QUOTES
“BE THE ONE, ALL FOR ONE. We will do our best to reach our dreams.”
“We have confidence in singing. We believe in our skills.”
“There is a prejudice that if you are an idol singer, you cannot sing. We’ll change it. We’ll stand every stage each time with a different look, so please give us a lot of time. We’ll seize the rookie award, so please look forward to it. ”
“We have confidence in singing. We believe in our skills.”
“There is a prejudice that if you are an idol singer, you cannot sing. We’ll change it. We’ll stand every stage each time with a different look, so please give us a lot of time. We’ll seize the rookie award, so please look forward to it. ”
FACTS
- Their group name comes from their members’ blood types
- It is also an acronym for `Be the one, All for one`and this means that they will do the best for their dreams
- Before their debut, they approached everyone with a webtoon called ‘The Five Talks’
- Their first album title is ‘Let’s fly’ which contain 5 songs.
- Debut stage at 23th April 2011 in Music Core with pink outfit.
- Nicknamed as ‘manjjit’-dols, paper dols, provincial-dols, live-dols, blood-dols, countryside-dols.
- Usually rotate two people to do the cooking in the dormitory
- when the eldest hyung line, Jinyoung and CNU, cooks, they have the most abundant and happiest meal.
- Jinyoung and CNU are like the dad and mom of the team, but they’re actually awkward with each other.
- living with each other for two and a half years.
- Sometimes they’re sitting around in one room and playing Mafia or Bingo together.
- There was even a time when they connected a microphone to the laptop and while working on it, their neighbors came after them because the rooms weren’t soundproof~
- B1A4 love music so much.
- While living in the dormitory, the hardest thing was commuting
- The hyungs’ love for the youngest was unusual.
- The members said they thought it would be hard to become close with the youngest because he was really shy and had chic looks, but after knowing him more, they found out he had a lot of aegyo and when they simply see Gongchan’s smiling face now, they immediately get strength.
- The hyungs said they were proud and were absorbed in complimenting the youngest
- From gongchan statement, Jinyoung is the dad, CNU is the mom, and Baro and Sandeul is his brothers.
- all of B1A4 is from the rural areas.
- Before going to sleep, they always have a talk time every Saturday
- B1A4’s own strategy is friendliness
- Known with their various-unique-colorful outfit.
- Famous with their ‘breeze’ dance moving
- “breeze dance” (sandeulbaram chum) comes from a member Sandeul’s name which points out “Sandeul’s breezy look”
- Their mentor is the group G.O.D
- want to become idols like G.O.D
- received a star-registry from their Hongkong fans for their debut gift
- B1A4 appeared in twitter worldwide trending topic at their MV released day.
- “Only learned bad things” was the first song they recorded
- The “free choreography” is their main point (The main point of their choreography is how they look like they’re having fun)
- Their strong point is that they seem like friends some ppl see often in the neighbourhood (Neighbourhood-friend like familiarity)
- A-type members remember everything that has happened and talked about it.
- Before they decided on their team name, they considered names like ‘Ace’, ‘Legend’ and ‘Sound’.
- They have never fought amongst themselves before since they’ve “saturday honest talkin’ ritual”
- in saturday, they’ll say everything they have kept inside and it helps them feel better after. After that, they’ll play games together.
- B1A4 really love games!
- They usually play games like the mafia game, bingo game, cross out 2 lines and speed game.
- Their company’s director, team leader and manager hyungs will join them for the mafia game too.
- n because it is so cramped, they’ll play till their hands start sweating.
- Jinyoung is from Chungbuk Chungju, CNU is from Chungbuk Cheongju, Sandeul is from Gyeongnam Busan, Baro from Jeollam Gwangju and Gongchan is from Jeollam Suncheon
- A fansign held on 21 May at Seoul’s Kyobo Hottracks Yeongdeungpo confirmed B1A4’s successful debut.
- Despite being rookies, fans from Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, America, Poland, France, Mexico and Italy flocked to the fansign.
- the group name ‘B1A4’ appeared on Twitter’s World Trends #3 on 23 April 2011.
- and their mainvocal Sandeul was #5 on the search.
- are aiming for the rookie group of the year award.
- are fluent in various Korean dialects.
- The boys got scolded by the director coz their acting with the rookie female actress in the music video was so awkward.
- They are all studying composing and songwriting now
- The members are all studying Japanese
- Their Best 3 of what made them touched recently are, when many fans came to their fansign, When many fans came to their debut stage, when they stood on stage in front of their parents for the first time ever. ( It was an open broadcast at Kwangju)
- all parents of the members came to watch their performance in open broadcast at Kwangju.
- There is a secret camera between the members!
