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JxW
Jeonghan X Wonwoo (), also known as JxW, is the second sub-unit of South Korean boy band Seventeen, after BSS. Formed by Pledis Entertainment in 2024, the duo is composed of members Jeonghan and Wonwoo. JxW debuted on June 17, 2024, with the single album '' This Man''. Career 2023–2024: Formation and debut In December 2023, Jeonghan and Wonwoo were together featured in the 17th installment of ''Dispatch'' Korea's ''Dicon'' series with a pictorial and photobook titled "Just Two of Us". The pictorial was photographed by Less. On May 19, 2024, Pledis Entertainment revealed that Jeonghan and Wonwoo would form Seventeen's second sub-unit. On the same day, it was announced that the unit would release their first single album in June. On June 17, the duo released their debut single album '' This Man'', which contained three tracks, including the single "Last Night". The album surpassed more than 530,000 copies on the first day of its release. By the end of the first week, the album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonwoo
Jeon Won-woo (; born July 17, 1996), known mononymously as Wonwoo (), is a South Korean rapper and singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, its hip hop team, and its second subunit, JxW. Early life and education Jeon Wonwoo was born in Changwon, South Korea, on July 17, 1996. He attended the School of Performing Arts Seoul and graduated in 2015. Career 2011–2014: Pre-debut Wonwoo joined Pledis Entertainment in 2011, where he would undergo singing and dancing training for four years. As a trainee, he participated from the first season onwards of '' Seventeen TV'', an online reality show that introduced Pledis' trainees and showed potential members of the boy group Seventeen before their official debut. The show was broadcast periodically on Ustream, where the trainees showed themselves training, singing, creating choreographies and playing games. The online show also included participation in concerts, titled ''Like Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventeen (South Korean Band)
Seventeen (; stylized in all caps or as SVT) is a South Korean boy band formed by Pledis Entertainment. The group consists of thirteen members: S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua (singer), Joshua, Jun (Chinese entertainer), Jun, Hoshi (South Korean singer), Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK (singer), DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon (rapper), Vernon, and Dino (South Korean singer), Dino. Throughout their career, they have reached a large audience and grown into an internationally recognized K-pop group with signature music and performances. The group debuted on May 26, 2015, with the extended play (EP) ''17 Carat'', which became the longest-charting K-pop album of the year in the US and the only rookie album to appear on Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'''s "10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015" list. The group's 2023 EPs ''FML (EP), FML'' and ''Seventeenth Heaven'' both set records for the best-sold albums in history, with ''FML (EP), FML'' earning the group their first MAMA Award for Album of the Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeonghan
Yoon Jeong-han (, born 4 October 1995), known mononymously as Jeonghan, is a South Korean singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, its vocal team, and its second subunit, JxW. Early life and education Yoon Jeonghan was born in Hwaseong, South Korea, on 4 October 1995. He has a younger sister. Jeonghan attended and graduated in 2014 as a natural science major. In 2022, he enrolled in a master's degree at Anyang University, majoring in K-pop and business administration under the Department of Applied Music. Career 2012–2014: Pre-debut Jeonghan was scouted by Pledis Entertainment at a subway station. After passing auditions, Jeonghan joined Pledis in 2013 and went on to receive training for the next two years. He was regularly featured on '' Seventeen TV'', an online reality series that introduced Pledis' trainees as potential members of the then-upcoming boy group Seventeen, from its third season onward. The sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Man (single Album)
''This Man'' is the debut single album by Jeonghan x Wonwoo, a sub-unit of the South Korean boy band Seventeen. It was released on June 17, 2024, alongside its lead single "Last Night", featuring guitarist Park Ju-won, and currently holds the highest first-week sales record for an album released by a K-pop sub-unit. Background On May 19, 2024, Pledis Entertainment announced a new Seventeen sub-unit comprising group members Jeonghan and Wonwoo via a logo trailer and a video teaser entitled "The City", revealing news of their upcoming single album ''This Man''. This release marked the debut of Jeonghan x Wonwoo as Seventeen's second official sub-unit, after BSS' inception in 2018. Promotion and release Prior to its release, ''This Man'' was promoted with the staggered rollout of a scheduler video, various teaser clips, and a soundtrack film. On June 8, 2024, the album was revealed to be composed of three tracks: the lead single "Last Night", Jeonghan's solo track "Beautiful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Media
Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a Computer network, network for playback using a Media player (other), media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of Network packet, packets from a Server (computing), server to a client-server model, client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most commonly associated with multimedia from a remote server over the Internet, it also includes offline multimedia between devices on a local area network. For example, using DLNA and a home server, or in a personal area network between two devices using Bluetooth (which uses radio waves rather than Internet Protocol, IP). Online streaming was initially popularized by RealNetworks and Microsoft in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon Combined Albums Chart
The is a record chart released weekly by Oricon, a major provider of information on the Japanese music industry. First published on December 24, 2018, it ranks the top fifty albums through an album-equivalent unit, equivalent unit system based on physical CD sales, digital downloads, and the streaming of songs. The Oricon Albums Chart (active since 1987) only factors physical sales. The Combined Albums Chart competes with ''Billboard Japan'' Billboard Japan Hot Albums, Hot Albums, another multi-factor record chart. Methodology and history The Oricon Albums Chart was established in 1987 and ranks albums based on physical sales alone. Oricon established a downloads-only albums chart, the Digital Albums Chart, in November 2016. On August 29, 2018, Oricon announced that they would launch new charts combining their physical and digital albums/singles charts. The new charts would factor in CD sales, digital downloads, and streaming, like the Japan Hot 100 and Hot Albums charts publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of holding of uncompressed stereo audio. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc format to reach the market, following the larger LaserDisc (LD). In later years, the technology was adapted for computer data storage as CD-ROM and subsequently expanded into various writable and multimedia formats. , over 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs, and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide. Standard CDs have a diameter of and typically hold up to 74 minutes of audio or approximately of data. This was later regularly extended to 80 minutes or by reducing the spacing between data tracks, with some discs unofficially reaching up to 99 minutes or which falls outside established specifications. Smaller variants, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music 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. 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. 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. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circle 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. Founded in 2010, it is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recording Industry Association Of Japan
The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include promotion of music sales, enforcement of copyright law, and research related to the Japanese music industry. It publishes the annual ''RIAJ Year Book'', a statistical summary of each year's music sales, as well as distributing a variety of other data. Headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, the RIAJ has twenty member companies and a smaller number of associate and supporting members; some member companies are the Japanese branches of multinational corporations headquartered elsewhere. The association is responsible for certifying gold and platinum albums and singles in Japan. RIAJ Certification In 1989, the Recording Industry Association of Japan introduced the music recording certification systems. It is awarded based on shipment figures of comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
