2AM

2AM

2AM at the Korea Food Expo. Left to right: Seulong, Changmin, Jo Kwon, Jinwoon.
Background information
Origin Seoul, South Korea
Genres Pop, R&B, Ballad, Soul
Years active 2008โ€“present
Labels JYP Entertainment
Ariola Japan
United Asia Management
Associated acts One Day
2PM
JYP Nation
Website http://2am.jype.com
http://2am.ibighit.com
Members
Jo Kwon
Jinwoon
Seulong
Changmin

2AM is a South Korean four-member ballad boy band under JYP Entertainment. The members are Jo Kwon, Jinwoon, Seulong, and Changmin. 2AM is one of the two subgroups branched out from the eleven-member (before Jaebeom's departure) boy band One Day, the other being 2PM. They officially debuted on July 11, 2008 on KBS's Music Bank, performing their debut song "This Song". They won their first Mutizen at Inkigayo on February 7, 2010 with "Can't Let You Go Even If I Die".

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History

Predebut

Along with the members of 2PM, 2AM appeared on the documentary Hot Blood that was aired on Mnet, documented their rigorous training program of their pre-debut days. Changmin was the only member of One Day to not appear in the documentary because he was serving in the military at that time. Initially, Jinwoon was eliminated on Hot Blood, but he ended up in 2AM due to Daehun's withdrawal from JYPE. Jo Kwon trained for 2567 days, 10 days past 7 years after joining JYPE.

2008โ€“2009 Debut

2AM's first single, "This Song", was released on July 21, 2008. They made their debut performance on July 11, 2008, performing their debut song "์ด ๋…ธ๋ž˜ (This Song)".[1]

2AM made a comeback with another single album, "Time For Confession", on March 19, 2009 with "์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ (Confession of a Friend)" being the title track.

2010โ€“Present: 1st Mini Album and Saint o'Clock

2AM made a comeback with a second album, "์ฃฝ์–ด๋„ ๋ชป ๋ณด๋‚ด", on January 21, 2010 with "์ฃฝ์–ด๋„ ๋ชป ๋ณด๋‚ด (Even If I Die I Can't Let You Go)" as the promoted track. In the week before the release, JYP Entertainment revealed a total of four teasers on their Youtube account. Along with a group teaser, the individual shots were based on the seasons. On February 7, 2010, 2AM won their first Mutizen award on Inkigayo since their debut. On February 25, 2010, their second win was on Mnet M! Countdown. They won a second Mutizen on their final day of promotions for "์ฃฝ์–ด๋„ ๋ชป ๋ณด๋‚ด (Even If I Die I Can't Let You Go)" on March 7, 2010.[2]

On March 5, 2010, 2AM revealed cuts of their new image through their official website. Jo Kwon, Changmin, Seulong, and Jinwoon respectively transformed to a club DJ, an ice hockey player, a biker, and a basketball player for their new 10 minute drama-music video. The repackaged mini album featured four additional songs, three from their first and second singles and one entirely new song titled "์ž˜๋ชปํ–ˆ์–ด (I Was Wrong)", which was their promoted track. One representative stated, โ€œThe song weโ€™re releasing is something that 2AM has never shown before and is a brand new type of musicโ€.[3] A portion of the song was revealed in the first episode of 2AM's new reality show 2AM DAY on March 10,[4] where the members playfully sing along to it in the car. Four teasers were released for each member from March 12 to March 14. A leaked version of Part 1 of the music video was released on March 15, having been recorded by camera at 2AM's subway showcase.[5] The album was released on March 18, 2010 and "I Was Wrong" won the Mnet M! Countdown on April 1, 2010.

From June 30, 2010 to July 20, 2010, 2AM opened for Wonder Girls on the second leg of Wonder Girls World Tour.[6] 2AM is also featured in Made in Wonder Girls.[7]

On October 26, 2010, 2AM released their first full-length album entitled Saint o'Clock, with "์ „ํ™œ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ (You Wouldn't Answer My Calls)" and "๋ฏธ์นœ ๋“ฏ์ด (Like Crazy)" as the promoted tracks.[8] The won a Mutizen award for "์ „ํ™œ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ (You Wouldn't Answer My Calls)" on Inkigayo on November 14.

