High4
OriginSeoul, South Korea
Genres
Years active2014โ€“2017
LabelsN.A.P
Spinoffs
  • High4 20/20Wave
Past members
  • Sunggu
  • Alex
  • Myunghan
  • Youngjun
Websitenapenter.com

High4 (Korean: ํ•˜์ดํฌ; stylized as HIGH4) was a South Korean boy band under the management of N.A.P Entertainment. The group consisted of members Alex, Myunghan, and Youngjun. They officially debuted into the Korean entertainment industry on April 8, 2014 with the song "Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms" featuring IU. On January 31, 2017, it was announced that leader Sunggu would be leaving the group.[1]

On August 16, 2017, Alex announced on his Instagram live that the members have gone their separate ways and they would have their own solo activities, confirming the disbandment of High4.

Members

Former

  • Sunggu (์„ฑ๊ตฌ)
  • Alex (์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค)
  • Myunghan (๋ช…ํ•œ)
  • Youngjun (์˜์ค€)

Discography

Extended plays

Title Album Details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[2] 		JPN
[3]
Korean
Hi High
Track listing
  1. Say Yes
  2. Headache (๋ฑ…๋ฑ…๋ฑ…)
  3. True Love
  4. Time Out
  5. A Little Closer (ํ•ด์š” ๋ง๊ณ  ํ•ด) feat. Lim Kim
  6. Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms (๋ด„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ ๋ง๊ณ ) with IU
 12 N/a
Blessed
  • Released: February 28, 2017
  • Label: N.A.P. Entertainment, LOEN Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. Live, Love, Life intro
  2. Love Line
  3. Ooh Girl
  4. Pray (๊ธฐ๋„ํ•ด)
  5. Last Summer (๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์—†์„ ๋ฟ์ธ๋ฐ)
 6
Japanese
High Five
  • Released: February 8, 2015
  • Label: N.A.P. Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. Day By Day (Japanese ver.)
  2. Headache (Japanese ver.)
  3. A Little Closer feat. Lim Kim
  4. Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms feat. IU
  5. Day By Day
  6. Headache
 N/a โ€” N/a
Hi Summer
  • Released: July 11, 2015
  • Label: N.A.P. Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. Baby Boy (Japanese ver.)
  2. True Love (Japanese ver.)
  3. Day By Day (Japanese ver.)
  4. Baby Boy
  5. True Love
  6. Day By Day inst.
 โ€”
"โ€”" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Single albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[2]
HookGA
(as High4:20)
  • Released: October 3, 2016
  • Label: N.A.P Entertainment, LOEN Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. HookGA (Hook๊ฐ€)feat. Hwasa
  2. Weekend
 10

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Sales Album
KOR
[7] 		KOR
Hot
[8] 		US
World
[9]
"Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms" (๋ด„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ ๋ง๊ณ ) (feat. IU) 2014 1 1 21 Hi High
"A Little Closer" (ํ•ด์š” ๋ง๊ณ  ํ•ด) (with Lim Kim) 29 โ€” โ€”
"Headache" (๋ฑ…๋ฑ…๋ฑ…) 171 โ€” โ€”
"Day by Day" (๋น„์Šทํ•ด) 2015 โ€” โ€” โ€” Non-album singles
"Baby Boy" โ€” โ€” โ€”
"D.O.A. (Dead or Alive)" โ€” โ€” โ€”
"Until We Live in the Same Sky" (ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ํ•˜๋Š˜์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‚ ๊นŒ์ง€) 2016 โ€” โ€” โ€”
"Love Line" 2017 โ€” โ€” โ€” Blessed
HIGH4:20 / 20WAVE
(sub-unit)
"HookGA" (as High4:20, feat. Hwasa) 2016 โ€” โ€” โ€” HookGA
"Boomerang"
(as 20Wave) 		2024 โ€” โ€” โ€” Boomerang
"โ€”" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Awards and nominations

Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Gaon Chart Music Awards 2015 Song of the Year โ€“ April "Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms" (feat. IU) Nominated
Golden Disc Awards 2015 Digital Song Bonsang Nominated [15]
Rookie of the Year Nominated
Melon Music Awards 2014 Best Ballad Nominated [16]
Hot Trend Award Nominated

Music programs win

Inkigayo

Year Date Song
2014 May 11 "Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms" [17]

Notes

References

  1. ^ "ํ•˜์ดํฌ ์„ฑ๊ตฌ, ํŒ€ ํƒˆํ‡ดโ€ฆ3์›” ์•„์‰ฌ์šด ๊ตฟ๋ฐ”์ด" (in Korean). Korea Daily. Archived from the original on 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  2. ^ a b "Gaon Album Chart" (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2015-08-27.
  3. ^ "Oricon Chart" (in Japanese). Oricon Music Chart.
  4. ^ "2014๋…„ 09์›” Album Chart".
  5. ^ "2017๋…„ 01์›” Album Chart".
  6. ^ "2016๋…„ 10์›” Album Chart".
  7. ^ "Gaon Digital Chart". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  8. ^ "Korea K-Pop Hot 100". Billboard. May 10, 2014. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  9. ^ "World Digital Song Sales". Billboard. April 26, 2014. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  10. ^ Cumulative sales of "Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms"":
  11. ^ Cumulative sales of "A Little Closer":
  12. ^ 2014๋…„ 08์›” Download Chart [August 2016 Download Chart]. Gaon Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  13. ^ 2015๋…„ 02์ฃผ์ฐจ Download Chart [Week 2 of 2015 Download Chart]. Gaon Chart (in Korean). Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  14. ^ 2015๋…„ 24์ฃผ์ฐจ Download Chart [Week 24 of 2015 Download Chart]. Gaon Chart (in Korean). p. 3. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  15. ^ "'2014 ๊ณจ๋“ '์Œ์› ๋ณธ์ƒ ํ›„๋ณดโ‘ฅ godยทHIGH4 '4~5์›” ์ฐจํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด'" [2014 Golden Disc bonsang nominees โ‘ฅ god and HIGH4: 'Take care of the April-May chart']. JTBC News (in Korean). 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  16. ^ "[๋ฉœ๋ก ๋ฎค์ง์–ด์›Œ๋“œ] ์— ์”จ๋”๋งฅ์Šค '๊ทธ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๋‹ค', ๋ฐœ๋ผ๋“œ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ˆ˜์ƒ" [[Melon Music Awards] M.C The Max's 'Wind that Blows' wins Ballad Award]. Star Today (in Korean). 2014-11-13. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  17. ^ "HIGH4 and IU win #1 on 'Inkigayo' with 'Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms'". May 14, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.