F.T. Island

F.T. Island
FTISLAND in February 2012. From left to right: Seung-hyun, Jae-jin, Min-hwan, Hong-gi & Jong-hoon
Background information
Also known as	Five Treasure Island
Origin	Seoul, South Korea
Genres	Rock Indie rock Pop rock Korean rock
Years active	2007 (2007)–present
Labels	FNC Entertainment CJ E&M Music and Live (Korea) AI Entertainment Warner Music Group (Japan)
Associated acts	F.T. Triple
Website	fncent.com/ftisland/ (Korean) ftisland-official.jp (Japanese)
Members	Choi Jong-hoon Lee Hong-gi Lee Jae Jin Choi Min-hwan Song Seung-hyun
Past members	Oh Won-bin

F.T. Island (Korean: 에프티 아일랜드, Japanese: エフティー・アイランド; stylized as FTISLAND), short for Five Treasure Island, is a five-member South Korean pop rock band formed by FNC Entertainment in 2007. The band consists of Choi Jong-hoon (leader, guitar, and keyboard), Lee Hong-gi (main vocals), Lee Jae-jin (bass and 2nd vocals), Song Seung-hyun (guitar, vocals, and rap) replacing Oh Won-bin in 2009, and Choi Min-hwan (drums and sub vocalist). On the other hand, F.T. Triple (A3), a sub-group of F.T. Island consisted of Jong-hoon, Jae-jin and Min-hwan, and has been inactive since 2012. F.T. Triple has released singles and sang soundtracks for dramas such as Master of Study.

F.T. Island debuted in Korea on June 7, 2007, with the song, "Love Sick" on the music television program, M Countdown and debuted in Japan three years later, on May 19, 2010, with "Flower Rock". F.T. Triple's first single was "Love Letter", which was published on YouTube on 22 August 2012. The band then promoted the single on various music programmes in Korea. Main vocalist Hong-gi made his solo debut in both Korea and Japan with a mini album and a full album respectively. The Korean album was titled as FM302, and the album was released on 18 November 2015, while the Japanese album was titled as AM302, which was also released on 9 December 2015.

F.T. Island has released fourteen full-length albums, eight mini-albums, a number of singles and soundtrack productions for different drama theme songs and anime openings. F.T. Island is considered to be South Korea's first instrumental idol band. Their debut album, titled Cheerful Sensibility was the sixth best-selling album in 2007. Their debut song "Lovesick" topped the K-Pop charts for eight consecutive weeks. They are also the first Foreign Male Band to top the Oricon Daily Charts, which is the first band to top it in 42 years.

They had also won various prestigious awards such as the Golden Disk Awards and Seoul Music Awards.

History

2007: Debut and Cheerful Sensibility

F.T. Island's first album, Cheerful Sensibility, was released on June 7, 2007. Prior to that, the members appeared on the Korean television show "Wanna be my girlfriend?" (Korean: 두근두근 여친만들기) on Mnet (TV channel). The band also performed live on stage at Rolling Hall and held their first official showcase at Live House Melon-AX, Gwangjang-dong in Seoul on May 27, 2007.

The album combined 13 songs that were loosely divided into two parts, "Emotional Chapter" and "F.T. Island Chapter", which was according to the genre of the songs. The "Emotional Chapter" consists of rock ballads, while the "F.T. Island Chapter" was produced by Japanese composers who worked with the Japanese band SMAP, who composed a variety of pop rock songs. Selling over 79,000 copies in 2007, it was the sixth best-selling album of the year. The album was later re-packaged on December 3, 2007, titled, The Refreshment (Vol. 1.5) with three extra songs, a photo book, a stack of photo cards and a mixing program called Music 2.0, which allows one to adjust the levels of the instruments and vocals. The edition sold 25,724 copies in December 2007.

