Kye Beom-ju (Hangul: 계범주, born November 8, 1991),[1] better known by the stage name Bumzu (Hangul: 범주), is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and record producer. Bumzu is best known for writing and producing much of the discographies of boy bands NU'EST and Seventeen.[2]
Bumzu | |
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| 계범주 | |
 Bumzu in 2023 producing Second Wind | |
| Born | Kye Beom-ju November 8, 1991 Seoul, South Korea |
| Other names |
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| Occupations |
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| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | Pledis |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 계범주 |
| Revised Romanization | Gye Beom-ju |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kye Bŏmchu |
In 2024, he was the recipient of KOMCA's Grand Prize, having been the highest-earning songwriter for K-pop in 2023.[3]
Biography and career
editBumzu grew up in Seoul, and learned the violin as a child. By the age of high school, he became active in Hongdae's underground music scene.[4] His first mainstream work was composing for H.O.T's Jang Woo-hyuk's "Don't Go, Go Away" in 2011. He then participated in the singing competition show Superstar K 4 at the age of 22,[5] which has been noted as his big break.[6]
Following the show, he began producing songs for Pledis artists including After School and Nu'est, and has produced songs alongside Woozi for Seventeen since their debut song "Adore U".[4] Bumzu and Woozi's studio, "Universe Factory", is named after a portmanteau of their names in Korean – 우주 (woozi/bumju; wooju) literally meaning "universe".[7]
Since 2020 he has been the co-CEO of the music production company Prismfilter Music Group.[6][8]
In 2024, Bumzu became the primary music producer for new group TWS under the pseudonym "Wasurenai".[9] In February, he was awarded KOMCA's grand prize, having been the highest-earning songwriter for K-pop in 2023.[10]
Discography
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [11] | |||
| Good Life |
Track listing
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59 | — |
Extended plays
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [11] | |||
| Something Special |
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36 | — |
| 24 |
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66 | |
| 27 (많지도 + 적지도 : 스물일곱) |
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59 |
Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Sales (DL) | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR [13] | |||||
| "Oh My Girl" feat. New Champ |
2011 | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "I'm Sick Of It" (질릴만도한데) feat. 8Dro |
2012 | — | |||
| "The Ceiling" (낯선 천장) feat. Muwoong |
2013 | 60 |
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Good Life | |
| "Something Special" feat. Dok2 |
63 |
| |||
| "Game Over" | 2014 | 96 |
|
Non-album single | |
| "28.5" feat. Jungin |
— |
|
Good Life | ||
| "Live" (살아) | 2015 | — | — | ||
| "Give It 2 U" feat. P.O, Niihwa |
— |
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| "I Want You Back" | 2016 | — | — | Non-album single | |
| "Once" (한 때) feat. Raina |
2017 | — | 27 | ||
| "Just" | — | ||||
| "A.C.C.E.L" | — | ||||
| "I'm Good" (아무렇지 않아) feat. Sik-K |
— | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||
Collaborations
edit| Year | Title | Other artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | "Just Friend" | Ven, Colson |
| 2014 | "Shall We Meet" (우리 한번 만나볼래요) | Tarin |
| 2017 | "Forever Young" | Han Dong-geun |
Soundtrack appearances
edit| Year | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | "First Time" (첨이야) | A Girl Who Sees Smells OST |
Production discography
editCredits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association unless otherwise specified.[10]
| Year | Artist | Album | Song(s) | Note(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Rainbow | Rainbow Syndrome | "Chewing Time" | |
| After School | First Love | "Make-up & tears" | ||
| 2014 | NU'EST | Re:Birth | "Good Bye Bye" | |
| 2015 | Seventeen | 17 Carat | "Adore U" | |
| Shinee | Married to the Music | "Hold You" | ||
| Seventeen | Boys Be | "Fronting" | ||
| "Mansae" | ||||
| 2016 | Nu'est | Q is | "Lost & Found" | |
| "Overcome" | ||||
| "VVith" | ||||
| "Emotion" | ||||
| Seventeen | Love & Letter | "Pretty U" | ||
| "Popular Song" | ||||
| "Adore U" | ||||
| "Monday to Saturday" | ||||
