CRAXY

**Current** | Wooah
Karin
Hyejin
Swan

**CRAXY** (크랙시) is a five-member girl group under SAI Entertainment. They debuted on March 3, 2020 with the full-length album *My Universe.*

## About

### **WishGirls**

**WishGirls** (위시걸스) is a term that refers to trainees who are not official artists under SAI Entertainment. WishGirls are trainees who passed the final audition, and through SAI Entertainment's incubating system, who then will go through the process of growing as an artist.

WishGirls were given the opportunity to become the protagonists of various programs such as solo songs and music video shooting before their debut. Professional entertainers in each field, such as professional producers, composers, and choreographers, worked together on the project.

In December 2018, WishGirls was introduced through their winter project. To celebrate Christmas, the members recorded "Wish For You", a song made out of several remade popular Christmas songs. They also shot a music video for the song inspired by The Little Match Girl story. The song was released on music sites until June 27, 2019.

In 2019, **SAI ENTERTAINMENT** revealed their plans to give all members a solo song before debuting the group. They started with the release of the music video for **Wooah**'s "***Issue***" on May 18, followed by **Hyejin**'s "***Boyfriend***" on August 10, **ChaeY'**s "***Sixteen***" on August 30, **Swan**'s "***My Soul***" on September 25, and **Karin**'s "***Ka Ka Ka***" on October 24.

On May 21, the company announced WishGirls were going to do a summer project. Similar to their winter project, the group will film a music video, but this time related to summer. For this project, they teamed up with the Indonesian actor **Glenn Alinskie** and his wife actress and singer **Chelsea Olivia**. The couple worked as co-producer on this project for nearly a year, before the music video for "***Yours Is Mine***" was finally revealed on July 12. The single would be released on music sites a month later on August 21.

On July 22, SAI ENTERTAINMENT announced an international cover contest for "Yours Is Mine". Two days later, on July 24, the company revealed the prize for the winners: a trip to Korea, recording a song with WishGirls and shooting a music video. On August 31, the winner of the dance cover contest was announced: Indonesian dance team **I'GENERATION.**

On September 6, the winners of the vocal cover contest were announced: Diva from Russia, Gigi from Hong Kong, Aaliyah from Belgium, Laras from Indonesia, and Yoerich from Indonesia. Gigi and Laras did not participate in the music video for unknown reasons. On December 9, the music video for "**We The WishGirls**" was released.

On December 13, WishGirls announced their winter project through the "***WishXMas***" music video teaser featuring all the girls from the WTW project. The music video was released on December 18. At the end of the music video, the group revealed their debut date had been set and coming soon. The date was not revealed, but was shared to fall into the first half of 2020.

On January 10, 2020 SAI ENTERTAINMENT uploaded a music video teaser for WishGirl's final pre-debut single "***My Universe***". With this teaser, they revealed the group's official name to be **CRAXY**. CRAXY, was the first and only group to debut from the WishGirls project, and was also able to grow into the group CROWNS love today.

On July 1, 2021, SAI Entertainment announced they had decided to disband WishGirls in May due to limited funding caused by the pandemic. They said they found it to be too risky to fund two groups, and will instead be focusing on CRAXY.

### **Debut, comeback issues, fandom changes & "To Dante"**

In February of 2020, the group revealed they were planning to release their debut album on March 1. The album would consist of ten tracks, including the solo and pre-debut songs. The title track was revealed to be "***Aria***". On March 1, the company posted on their social media that due to internal issues, they were postponing CRAXY's debut until March 3.

CRAXY were originally supposed to make their first comeback in August or October with a music video shot abroad. However, due to COVID-19, the group couldn't travel abroad and had to delay the comeback. They followed up on the comeback situation on September 24, where they revealed they were potentially looking at a comeback around their one-year anniversary. On the same day, they also announced they were going to change their fandom name, as it is the same name that Starship Entertainment's rookie boy group CRAVITY was using. They asked fans to submit suggestions on their Instagram.

On October 23, CRAXY released the special song "***To Dante***" on YouTube as surprise for their producer Glenn Alinskie and Chelsea Olivia to celebrate the birth of their second child a son which they named **Dante**.

### ***CRAXYverse***

On April 1, 2021, SAI Entertainment updated fans on the scheduled comeback. They assured fans CRAXY would not be disbanding and that the reason the comeback was taking so long was because they wanted to make sure the comeback was something that had not be done before and would stand out in in the fierce competition. They also revealed the comeback was scheduled to take place between the 3rd and 4th quarter of the year and that the comeback would be in collaboration with **CREATIVEHALO**. Teasers would be released in late July at the latest.

On July 23, the group uploaded their first comeback teaser with the announcement that the comeback single was scheduled to take place on October 7. On September 17, it was announced that their second album ***CRAXY Universe*** will be released, consisting of five chapters throughout October 2021 and December 2022. The album's first single "***Zero***" was released on October 7.