2008: Japanese Debut, Colorful Sensibility

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F.T. Island in 2008

After debuting in Korea, FNC Entertainment (formerly FNC Music) moved F.T. Island's activities overseas. On March 31, 2008, an autograph session in Malaysia at the Damansara Cineleisure was held, which was followed by the group's first concert at the Sunway Lagoon Amphitheater on the next day. However, the performance was canceled, but was held in Thailand instead, at the Royal Paragon Hall on April 14, 2008.

F.T. Island's first Japanese debut album, titled Prologue of F.T. Island: Soyogi, was later released on June 7, 2008. The album consists of eight songs, two of which were newer versions of the original songs "F.T. Island" and "Primadonna". The last track, "Always Be Mine", is an English version of "First Kiss" from their debut album (though the lyrics are original). Music videos were also released for "Soyogi" and "Friendship", displaying the band's professionalism and playful sides.

After their promotional activities in Japan, the band then returned to Korea releasing their second Korean album Colorful Sensibility on August 27, 2008. A follow-up epilogue, Colorful Sensibility Part 2, was later released on October 17, 2008.

Later that year, F.T. Island also released "The One", which was their first Japanese commercial single under an indie label AI Entertainment. The single charted at ninth on the Oricon daily charts. The single was also the last official release with member Oh Won Bin before his departure.

2009: New lineup and releases

On January 28, 2009, it was announced that member Oh Won Bin would indeed be leaving the group, with FNC trainee Song Seung-hyun replacing him as a guitarist and backup vocalist. With the new change in lineup, F.T. Island then released the music video for their mini-album with the title song, "Bad Woman". They also promoted it on SBS Inkigayo, and two days later, released the band's first Korean mini-album Jump Up.

On April 22, F.T. Island later released their second Japanese single, "I Believe Myself". For the first time, members participated in lyrics composition. For the song "Moonlight Angel", member Lee Jae-jin co-wrote the lyrics and leader Choi Jong-hoon co-composed the song. "I Believe Myself" was the first Japanese single with member Song Seung-hyun. They held their 2009 F.T. Island Tour-I Believe Myself in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo during the summer of 2009.

F.T. Island also toured parts of Asia which included Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and others to promote themselves in the summer of 2009. The showcase kicked off in Singapore during June 25 to 27.

While preparing for overseas promotions, the members were in the midst of recording their third album. On July 9, FNC Entertainment released jacket photos for the upcoming third album called Cross & Change. On the following day, a music video teaser for "I Hope" was released online, featuring kids watching their idols (played by the members themselves) on TV. The title song, called “I Hope/Barae”, was released on July 16.

F.T. Island tried out a variety of music styles for Cross & Change; it included a total of 12 songs, ranging from moving ballads to addictive songs with a bright melody. F.T. Island adopted a new fashion style and concept for the album using a "retro" and the “Bokgo” approach, which was inspired during the “jeans jeans look” from the 80s in Korea.

F.T. Island released their 3rd Japanese single, "Raining", on October 21, 2009. A music video of the single was released. Leader Choi Jong-hoon played the piano for the single for the first time instead of the guitar.

2010: Major Debut in Japan, Beautiful Journey, and Success in Taiwan

In the months January and February, the band started touring in Asia, visiting Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore.

After celebrating their 1000th day in the music industry, they travelled to Japan and they stayed until the end of August to prepare for their major debut under their new Japanese label, Warner Music Japan. They also began a new Japanese television show which aired on 7 April 2010. On May 19, 2010, F.T. Island released their new Japanese single "Flower Rock". It entered the Oricon daily charts in third position on May 19, 2010 on the day of its release, and held the fourth position of that week. On July 14, 2010, F.T. Island later released another single named "Brand-new days", which was written and composed by members Song Seung-hyun and Choi Jong-hoon. F.T. Island performed a five-city concert tour in Japan after releasing both singles. They also performed at the international rock festival Summer Sonic 2010 in Maishima Arena, Osaka, Japan.

