8Turn
8Turn in January 2024 Top Row: Minho, Kyungmin, Haemin Bottom Row: Jaeyun, Seungheon, Yungyu, Yoonsung, Myungho
8Turn in January 2024
Top Row: Minho, Kyungmin, Haemin
Bottom Row: Jaeyun, Seungheon, Yungyu, Yoonsung, Myungho
Background information
OriginSeoul, South Korea
GenreK-pop
Years active2023โ€“present
LabelMNH
Members
  • Myungho
  • Jaeyun
  • Minho
  • Yoonsung
  • Haemin
  • Kyungmin
  • Yungyu
  • Seungheon

8Turn (Korean: ์—์ž‡ํ„ด; stylized in all caps) is a South Korean boy band formed by MNH Entertainment. The group consists of eight members: Myungho, Jaeyun, Minho, Yoonsung, Haemin, Kyungmin, Yungyu, and Seungheon. They debuted on January 30, 2023, with the extended play (EP) 8Turnrise.

History

Pre-debut

Jaeyun was a contestant on Mnet's survival show Boys24 under the name Alex Moon. However, he was eliminated in episode 8.[1][2] He later joined Liveworks Company and participated in the JTBC's survival reality series Mix Nine. He was eliminated in episode 10 after ranking 50th place.[3]

Kyungmin was a contestant on Mnet's survival show I-Land.[2] He was eliminated in the first part of the show.[1]

2023โ€“present: Debut with 8TurnRise, Uncharted Drift and Stunning

On January 2, 2023, MNH Entertainment announced the official debut of their first boy group by posting a logo motion video along with the opening of the official social media account of '8Turn'.[4] The next day, 8Turn announced the release of their first extended play, 8Turnrise. It was released digitally on January 30, 2023 and physically on February 6, 2023.[5][6]

On June 26, 8Turn released their second extended play Uncharted Drift, with their title track "Excel".[7]

Members

  • Myungho (๋ช…ํ˜ธ)
  • Jaeyun (์žฌ์œค) โ€“ leader[8]
  • Minho (๋ฏผํ˜ธ)
  • Yoonsung (์œค์„ฑ)
  • Haemin (ํ•ด๋ฏผ)
  • Kyungmin (๊ฒฝ๋ฏผ)
  • Yungyu (์œค๊ทœ)
  • Seungheon (์Šนํ—Œ)

Discography

Extended plays

Title Details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[9]
8Turnrise
Track listing
  1. "We"
  2. "Tic Tac"
  3. "Wonder"
  4. "Say My Name"
  5. "Heartache"
 13
Uncharted Drift
  • Released: June 26, 2023
  • Label: MNH Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "World"
  2. "Excel"
  3. "Walk It Out"
  4. "Sketch"
  5. "Ing"
 18
Stunning
  • Released: January 9, 2024
  • Label: MNH Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "The Game"
  2. "Ru-Pum Pum"
  3. "Nom"
  4. "We Here"
  5. "Glow"
 3

Single albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[9]
Leggo
  • Released: March 4, 2025
  • Label: MNH Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "Leggo"
  2. "I Want You Now"
 6
Electric Heart: Born to Glow
(Electric Heart: ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚ )
  • Released: August 21, 2025
  • Label: MNH Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "Electric Heart"
  2. "Close to Me"
 6
8.X
  • Released: July 21, 2026
  • Label: MNH Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
 4

Singles

Title Year Peak chart position Album
KOR
Down.
[16]
"Tic Tac" 2023 126 8Turnrise
"Excel" 156 Uncharted Drift
"Ru-Pum Pum" 2024 โ€” Stunning
"Like a Friend" โ€” Non-album singles
"Leggo" 2025 176 Leggo
"Electric Heart" โ€” Electric Heart: Born to Glow
"Bruise" 2026 90 Non-album single
"Stagefright" 121 8.X

Other charted songs

List of singles, showing year released, chart positions, and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
Down.
[17]
"Say My Name" 2023 191 8Turnrise
"Wonder" 196
"Heartache" 198
"We" 199

Videography

Music videos

Title Year Director Ref.
"Tic Tac" 2023 Paradox Child [18]
"WE" (Performance Video) Swisher [19]
"Excel" [20]
"Ru-Pum Pum" 2024 Hong Juyeon
(HIGHQUALITYFISH) 		N/a

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, award category, nominee(s) of the award, and the result of the nomination
Award ceremony Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
Hanteo Music Awards 2023 Rookie of the Year โ€“ Male 8Turn Nominated [21]
Blooming Performance Group Won [22]
MAMA Awards 2024 Fans' Choice Top 10 โ€“ Male Nominated [23]
Seoul Music Awards 2023 Rookie of the Year Nominated [24]

