Английская Википедия:Be First
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Be:First (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese dance and vocal boy band formed and managed by BMSG and signed to B-ME, a joint record label with Avex.[1] The group was formed on August 13, 2021 and debuted on November 3, 2021, through the reality competition show The First, which is hosted by Sky-Hi.[2][3] They are BMSG's first act, after Sky-Hi created the company feeling there were many problems in the Japanese music industry including talent having only a few places to show themselves in Japan, and instead would opt to go to Korean companies, hereby creating an outflow of Japanese talent to Korea.[4]
The group has 7 members: Sota, (Born 18th January 2001) Shunto, (Born 1st September 2003) Manato, (Born 29th April 2001) Ryuhei, (Born 7th November 2006) Junon, (Born 23rd May 1998) Ryoki (Born 26th April 1999) and Leo (Born 8th September 1998)
Name
The group's name, Be:First, was chosen with the intention of "always aiming for the top", and Sky-Hi hopes that the group will "continue to respect and love the fact that others are number one at the same time as they continue to be number one themselves".[5] Their official fandom name is Besty (stylized in all caps), which was coined by combining the first and last two letters of the group's name to mean bestie (best friend).[6]
History
2021: Formation and debut
On April 2, the audition of The First (stylized in all caps) started airing on Nippon Television Network's information program Sukkiri and online streaming service Hulu.[7] On August 13, the group name and members were announced on the last episode of the audition program.[8] On August 16, the group's digital pre-debut track, "Shining One", was released[9]
On the Billboard Japan chart released on August 25, their digital pre-debut track, "Shining One", made its first appearance at number one on the Download Songs, number two on the Streaming Songs, and number two on the overall Japan Hot 100.[10] The song was also ranked number one on the Oricon Weekly Digital Single ranking on the same day, and ranked first on the Oricon Weekly Streaming ranking. Be:First became the second artists in history to achieve this double crown that the same work has reached number one in both the weekly digital single and streaming rankings simultaneously.[11]
Despite their pre-debut, Be:First performed on several TV programs, including NTV's Sukkiri (August 25) and Buzzrhythm 02 (September 10), NHK's Shibuya no Oto (September 11), and TV Tokyo's Premiere Melodix! (September 11).[12][13][14][15] The group was also featured in the industry magazine Nikkei Entertainment.[16] Be:First appeared on September 18 as the opening act at SuperSonic2021, a music festival held as an alternative event to Summer Sonic Festival, and gave their first performance in front of an audience.[17]
On 3rd November, they made their major debut with the release of their first single " Gifted " which topped at No. 1 on Billboard Japan Hot 100. Within a week of the release, it had more than 14 million streams, the 3rd highest number of weekly streams in Oricon history behind BTS and LiSA.
2022–present: Be:1
Be:First collaborated with Jonas Blue to release the Japanese version of "Don't Wake Me Up" on July 13, 2022.[18] The group released their debut studio album Be:1 (stylized in all caps) on August 31, preceded by their first two singles, "Gifted.", and "Bye-Good-Bye".[19] The album topped at No.1 on Billboard Japan Hot Albums [1] later embarking on their first national tour, BE:FIRST 1st One Man Tour "BE:1" 2022-2023
They released a number of charting songs in 2022 and 2023 including the No.1 songs "Bye-Good-Bye", "Scream", "Boom Boom Back" [2] and "Mainstream" [3] Following the digital release of Bye-Good-Bye, BE:FIRST became the first artist in Oricon history to achieve #1 rankings in both downloads and streams in same week for a single work three times - the previous two being Shining One and Gifted [4] In another history making achievement, with the release of Scream BE:FIRST became the first artist to have five songs win two #1 Oricon digital ranking titles for a single work within the same week [5] With Boom Boom Back, BE:FIRST achieved their 7th #1 on Oricon's Weekly Digital Song chart. The song also was #1 on the Streaming chart giving them a digital "double crown," thus breaking their own record and making them artist with the most digital double crowns for a single work in history[20]. They continued break records when Mainstream topped both the Oricon Digital Song Ranking and Streaming Ranking bringing their total number of digital "double crowns" to 7, the most for any artist in Oricon history.[21]
They embarked on their BE:FIRST ARENA TOUR 2023-2024 "Mainstream" which is their first national arena tour. It will be held from November 1, 2023 through February 24, 2024 in 9 cities, over a total of 22 shows [6] . They further added 4 more shows for March and April, BE:FIRST Live in Dome 2024 “ Mainstream “ - Masterplan. With 2 shows each at the Tokyo Dome and Kyocera Dome.
Members
Credits adapted from the official website.[22]
- Sota (島雄 壮大, Shimao Sōta)
- Shunto (久保 舜斗, Kubo Shunto)
- Manato (廣瀨 真人, Hirose Manato)
- Ryuhei (黒田 竜平, Kuroda Ryūhei)
- Junon (池亀 樹音, Ikegame Junon)
- Ryoki (三山 凌輝, Miyama Ryōki)
- Leo (上村 礼王, Kamimura Reo)
Discography
Studio albums
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||
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JPN [23] |
JPN Cmb. [24] |
JPN Hot [25] | ||||
Be:1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Singles
Title | Year | Peaks | Sales | Certifications | Album | ||
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JPN [28] |
JPN Cmb. [29] |
JPN Hot [30] | |||||
"Gifted." | 2021 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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Be:1 | |
"Bye-Good-Bye" | 2022 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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"Don't Wake Me Up" Шаблон:Small |
— | 26 | 16 | rowspan="5" Шаблон:Non-album singles | |||
"Smile Again" | 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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"Salvia" | — | 8 | 41 | ||||
"Mainstream" | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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"Glorious" | — | 10 | 7 | ||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. |
Promotional singles
Title | Year | Peaks | Certifications | Album | |
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JPN Cmb. [29] |
JPN Hot [30] | ||||
"Shining One" | 2021 | 3 | 2 |
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Be:1 |
"Kick Start" | 5 | 7 | Gifted. | ||
"Brave Generation" | 2022 | 7 | 6 | Be:1 | |
"Betrayal Game" | 3 | 3 | |||
"Scream" | 3 | 1 | |||
"Boom Boom Back" | 2023 | 2 | 1 |
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Smile Again |
"Bye-Good-Bye (From the First Take)" | — | 35 | Шаблон:Non-album single | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. |
Other charted songs
Title | Year | Peaks | Album |
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JPN Hot [30] | |||
"BF Is..." | 2022 | 70 | Be:1 |
"Great Mistakes" | 2023 | 80 | Smile Again |
References
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