After promotions in Japan, F.T. Island focused on their comeback in Korea in mid-August 2010. Their new mini album "Beautiful Journey" and the music video for their main title song "Love Love Love" were released on August 25, 2010. They held their comeback performance in Korea on August 27, 2010. The title song topped many popular music charts in South Korea and also gained international notice, especially in Taiwan. Choi Jong-hoon co-wrote and co-composed one of the songs which was "Don Quixote's Song", making it their first Korean song that includes the composition of a member. In November and December, F.T. Island held a performances which was the Beautiful Journey Concert and So Today... Concert tour, in both Korea and Japan.

Whilst promoting their second Korean mini-album, F.T. Island recorded another Japanese single titled "So today..." that was released in November. The song, "Boom Boom Boom", was composed by Choi Jong-hoon. The single ranked sixth on the Oricon Daily Charts. With F.T. Island’s 3rd single taking the sixth position, they then had a record of all their singles ranking in the top tens of the Oricon charts. About 10,000 fans turned up at their promotional events in Osaka and Tokyo on 20 and 21 November.

The band then held a concert in Taiwan on December 25, celebrating Christmas together with 9000 fans. Former vocalist and guitarist and special guest Oh Wonbin, performed his first single as a solo artist and a brand new song, which had not been released at the concert. F.T. Island performed songs in three languages, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.

With an album sales record of over 100,000, FT Island won favorable comments in the Taiwanese media. The revenue for concert tickets and merchandises alone and F.T. Island's Beautiful Journey concert had exceeded a total of NT$20Million. They have been named the Korean artists who earned the most money in the end of 2010. Four main news agencies namely, China Times, Yonhap News, Apple Daily and Liberty Times wrote news on the concerts, showing the band’s high popularity. F.T. Island also broke several records in Taiwan with 500,000 hits on mobile downloads and 10,000,000 hits on music downloads.

2011: Japanese Breakthrough and Return to Korea

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F.T. Island performing during their Stand Up concert at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, March 9, 2012

On April 20, 2011, F.T. Island released their seventh Japanese single "Satisfaction" with accompanying tracks, "Friends" and "I Want", in which Choi Jong-hoon participated in the composition of both songs. The single debuted at number two on the Oricon weekly singles charts, becoming the band's high charting single in the country. Their title song "Satisfaction" was also selected to be the ending theme song of Fuji Television's anime Toriko.

On May 18, F.T. Island released their first major debut album in Japan, entitled Five Treasure Island. The album features songs from singles, "Flower Rock", "Brand New Days", "So Today...", and "Satisfaction"; it also contains several new tracks, including the soundtracks for Japanese drama Muscle Girl!, in which member Lee Hong-gi played the lead male role. The album ranked first at the Oricon album daily chart.

In late May, F.T. Island returned to the South Korean music scene after almost a year, with a mini-album titled Return. The album was released on May 24. Title track was "Hello Hello", a fast-paced rock song. The album featured five songs in total. "I Confess" featured all of the members' vocals.

On September 3, F.T. Island performed at Concert for Japan in Toronto, Canada.

2012: Mini album 'Grown Up' and overseas activities

F.T. Island with CN Blue during their Stand Up concert at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, March 9, 2012

After releasing a tragic music video for their title track “Severely”, F.T. Island released their fourth mini-album, entitled "Grown-Up". Featuring five songs, "Grown-Up! is composed of slow-tempo rock ballads. The album was released on January 31 and secured the No. 1 position on the Hanteo album chart for total album sales on both the daily and weekly charts, with title track "Severely" topping various online music charts. The album was completely sold out ten days after its release, recording some 50,000 copies sold. F.T. Island also achieved the "Triple Crown" status for Severely on Music On Top. "Triple Crown" is a recognition for any artist who have won a music programme three times consecutively and the song would be removed from further trophies.

On March 9, F.T. Island and fellow label-mates CN Blue performed in America for the first time at Los Angeles Nokia Theater.