References

  1. ^ a b "์ฒญํ•˜ ๋‚จ๋™์ƒ๊ทธ๋ฃน, 1์›” ๋ฐ๋ท”...์•„์ด๋žœ๋“œยท์†Œ๋…„24 ์ถœ์‹  8๋ช…". Newsis (in Korean). December 20, 2022. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "MNH ์ฒซ ๋ณด์ด๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ฉค๋ฒ„, '์†Œ๋…„24'ยท'์•„์ด๋žœ๋“œ' ์ถœ์‹  ์žฌ์œค ๊ฒฝ๋ฏผ(๊ณต์‹)". JoyNews 24 (in Korean). December 27, 2022. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
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  6. ^ "์—์ž‡ํ„ด, ์ด๋‹ฌ 30์ผ '์—์ž‡ํ„ด๋ผ์ด์ฆˆ'๋กœ ๋ฐ๋ท”..."๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ "". Newsis (in Korean). January 4, 2023. Archived from the original on January 4, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  7. ^ ์—์ž‡ํ„ด, 6์›” 26์ผ ์ปด๋ฐฑ ํ™•์ •..๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค [๊ณต์‹]. OSEN (in Korean). May 27, 2023. Archived from the original on May 27, 2023. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  8. ^ "MNH ์ฒซ ๋ณด์ด๊ทธ๋ฃน ํŒ€๋ช…=8TURN(์—์ž‡ํ„ด)...๊ฐ•๋ ฌ ์˜คํ”ผ์…œ ๋กœ๊ณ  ๋ชจ์…˜ ๊ณต๊ฐœ". Maeil Broadcasting Network (in Korean). January 2, 2023. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  9. ^ a b Peak chart position on Circle Album Chart:
    • "8Turnrise". February 5โ€“11, 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
    • "Uncharted Drift". June 25 โ€“ July 1, 2023. Archived from the original on July 6, 2023. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
    • "Stunning". January 7โ€“13, 2024. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
    • "Leggo". March 2โ€“8, 2025. Retrieved March 13, 2025.
    • "Electric Heart: Born to Glow". August 17โ€“23, 2025. Retrieved August 28, 2025.
    • "8.X". July 19โ€“25, 2026. Retrieved July 30, 2026.
  10. ^ Cumulative sales for 8Turnrise:
  11. ^ Cumulative sales of Uncharted Drift:
  12. ^ Cumulative sales of Stunning:
  13. ^ "Circle Album Chart โ€“ March, 2025". Circle Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 10, 2025. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
  14. ^ Cumulative Sales of Electric Heart: ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚ :
  15. ^ "Circle Album Chart โ€“ Week 30, 2026". Circle Chart (in Korean). Retrieved July 30, 2026.
  16. ^ Peaks on the Circle Download Chart:
  17. ^ Peaks on the Circle Download Chart:
  18. ^ "8TURN - 'TIC TAC' M/V". February 6, 2023. Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  19. ^ "8TURN - WE". February 28, 2023. Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  20. ^ "8Turn Uncharted Drift album unboxing". Photobook credits page time stamp 5:26. July 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
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  22. ^ Jang, Woo-young (February 18, 2024). "'ํ•œํ„ฐ๋ฎค์ง์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ' NCT DREAMโ†’์•„์ด๋ธŒ ๋Œ€์ƒ ์˜์˜ˆ..์—์ŠคํŒŒ๋Š” 3๊ด€์™• [์ข…ํ•ฉ]" ['Hanteo Music Awards' NCT DREAM โ†’ IVE Grand Prize winners..Aespa wins 3 awards [Full Story]]. OSEN (in Korean). Archived from the original on February 18, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024 – via The Chosun Ilbo.
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  24. ^ Jeong, Ha-eun (January 3, 2024). ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ฒซ ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ฐœ์ตœ, ๋Œ€์ƒ์€ ์—”์‹œํ‹ฐ ๋“œ๋ฆผ โ€œ2๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ์ˆ˜์ƒ ์˜๊ด‘...์‹œ์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ ๋•๋ถ„โ€[์ œ33ํšŒ ์„œ์šธ๊ฐ€์š”๋Œ€์ƒ] [Held overseas for the first time in history, the grand prize was awarded by NCT Dream "Honored to be awarded for the second year in a row...Thanks to Czennies" [The 33rd Seoul Music Awards]] (in Korean). Sports Seoul. Retrieved January 3, 2024 – via Naver.