Showing posts with label FT Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FT Island. Show all posts

Sunday, August 11, 2013

[News] FT Island's Hongki Shares FNC Family Photo!

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[News] FT Island's Hongki Shares FNC Family Photo!

FNC family photo revealed.


FT Island's Lee Hongki shared a photo of FT Island with CNBLUE on his official Twitter account. Hongki excitedly uploade the photo with a caption "FNC family summer sonic in Tokyo!!! Good job!!! Well… my pants got torn and my underpants was showed, but that’s live kkkk (hehehe) :-) We’ll liven up Osaka tomorrow!!" expressing how happy he was.
The photo was taken during Summer Sonic in Tokyo, Japan. Members of FT Island and CNBLUE showed their closeness by posing similarly and their hands wrapped around each other's shoulder.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

[News] FT Island’s “Theory of Happiness” sweeps Japanese ringtone charts

FT ISLAND
[News] FT Island’s “Theory of Happiness” sweeps Japanese ringtone charts

FT Island has stormed Japan’s ringtone charts with upcoming Japanese single.

FNC Entertainment announced that FT Island’s newest single “Theory of Happiness” ranked at the top of Japan’s K-Pop Asia Daily Chart of Recochocu ahead of its official release. The song also topped Dwango's K-pop ringtone weekly chart.

“Theory of Happiness” is included in the group’s 11th Japanese single of the same name to be released on July 24. The song was chosen as the ending theme of an animated film ‘Toriko’ and the background music for a commercial for a Japanese restaurant chain.

Friday, June 28, 2013

[News] FT Island’s upcoming single chosen as CM song for Japan’s TV ad

FT Island
[News] FT Island’s upcoming single chosen as CM song for Japan’s TV ad

FT Island’s upcoming Japanese single has been chosen as the CM song of a TV advertisement.

The group will release their 11th Japanese single titled ‘Theory of Happiness’ on July 24. The title song of the same name has been chosen as the CM song of the TV advertisement of Japanese dining company, ‘Sukiya’.

Sukiya is a major dining company in Japan which owns 1900 branches over the country. The TV ads featuring FT Island’s track will be aired starting on June 23.

Meanwhile, “Theory of Happiness” is also chosen as the ending theme song for Japanese animated film ‘Toriko’ which will be released on July 27th.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

[News] FT Island tops Yamano Music’s weekly chart with ‘RATED-FT’

FT Island
[News] FT Island tops Yamano Music’s weekly chart with ‘RATED-FT’

FT Island continues to storm local music charts with its latest Japanese release.

The band’s third Japanese full length album ‘RATED-FT’, which was released on June 24, ranked top on K-Pop weekly album chart accumulated by one of Japan’s largest music websites, ‘Yamano Music’.

‘RATED-FT’ contains 11 tracks in total, including title song ‘Freedom’ as well as a few number of tracks personally composed and written by the members. The album has been receiving high praises as it shows FT Island’s color very vividly.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

[News] FT Island’s Good Looking Choi Jong Hoon Gains Admiration with His Photo

FT Island, Choi Jong Hoon
[News] FT Island’s Good Looking Choi Jong Hoon Gains Admiration with His Photo

Recently, band FT Island’s leader Choi Jong Hoon is receiving a lot of attention for his beauty on a BTS photo.

On June 25 on the FNC Twitter, a photo was uploaded under the title “Handsome leader’s awesome profile photo is released!”

In the picture is Choi Jong Hoon wearing a simple white shirt. This unedited photo was taken at the set of “ELLE Korea’s” recent pictorial photoshoot. Despite the fact that this picture was un-photoshopped, Choi Jong Hoon still shows off gorgeous facial features.

Meanwhile, FT Island is currently in the middle of its first arena tour in Japan. The members recently visited Nagoya on June 25-26, and will be making a stop at Osaka on June 29-30 of this month.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

[News] Ryeowook, Luna, Lee Jae Jin, Choa and more release singles for Korean version of ‘High School Musical’

Ryeowook, Luna, Lee Jae Jin, Choa
[News] Ryeowook, Luna, Lee Jae Jin, Choa and more release singles for Korean version of ‘High School Musical’

The hottest idols who have been chosen as the main leads of the Korean adaptation of Disney Channel hit ‘High School Musical’ have released their singles for the musical version of the hit teen movie.

The ‘High School Musical’ is about the love, concerns and passion of young students enjoying living their dreams. Hot idol stars such as Super Junior’s Ryeowook, FT ISLAND’s Lee Jae Jin f(x)’s Luna, Kang Dong Ho, AOA’s ChoA will play the lead roles for the musical.