In April the band returned to Japan to promote their 7th Japanese single "Neverland", which was released on the 18th. “Neverland”, a fast tempo rock song, was chosen as the opening theme song of the animation Ozuma, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Japanese broadcasting system WOWOW. Ozuma broadcast its first episode on March 16, written by famous cartoonist, Matsumoto Reiji.

F.T. Island released their second major Japanese album 20 [Twenty] on May 16, 2012. It debuted at number four on the weekly Oricon albums chart, selling 41,726 copies in its first week, earning the band their best first-week sales in Japan.

The same year, F.T. Island released their fourth Korean studio album Five Treasure Box and its single "I Wish" on September 10. Within the first week of its release, the album sold over 30,000 copies in South Korea.

2013: Japanese album, overseas activities, comeback in Korea

The band continued their TAKE FTISLAND tour which started the year before in Seoul, Korea and went to Taiwan in December 2012 and continued the tour in Shanghai and Beijing, China.

On March 27, F.T. Island released their single, "You Are My Life" with 2 tracks, "Beat It" and "Come Into My Dream". All three songs ended up in the top 5 of Japanese music site Dwango's K-Pop weekly ringtone chart. Also, their M/V for "You Are My Life" took first on Chinese video site YinYueTai's Korea chart.

Later on April 9, the band's 2009 album Jump Up topped Taiwanese music charts for Korean and Japanese releases, with "Bad Woman" ranking first on the songs chart, as well.

The group released their Japanese album Rated-FT in June 2013, where members composed tracks such as "Time To", "Hold My Hand", "Black Chocolate" and "Orange Sky". The album charted at third on Japan's Oricon Daily Album Chart on the day it is released.

F.T. Island released their 11th Japanese single "Theory of Happiness" on July 24, 2013. It included two tracks composed by band members which were "Eyes On Me" and "Rainy Day" and both topped the Oricon Daily Chart. Satisfaction was chosen as the ending theme song for Japanese anime Toriko.

The band became the first Korean band to perform three years in a row on Fuji TV's "Mezamashi Live!" on July 28, 2013. F.T. Island also performed live at rock festival, Summer Sonic 2013 in Tokyo on August 10 and in Osaka on August 11 which was their second appearance at the festival, after 2010. The band also completed their first Japan arena tour of seven cities, titled FT island Arena Tour 2013 ~Freedom~, drawing an audience of 100,000.

FT Island returned to Korea in late September 2013, and released their self-composed mini-album Thanks To, dedicated to their fans and supporters. "Memory" and "Always With You" was composed by main singer Hong-gi, "Try Again" by Jong-hoon, and "Falling Star" by Jae-jin. They held a two-day concert in Seoul on 28 and 29 September, in front of 6000 fans. The concert was called "FTHX", combining the first initials of the band FT with THX (thanks). 'Memory' by Lee Hong-gi ranked No.1 on the Taiwanese Omusic chart. "According to the Taiwanese G-MUSIC Chart, FTISLAND’s 6th anniversary album ‘THANKS TO’ was ranked the weekly chart No.1 recording 28.84% sales among Asian album sales."

Their Japanese Zepp Tour started on October 1, 2013 in Tokyo, and later performed in Sapporo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Shizuoka and Nagoya, as well.

The band made their official Korean comeback with their fifth mini album The Mood on November 18, 2013. It topped the weekly Hanteo chart and Gaon chart; and ranked first on the online HMV chart in Japan for pre-released sales.

In 2013 they appeared in the reality show Cheongdam-dong 111, which followed the daily lives of their agency.

2014: Japanese comeback and individual promotions

F.T. Island at La Cigale, Paris, in January 2015

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Main singer Lee Hong-gi at La Cigale

F.T. Island started 2014 with a concert in Shanghai which was part of their FTISLAND’s 6th-anniversary tour. The band released multiple albums and singles in Japan. New Page (album) was released on May 2014, it sold an estimated 22,000 copies worldwide and charted at 3rd on the Oricon Daily Charts and 6th on the Oricon Weekly Charts.

