Highlight (band)
| Highlight | |
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 Left to right: Yoon Doo-joon, Son Dong-woon, Lee Gi-kwang, Yang Yo-seob, Jang Hyun-seung, Yong Jun-hyung |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | K-pop |
| founding | 2009 as the Beast 2017 as the highlight |
| Website | aroundusent.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Yoon Doo-joon | |
| Son Dong-woon | |
| Yang Yo-seob | |
| Lee Gi-kwang | |
| former members | |
| Jang Hyun-seung | |
| Yong Jun-hyung | |
Highlight ( Kor . 하이라이트) is a boy band from South Korea . Until 2016 she was known as the Beast ( kor. 비스트 ) or B2ST . The original band name B2ST was an acronym for "Boys 2 Search for Top", but it was changed to BEAST for "Boys of East Asia Standing Tall".
history
The group was founded in 2009 under the management of Cube Entertainment . Their first mini-album Beast Is the B2ST was released on October 14, 2009. In February 2012 they gave their first concert in Germany in Berlin .
On April 19, 2016, Cube Entertainment announced that Jang Hyun-seung was leaving the band for personal reasons.
On December 15, 2016, Beast announced that they are no longer under the management of Cube Entertainment and have founded their own management (Around us Entertainment). The group has been known as Highlight since February 24, 2017. The name is based on the title of the last album as Beast without Jang Hyun-seung.
Highlight currently consists of four members: Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Son Dong-woon and Lee Gi-kwang.
Yong Jun-hyung left Highlight so as not to incriminate his fans and band members after it became known that he was involved in the Burning Sun scandal.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
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 KR
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 JP
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| 2011 | Fiction and Fact |
KR1 (... week) KR |
- |
First published: May 17, 2011
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| So beast |
KR28 (... weeks) KR |
JP3 (... weeks) JP |
First published: August 10, 2011
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| 2013 | Hard to love, how to love |
KR1 (... week) KR |
JP18 (... weeks) JP |
First published: July 19, 2013
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| 2016 | Guess Who? | - |
JP2 (... weeks) JP |
First published: March 16, 2016
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| Highlight |
KR1 (... week) KR |
- |
First published: July 2016
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EPs
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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KR
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JP
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| 2009 | Beast Is the B2ST |
KR7 (... weeks) KR |
- |
First published: October 14, 2009
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| 2010 | Shock of the New Era |
KR2 (... weeks) KR |
- |
First published: March 1, 2010
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| Mastermind |
KR2 (... weeks) KR |
- |
First published: September 30, 2010
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| Lights Go On Again |
KR1 (... week) KR |
- |
First published: November 9, 2010
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| My story | - | - |
First published: December 21, 2010
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| 2012 | Midnight Sun |
KR1 (... week) KR |
JP13 (... weeks) JP |
First published: July 22, 2012
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| 2014 | good luck |
KR1 (... week) KR |
JP43 (... weeks) JP |
First published: June 16, 2014
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| Time |
KR1 (... week) KR |
JP39 (... weeks) JP |
First published: October 20, 2014
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| 2015 | Ordinary |
KR1 (... week) KR |
JP40 (... wks.) JP |
First published: July 27, 2015
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| 2017 | Can You Feel It? |
KR1 (... week) KR |
JP59 (... weeks) JP |
First published: March 20, 2017
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Web links
- http://aroundusent.com/
- http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/7702064/k-pop-band-beast-changes-name-highlight
- https://www.soompi.com/article/1310237wpp/breaking-yong-junhyung-to-leave-highlight-following-recent-controversies
Individual evidence
- ↑ BEAST: Beautifully coiffed and well-behaved , Berliner Zeitung
- ↑ Jang Hyunseung leaves Beast due to conflict with band members. In: SBS PopAsia. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: KR JP