8Eight
8Eight at the Cyworld Dream Music Festival in 2011 From left to right: Lee Hyun, Joo Hee and Baek Chan
8Eight at the Cyworld Dream Music Festival in 2011
From left to right: Lee Hyun, Joo Hee and Baek Chan
Background information
OriginSouth Korea
GenreK-pop
Years active
  • 2007โ€“2014
  • 2020
Labels
Members

8Eight (Korean: ์—์ดํŠธ) was a South Korean "hybrid" (meaning co-ed) trio group managed by Source Music and produced by Big Hit Entertainment, consisting of Lee Hyun, Joo Hee, and Baek Chan. Active from 2007 to 2014, their last single was "Don't Go Crazy".[1]

History

8Eight won the first season of the television series, MBCโ€™s Show Survival (์‡ผ ์„œ๋ฐ”์ด๋ฒŒ).[2] They debuted on MBCโ€™s Show! Music Core on August 25, 2007.

On October 8, 2012, member Lee Hyun enlisted for mandatory military service of five weeks of basic training followed by duty as an active soldier for 21 months.[3]

On September 19, 2014, the group released their final single "Don't Go Crazy".[1] They disbanded in December 2014, when contracts with Big Hit Entertainment[1] and Source Music expired.[4]

Members

  • Lee Hyun (์ดํ˜„) โ€“ male vocalist, leader
  • Joo Hee (์ฃผํฌ) โ€“ female vocalist
  • Baek Chan (๋ฐฑ์ฐฌ) โ€“ male vocalist, rapper

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[5]
The First
Track listing
  1. Forget Love and Sing (์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ์žƒ๊ณ  ๋‚œ ๋…ธ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋„ค)
  2. Can I Love Again (์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ)
  3. Going Insane (๋ฏธ์น˜๋‹ค)
  4. We Cannot Love (์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด์„  ์•ˆ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)
  5. If Only One Day Is Left (๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด) (feat. V.O.S)
  6. Come Back (๋Œ์•„์™€์ค˜)
  7. Hearing My Memory (์ถ”์–ต์ด ๋“ค๋ฆฐ๋‹ค)
  8. Listen (๋“ค์–ด์š”) (feat. Lim Jeong Hee & K.Will)
  9. Between (์‚ฌ์ด) (feat. Sunye & Yeeun of Wonder Girls and Pdogg)
  10. Love All Over the World (์„ธ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„)
 19
Infinity
  • Released: March 18, 2008
  • Label: Big Hit Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
Track listing
  1. Let Me Go
  2. I Love You
  3. Sometinโ€™ Sometinโ€™
  4. One Love
  5. Ask
  6. In The Morning
  7. She Be Here
  8. Me, Ju Hee
  9. One Step
  10. Hanging Your Collar
 N/a N/a
Golden Age
  • Released: March 10, 2009
  • Label: Big Hit Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
Track listing
  1. ์ž˜๊ฐ€์š” ๋‚ด์‚ฌ๋ž‘
  2. ์šธ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ์šฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ๊ฒ ์–ด
  3. ์ด์ œ ์Šฌํ”ˆ ๊ฑด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด
  4. ๋งˆ์ค‘
  5. ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์˜ ๋น›
  6. ๋ถˆ์Œํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฐ”๋ผ๊ธฐ
  7. ์ฐธ์ง€๋งˆ
  8. Numbers
  9. Canโ€™t Stop
  10. ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ
  11. ์ž์œ 
  12. Without A Heart (์‹ฌ์žฅ์ด ์—†์–ด)
"โ€”" denotes album did not chart.