Few months later, F.T. Island then released a second album, titled Japan Best – All About in October with the title track "Be Free". It topped the Gaon physical album chart during October 5 and 11 periods, Tower Records Daily Pre-Order Charts and HMV Korean-Asia Daily Charts. It also achieved 8th position on the Gaon album chart for that month.

They then released a new single, "To The Light" in October, which consists of three composed songs fully composed by F.T. Island members. "Mitaken Future" was released on March 16 and "Beautiful" was on January 15. "Mitaken Future" was later included in the album New Page. "Beautiful" was charted at 4th position in Oricon's Daily Singles chart on the day where the album was released.

F.T. Island also held several tours and announced partnership with Taiwanese clothing brand, STAYREAL. They were invited and performed in one of China's most biggest music festival - Zebra Music Festival; where the band sang songs such as "Flower Rock" and "Freedom". Its ticket sales were also long sold out before the festival even started proving F.T. Island's immense popularity in China. Moreover, the band were also invited to perform in the Japanese MTV - Unplugged segment that only top artists could perform. Also, Hong-gi was also chosen to be the MC for M Countdown's 10th-anniversary special which proves the member's talent.

F.T. Island members also promoted themselves individually throughout 2014. Min-hwan was cast in a musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Seung-hyun collaborated with comedian Song Eun-yi for Two Song Place and starred in the film, No One to Trust in the World. Hong-gi resumed filming Bride of the Century after his fall on an icy road. Hong-gi was then the next Korean Wave star in China after having successfully filmed Bride of the Century. He also starred in the drama, Modern Farmer. and released his new accessory brand Skullhong. Hongstargram was also released as a travel book where he took pictures in his first solo tour in different countries. Jong-hoon was later announced in a new upcoming drama “Heroes”, said to premiere in 2015. Jong-hoon also launched his first Art Expedition In Japan where he showcased his artworks to the public. Jae-jin starred in Fashion Killa alongside Hong-gi as a special guest and also sang the title song for Bride of the Century, where member Hong-gi was starring in the drama.

2015: Pursuing a new genre, Korean and Japanese comebacks, and Hong-gi's solo debut

They started the year with their World Tour called 2015 FTISLAND [FTHX] Tour which included concerts in France, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and two dates in the United States, one in New York and one in Los Angeles.

After a year and four months of hiatus in Korea following their mini album, The Mood, FNC Entertainment announced F.T. Island's first fully self-composed album, I Will which was released on March 23. The music video of "To The Light" was pre-released on YouTube on March 18. The album peaked at 7th on the Billboard World Albums Chart in the second week of April. The title song "Pray" was also rated 99.0 out of a 100, a near perfect score on Chinese Music Charts while "To The Light" was rated 85.97. I Will also performed well on the Gaon Chart, peaking 1st in physical album raking and 3rd on the Gaon Social Charts in the third week of March. F.T. Island sold 31,000 copies of the album peaking in 7th position for the highest number of album copies sold in the entire month of March. "Pray" was also a huge success in China as they were awarded the Most Popular Band in Asia, one of the three major awards in that event. The members could not attend the event, but gave a video recording to thank fans for receiving the award.

The band also started a YouTube TV show with Choi Min-hwan as the host. It has also been announced that F.T. Island would start on a new Asia Tour, titled We Will. The tour would be held in China, Japan, Taiwan and other countries. Jae-jin had also accepted an offer to become the DJ of a new radio programme known as K-POP Planet alongside BtoB (band) Hyunsik and Mamamoo Hwasa. Jong-hoon was also cast in the webdrama Prince's Prince alongside AOA (band) Seo Yuna.

