Cho Mi-yeon

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Cho Mi-yeon
File:230317 Cho Mi-yeon (조미연).jpg
Cho in March 2023
Born (1997-01-31) January 31, 1997 (age 27)
Incheon, South Korea
Occupation
  • Singer
  • actress
  • TV host
  • model
Musical career
Genres
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2018–present
Labels
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization Jo Mi-yeon
McCune–Reischauer Cho Miyŏn
Signature
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Cho Mi-yeon (Hangul조미연; born January 31, 1997), better known mononymously as Miyeon, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is the vocalist of the South Korean girl group (G)I-dle under Cube Entertainment, and voiced Ahri in the virtual K-pop girl group K/DA.

Early life

Cho was born on January 31, 1997. She is an only child. Cho showed a strong interest in singing since she was a child. Her love for music was inspired by her father. Cho's parents soon recognized her passion and sent her to music schools to learn various skills, such as violin, guitar, and piano.[2] She eventually auditioned for YG Entertainment in middle school and went on to spend the next five years as a trainee. However, her debut was thwarted and she left the company.[2]

Cho continued to pursue music as she signed up for a music academy to strengthen her vocal skills, as well as learning to compose and produce music.[3] Cho spent about eight years as a trainee before debuting with (G)I-dle.

Career

2016–2018: Pre-debut activities

In early 2017, Cho became a trainee at Cube Entertainment.[4] Before joining Cube, she was a freelance singer and appeared as an associate singer with Lim Seul-ong in Urban Zakapa's Canada Tour in September 2016.[5] In 2017, she appeared in a small part in Lim Seul-ong's "You" music video.[6]

2018–2020: Debut with (G)I-dle, collaborations and acting debut

Cho debuted with (G)I-dle on May 2, 2018, with their mini-album I Am and the title song "Latata".[7]

On October 26, 2018, it was confirmed that Cho would perform at the League of Legends World Finals Opening Ceremony 2018, along with Soyeon, Madison Beer and Jaira Burns.[8] The four singers provided vocals for the virtual K-pop girl group K/DA, with Miyeon voicing Ahri, one of the most well known champions in the League of Legends. Together with Evelynn voiced by Beer, Ahri is the main vocalist of the group.[9] Their song "Pop/Stars" went viral on YouTube and topped Billboard's World Digital Songs chart.[10]

In 2019, Cho collaborated with Hangzoo with the song "Cart" as part of Amoeba Culture X Devine Channel Code Share Project.[11]

In 2020, Cho appeared on MBC's music competition program King of Mask Singer. She went on to win the first round with 64 points.[12] In the second round, she performed Yoon Mi-rae's "Goodbye Sadness and Hello Happiness" but lost to Im Kang-sung. Her vocal performance received a warm reception from both audience and panels. Cho's voice was described as smokey, but soulful.[13] Also that year, Cho sang again as Ahri on two songs from K/DA's EP, All Out; lead single "The Baddest" with Bea Miller and Wolftyla replacing Beer and Burns, and the second single "More" with the original line-up and Lexie Liu.[14]

In September 2020, it was revealed that Cho would make her acting debut as the female lead in web-drama Replay: The Moment as Yoo Hayoung,[15] a popular YouTuber and band vocalist. She has a cold and chic personality, but a generous and kind-hearted person.[16] The drama depicts an empathetic romance in a clumsy and anxious, but dreams and love of reliving past emotions in the present eighteen youth.[17] With the drama's musical nature, Cho released several OSTs for it: "Dreaming About You" and "How To Love (with Neon Paprika)".[18] The drama went on and recorded more than 6 million cumulative views.[19]

In October 2020, Cho sung "We Already Fell In Love" together with Minnie as part of Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol soundtrack,[20] and in November, Cho released her first solo OST "My Destiny" as part of Tale of the Nine Tailed soundtrack.[21]

On November 30, 2020, Cho appeared in Seoul Connects U, a variety travel show jointly planned and produced by MBC and Seoul Tourism Foundation. The program shows a time slip trip in the same space and at different times to global fans by linking the past and present of Seoul through photos of stars and fans in real-time.[22]

