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| Birth Name: | Kye Beom-ju | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 8 November 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||
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Kye Beom-ju (born November 8, 1991),[1] better known by the stage name Bumzu, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and record producer. Bumzu is best known for writing and producing much of the discographies of boy bands NU'EST and Seventeen.[2]
In 2024, he was the recipient of KOMCA's Grand Prize, having been the highest-earning songwriter for K-pop in 2023.[3]
Bumzu grew up in Seoul, and learned the violin as a child. By the age of high school, he became active in Hongdae's underground music scene.[4] His first mainstream work was composing for H.O.T's Jang Woo-hyuk's "Don't Go, Go Away" in 2011. He then participated in the singing competition show Superstar K 4 at the age of 22,[5] which has been noted as his big break.[6]
Following the show, he began producing songs for Pledis artists including After School and Nu'est, and has produced songs alongside Woozi for Seventeen since their debut song "Adore U". Bumzu and Woozi's studio, "Universe Factory", is named after a portmanteau of their names in Korean – 우주 (woozi/bumju; wooju) literally meaning "universe".[7]
Since 2020 he has been the co-CEO of the music production company Prismfilter Music Group.[8]
In 2024, Bumzu became the primary music producer for new group TWS under the pseudonym "Wasurenai".[9] In February, he was awarded KOMCA's grand prize, having been the highest-earning songwriter for K-pop in 2023.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR | |||
| Something Special |
| 36 | rowspan="3" |
| 24 |
| 66 | |
| 27 (많지도 + 적지도 : 스물일곱) |
| 59 | |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Sales (DL) | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [12] | ||||||
| "Oh My Girl" | 2011 | — | rowspan="2" | |||
| "I'm Sick Of It" (질릴만도한데) | 2012 | — | ||||
| "The Ceiling" (낯선 천장) | 2013 | 60 |
| Good Life | ||
| "Something Special" | 63 |
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| "Game Over" | 2014 | 96 |
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| "28.5" | — |
| Good Life | |||
| "Live" (살아) | 2015 | — | ||||
| "Give It 2 U" | — |
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| "I Want You Back" | 2016 | — | ||||
| "Once" (한 때) | 2017 | — | 27 | |||
| "Just" | — | |||||
| "A.C.C.E.L" | — | |||||
| "I'm Good" (아무렇지 않아) | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||
| Year | Title | Other artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | "Just Friend" | Ven, Colson |
| 2014 | "Shall We Meet" (우리 한번 만나볼래요) | Tarin |
| 2017 | "Forever Young" | Han Dong-geun |
Credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association unless otherwise specified.[18]
| Year | Artist | Album | Song(s) | Note(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Rainbow | Rainbow Syndrome | "Chewing Time" | ||
| After School | First Love | "Make-up & tears" | |||
| 2014 | NU'EST | Re:Birth | "Good Bye Bye" | ||
| 2015 | Seventeen | 17 Carat | "Adore U" | ||
| Shinee | Married to the Music | "Hold You" | |||
| Seventeen | Boys Be | "Fronting" | |||
| "Mansae" | |||||
| 2016 | Nu'est | Q is | "Lost & Found" | ||
| "Overcome" | |||||
| "VVith" | |||||
| "Emotion" | |||||
| Seventeen | Love & Letter | "Pretty U" | |||
| "Popular Song" | |||||