After their Korean comeback, F.T. Island then returned to the Japanese market with a new fully composed album, 5.....Go released on 13 May. The title song of the album, "Primavera" is a collaboration with Japanese rock singer Takahiro Moriuchi from One Ok Rock. The official M/V was released on YouTube On April 18. Primavera is a rock ballad song which means "spring" in Latin. In the album, it contained 10 fully self-composed songs where "Fish" was included in the album as an acoustic version. The album was also separated into 4 different sets. The first set contained only the songs whereas the second contained miscellaneous such as the official music video; the last two sets contained different performances for their Summer Sonic concert last year. F.T. Island also celebrated their 5th Japanese anniversary with various tours and sang songs from their new album. It was a major career breakthrough as it received many good international praises and both the Korean and Japanese album brought a huge impact to viewers around the world.

3 months later, F.T. Island continued to release new songs titled "Puppy", which was a Japanese single and was included in the new album. "Puppy" was recorded to be F.T. Island's 35th single since their debut. In this new album, there are 2 new songs and it has 4 different sets. The first set contained only the songs whereas the second contained an additional DVD concert which was from 2014; the third set contained additional fan meeting footages while the last includes behind the scenes and other miscellaneous. The official M/V was published on YouTube on August 16. The song was a new type of genre and it concentrated on the playful and humorous sides for each of the members. The music video was rather colourful and it was the first time where a foreigner was seen in F.T. Island's music videos. Upon release, the album immediately topped Japan's Music Chart which proves the quality of the album as well as the band's immense fan base in Japan. After "Puppy"'s success in Japan, F.T. Island then released the Korean version of the song. The band then held an autumn tour in 13 different countries within 32 days. The tour consisted of Nagoya, Osaka and Sendai, and many more.

Hong-gi's Solo Debut

The band's main vocalist, Hong-gi announced through social media that he would be working on both a Korean and Japanese solo album, which was released in November and December respectively. Hong-gi's mini Korean album was revealed to be FM302, and the album is scheduled to be released on 18 November 2015, while the Japanese album was revealed to be AM302, and it was released on 9 December 2015. ‘FM302’ combines the radio terminology Frequency modulation (FM) with Hong-gi's birthday which is on 2 March, to create the effect of his own radio frequency that resonates his music across the world. The title song ‘Insensible’ is a ballad track and it tells the sad story of a man who is unable to forget his previous love. The music video was published on 18 November. The lead actress of the music video is actress Park Shin-hye. Shin-hye was close friends with Hong-gi since 2009. For example, Lee and Shin-hye acted along in the drama You're Beautiful (TV series), and both of them still contacted each other through social media. This music video production would be their first official career reunion, since You're Beautiful. Several teasers such as Concept Teasers, Poster Teasers and many more were released before the official music video. Furthermore, prior to Hong-gi's official music video release, the latter organised a very first public showcase event a day before the official music video release which would be on 17 November. The Master of ceremonies, otherwise known as a MC for the event would be Super Junior's Kim Heechul. Hong-gi and Heechul was close friends as well since 2008. For instance, both of them was cast as the permanent members for Seoul Broadcasting System's Good Daddy in 2008, and met with each other several times such as during Shin-hye's birthday party in February 2014. Upon the release of FM302, it topped both Naver's real-time search chart, as well as Hanteo sales chart. The album still remained its position next week, selling more than 19 000 albums within two weeks. Moreover, six days after the release of the album, Hong-gi won its very first trophy on SBS MTV's The Show (South Korean TV series). The album charted at #2 in the Gaon Chart National Physical Albums ranking, as well as #5 in the Gaon Social Chart in the 3rd week of November.

On the other hand, the PV for the Japanese album AM302, was published on YouTube on 11 November, which was also coincidentally on Min-hwan's 23rd birthday. It was titled "イ・ホンギ (Monologue)" and it was published on F.T. Island's Official Japanese channel. The Japanese album contained some tracks from the Korean album FM302, but was translated into Japanese. The album is also available in three different sets, namely, the original version, Primadonna version (for fans), and the limited edition DVD version. Upon release, it charted at #4 in the Oricon charts.

