SECRET NUMBER

Concept photo for "Starlight"

**SECRET NUMBER** (시크릿 넘버) is a six-member girl group under Vine Entertainment. Originally as five, the group officially debuted on May 19, 2020 with the single album "Who Dis?".

They were set to debut on March 26, 2020, but the date was postponed due to the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19.

## History

### **2019–2020: Pre-debut to debut**

On December 17, 2019, the agency posted a photo on their Instagram account, announcing that there is 100 days until the debut of their new girl group, meaning that they are set to debut on March 26, 2020. However, on March 12, 2020, it was announced that the debut was postponed in order to insure the health and safety of the members after the worldwide outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

On April 28, 2020 the agency released a mysterious teaser image for something to which would come next, and on the 29th, they announced the group name to be "SECRET NUMBER" with another teaser image, the opening of group's SNS and a dance cover of "Medicine" by Jennifer Lopez. On May 6, it was revealed in an article on Naver that the group will be making their official debut on May 19 with a single titled "Who Dis?".

### **2021: Fandom name, new members, Fire Saturday**

On January 8, the group announced their fandom name would be LOCKEY, which means "people who become KEYs that open the locked appeal of SECRET NUMBER".

On September 30, Vine Entertainment announced that Denise would be unable to participate in SECRET NUMBER's upcoming comeback album and future activities due to contract adjustments.

On October 5, a teaser was released for the group's upcoming third single album, which teases two additional members. It was later revealed that their third single album "Fire Saturday" would be released on October 27. The two new members were then revealed to be former *Produce 101* and *Produce 48* contestant Minji and Vine Entertainment trainee Zuu. The latter was revealed on October 15 and the former on October 18.

### **2022: Denise's departure, Doomchita**

On February 5, 2022, Denise revealed that her contract with Vine Entertainment expired on February 1 and she officially left both the agency and SECRET NUMBER simultaneously.

On May 9, Vine Entertainment posted a "coming soon" photo on SECRET NUMBER's SNS accounts, announcing they would be making a comeback on June 8. Their fourth single album "Doomchita" was released on June 8 with the title track of the same name used as the promotional track.

On November 6, Vine Entertainment posted a spoiler video for their upcoming comeback. The name of the single album was revealed to be "Tap", set to be released on November 16.

### 2023: Japanese debut, Doxa, Starlight

On February 21, the group announced their plans to make their Japanese debut with their first single, "Like It Like It", which was released on April 5.

The group released their sixth single album, Doxa, on May 24, 2023.

On August 15, it was announced that the group would release their seventh single album "Starlight", on August 24.

## Discography

Single albums* "Who Dis?" (2020)
* "Got That Boom" (2020)
* "Fire Saturday" (2021)
* "Doomchita" (2022)
* "Tap" (2022)
* "Doxa" (2023)
* "Starlight" (2023)

OSTs* "Love, Maybe" (from "Business Proposal OST") (2022)
Singles* "Like It Like It"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 (KR) Joins Prime: Rookie girl group Secret Number, 2020 music industry reception notice: Official debut on May 19th
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 @vineent\_official on Instagram (March 12, 2020)
3. ↑ @vineent\_official on Instagram (December 17, 2019)
4. ↑ @vineent\_official on Instagram (April 28, 2020)
5. ↑ @secretnumber.official on Instagram (April 29, 2020)
6. ↑ @secretnumber.official on Instagram (April 29, 2020)
7. ↑ Soompi: SECRET NUMBER Reveals Official Fan Club Name
8. ↑ @5ecretNumber on Twitter (September 30, 2021)
9. ↑ @5ecretNumber on Twitter (October 5, 2021)
10. ↑ @5ecretNumber on Twitter (October 8, 2021)
11. ↑ @5ecretnumber on Twitter: Fire Saturday Photo Teaser - ZUU (October 15, 2021)
12. ↑ @5ecretnumber on Twitter: Fire Saturday Photo Teaser - MINJI (October 18, 2021)