The Korea-version remake will premiere at the Blue Square Samsung Card Hall on July 2, 2013 and expected to run until September.

Check out the tracks below!


Ryeowook and Luna



Lee Jae Jin and ChoA



Kang Dong Ho and Oh So Yeon



M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

[News] FT Island Lee Hong Ki’s movie photobook tops Tower Records Book Chart

FT Island, Lee Hong Ki
[News] FT Island Lee Hong Ki’s movie photobook tops Tower Records Book Chart

 FT Island frontman Lee Hongki’s photobook for his debut movie ‘Passionate Goodbye’ ranked first in Japan’s sales chart.

According to Japan Tower Record, photobook for the movie ‘Passionate Goodbye’ (also titled ‘Phoenix : The Song of Promise’ in Japan) starring Lee Hong Ki became number 1 at book and magazine chart. The photobook contains still cuts from the film and unreleased making photos.

‘Passionate Goodbye’ premiered in Korea on May 30 and it has been released in Japan under the title of ‘Phoenix : The Song of Promise’ on June 7. It is about the story of troublesome idol star (Hong Ki) and terminally ill patients who find the true value of lives as they get to know each other.

M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com

Friday, June 7, 2013

[News] FT Island celebrates 6th anniversary

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[News] FT Island celebrates 6th anniversary

Idol band FT Island celebrated their sixth anniversary since their debut.

The boys celebrated the special event with a small party among themselves. FT Island sent their message to fans through their agency FNC Entertainment saying, “We want to sincerely thank our fans for our sixth anniversary and we will continue to make better music.”

Also, photos from their celebration have been released showing the group members holding a cake saying “FT ISLAND Debut 6 Years Congratulations.”

FT Island is currently preparing for the release of their third Japanese studio album ‘RATED-FT’ on June 12.



M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com

Monday, May 27, 2013

[Videos] Music video for FT Island’s Japanese track “Freedom” released!

FT ISLAND
[Videos] Music video for FT Island’s Japanese track “Freedom” released!

Idol band FT Island will be releasing its third Japanese full length album ‘RATED-FT’ this coming June, and they also unveiled the music video for title song, “Freedom”.

‘RATED-FT’ will hit stores on June 5th, over a year since releasing their previous Japanese album, ‘20[Twenty].’ The title song “Freedom” is an electronic number, which is somewhat different from the group’s previous sounds.

Check out the MV below!


M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com

Sunday, May 5, 2013

[News] Global WGM reveals Hongki-Mina wedding pictures!

Hongki-Mina


Global We Got Married reveals preview pictures of Hongki-Mina's wedding.

The photo already garnered attention for its dramatic and fairy tale-like concept. Hongki and Mina looks so sweet on their photos.

In the first photo, the couple is seen in a black and white concept wherein Hongki has his arms around Mina's waist and back hugging her. The photo was taken perfectly that it appeared like its a fairy tale wherein Hongki looks like a prince and Mina as a princess in a white wedding gown.

In the second photo, Mina is wearing a bright smile while Hongki is lovingly looking at her from behind.



Do you like to see more of their photos?

M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com

Friday, March 29, 2013

[News] FT Island celebrates its 10th Japanese single and will go on a concert tour in June

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The group FT Island recently held an event to commemorate the release of its 10th Japanese single, You Are My Life. According to a report made by FT Island’s agency on March 28, “Over 300 fans gathered in Yokohama’s Osanbashi Hall on March 27 to hear FT Island talk and perform live. The group entered the hall walking on the red carpet in a ceremonial atmosphere like that of the music video of “You Are My Life.” They gave a passionate performance the song.” They introduced the song by saying, “It’s a ballad that is different from our previous songs and puts you in the mood of the spring season.” The lead vocalist, Lee Hong Ki, expressed his impressions, saying, “This song creates an atmosphere that is quite different from our previous songs, so I tried to sing it in a relaxed mood when we recorded it. It was not easy, but it gives us a chance to present you with a different type of performance by FT Island.”

At the event, FT Island showed the quintessence of live performance, singing “Like the Birds” and “Beautiful World,” which are on the 9th Japanese EP, Polar Star.

FT Island spoke of their aspirations, saying, “We are planning to have tour Japanese arenas in June. We are doing our best to show you something new in our performances. We hope you’ll look forward to it.”

M/s : kenvilthomas@kpopupdates.com