2021–present: DJ host, M.C and solo endeavors

In February 2021, it was announced that Cho was chosen to be the main host of Naver Now radio program Gossip Idle (Korean: 소문의 아이들), hosting the radio weekly every Tuesday at 8 pm from February 9. The radio show was initially aired as a trilogy to commemorate the comeback of (G)I-dle's fourth mini album I Burn in January, due to the response from fans, it has returned to the official live show.[23] In the same month, Cho was appointed as one of the new hosts of Mnet's music program M Countdown, a position which she held from February 18 with actor Nam Yoon-su. She became the first female MC on the program in 9 years.[24] On the day of their first broadcast, the pair prepared a special stage as they sang a duet song "Dream" by Suzy and Baekhyun.[25] At the end of the month, Cho succeeded in making the list of Korean Business Research Institute's monthly "Individual Girl Group Members Brand Power Ranking" at number 3 with an increase of 96.20% behind Blackpink's Jennie and Rosé.[26]

In May 2021, Cho appeared on Kingdom: Legendary War as a hidden card to help BtoB's "Blue Moon (Cinema Ver)" No Limit stage. The stage was presented as a musical-like stage with the concept of the movie La La Land and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Cho's role caught in a love storyline between Minhyuk and Changsub.[27][28]

On May 28, Korean media news shared that Cho participated in CS Happy Entertainment's cs numbers album with "You Were My Breath" (Korean: 너는 나의 숨이였다), a pop-ballad song played by a 60-member orchestra including Joseph K, who created Paul Kim's "Me After You" and guitarist Park Shin-won. The song is produced by Rocoberry who produce the 2017 hit song "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow". The album is produced by Jeon Chang-sik, the CEO of CS Happy Entertainment recognized Cho's potential and lived up to his expectations with her unrivalled singing skills that have not been revealed yet in (G)I-dle.[29] With one day of tracking, it debuted at number 96 on Gaon Download Chart and number 20 on the component BGM Chart.[30][31]

In August 2021, Maeil Business Newspaper reported that Cho would be acting alongside The Penthouse: War in Life actor Lee Tae-vin in the action comedy web series Delivery, which was released in November 2021.[32] She is to play the role of Kwak Doo-sik, a delivery girl who is well versed in martial arts. The singer is said to appear in this web drama to help local small and medium-sized enterprises during difficult times due to COVID-19 in the Gyeonggi Province and the production staff stated, "to look forward to wire action from Cho Mi-yeon".[33]

In October 2021, Cho released a collaboration with Raiden on his first EP, Love Right Back, with the lead single "Side Effect" released on October 11. It was described as a medium-tempo synth-pop song with witty lyrics that expresses the emotions felt by the person in love as a side effect.[34] She also co-featured on Lee Donghae's B-side track, "Blue Moon", which was released on October 13.[35] The same day, she was confirmed to star in the upcoming pink comedy web series Adult Trainee as Bang Ye-kyung alongside Ryu Ui-hyun.[36][37] On November 17, 2021, Cho was featured in rapper Kid Milli's "Kitty".[38]

On April 6, 2022, it was announced that Cho would make her solo debut at the end of April.[39] On April 8, 2022, Cube Entertainment announced that her first EP, My, would be released on April 27, including the lead single "Drive".[40] Cho won her first music program trophy at SBS MTV's The Show on May 3.[41]

Discography

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Extended plays

List of extended plays, showing selected details, selected chart positions, and sales figures
Title Details Peak chart
positions
Sales
KOR
[42]
My 4

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
Circle
[44]
Hot
[45]
As lead artist
"You Were My Breath" (너는 나의 숨이였다) 2021 [upper-alpha 1] Non-album single
"Drive" 2022 110 My
As featured artist
"Side Effect"
(Raiden featuring Miyeon)
2021 Love Right Back - The 1st Mini Album
"Blue Moon"
(Donghae featuring Miyeon)
[upper-alpha 2] California Love
"Kitty"
(Kid Milli featuring Miyeon)
Non-album single
Collaborations
"Cart"
(with Hangzoo)
2019 Code Share Project
Soundtrack appearances
"We Already Fell In Love"
(with Minnie)
2020 Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol OST Part 4
"My Destiny" Tale of the Nine Tailed OST Part 8
"Dreaming About You" 2021 [upper-alpha 3] Replay: The Moment OST Part 6
"How to Love" Replay: The Moment OST Special Track
"Imagine Love" Adult Trainee OST Part 2
"Someday" 2022 [upper-alpha 4] Moonshine OST Part 8
"Sweet Dream"
(with Song Yuqi)
2023 [upper-alpha 5] Love to Hate You OST Part 1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Other charted songs