2016-present: N.W.U

It was announced that F.T. Island would have Korean and Japanese comebacks this year as well. The Japanese studio album is titled N.W.U. It is the acronym of 'Naite' (鳴いて, to cry), 'Waratte' (笑って, to laugh), 'Utatte' (歌って, to sing) and would be released on 6 April. All tracks in the album except the title song was composed and written by the members. The M/V for the song "You Don't Know Who I Am" was released on 18 March. 7 days later, the highlight medley was released on YouTube. Upon release, the album ranked first on the Japanese’s Tower Record, which is the largest record store in Japan, and second on the Oricon daily album chart. It also topped the HMV Asia daily charts and K-pop charts for famous Japanese sound sources such as Dwango. An Arena Tour was also held, titled LAW of FTISLAND: NWU. The tour would be held in Osaka, Tokyo and Aichi. The tour was then extended to have other concert in Nippon Budokan Tokyo after gathering hot responses.

Sub-unit

In 2009, Choi Jong-hoon, Choi Min-hwan, and Lee Jae-jin formed a sub-group called F.T. Triple. Some of the reasons behind this lineup were to showcase more of the members' skills and to prevent main singer, Lee Hong-gi, from overstraining his voice again. Another reason was to continue promoting F.T. Island while Lee Hong-gi was filming You're Beautiful while Song Seung-hyun was having a break.

At first, the trio was unofficially announced at the Dream Concert in Japan as "A3". They almost named themselves A3 because they all are of blood type 'A'. They also wanted to keep the F.T. name hence adding Triple at the end of it to represent a trio.

In F.T. triple, Lee Jae-jin, originally in charge of bass for F.T. Island becomes a guitarist and the main vocalist; Choi Jong-hoon plays the piano and Choi Min-hwan continues to play the drums. Their first single was titled "Love Letter" and was released with F.T. Island's 2CD Repackaged Album Double Date and a second CD named Two Date that features all of F.T. Triple's songs.

Members

Current

• Choi Jong-hoon (최종훈) (leader, guitarist and keyboard)
• Lee Hong-gi (이홍기) (main vocalist)
• Lee Jae-jin (이재진) (bass, vocals)
• Song Seung-hyun (송승현) (guitar, vocals)
• Choi Min-hwan (최민환) (drums)

Former

• Oh Won Bin (오원빈) (former guitarist)

Discography

Main article: F.T. Island discography

Korean

• Cheerful Sensibility (2007)
• Colorful Sensibility (2008)
• Cross & Change (2009)
• Five Treasure Box (2012)
• I Will (2015)

Japanese

• So Long, Au Revoir (2009)
• Five Treasure Island (2011)
• 20 [Twenty] (2012)
• Rated-FT (2013)
• New Page (2014)
• 5.....Go (2015)
• N.W.U (2016)

Artistry

Lyric-writing and music composition

Every member of F.T. Island has been actively taking part in writing lyrics and composing music. The first member to participate in composing music was Jong-hoon, who co-wrote the song "돈키호테의 노래 (Don Quixote's Song)" in 2010. The song was later included in the album Beautiful Journey. He also composed the music for "고백합니다 (I Confess)" which was included in the EP Return in 2011, as well as "We Hope to Become Lovers (애인이 돼 주길 바래요)" in the album Grown-up in 2012.

In the album Five Treasure Box, all members took part in either lyric-writing or composing music. Jong-hoon co-composed the song "U (All I Want Is You)" and wrote lyrics as well as composing music in "Let It Go!". Hong-gi took part in writing lyrics for "Stay With Me", "Life" and "Compass (The Way)", while Jae-jin composed the music and wrote the lyrics for "Paper Plane". Seung-hyun together with Min-hwan composed the music for "Wanna Go (World Does Not End Song)" as well as "Compass (The Way)".

