Kye Beom-ju (Hangul: 계범주, born November 8, 1991),[1] better known by the stage name Bumzu (Hangul: 범주), 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]
Bumzu | |
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계범주 | |
![]() Bumzu in 2023 producing Second Wind | |
Born | Kye Beom-ju November 8, 1991 Seoul, South Korea |
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Musical career | |
Genres | |
Instrument | Vocals |
Years active | 2011–present |
Labels | Pledis |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 계범주 |
Revised Romanization | Gye Beom-ju |
McCune–Reischauer | Kye Bŏmchu |
In 2024, he was the recipient of KOMCA's Grand Prize, having been the highest-earning songwriter for K-pop in 2023.[3]
Biography and career
editBumzu 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".[4] 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.[6][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.[10]
Discography
editStudio albums
editTitle | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
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KOR [11] | |||
Good Life |
Track listing
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59 | — |
Extended plays
editTitle | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
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KOR [11] | |||
Something Special |
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36 | — |
24 |
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66 | |
27 (많지도 + 적지도 : 스물일곱) |
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59 |
Singles
editTitle | Year | Peak chart positions |
Sales (DL) | Album | |
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KOR [13] | |||||
"Oh My Girl" feat. New Champ |
2011 | — | — | Non-album singles | |
"I'm Sick Of It" (질릴만도한데) feat. 8Dro |
2012 | — | |||
"The Ceiling" (낯선 천장) feat. Muwoong |
2013 | 60 |
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Good Life | |
"Something Special" feat. Dok2 |
63 |
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"Game Over" | 2014 | 96 |
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Non-album single | |
"28.5" feat. Jungin |
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Good Life | ||
"Live" (살아) | 2015 | — | — | ||
"Give It 2 U" feat. P.O, Niihwa |
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"I Want You Back" | 2016 | — | — | Non-album single | |
"Once" (한 때) feat. Raina |
2017 | — | 27 | ||
"Just" | — | ||||
"A.C.C.E.L" | — | ||||
"I'm Good" (아무렇지 않아) feat. Sik-K |
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Collaborations
editYear | Title | Other artist(s) |
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2011 | "Just Friend" | Ven, Colson |
2014 | "Shall We Meet" (우리 한번 만나볼래요) | Tarin |
2017 | "Forever Young" | Han Dong-geun |
Soundtrack appearances
editYear | Title | Album |
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2015 | "First Time" (첨이야) | A Girl Who Sees Smells OST |
Production discography
editCredits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association unless otherwise specified.[10]
Year | Artist | Album | Song(s) | Note(s) |
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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 | Non-album single | "Fallin' Flower" | Korean and Japanese versions | |
Nu'est | The Nocturne | "I'm In Trouble" | ||
"Firework" | ||||
"Back To Me" | ||||
"Must" | ||||
"Shooting Star" | ||||
Seventeen | Non-album single | "Us, Again" (우리다시) | ||
Heng:garæ | "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 | Non-album single | "Abyss" | ||
2021 | Rain | Pieces by Rain | "Why Don't We" | |
Seventeen | Non-album singles | "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 | Non-album single | "Bittersweet" feat. Lee Hi | ||
Seventeen | Your Choice | "Heaven's Cloud" | ||
"Ready to love" | ||||
"Anyone" | ||||
"GAM3 BO1" | ||||
"Wave" | ||||
"Same Dream Same Mind Same Night" | ||||
Hoshi | Non-album single | "Horangi Power" | ||
Seventeen | Attacca | "To You" | ||
"Rock with You" | ||||
"Crush" | ||||
"Pang!" | ||||
"Imperfect Love" | ||||
"I Can't Run Away" | ||||
"2 minus 1" | ||||
Dino | Non-album singles | "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 | Non-album single | "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 | Non-album singles | "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 | Non-album singles | "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 |
References
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