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
Gaon
[44]
"Rose" 2022 [upper-alpha 6] My
"Te Amo" [upper-alpha 7]
"Rain" (소나기)?" [upper-alpha 8]
"Softly" [upper-alpha 9]
"Charging"
(featuring Junny)
[upper-alpha 10]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Songwriting credits

All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database unless stated otherwise.[51]

Year Album Song Lyrics Music Arrangement
Credited With Credited With Credited With
2022 My "Rain" (소나기) Yes No N/A No N/A

Videography

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Music videos

Year Title Director(s) Ref.
2022 "Drive" VISUALFROM. [52]

Filmography

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Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2021 Her Bucket List Lee Hye-in KakaoTV film [53]

Web series

Year Title Role Ref.
2021 Replay: The Moment Yoo Ha-young [17]
Delivery Kwak Doo-shik [54]
Adult Trainee Bang Ye-kyung [36]

Television shows

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2020 King of Mask Singer Contestant As "Boiled Egg" (Episodes 243–244) [55]
My Dream Is Ryan Special students with (G)I-dle's Yuqi (Episodes 14–16) [56][57]
Seoul Connects U Tour guide with (G)I-dle's Yuqi [22]
2021 Kingdom: Legendary War Guest performer with BtoB (Episode 8) [58]
Alphabet Together Cast Member Chucheok Special [59]
Do You Lightsum Teacher with Lightsum [60]
2023 HMLYCP Cast Member [61]

Web shows

Year Title Role Ref.
2021 Love Catcher in Seoul Host [62]
Get It Beauty Salon [63]
2022 Good Advertisement 2 [64]

Hosting

Year Title Notes Ref.
2020 K-Culture Festival Concert in Andong with Jo Jung-sik and The Boyz's Sunwoo [citation needed]
2021–present M Countdown with Nam Yoon-su (2021–2023) and Monsta X's Joohoney (2023–present) [65][66]
2021 Quiz from the Stars with Nam Chang-hee, Jo Se-ho and Kim Hwan [67]
2021 Together Again, Kpop Concert with The Boyz's Kevin and Jacob [68][69][70]
2022–2023 10-Minutes PlayTime : HuMung Being with Miyeon Google Play Korea; February 18, 2022 – February 3, 2023 [71][72]
2023 12th Circle Chart Music Awards with NCT's Doyoung [73]

Radio shows

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2021–2023 Gossip Idle Official DJ Season 1: February 9, 2021 – July 12, 2022
Season 2: October 11, 2022 – January 10, 2023
[74][75][76]

Awards and nominations

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Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination
Award ceremony Year Category Nominee / Work Result Ref.
Asian Pop Music Awards 2022 Best Female Artist (Overseas) My Nominated [77]
Mnet Asian Music Awards 2022 Best Female Artist "Drive" Nominated [78]
Seoul International Drama Awards 2021 Outstanding Korean Drama OST "Dreaming About You" Nominated [79]
"We Already Fell In Love" (with Minnie) Nominated

Notes

  1. "You Were My Breath" did not enter Circle Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 96 on Circle Download Chart.[30]
  2. "Blue Moon" did not enter Circle Digital Chart, but peaked at position 79 on component Download Chart.[46]
  3. "Dreaming About You" did not enter Circle Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 73 on Circle BGM Chart.[47]
  4. "Someday" did not enter Circle Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 118 on Circle Download Chart.[48]
  5. "Sweet Dream" did not enter Circle Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 97 on Circle Download Chart.[49]
  6. "Rose" did not enter Gaon Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 73 on Gaon Download Chart.[50]
  7. "Te Amo" did not enter Gaon Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 79 on Gaon Download Chart.[50]
  8. "Rain" (소나기)" did not enter Gaon Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 80 on Gaon Download Chart.[50]
  9. "Softly" did not enter Gaon Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 93 on Gaon Download Chart.[50]
  10. "Charging did not enter Gaon Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 99 on Gaon Download Chart.[50]

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