RAIN

Kao Tian

Junseo Gim

Lea Kim

Qiu Li

**Rain** ( Korean: 비; RR: '**bi**) is a six member coed group under Big Planet Music. They debuted January 13, 2030 under CO Entertainment with their Debut Single Album"RAIN+" and title track "Breaking Rules". They have become one of the most prominent co-ed groups in the industry and are praised by the public by their charisma on stage.

RAIN disbanded briefly on December 13, 2042 due to internal conflicts with their label CO Entertainment. The group was re-launched on late 2046 under Big Planet Music. They are one of the most successful coed-groups in the K-pop industry ever created.

## History

### Pre-Debut

All the members of **RAIN** were originally trainees under Epic Music Entertainment. Epic Music wanted to debut their 1st Coed-group and was preparing for a schedule debut around 2027. At the end, Epic Music executives decided that instead of debuting the group under Epic it would be best to be passed to their sub-label SERZ Label. All the members transfer companies to SERZ were they trained for almost two years until their debut. Most of all the members trained for almost 5 to 6 years.

### 2030: Debut with "RAIN+" and "RAIN++"

RAIN released their debut EP, RAIN+ on January 13, 2030, with two lead singles "Breaking Rules" and "You Wan't It". Both songs peaked at #1 in South Korea and Japan making them the only rookie coed-group to achieve this on that year. RAIN earned their first Music Show win for "Breaking Rules" on S-Countdown after three days of debut and in total took home 6 Music Show wins. After this the group went into a hiatus of six months and returned back on August 1, with their second EP, RAIN++, with two lead singles "Crazy Over You" and "Don't Touch Me" which both also topped #1 in South Korea and Japan. By the end of the year, knetz named RAIN as a "Monster Rookie" due to their powerful digital strength. Due to the hiatus, RAIN failed to win any "Rookie of the year" as their sales were low compared to other rookies of the year.

### 2031: 1st Mini Album "RAIN+++" and 2nd Mini Album "Tonight"

On June 8, 2031, RAIN released their first mini album RAIN+++, with lead single track "OH &YEAH" which peaked at #2 in South Korea and Japan and took home 7 music show wins. Also the MV surpassed 270 Million Views within 2 months after release. After this RAIN, once again went into hiatus this was due to that their label SERZ was no longer running as it was closed so RAIN had to move to a new company named FOREVER Entertainment another subsidiary of Epic Music Entertainment and their CEO was wanting to make adjustments to their music style. After months of hiatus RAIN finally returned back on December 7, with their second mini album TONIGHT, with the lead single of the same name. The single peaked at #1 in South Korea and Japan and within one week after release its MV surpassed 100 Million Views on K-Tube and within two months reached 383 Million Views becoming their 1st and fastest Mv to achieve this so far. Also, the single sold over 2 Million Copies which became RAIN first song to due so.

### 2032: 3rd Mini Album "GUNSHOT" and "Song of the year"

RAIN retuned back on the summer with their 3rd Mini Album GUNSHOT, with the lead single of the same name. The single peaked at #1 in South Korea and Japan and won "Best Hip-Pop Song" at the annual Summer Splash Award Show earning RAIN their first season award since debut. They also took home 6 music show wins and their MV surpassed 400 Million Views on K-Tube becoming their 1st MV to do so so far. Also, it sold over 2.80 Million Copies and their album sold over 7.26 Million making it their 1st mini album to do so. By November, RAIN won "Song of the year" at the annual K-Golden Music Awards for their song "GUNSHOT". In that same day, RAIN revealed that they would be making a comeback in January with their 1st Studio Album.

### 2033: 1st Studio Album "RAIN\*"

On January 27,2033, RAIN released their 1st Studio Album, RAIN\*, with lead single 'Let Me Dance" which peaked at #1 in SK and Japan. The single took home 5 music show wins and sold over 2.89 Copies and its MV surpassed 431 Million Views on K-Tube. Knetz praised RAIN for their achievements as a coed-group and praised their music style and stage presence. RAIN once again didn't release any new music products after a whole year. members during the year did V-lives to communicate with fans to keep them at ease that they would be returning "SOON". But this was not true, as it was revealed that their company had merge with other labels to form FSW Entertainment and that change would delay the group return until the following year. RAIN made several end of the year performances at the MBZ Music Festival and Snet Kcon in Japan.