Japan Debut

Following the Korean success of their 2010 album Saint o'Clock, 2AM recently announced their plans of releasing a JAPAN SPECIAL EDITION of the album on November 9. At the same press conference, they also announced that in January 2012, they will also be releasing their debut Japanese single "Never Let You Go (Shinde mo Hanasanai"), a Japanese version of the band's Korean single, "Even if I Die, I Can't Let You Go (์ฃฝ์–ด๋„ ๋ชป๋ณด๋‚ด)."[9]

Tours

2AM held their first concert entitled "Saint o'Clock" in Seoul at Korea University, Hwajeong Gym from December 24 to 26, 2010. 2AM serenaded the crowd with their hit songs such as "You Wouldn't Answer My Calls" and "Like Crazy". 2AM also performed a series of girl group medley such as Wonder Girls's "So Hot", 4minute's "Hot Issue" and miss A's "Bad Girl Good Girl". The crowd went crazy when 2AM danced to After School's "Bang!" as the boys are also dressed in aqua blue cheerleader outfits. For their solo stages, Changmin wowed the crowd with Tom Jones's "Sex Bomb" and also ripped his shirt. Seulong danced to "Beautiful Monster" and also revealed his chiseled abs. Jinwoon performed Muse's "Hysteria" with his electric guitar and Jo Kwon danced to Lady Gaga's hit song "Telephone". The guests for the three-day concert includes B2ST, 8eight, Lim Jeong Hee, IU and T-ara.

Other contributions

2AM endorsed up to $1 million for products commercials in early 2010,[10] including Pepsi[11] and BHC Chicken.[12] It was also announced that 2AM would be the new faces of Samsung's Dugeunduguen Tomorrow campaign with Kara, succeeding 4Tomorrow in 2009.[13]

In April 2010, they participated in the original soundtrack of drama series Personal Taste with a ballad titled "๋ฐ”๋ณด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ (Like A Fool)",[14] which also became a number one hit.[15]

2AM was chosen to represent Asia on Listen Up! The Official 2010 Fifa World Cup Album with the song titled "No. 1". The song was digitally released on May 18, 2010.[16] In October 2010, the band represented Korea and performed at the 7th Asia Song Festival, organised by Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange, at the Seoul Olympic Stadium.[17]

Members

Stage name Birth name Date of birth Position
Romanized Hanja Romanized Hangul
Changmin ๆ˜ถๆ—ป Lee Changmin ์ด์ฐฝ๋ฏผ May 1, 1986 (1986-05-01) (age 25) Main Vocalist, Rapper
Seulong ็‘Ÿ้› Im Seulong ์ž„์Šฌ์˜น May 11, 1987 (1987-05-11) (age 24) Vocalist
Jo Kwon ่ถ™ๆฌŠ Jo Kwon ์กฐ๊ถŒ August 28, 1989 (1989-08-28) (age 22) Leader, Lead Vocalist
Jinwoon ้Žฎไบ‘ Jung Jinwoon ์ •์ง„์šด May 2, 1991 (1991-05-02) (age 20) Vocalist, Main Rapper, Maknae

Members activity outside of the group

Seulong and Jo Kwon were part of "Dirty Eyed Girls" on an episode of 2PM's reality show Wild Bunny. The music video became extremely popular.[21]

Jo Kwon was paired with Brown Eyed Girls' member Ga In as an imaginary married couple on We Got Married Season II. Seulong and Jinwoon also make regular appearances as commentators on the show. Seulong debuted as an actor in drama series Personal Preference, which aired on March 31, 2010.[22] In June 2010, Seulong collaborated with IU for the song "์ž”์†Œ๋ฆฌ (Nagging)", which topped several online music charts.[23]

In 2010, Jo Kwon became a permanent member of Family Outing Season 2.[24] Jo Kwon was also casted in the upcoming MBC sitcom All My Love, which starts airing on November 8, 2010.[25]

Jinwoon was a part of Idol Maknae Rebellion ("์•„์ด๋Œ ๋ง‰๋‚ด๋ฐ˜๋ž€์‹œ๋Œ€"). Changmin starred in Immortal Song 2.

Jinwoon also starred in G.NA's music video for "Black & White", which was a hit.

Jinwoon released his solo song "LaLaLa" on July 25,2011 and revealed the music video for "You walking Toward Me" on August 7,2011

Changmin works with 8eight's Lee Hyun for collaboration unit named "Homme".

Discography

Studio albums

Mini Albums

Single albums

Tours

Concert participation

Awards

Year Award
2008
2010
2011

Music Programs

These are collection of 2AM wins on Korea's televised music shows. Inkigayo is aired on SBS, M! Countdown on Korean cable channel M.net.

Inkigayo

Year Date Song
2010 February 7 Can't Let You Go Even If I Die
March 7
November 14 You Wouldn't Answer My Calls

M! Countdown

Year Date Song
2010 February 25 Can't Let You Go Even If I Die
April 1 I Was Wrong

