F.T Island

k-pop

FTISLAND (Korean: 에프티 아일랜드), short for Five Treasure Island, is a three-member South Korean rock band. The members are Lee Honggi (lead vocals) Lee Jae jin (bass and vocals) and Choi Min-hwan (drums). Their debut album, titled Cheerful Sensibility was released in May 2007, and was the sixth best-selling album in that same year. It includes their debut song Love Sick which topped the K-Pop charts for eight consecutive weeks. Prior to that, the members appeared on the show Wanna be my girlfriend? (Korean: 두근두근 여친만들기) on the Korean television channel Mnet. The band also performed on stage live at Rolling Hall and held their first official showcase at Live House Melon-AX, Gwangjang-dong in Seoul on May 27, 2007. Their album combined 13 songs that were loosely divided into two parts, “Emotional Chapter” and “F.T. Island Chapter”, according to the genre of the songs. The “Emotional Chapter” consists of rock ballads, while the F.T. Island Chapter was produced by the Japanese composers who worked with the Japanese band SMAP and is composed of a variety of pop-rock songs. Selling over 79,000 copies in 2007, it was the sixth best-selling album of the year.[9] The album was re-released on December 3, 2007, titled The Refreshment, with three extra songs, a photobook, 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. This edition sold 25,724 copies in Decembe...