### 2034: 4th Mini Album "READY FOR LOVE" and 5th Mini Album "DA DA"

After almost 1 year after the release of their 1st Studio Album RAIN released their 4th Mini Album READY FOR LOVE, on February 10,2034 with the lead single of the same name. It peaked at #2 in SK and JP. It took home 3music show wins. The members had a Premier Showcase in S Countdown and it was the first one ever made for a group. Also, RAIN had several promotional activities in SK like Fan Meetings and Street Performances with their fans. Several months after, RAIN made another comeback with their 5th Mini Album DA DA, with the lead single of the same name. It was the first time that RAIN multiple comebacks in one year since two years. RAIN fans even sent food trucks to FSW Entertainment building to thank staff for the good management given to RAIN. Their title track "DA DA" peaked at #1 in SK and JP and its album sold a total of 7.79 Million Copies making it the highest sold album so far. RAIN performed at several music festivals like the "MBZ Music Fest", "Dream Concert" and "Snet KCON".

### 2035: Japan debut with 1st Jp Mini Album DA DA and 1st Digital Dingle "MOON"

FSW Entertainment announced that RAIN would be making their Japanese debut after five years since their debut. RAIN would be making their Japanese debut sometime on march with their 1st Jp mini album which would have some new Jp songs and some previously released songs but in Japanese. On March 10, 2035 RAIN released their 1st Jp Mini Album "DA DA", with the lead single "Got Me Hooked" which peaked at #1 in JP and it sold over 3.36 Copies in total for the song which proved the extremely popularity of RAIN in Japan also it became one of the highest JP Debut Singles for a K-pop Coed Group in JAPAN. RAIN had their JP Premier Showcase at the Tokyo Dome with a capacity of 55,000 spectators which sold out in less than hour. Also, RAIN appeared in Several JP Music Shows. On August 23, RAIN released their 1st Digital Single MOON which peaked at #1 in SK and JP. It took home 5 music show wins and it sold over 2 Million Copies.

### 2036: 6th Mini Album "VIPER" and "S&L" Sub-unit debut

After more than a year, RAIN returned back on September 14, with their 6th Mini Album "VIPER", with the lead single of the same name. It peaked at #5 in SK and JP. But the song became viral after in SK after it was used for a funny comercial on November it rose to #1 in all realtime charts in SK. Since then, it was able to sell over 3.71 Million Copies becoming RAIN highest sold lead single in SK and their MV surpassed 550 Million Views making it their highest viewed MV so far. RAIN won "Best Pop Song" at the annual Autumn Leaves Music Awards making it their third season award. On November 7, female members SHUI & LEA made their debut as a sub-unit with their debut track "Get It" which peaked at #7 and took home two music show wins. Their promotion was cut off after the viral success of VIPER but they promised they will be returning with more music soon.

### 2037: Contract Renewal, 2nd Jp Mini Album and 2nd Album "PON-ZA"

RAIN exclusive contract would have come to and end on January 13, 2037 making it seven years since their debut. RAIN did a B-Live on January 12th and annouced that the group did renew their contracts with their label FSW Entertainment for another 7 years. They also thanked their fans for all the support that they have given RAIN. On March 4, they released their 2nd Jp Mini Album "VIPER" with all the song of their 6th Mini Album but in Japanese. In July 5, they released their 2nd full album "Pon-za" with the lead track "Ponzoma"

### 2038: 2nd Digital Single "MANIAC" and 7th Mini Album "LIAR"

FSW Entertainment announced that RAIN will be making a comeback with a new digital single after 11 months after the release of their 2nd Full Album "PON-ZA" this new single will showcase RAIN duality in terms of dance performance and vocal capabilities. On May 6, RAIN released their 2nd digital single "MANIAC" which debuted at #3 and peaked at #1 in SK. On December 10, RAIN made their highly anticipated return with their 7th Mini Album "LIAR" which debuted at #12 and peaked at #1 in SK.

### 2039: Single Album "DADADUM (다다 둠)", 3rd JP Mini Album "PON-ZA" & "PON-ZA DOME TOUR"

RAIN released their 1st Single Album "DADADUM" with its lead single of the same name and a b-side of its JP version. It debuted at #11 and peaked at #7 SK and in JP it debuted at #12 and peaked at #2. After more than two years, RAIN returned back to JAPAN after releasing their 3rd JP Mini Album "PON-ZA" with previous released singles from their 2nd Album "PON-ZA". The album debuted at #2 Oricon Album Charts and its lead single at #3.

On August 31, their summer hit "DADADUM" won as the "Best Pop Song" making it their fourth season award to receive. RAIN will be having their first JAPAN Dome Tour set to start on November 1st until December 12th. They will have a total 16 shows over six major cities in JAPAN its the first major dome tour made by a k-pop coed group. The dome tour is called "JAPAN PONZ-A DOME TOUR".

