Concert Name: | United Cube Concert – One |
Artist: | United Cube |
Album: | Various |
Date: | June 16, 2018 |
Venue: | Korea International Exhibition Center |
Duration: | 4 hours 30 minutes |
Attendance: | 8,500 |
Last Concert: | I Want Cube Pop in Macau (2016) |
This Concert: | United Cube Concert – One (2018) |
Next Concert: | U & Cube Festival 2019 in Japan (2019) |
United Cube Concert – One was the second domestic concert of South Korean music label Cube Entertainment in 2018. The concert takes place at KINTEX in Seoul[1] with an audience of 8,500 people.[2]
On May 4, 2018, Cube Entertainment announced through its official SNS that it will hold a family concert titled United Cube -ONE-. The event took place at KINTEX, Ilsan on June 16. The concert marks the agency's first family concert in five years since United Cube – Cube Party in 2013.[3] Ticket went on sale online started on May 9, 2018, at 8 PM [4] and was sold out in two minutes.[5]
On June 14, Cube Entertainment revealed that Jo Kwon, BTOB’s Eunkwang and Im Hyun-sik, CLC’s Sorn and Seunghee, Pentagon's Hui and Jinho, and (G)I-DLE’s Miyeon and Minnie prepared a special stage at Mnet’s M Countdown and KBS2’s Music Bank under the name 'United Cube' where they perform a song called 'One Step'. The song was composed and written by Hyunsik about hope and comfort with a message that no matter how tired and worn out you are, as long as you keep taking one step forward towards your dream, you will reach it one day.[6]
On the day of the concert, a press conference was held to commemorate the opening of '2018 UNITED CUBE -ONE-' at 2nd KINTEX Exhibition Center.[7] [8] CUBE TV Hangtime app aired the concert for the audience who were unable to attend the concert. Twenty live video feeds from the concert and from backstage were used to produce twelve live streams.[9] [10]
The concert last a total of four hours which featured performances by a total of thirty-three Cube artists including HyunA, Jo Kwon, BTOB, CLC, Pentagon, (G)I-DLE and Yoo Seon-ho.[11] Triple H gave a sneak preview of their new song Retro Future ahead of their comeback.[12] Lai Guan-lin made a surprise appearance on stage for the encore with his fellow labelmates.[13]
On June 17, Cube released 'Upgrade', 'Mermaid', 'Follow Your Dreams' (한걸음) and 'Young & One' from its family concert "United Cube One" through several music portals, including Melon and iTunes.[14]
A total of 33 singers participated in the concert.
This set list is representative of the show on June 16, 2018.Intro & VCR
width=200 | Air Date | width=280 | Country | width=150 | Network | width=150 | Ref. |
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June 16, 2018 | Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Dubai and United States | CUBE TV Hangtime app | [15] | ||||
July 7, 2018–present Every Saturday from 7:00pm | Worldwide | CUBE Tv | [16] |