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| Origin: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||
| Genre: | K-pop | ||||||||||
| Years Active: | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Label: | Blockberry Creative | ||||||||||
| Spinoff Of: | Loona | ||||||||||
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Loona yyxy (an abbreviation for Youth youth by young) is the third sub-unit of the South Korean girl group Loona, formed through a pre-debut project titled "Girl of the Month". The unit consisted of 4 members, Yves, Go Won, Chuu and HyeJu (formerly Olivia Hye). Currently the unit consists in 3 members, without Chuu, who was removed from Loona and consequently the lineup in November 2022. They debuted with their first extended play titled Beauty & the Beat on May 30, 2018. They were the last sub-unit to debut with the pre-debut project, before the group debuted as a whole with their extended play titled [+ +].
The first member, Yves, was revealed on November 14, 2017.[1] She debuted with her single album Yves with the title track "New" on November 28.[2] Being the first introduced out of the last 4 members, the next to be revealed was Chuu. On December 14, at midnight KST, a teaser photo of the latter was revealed with a caption "A mysterious girl is coming".[3] The next single titled Chuu was released on December 27, with the title track "Heart Attack".[4] It is currently the most viewed solo video from Loona on YouTube.
On January 14, 2018, the teaser photo of the third member, Go Won, was revealed with a caption "Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don’t eat the apple. Surprise surprise.".[5] On January 30, 2 weeks later, her single Go Won was released with the title track "One&Only".[6] The final member was then hinted at in a teaser, on March 1. A teaser with all the revealed members, along with a dark figure that appears to be the 12th member. It was titled "Cinema Theory: Up & Line"[7] Their final member, HyeJu, was officially revealed with a teaser photo on March 17, at midnight KST.[8] On March 28, a teaser for her title track "Egoist" was revealed as well, which would feature previously revealed member JinSoul.[9] On March 29, her single Olivia Hye was released with the title track "Egoist" featuring JinSoul, and the second track featuring Go Won titled "Rosy".[10]
On April 26, a teaser was released titled "youth youth by young" that introduces that their sub-unit name is "yyxy" and the members as well.[11] [12] On May 19, a teaser photo was released revealing the title track "love4eva" and that it would be featuring Grimes, as some of her fans asked her to produce the group, as well.[13] [14] On May 24, a group photo teaser was released.[15] On May 28, a highlight medley was released for their upcoming extended play.[16] On May 30, their title track along with their EP Beauty & the Beat was released featuring Grimes.[17]
| Details | Peak chart positions | Sales | |||
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| KOR [18] | US World [19] | ||||
| Beauty & the Beat |
| 4 | 6 |
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| Year | Album | ||
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| "love4eva" | 2018 | Beauty & the Beat |