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South Korean singer-songwriter IU (Lee Ji-eun) has written over seventy songs, mostly for her own musical career, but also for other performers and for several soundtrack albums. [1] She debuted in September 2008 with the single "Lost Child" and subsequently released the extended play (EP) Lost and Found . [ 2 ]
IU was also featured in the title song, "Love Story", of Epik High's ninth album, We've Done Something Wonderful, which was released on October 23, 2017. Gallup Korea ranked her the most popular K-pop artist of 2017 (she previously topped the ranking in 2014) and also the most popular K-pop idol of the year. [19] [210]
IU's debut Japanese extended play I U was released in December, debuting at no. 15 of the Oricon Albums Chart, selling about 12,000 copies. IU's fourth studio album Palette was released in April 2017 and supported through three singles; " Through the Night ", " Can't Love You Anymore " and " Palette ".
The K-pop Hot 100 is a music singles chart launched in South Korea by Billboard in conjunction with Billboard Korea on August 25, 2011. The chart was based on digital sales via leading websites, as well as downloads from mobile service sites using an industry-standard formula and the most credible music data sources within South Korea. [1]
On the Gaon Digital Chart, all ten tracks from the album simultaneously appeared in the top 30, with "Lilac" at number four. [36] The song peaked at number one on the chart the following week. [37] Additionally, several of IU's older songs re-entered the Digital Chart following the album's release. [36]
By the end of 2017, 2,181,372 downloads of the song have been sold in South Korea according to Gaon - making it the second best selling song of the year after Ailee's "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow", and has accumulated 134,048,681 streams, making it one of the most popular songs of the year by this method of consumption as well. The ...
A week later it rose to number one on the digital charts becoming IU's 15th number one in South Korea; a number which has since risen to 18 as of December 2017. [7] The song topped the Gaon monthly chart for April becoming IU's seventh song to top the said chart. [8] The song continued to chart for eight months after its release.
The three songs spent a total of eight weeks atop the chart, making BTS the act with the most wins of the year. Brave Girls won their first Music Bank award for " Rollin' " over four years after its release after a YouTube video featuring performances of the song went viral, making it rise on South Korean music charts.