References

  1. ^ 2AM โ€˜์ด๋…ธ๋ž˜โ€™, ์งˆ๋Ÿฌ์ฐจํŠธ 2์ฃผ์งธ 1์œ„. Paran. September 25, 2008.
  2. ^ 2AM, SBS '์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€์š”' ์ •์ƒ ์žฌ ํƒˆํ™˜. EDaily.com. March 7th, 2010.
  3. ^ "2AM, '์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์•„' ์‹ ๊ณก ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์ปท ๊ณต๊ฐœ ". TVDaily.com. March 5, 2010.
  4. ^ 2AM ์ง์ ‘ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์˜์ƒ ์ „๊ฒฉ์œ ์ถœ โ€œ์ˆœ๋„ 100% ๋ฆฌ์–ผ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐโ€ Newsen. March 5, 2010.
  5. ^ 2AM โ€˜์ž˜๋ชปํ–ˆ์–ดโ€™ ๋ฎค์ง๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์บ ๋ฒ„์ „ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ์œ ์ถœ โ€˜์ถฉ๊ฒฉโ€™. Nate. March 18, 2010.
  6. ^ Wonder Girls World Tour 2010 (2nd leg)
  7. ^ Made In Wonder Girls
  8. ^ 2AM ์กฐ๊ถŒ โ€œ10๋…„์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ๋‹คโ€ ์ฒซ ์ •๊ทœ์•จ๋ฒ” ๋ฐœ๋งค. Newsen. October 26, 2010.
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  10. ^ ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ๋Œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ € ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์€ ์กฐ๊ถŒ์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„์ด ์‹ฌ์ƒ์น˜ ์•Š๋‹ค.. TV Daily. April 19, 2010.
  11. ^ 2PM vs 2AM, ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ์ฝœ๋ผ์ „์Ÿ?. SPORTS SEOUL. February 8, 2010.
  12. ^ 2AM, ์ฝ”๋ฏนCF ๊ด€์‹ฌํญ๋ฐœ โ€˜๊นจ๋ฐฉ์ • ๊ฐ์„ฑ๋Œ ๋–ด๋‹คโ€™. Newsen. April 20, 2010.
  13. ^ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์•„์ด๋Œ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ์นด๋ผ์™€ 2AM์ด ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ์— ๋™์ฐธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.. Chuno. April 20, 2010.
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  15. ^ 2AM โ€˜๋ฐ”๋ณด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผโ€™ ์Œ์•… ์ฐจํŠธ 1์œ„ ๋“ฑ๊ทน, ์ดํšจ๋ฆฌ 10์œ„ โ†“. Newsen. May 4, 2010.
  16. ^ 2AM, ์›”๋“œ์ปต ๊ณต์‹์•จ๋ฒ” ์•„์‹œ์•„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 'No.1'. Newsis. May 11, 2010.
  17. ^ KOFICE 7th Asia Song Festival 23 October 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-12
  18. ^ a b c d (Korean)"Saint o'clock: Profile". Big Hit Entertainment. http://2am.ibighit.com/. Retrieved October 28, 2010. 
  19. ^ (Korean)"๊ตฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์˜ˆ์ธ ๋ฌด๋ค? ์šฐ๋ฆด ํ‚ค์›Œ์ค€ ๊ฑด ่ป์ด์ฃ ". Donga. September 22, 2010. http://news.donga.com/3/all/20100921/31329002/1. Retrieved October 28, 2010. 
  20. ^ (Korean)"'๋ฎค์ง๋ฑ…ํฌ' ์ปด๋ฐฑ ์ž„์ •ํฌ-์กฐ๊ถŒ, '์™„๋ฒฝ ํ•˜๋ชจ๋‹ˆ+ํ™˜์ƒ์˜ ํ˜ธํก' '๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์…”'". Nate. October 1, 2010. http://news.nate.com/view/20101001n19646. Retrieved October 28, 2010. 
  21. ^ (Korean) โ€˜๋“œ์šด์•„์ด๋“œ๊ฑธ์Šค'์˜ '๋‹ค๋ถˆ์–ด๋•Œ ๋‹ค๋ถˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค'? ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋”” ํ™”์ œ (Dirty Eyed Girls' "It's Sung When it's All Sung"? Parody Sparks Conversation). Mydaily. August 26, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
  22. ^ "2AM ์ž„์Šฌ์˜น, '๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์ทจํ–ฅ'์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ์ž ๋ฐ๋ท”". Paran. March 2, 2010.
  23. ^ "์•„์ด์œ ์™€ 2AM ์Šฌ์˜น์˜ โ€˜์ž”์†Œ๋ฆฌโ€™๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์งํ›„ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ฐจํŠธ 1์œ„๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋Œํ’์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.". Review Star. June 4, 2010.
  24. ^ 'ํŒจ๋–ด2' ์ผ๊ณฑ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„โ€ฆ'๊น๊ถŒ' ์กฐ๊ถŒ ํ™•์ • ETODAY. January 19, 2010.
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  26. ^ (Korean)"2NE1, '2010 MAMA' 5๊ด€์™•..๊ฑธํŒŒ์›Œ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋‹ค(์ข…ํ•ฉ)". Nate. November 29, 2010. http://news.nate.com/view/20101129n00562. Retrieved November 29, 2010. 
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  30. ^ Winners from the 2011 Mnet 20โ€™s Choice Awards

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