### 2040: 8th Mini Album "RIVER" , "THE RIVER WORLD TOUR" & "CHASE ME"

On January 13th, its the 10th Anniversary of RAIN debut. FSW Entertainment in order to celebrate the group's 10th anniversary they hosted multiple popup stores around the world including SK and held a special online concert "RAIN 10TH". FSW CEO gifted each member a luxury sports car and their own apartments after being active so long.After almost two years since their last 7th EP, RAIN returned back on January 29 with their 8th Mini Album "RIVER". Its lead single topped major K-charts after release.. On October 10th, FSW Entertainment announced that RAIN will embark in a new tour "THE RIVER WORLD TOUR" they will start in South Korea on November 10th and finish March 15th in JAPAN. They will attend over 8 continents and 30 cities across the world. Before embarking in their tour RAIN released a single titled "CHASE ME" as gift for fans.

### 2041: "CHASE ME" JP Version" , " ME (么)" Digital Single , & 9th Mini Album "DON'T"

RAIN released the Japanese Version of "CHASE ME" on March 10th and will be promoted within the Japanese Tour Stops in JAPAN from their "RIVER WORLD TOUR" until March 15th. After that the group finished with their tour they took a small break of two months before making their next comeback with their Digital Single ME (么) on July 31st. Members explained that this single is to give their fans a sense of independence and empowerment. The singled ended up peaking at #5 in SK. Also, a few days later the group earned their 100 Music show win on August 5th becoming the first coed Kpop group to reach this milestone. 'T

After a small break, RAIN returned back with their 9th Mini Album "DON'T" on September 15th. Their lead single "Don't Fight This Feeling" surpassed 100 Million views on K-Tube after two weeks after release becoming their fastest mv to do so. The group revealed that they will become more active next year by releasing more music. On November 10th, FSW announced that RAIN had signed an exclusive contract with US label Republic Records for their expansion abroad.

### 2042: "PING PONG" Single & 10th Mini Album "DUNGEON OF LOVE" & "Rumored Disbandment"

RAIN released their 1st English Singled titled "PING PONG" on February 5th for their debut abroad. The single peaked and debuted in the US HOT 100 chart at #39 becoming RAIN highest and first single to chart on this prestigious chart, It also peaked at #1 Billboard Global 200 and respectively in the Digital Song Sales Chart. RAIN made their US TV debut on the "Tonight Show" on February 10. Also, they made an appearance on the ABC "THE VOICE" on February 16 and performed their single "PING PONG". During a billboard interview RAIN revealed the group will debut another sub-unit later in the year. On November 10th, RAIN released their 10th Mini Album "Dungeon of Love". The album reached a total of #78 #1's across the globe & it sold an equivalent of 2Million Copies a week after release.

Members of RAIN released a bunch of statements where they revealed that their label FSW has told them that they will no longer be promoting on variety shows and music shows further on. Also, they reveled the multiple times that they had been mistreated by company staff & their living conditions have not been improved compared to. They also have not been paid properly since 2036 and are currently demanding to get paid and get better treatment despite their contract coming to an end on January 13,2044. In response FSW Entertainment released a statement denying all the allegations of the members and stated that the group contracts were terminated as of December 13, 2042 thus the group was disbanded. On December 14, all official SNS accounts of the group were placed into "Private Account" and the company website RAIN was no longer listed as an artist. Many fans were outrage as how FSW was behaving after their artist exposed them unethical practices. On December 20, all the members opened personal SNS accounts and revealed that FSW were mistreating them all and over worked like "slaves". Also, after revealing how FSW treated them they were allegedly kicked out of their dorms without even gathering their personal belongings and according to their CEO their contracts right in there were terminated. All the members would take legal action against the company for lack of payment, humiliation, and terrible working conditions.

### 2045-2046: Lawsuit with Wonder Music & Group Relaunched under "Big Planet"

It was revery news outlets that all the ex-members of RAIN had sued their ex-label Wonder Music for failing to pay up to their corresponding percentages and failure to manage the group well in thus resulting personal damage to all the members. The lawsuit was placed almost two years ago but was kept silence from the public to not tarnish Wonder Music reputation. Wonder Music had to pay up an equivalent $15,000,000,000 Billion K-Coin for all the unpaid wages of the group since their contract renewal back on 2037. Also, the label paid some of the members an equivalent of $35,000,000 unpaid royalties for being producers of some of the group songs. After this, RAIN opened new social media accounts right after this previous ones where deleted by CO Entertainment. They held a Instagram-live revealing that the group didn't wanted to disband rather their label disbanded them and didn't allowed them to keep the RAIN name. But due to the fact they sued their former label they were able to re-gain the rights and all the members used some part of the money to buy the copyright of the group name thus making them able to re-use it. They also announced that RAIN from now now would re-continue as a group and they will plan soon to release new music. They also announced that all the members had signed an exclusive contract with Big Planet Music for the group promotions but not group music releases meaning that the group could release music at any moment.

