
| "Sonyeoniyeo" | — | 98 | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were released before the official records chart of Korea launched. | |||||||||||||
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| Year | Title | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||
| JPN [8] |
KOR [7] |
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| 2007 | "Super Fly" (with Lexy, T.O.P, and Taeyang) |
— | — | Another World | |||||||||
| 2009 | "Rain is Fallin'/Hybrid Dream" (with W-inds) |
2 | — | Rush | |||||||||
| 2010 | "I Need a Girl" (with Taeyang) |
— | 4 | Solar | |||||||||
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| 2009 | "The Leaders" (Feat. Teddy Park, CL) | 138 | Heartbreaker | ||||||||||
| "Hello" (Feat. Sandara Park)[B] | 144 | ||||||||||||
| "She's Gone" (Feat. Kush) | 136 | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | "Heartbreaker" (feat. Flo Rida) | 8 | Shine A Light | ||||||||||
| "Korean Dream" (Feat. Taeyang) | 146 | ||||||||||||
| "Gossip Man" | 153 | ||||||||||||
| "1 Year Station" | 160 | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were released before the official records chart of Korea launched. | |||||||||||||
| Year | Title | Director |
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| 2006 | "This Love" (G-Dragon solo) | |
| 2009 | "Heartbreaker" | Seo Hyunseung[15] |
| "Breathe" | ||
| "Butterfly" | Kim Hyejung[16] | |
| "Sonyeoniyeo" | Lee Gibaek[17] | |
| 2010 | "Heartbreaker" (concert version) | |
| "I Need a Girl" (Taeyang feat. G-Dragon) | ||
| "High High" (with TOP) | ||
| "Knock Out" (with TOP) | ||
| 2011 | "Baby Good Night" (with TOP) | |
| 2011 | "Don't Go Home" (with TOP) | |
| 2011 | "Oh Yeah!" (with TOP and Park Bom) |
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