Recently in the album I Will, all members except Min-hwan was active in lyric writing and music composition. For the first track of the album titled "Intro", Hong-gi composed the music. For the title track "Pray", Jong-hoon, Hong-gi, Jae-jin and Seung-hyun worked together to write the lyrics and Jong-hoon composed the music as well. Hong-gi took part in lyric writing as well as music composition for the third track "Black Chocolate". "BPM69"'s lyrics was written by Hong-gi and Jae-jin, Jae-jin also took part in co-composing the music as well. For the fifth track "Do You Know Why", Hong-gi wrote the lyrics while Jong-hoon composed the music. "Hey Girl" was written by Jong-hoon and Jae-jin, and Jong-hoon also took part in composing the music for that song. The next track "To The Light" was penned by Hong-gi and Jae-jin, with Jae-jin also composing the music. Their 8th track "Time to" was penned by Jae-jin as well as taking part in composing the music. "Shadow" was entirely written and composed by Jae-jin, while "Please" was written and composed by Jong-hoon. For the last track "Light", it was entirely penned and composed by Hong-gi himself.

Concert tours

Headlining

Asia tours

• Play! F.T. Island (2012): Taiwan, Taipei, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
• Take F.T. Island Concert (2013): Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong
• We Will Asia Tour (2015): Taipei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Guangzhou, Bangkok

Japan tours

• F.T. Island Summer Arena Tour Run!Run!Run! (2012): Osaka, Nagoya, Saitama
• F.T. Island Arena Tour FREEDOM (2013): Sendai, Shizuoka, Osaka, Nagano, Tokyo, Saitama
• F.T. Island Autumn Tour REPLAY (2013): Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, Fukuoka, Shizuoka, Nagoya
• F.T. Island Autumn Tour TO THE LIGHT (2014): Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa
• F.T. Island Arena Tour THE PASSION (2014): Saitama, Nagoya
• 5th Anniversary Autumn Tour WHERE'S MY PUPPY (2015): Tokyo, Niigata, Osaka, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Sendai, Hiroshima, Tokyo (finale)
• F.T. Island Arena Tour LAW of FTISLAND: NWU (2016): Osaka, Tokyo, Aichi, Tokyo (additional)

Europe tours

• FTHX EUROPE & LATIN Americas Tour (2015): Paris, Santiago, Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles

Concert participation

• FNC Kingdom Concert (2013)
• FNC Kingdom Concert (2014)
• FNC Kingdom Concert (2015)

Special performances

• Live Concert DVD First Island (2007)
• 1st Concert In Tokyo Cheerful Sensibility (2007)
• 2nd Live Concert Rock Prince (2009)
• Livehouse Tour Prologue of F.T. Island (2009)
• New Year Concert My First Dream (2009)
• F.T. Island MBC DVD Collection (2010)
• Men's Stories (2010)
• F.T. Island Live Concert Tour In Seoul (2010)
• F.T. Island Zepp Tour (2010)
• KOREAN POP NIGHT- Singapore (2010)
• F.T. Island HALL TOUR "So today…" ENCORE (2011)
• KOREAN MUSIC WAVE- Malaysia (2011)
• Summer Final "Messenger" (2011)
• Encore Concert, Memory In F.T. Island (2011)
• X-mas live at Yokohama Arena (2012)
• F.T. Island 6th Anniversary Concert FTHX- Seoul (2013)
• Fashion Crowd Challenge- China (2015)
• KCON in France (2016)

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by F.T. Island

F.T. Island have won several major industry awards in South Korea, including several Golden Disk Awards, Mnet Asian Music Awards and Seoul Music Awards. They have also topped popular television music program charts like Inkigayo, M! Countdown and Music Bank.

External links

• Official website (Korean)
• Official Japanese website (Japanese)