| "Adore U" | |||||
| "Monday to Saturday" | |||||
| Sik-K | Flip | "Act Different" | |||
| Seventeen | Love & Letter Repackage Album | "Very Nice" | |||
| "Can't See The End" | |||||
| Nu'est | Canvas | "R.L.T.L" | |||
| "Love Paint (Every Afternoon)" | |||||
| "Thank You (Evening By Evening)" | |||||
| "Look (A Starlight Night)" | |||||
| 2PM | Gentlemen's Game | "How Is It?" | |||
| Seventeen | Going Seventeen | "Beautiful" | |||
| "Boom Boom" | |||||
| "Highlight" | |||||
| "Lean On Me" | |||||
| 2017 | NCT 127 | Limitless | "Back 2 U (AM 01:27)" | ||
| Seventeen | Al1 | "Don't Wanna Cry" | |||
| "If I" | |||||
| "Swimming Fool" | |||||
| "My I" | |||||
| "Crazy in Love" | |||||
| Pristin | Hi! Pristin | "Wee Woo" | |||
| Sik-K | H.A.L.F (Have.A.Little.Fun) | "Have A Little Fun" | |||
| Pristin | Schxxl Out | "We Are Pristin" | |||
| "We Like" | |||||
| NU'EST W | W, Here | "My Beautiful" | |||
| "Where You At" | |||||
| "Paradise" | |||||
| "Good Love" | |||||
| "With" | |||||
| Seventeen | Teen, Age | "Intro. New World" | |||
| "Change Up" | |||||
| "Without You" | |||||
| "Clap" | |||||
| "Lilili Yabbay" | |||||
| "Trauma" | |||||
| "Flower" | |||||
| "Rocket" | |||||
| "Hello" | |||||
| "Campfire" | |||||
| "Outro. Incompletion" | |||||
| Han Dong-geun | Broken People | "Where We Were in Love" | |||
| 2018 | Fromis 9 | To. Heart | "Glass Shoes" | ||
| Seventeen | Director's Cut | "Thinkin' about you" | |||
| "Thanks" | |||||
| "Run to you" | |||||
| "Falling For U" | |||||
| Nu'est W | Wake,n | "L.I.E." | |||
| "Help Me" | |||||
| "Wi-Fi" | |||||
| "I hate you" | |||||
| "You & I" | |||||
| "Feels" | |||||
| Seventeen | We Make You | "Call Call Call!" | |||
| Fromis 9 | To. Day | "DKDK" | |||
| Nu'est W | Who, You | "Signal" | |||
| "Dejavu" | |||||
| "Polaris" | |||||
| "ylenoL" | |||||
| "Gravity & Moon" | |||||
| "Shadow" | |||||
| Seventeen | You Make My Day | "Oh My!" | |||
| "Holiday" | |||||
| "Come to me" | |||||
| "What's Good" | |||||
| "Moonwalker" | |||||
| "Our dawn is hotter than day" | |||||
| 2019 | You Made My Dawn | "Good To Me" | |||
| "Home" | |||||
| "Chilli" | |||||
| "Shhh" | |||||
| "Getting Closer" | |||||
| Nu'est | Happily Ever After | "Segno" | |||
| "Bet Bet" | |||||
| "Bass" | |||||
| "Talk About Love" | |||||
| "Different" | |||||
| "Fine" | |||||
| "Universe" | |||||
| Fromis 9 | Fun Factory | "Love RumPumPum" | Credited under the pseudonym Baekgom | ||
| Nu'est | The Table | "Call Me Back" | |||
| "Love Me" | |||||
| "One Two Three" | |||||
| "Trust Me" | |||||
| "Stay Up All Night" | |||||
| "If We" | |||||
| Seventeen | An Ode | "Hit" | |||
| "Lie Again" | |||||
| "Fear" | |||||
| "Let me hear you say" | |||||
| "247" | |||||
| "Second Life" | |||||
| "Network Love" | |||||
| "Back it up" | |||||
| "Lucky" | |||||
| "Snap Shoot" | |||||
| "Happy Ending" | Korean and Japanese versions | ||||
| 2020 | "Fallin' Flower" | Korean and Japanese versions | |||
| Nu'est | The Nocturne | "I'm In Trouble" | |||
| "Firework" | |||||
| "Back To Me" | |||||
| "Must" | |||||
| "Shooting Star" | |||||
| Seventeen | "Us, Again" (우리다시) | ||||
| "Fearless" | |||||
| "Left & Right" | |||||
| "I Wish" | |||||
| "My My" | |||||
| "Kidult" | |||||
| "Together" | |||||
| 24H | "24h" | Korean and Japanese versions | |||
| Semicolon | "Home; Run" | ||||
| "Do Re Mi" | |||||
| "Hey Buddy" | |||||
| "Light A Flame" | |||||
| "Ah! Love" | |||||
| "All My Love" | |||||
| Jin | "Abyss" | ||||