### 2047: 3rd Album "You Thought You Could End Me" & 1st JP Album "Could Never Leave You"

RAIN made their highly group re-launched under Big Planet Music on February 15th, with the release of their 3rd Album "You Thought You Could End Me". During the showcase, all the members revealed that they wanted to release a full body work describing and shading their former company CO Entertainment. After release, the album topped ww iTunes album chart #1 and achieved over 150 #1's across iTunes. The album went to sell over 3.5 Million copies on its first day becoming the highest sales for the group on their 1st day of release. After a week, the album debuted at #1 on US BB200 Chart and it's lead single "You Thought You Could End Me" debuted on the US HOT 100 at #21 becoming their highest charting song in this chart. The MV surpassed over 195 Million views on K-Tube. Also, RAIN surpassed over 10 Million followers on their K-Tube Account. During a tv show "KSBS Schtick Book" the members revealed that they fully had a word in all the process of the album & music video creation. Also, they reveled that they are planning on releasing a Japanese Full Length Album for their Japan fans & full English album for their western fans to enjoy as a gift. RAIN performed at the KSBS Dream Concert on March 14th. On May 4th, it was reported that the group had singed an exclusive contract with Sony Music Entertainment to oversee the group international promotions. On June 6th, Sony Music Japan dropped a teaser with the caption "RAIN Coming Soon to JAPAN". On July 1st, Sony Music Japan announced the upcoming release of RAIN 1st Japan Album titled "Could Never Leave You" containing over 25 tracks which 15 are fully new original Japanese songs & other are some of their previous korean releases that never had their Japanese versions released. On the same day, pre-orders for the album surpassed over 4.5 Million pre-orders in Japan. On July 5th, it was revealed the album would drop on August 8th. On August 8th, RAIN dropped their 1st Japan Album "Could Never Leave Me" as a celebration they would held a live-album premier showcase at the Tokyo Dome on August 10th free off charge. Due to the expected long crowds of people they would have temporary led screens outside of the dome showing the concert on real-time. It was announced on August 11th that over 500K people showed up. After this, RAIN returned to JAPAN to take a two month break. On November 25th, RAIN announced their world tour "You Thought You Could End Me" World Tour to be set in over 100 countries.

### 2048: "YTYCEM World Tour"

On February 10, 2048 RAIN started their "YTYCEM World Tour" in Seoul, South Korea with five shows. On February 12, they announced additional dates in North America, Europe, Latin America, Oceanica, and Japan. Making the "YTYCEM World Tour" their largest scale tour so far in their career.

## Members

* Yuta Hera- Main Vocalist
* Shui Hua- Rapper, Main Dancer, Center 1
* Lea Kim- Visual, Main Vocalist
* Junseo Gim- Main Rapper, Center 2
* Kao Tian- Main Vocalist
* Qiu Li- Main Vocalist

## Discography

### Single Albums

* RAIN + (2030)
* RAIN ++ (2030)
* DADADUMM (2039)

### Mini Albums

* 1st Mini Album [Rain+++]
* 2nd Mini Album [Tonight]
* 3rd Mini Album [Gunshot]
* 4th Mini Album [Ready for Love]
* 5th Mini Album [Da Da]
* 6th Mini Album [Viper]
* 7th Mini Album [Liar]
* 8th Mini Album [River]
* 9th Mini Album [Don't]
* 10th Mini Album [Dungeon of Love]

### Full Length Albums

* 1st Album [Rain\*]
* 2nd Album [Pon-za]
* 3rd Album [ You Thought You Could End Me]

### Japanse Albums

* 1st JP Mini Album [Da Da]
* 2nd JP Mini Album [Viper]
* 3rd JP Mini Album [Pon-za]
* 1st Album [ Could Never Leave Me]

## Controversies

#### Label Disputes & Mistreatment

It has been known that FSW Entertainment has been mistreating RAIN since their label merger which formed FSW. RAIN has been subject to multiple disputes with their current label in terms of contract issues and music freedom. Also, FSW has multiple times have delayed RAIN comebacks for unknown reasons. Lately, RAINs comebacks aren't even promoted via their SNS nor released a music video up to five months after release. Members have said that FSW told them that they will not be promoting in music shows or variety shows for no reason. Also, that they have not been paid properly since 2036.

## Career Stats

**RAIN Career Stats (2030-2042)\*Under CO Entertainment**

## Trivia

* First Group under FSW Ent to surpass (200 Million Sales)
* RAIN is the first coed- idol group under FSW Entertainment
* RAIN was originally meant to debut under Wave Music Entertainment
* **RAIN** is one of the few active South Korean coed-groups
* They are currently the highest selling coed-group in the industry surpassing 100 Million Album Sales
* **RAIN** is a member of the Korean Health Association and Face of Mike Cosmetics KOREA