Extended plays

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[7]
The Bridge
  • Released: May 11, 2010
  • Label: Big Hit Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. Intro : Love is going (์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ๊ฐ€๋„)
  2. The End is Coming (์ด๋ณ„์ด ์˜จ๋‹ค)
  3. Even if your face change (์–ผ๊ตด์ด ๋ฐ”๊ปด๋„)
  4. Star (feat. Changmin & Jinwoon of 2AM)
  5. Availability Period (์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„)
  6. Outro : The Bridge
 62 N/a
8Eight
  • Released: June 21, 2011
  • Label: Source Music[8]
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. Covering your mouth (๊ทธ ์ž…์ˆ ์„ ๋ง‰์•„๋ณธ๋‹ค)
  2. You're really great (๊ทธ๋Œ€๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•ด์š”)
  3. Even song can't cure sorrow (๋…ธ๋ž˜๋„ ์Šฌํ””์€ ๋ชป ๊ณ ์น˜๋„ค)
  4. U Make Me Feel Brand New
  5. Dilemma
 18

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
Gaon
[10] 		KOR
Hot 100
[11]
"I Can Hear the Memories" (์ถ”์–ต์ด ๋“ค๋ฆฐ๋‹ค) 2007 No data No data The First
"I Love You"
feat. Jessica of Girls' Generation 		2008 Infinity
"Dala Song"
with Park Ki-young & Horan 		Non-album singles
"Goodbye My Love" (์ž˜๊ฐ€์š” ๋‚ด์‚ฌ๋ž‘) 2009
"No One Cries Because They Want to Date"
(์šธ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ์šฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ๊ฒ ์–ด)
"Availability Period" (์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„) 2010 13 The Bridge
"You're Really Great" (๊ทธ๋Œ€๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•ด์š”) 2011 25 8Eight
"And...Someday" (์ธ๋ฐ์ด...๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ) 28 14 Re:Feel Theme
(Various artists compilation)
"Don't Go Crazy" (๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€๋ง์ž) 2014 13 No data Non-album singles
"Fool Again" (๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์— ์†๋‹ค) 2020 100

Soundtrack appearances

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
Gaon
[10] 		KOR
Hot 100
[11]
"My Sweet Seoul" (๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•œ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋„์‹œ) 2008 No data No data My Sweet Seoul OST
"One Person" (ํ•œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ) 2011 22 12 A Thousand Days' Promise OST
"Notebook" 2012 โ€” 58 Salamander Guru and The Shadows OST

Awards

Mnet Asian Music Awards

Year Category Work Result
2009 Best Mixed Gender Group "Without a Heart"[12] Won
2010 Best Group Vocal Performance "Farewell is Coming"[13] Nominated

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hybrid vocal trio 8Eight disbands after 7 years since debut". Koreaboo. December 20, 2014. Archived from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Choi Se-na (September 28, 2007). "'์‡ผ๋ฐ”์ด๋ฒŒ', ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž ํˆฌํ‘œ๋กœ ์ˆœ์œ„ ๊ฒฐ์ •" ['Show Survival', rank decided by viewers' vote]. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean).
  3. ^ Sunwoo, Carla (September 25, 2012). "8eight's Lee Hyun to enter the Army on Oct. 8". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
  4. ^ "[๋‹จ๋…]์—์ดํŠธ, 7๋…„๋งŒ์— ์ž ์ •์  ํ•ด์ฒด.."๊ฐ์ž ์Œ์•… ํ™œ๋™"". Star News (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 22, 2020. Retrieved June 1, 2021 – via Naver.
  5. ^ "K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  6. ^ "September 2007 K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  7. ^ "Gaon Album Chart" (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on August 27, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  8. ^ 8Eight - EP by 8Eight, June 21, 2011, archived from the original on June 4, 2021, retrieved June 1, 2021
  9. ^ "June 2011 Album Chart" (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  10. ^ a b "Gaon Digital Chart". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on March 9, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  11. ^ a b "8Eight Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  12. ^ "2009 M.net Korean Music Festival Winners list" Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. MAMA. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
  13. ^ Hicap, Jonathan M. (October 29, 2010). "Controversial Mnet Asian Music Awards bares nominees". Manila Bulletin. Manila Bulletin Publishing. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
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