| 2021 | Rain | Pieces by Rain | "Why Don't We" | ||
| Seventeen | "Not Alone" | Korean and Japanese versions | |||
| Hoshi | "Spider" | ||||
| The8 | "Side By Side" | Korean version only | |||
| Nu'est | Romanticize | "Dress" | |||
| "Inside Out" | |||||
| "Don't Wanna Go" | |||||
| "Black" | |||||
| "Drive" | |||||
| "Earphone" | |||||
| "Need It" | |||||
| "Doom Doom" | |||||
| "Rocket Rocket" | |||||
| "I'm Not" | |||||
| Wonwoo & Mingyu | "Bittersweet" feat. Lee Hi | ||||
| Seventeen | Your Choice | "Heaven's Cloud" | |||
| "Ready to love" | |||||
| "Anyone" | |||||
| "GAM3 BO1" | |||||
| "Wave" | |||||
| "Same Dream Same Mind Same Night" | |||||
| Hoshi | "Horangi Power" | ||||
| Seventeen | Attacca | "To You" | |||
| "Rock with You" | |||||
| "Crush" | |||||
| "Pang!" | |||||
| "Imperfect Love" | |||||
| "I Can't Run Away" | |||||
| "2 minus 1" | |||||
| Dino | "Last Order" | ||||
| Seventeen | "Power of Love" | Korean and Japanese versions | |||
| Jin | "Super Tuna" (슈퍼 참치) | ||||
| 2022 | Woozi | "Ruby" | |||
| Charli XCX | "Beg for You" featuring Rina Sawayama (A. G. Cook and Vernon of Seventeen Remix) | ||||
| Nu'est | Needle & Bubble | "Overcome (Re-Mastering)" | |||
| "Love Paint (Re-Mastering)" | |||||
| "Bet Bet (Re-Mastering)" | |||||
| "Love Me (Re-Mastering)" | |||||
| "Different (Re-Mastering)" | |||||
| "Look (A Starlight Night) (Alternative House Ver)" | |||||
| "I'm In Trouble (Urban Ver.)" | |||||
| "Galaxy" | |||||
| "다시, 봄 (Again)" | |||||
| Seventeen | Face the Sun | "Darl+ing" | |||
| "Hot" | |||||
| "Don Quixote" | |||||
| "March" | |||||
| "Domino" | |||||
| "Shadow" | |||||
| "'Bout You" | |||||
| "If you leave me" | |||||
| "Ash" | |||||
| Sector 17 | "Circles" | ||||
| "World" | |||||
| "Cheers" | |||||
| Baekho | Good Job OST | "Savior" | |||
| Absolute Zero | "Festival In My Car" | ||||
| "Love Burn" | |||||
| "No Rules" | |||||
| "We Don't Care No More" feat. June One of Glen Check | |||||
| "Bad 4 U" | |||||
| "Wanna Go Back" feat. Sik-K (변했다고 느끼는 내가 변한 건지) | |||||
| Seventeen | "Dream" | Korean and Japanese versions | |||
| 2023 | BSS | Second Wind | "Fighting" | ||
| "Lunch" | |||||
| "7PM" | |||||
| Seventeen | FML | "F*ck My Life" | |||
| "Super" | |||||
| "Fire" | |||||
| "I Don't Understand But I Luv U" | |||||
| "Dust" | |||||
| "April Shower" | |||||
| Sik-K & Haon | Album On The Way! | "Locked In" | |||
| Seventeen | Always Yours | "Sara Sara" | |||
| Seventeenth Heaven | "SOS" | ||||
| "God of Music" | |||||
| "Diamond Days" | |||||
| "Yawn" | |||||
| "Back 2 Back" | |||||
| "Monster" | |||||
| "Headliner" | |||||
| Baekho | "What Are We" feat. Park Jiwon of Fromis_9 | ||||
| S.Coups | "Me" (난) | ||||
| 2024 | TWS | Sparkling Blue | "Plot Twist" | Credited under the pseudonym Wasurenai | |
| "Oh Mymy: 7s" | |||||
| Seventeen | "The Meaning of Encounter" (만남의의미) (相遇的意义) | ||||
| Haon | "Over You" | ||||
| Seventeen | 17 Is Right Here | "Maestro" | |||
| "Lalali" | |||||
| "Spell" | |||||
| "Cheers To Youth" | |||||
| TWS | Summer Beat | "hey! hey | " | Credited under the pseudonym Wasurenai | |
| Jeonghan X Wonwoo | This Man | "Last Night" | |||
| "Beautiful Monster" | |||||
| "Leftover" | |||||
| TWS | Summer Beat | "You + Me = 7942" | Credited under the pseudonym Wasurenai | ||
| "If I'm an 'S' please be my 'N'" | |||||
| "Double Take" | |||||
| "If I were Sun" | |||||
| Fromis 9 | Supersonic | "Supersonic" | Credited under the pseudonym Baekgom | ||