### ***Zero 2*, *Who Am I, Poison Rose***

Their second mini album "**Zero 2**" was released digitally on February 24, 2022. While the offline version was released on March 9, with "**Dance with God**", "**Gaia**", and "**Trigger**" serving as the album's triple title tracks. They released two versions of the music video for "**Dance with God**". The music video on **CRAXY's** own channel includes drama scenes at the end to continue the storyline. Due to the violence in these scenes, the video is age-restricted. The music video uploaded to **Genie Music** only includes the song.

"**Who Am I**" is the third mini album by **CRAXY**. It was released on August 16, 2022 with "**Undercover**" and "**Requiem**" serving as the album's double title tracks. Like before **Undercover** had a **CRAXY** version music video release, unlike before this album featured a remix made by '**Sky Sky'**. Also unlike before every song on this albums was a new release with either a music video or a performance video to go with it.

"**Poison Rose**" was released on November 10, 2022, it is the groups third digital single. It was originally slated for release on October 31, 2022, but was later postponed to November 10, 2022 due to the national mourning period following the ***Seoul Halloween crowd crush***.

### ***End of Game*, *TBA***

"End of Game" was to be released sometime in November 2022. The fifth single, which is unnamed, is supposed to be released in December. Depending on what is released next "**End of Game**" could have been renamed or scraped for "**Poison Rose**".

On December 31st fans noticed that their Instagram page was wiped clean as well as Hyejin's Instagram leading some fans to worry that the group is in the middle of disbanding with Hyejin leaving the group, other fans had hope that it was just the group preparing for their comback and that they were wiping their Instagram to prepare for a new concept.

On March 2nd fans got a reply from Sai Entertainment about what was going on with the group, in a notice posted to Twitter in both Korean and English.

"**Good Bye 'ZERO'**

CRAXY's worldview "ZERO" has come to an end. CROWN's who have been waiting for "End of Game", the last chapter of the worldview, We give our sincere apology for the disappointment.

CRAXY made its debut without stage audience on March 6 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, due to the prolonged pandemic period, members and executives and employees have considered going their own way. However we made a conclusion to stick together. And the members and executives decided to make a comeback after the pandemic ended.

But the pandemic is longer than expected, and we're worried that we were getting forgotten.

So we tried something new. Once comeback requires a lot of manpower and budget. As a start-up company, we naturally had limitations in manpower and budget. "GAIA", "Dance with God", "Requiem", "End of Game" We made a reckless plan to prepare for these four comebacks at once.

    As a result we couldn't use efficient budget for styling/visual directing. Which came out with lack of styling/visual.

Recognizing this belatedly, When the time for "End of Game" release time came upon which we already filmed. We assured that if we release "End of Game" MV, our interests and brand image would fall. So we made a hard choice to unrelease it.

So our choice was to reorganize everything. And made a bold decision even taking a budgeting risks, it was "REBOOT". Future CRAXY albums will focus more on making styling/visual directing to a higher level.

The concept of CRAXY was "Performance Group" from the start, and the plan for it remains unchanged.

The release of the new album will begin on March 6th (Mon), the third anniversary of its debut. Please look forward to CRAXY's new changes and challenges.

Thank you.

CRAXY and all employees"

Thus officially ending the ZERO worldview concept and effectively announcing the beginning of a new CRAXY.

### ***[XX]***

On March 5th CRAXY's socials were updated with a new logo and the scheduler for their next comeback. At 7pm(KST) The Logo, Scheduler and Album Artwork was revealed for [XX]. On March 8th at 6pm(KST) the music video for their 8th track"Cypher (Position)" was released.

March 10th at 6pm(KST) the Concept Sketch was revealed with the tag line, *"Don't care whoever says negative, Trust yourself and Walk".* Two days later on the 12th at 6pm(KST) the first set of concept photos was released two more days later on the 14th, the last set of concept photos was released at the same time as before.

On March 15th the concept trailer for [XX] was released and two days later on the 17th the Highlight Medley for the album was released. On the 19th the teaser for the music video for their title track NUGUDOM was revealed, following that on the 21st the teaser for the performance video was revealed and finally on the 23rd the music video for NUGUDOM was released.

### **2023 Roadmap**

On April 25, the group revealed a roadmap for the rest of 2023, which announced two further comebacks for the year. These releases would be a new single, scheduled to be released in July or August and a new mini album, scheduled for October or November. Additionally, they announced two mixtape releases. The second mixtape, titled "NO LIMIT" was released on May 9th, while the third is scheduled for September 2023.

It was announced on July 19th that CRAXY will have a mini tour starting in the USA and ending in Puerto Rico in August.

On July 31, it was announced that the due to the companies decision ChaeY would be removed from the group and the group would continue on as four memebers.