- That day, Sandeul returned to the dormitory latest so he became the target. Jinyoung acted as if he wasn’t feeling well and fainted. Sandeul was really shocked then, and it was really funny
- During b1a4 debut stage’s rehearsal, Gongchan fell on his butt. When the other members saw that, they all got nervous. But during the real thing, everyone managed to do well and they had to pretend like they weren’t nervous. they really felt thankful to the audiences that supported us.
- They draws 1,000 fans to their first Japanese showcase 111209
- B1A4 Showcase in Japan tickets that is sold out in 1 minute
- They also joined an overseas concert with Suju, Miss A, and F(X) in MO.A Live in Malaysia at 3th December 2011
- Not long ago, the members all went to a family-run restaurant to have dinner. Immediately, students shouted, “It’s B1A4!” and after we had dinner, they even waited outside the restuarant for them, and requested for them to shake their hands and take a picture together.
- ‘IT B1A4’ history (by CNU) : People say “it bag” a lot nowadays. Something that’s popular, a hot issue, something to keep your eyes on, we got the idea from that. “it B1A4” means that we will show everyone our very own unique color and charms and fall in love with our music. Also, it is short for “It’s the B1A4”, implying that only B1A4 can do what B1A4 does. We will work hard so that B1A4 becomes “it”.
- The day that Baro dyed his hair blonde the boys set up a hidden camera!
- B1A4 showed a different style and sang a reggae song by singing ‘It’s Only Love’ in MBC ‘Beautiful Concert’ aired on November 29th.
- 26th November 2011, they revealed the upgraded sprout dance on sebakwi.
- They choosen as one of the most luminous rookie boy bands of 2011! (BNT News)
- They crowned as the top selling rookies in 2011, their both mini-album even sold $1,160,500 USD till December 2011. (more info here)
- They’ll release a double-pack album in Japan on January 2012
- BANA came out on #2 to be crowned as Favorite Fanclub Name by SBS MTV.
- B1A4’s first winning for rookies awards was at SBS MTV BEST OF THE BEST’s hot debut star.
- The first 2011 rookies who have more than 50,000 members on their official fancafe
- B1A4’s first mini-album sold 25,000 copies while their second mini-album sold over 30,000 copies and having only debuted around 6 months they already have sold around 60,000 copies
- B1A4 already has struck a deal with Japan’s Pony Canyon
- The known as one of respected idol. They even acknowledges fangift and wore them on a music broadcast.
- To the other members, they think Gongchan and Jinyoung look better when they’ve just woken up.
- Jinyoung and CNU share their problems with each other. Baro and Sandeul share their problems with each other and Gongchan shares his with CNU and Jinyoung.
- During Jinyoung’s birthday, the 4 boys were trying to win Jinyoung’s heart over with aegyo. Gongchan won.
- CNU kissed Jinyoung (on the cheek) at romanticjinyoungday party.
- When B1A4 defecates, another member is usually next to them washing up.
- On an interview in Thailand, fans screamed that they wanted Baro to dye his hair red on their next comeback.
- If they were soda flavors Sandeul would be lemon, Jinyoung would be strawberry, CNU would be orange, and Baro and Gongchan would be cola.
- In an interview where the MC asked what their lifestyle is, everybody said dancing. Except Sandeul who said he likes reading comic books.
- In their free time, Sandeul reads comic books, Baro watches movies, CNU looks up videos, Jinyoung composes, and Gongchan skips rope.
- Both Baro and CNU have to carry around contact lenses.
- On their first fan sign they not only had korean fans attending, but also fans from Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and Poland.
- To pronounce B1A4’s names in japanese it would be Ba-Ro, San-Douru, Gong-Chyan, Ji-Nyon, Shi-Nu.
- The cat in “Let’s Fly” was released in their “It B1A4” photoshoots unintentionally. Sandeul said the cat wouldn’t leave and would pop out of nowhere. That’s why in some photos you can see the cat.
- Since their ‘OK’ music video, Jinyoung always accidentally hits Baro in the face.
- They’re currently recording for their new album with Oneway’s chance.
- AKB48’s Moho Miyazaki mentioned B1A4 in her tweet and said that she’s one of B1A4’s fans!
ALBUM TRIVIA
LET'S FLY
IT B1A4
IGNITION
IN THE WIND
- the main producer was hit composer Lee Sang Ho’s Jeondu Ji Hee
- Beast’s main producer composer Im Sang Hyung
- composer of K.Will’s song, Jeon Da Woon
- Rookie songwriters include Seo Yong Bae, Park Kang Il and Jinyoung, and Wheesung also took part in the album production
- the choreography was done by Europe’s award-winnign performance team, Prepix.
IT B1A4
IGNITION
IN THE WIND
REFERENCES
sources: interview, fancams, video, news, and other researches
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found by Iceprinceafterschool @FLIGHTB1A4, thinkyouknowb1a4.tumblr.com, GLYNX @ AVIATEB1A4