CNBLUE
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A pop rock band that conquered Japan before Korea, and they are three now. Proof you can win a music show 15 days after debut and still keep playing your own instruments.
- Members
- 3
- Debut
- 2010 (16 years)
- Generation
- 2nd gen (2004 to 2011)
- Label
- FNC
Start with: Can't Stop
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Achievements
- Won on Music Bank and Inkigayo only 15 days after their Korean debut, the shortest time to a music show win at that point
- Debut EP Bluetory (2010) stayed at the top of the Gaon Album Chart for two weeks
- "Where You Are" (2012) topped the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, making them the first foreign band to do so since 1971
- Japanese debut album Code Name Blue (2012) reached number one on the daily and weekly Oricon Albums Charts, a first for a Korean group's debut album
- Re:Blue (2013) topped the Gaon Album Chart for two weeks with 126,000 copies sold
Timeline
- 2009Japanese debut on August 19 with the EP Now or Never; Lee Jung-shin replaces bassist Kwon Kwang-jin
- 2010Korean debut on January 14 with Bluetory and "I'm a Loner"
- 2011First Korean album First Step; major Japanese debut under Warner Music Japan with "In My Head"
- 2013Blue Moon World Tour starts in Taiwan
- 2018Hiatus for military service after the release of Best of CNBLUE / OUR BOOK [2011-2018]
- 2019Lee Jong-hyun leaves the band
- 2020The three remaining members renew their contracts and release Re-Code
- 2026Third Korean studio album 3logy released in January, followed by a second world tour
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