| Sik-K | Flip | "Act Different" | ||
| Seventeen | Love & Letter Repackage Album | "Very Nice" | ||
| "Can't See The End" | ||||
| Nu'est | Canvas | "R.L.T.L" | ||
| "Love Paint (Every Afternoon)" | ||||
| "Thank You (Evening By Evening)" | ||||
| "Look (A Starlight Night)" | ||||
| 2PM | Gentlemen's Game | "How Is It?" | ||
| Seventeen | Going Seventeen | "Beautiful" | ||
| "Boom Boom" | ||||
| "Highlight" | ||||
| "Lean On Me" | ||||
| 2017 | NCT 127 | Limitless | "Back 2 U (AM 01:27)" | |
| Seventeen | Al1 | "Don't Wanna Cry" | ||
| "If I" | ||||
| "Swimming Fool" | ||||
| "My I" | ||||
| "Crazy in Love" | ||||
| Pristin | Hi! Pristin | "Wee Woo" | ||
| Sik-K | H.A.L.F (Have.A.Little.Fun) | "Have A Little Fun" | ||
| Pristin | Schxxl Out | "We Are Pristin" | ||
| "We Like" | ||||
| NU'EST W | W, Here | "My Beautiful" | ||
| "Where You At" | ||||
| "Paradise" | ||||
| "Good Love" | ||||
| "With" | ||||
| Seventeen | Teen, Age | "Intro. New World" | ||
| "Change Up" | ||||
| "Without You" | ||||
| "Clap" | ||||
| "Lilili Yabbay" | ||||
| "Trauma" | ||||
| "Flower" | ||||
| "Rocket" | ||||
| "Hello" | ||||
| "Campfire" | ||||
| "Outro. Incompletion" | ||||
| Han Dong-geun | Broken People | "Where We Were in Love" | ||
| 2018 | Fromis 9 | To. Heart | "Glass Shoes" | |
| Seventeen | Director's Cut | "Thinkin' about you" | ||
| "Thanks" | ||||
| "Run to you" | ||||
| "Falling For U" | ||||
| Nu'est W | Wake,n | "L.I.E." | ||
| "Help Me" | ||||
| "Wi-Fi" | ||||
| "I hate you" | ||||
| "You & I" | ||||
| "Feels" | ||||
| Seventeen | We Make You | "Call Call Call!" | ||
| Fromis 9 | To. Day | "DKDK" | ||
| Nu'est W | Who, You | "Signal" | ||
| "Dejavu" | ||||
| "Polaris" | ||||
| "ylenoL" | ||||
| "Gravity & Moon" | ||||
| "Shadow" | ||||
| Seventeen | You Make My Day | "Oh My!" | ||
| "Holiday" | ||||
| "Come to me" | ||||
| "What's Good" | ||||
| "Moonwalker" | ||||
| "Our dawn is hotter than day" | ||||
| 2019 | You Made My Dawn | "Good To Me" | ||
| "Home" | ||||
| "Chilli" | ||||
| "Shhh" | ||||
| "Getting Closer" | ||||
| Nu'est | Happily Ever After | "Segno" | ||
| "Bet Bet" | ||||
| "Bass" | ||||
| "Talk About Love" | ||||
| "Different" | ||||
| "Fine" | ||||
| "Universe" | ||||
| Fromis 9 | Fun Factory | "Love RumPumPum" | Credited under the pseudonym Baekgom | |
| Nu'est | The Table | "Call Me Back" | ||
| "Love Me" | ||||
| "One Two Three" | ||||
| "Trust Me" | ||||
| "Stay Up All Night" | ||||
| "If We" | ||||
| Seventeen | An Ode | "Hit" | ||
| "Lie Again" | ||||
| "Fear" | ||||
| "Let me hear you say" | ||||
| "247" | ||||
| "Second Life" | ||||
| "Network Love" | ||||
| "Back it up" | ||||
| "Lucky" | ||||
| "Snap Shoot" | ||||
| "Happy Ending" | Korean and Japanese versions | |||
| 2020 | Non-album single | "Fallin' Flower" | Korean and Japanese versions | |
| Nu'est | The Nocturne | "I'm In Trouble" | ||
| "Firework" | ||||
| "Back To Me" | ||||
| "Must" | ||||
| "Shooting Star" | ||||
| Seventeen | Non-album single | "Us, Again" (우리다시) | ||
| Heng:garæ | "Fearless" | |||
| "Left & Right" | ||||
| "I Wish" | ||||
| "My My" | ||||
| "Kidult" | ||||
| "Together" | ||||
| 24H | "24h" | Korean and Japanese versions | ||
| Semicolon | "Home; Run" | |||
| "Do Re Mi" | ||||
| "Hey Buddy" | ||||
| "Light A Flame" | ||||
| "Ah! Love" | ||||
| "All My Love" | ||||
| Jin | Non-album single | "Abyss" | ||
| 2021 | Rain | Pieces by Rain | "Why Don't We" | |
| Seventeen | Non-album singles | "Not Alone" | Korean and Japanese versions | |
| Hoshi | "Spider" | |||
| The8 | "Side By Side" | Korean version only | ||
| Nu'est | Romanticize | "Dress" | ||
| "Inside Out" | ||||
| "Don't Wanna Go" | ||||
| "Black" | ||||
| "Drive" | ||||
| "Earphone" | ||||
| "Need It" | ||||
| "Doom Doom" | ||||
| "Rocket Rocket" | ||||
| "I'm Not" | ||||
| Wonwoo & Mingyu | Non-album single | "Bittersweet" feat. Lee Hi | ||
| Seventeen | Your Choice | "Heaven's Cloud" | ||
| "Ready to love" | ||||
| "Anyone" | ||||
| "GAM3 BO1" | ||||
| "Wave" | ||||
| "Same Dream Same Mind Same Night" | ||||
| Hoshi | Non-album single | "Horangi Power" | ||
| Seventeen | Attacca | "To You" | ||
| "Rock with You" | ||||
| "Crush" | ||||
| "Pang!" | ||||
| "Imperfect Love" | ||||
| "I Can't Run Away" | ||||
| "2 minus 1" | ||||
| Dino | Non-album singles | "Last Order" | ||
| Seventeen | "Power of Love" | Korean and Japanese versions | ||
| Jin | "Super Tuna" (슈퍼 참치) | |||
| 2022 | Woozi | "Ruby" | ||
| Charli XCX | "Beg for You" featuring Rina Sawayama (A. G. Cook and Vernon of Seventeen Remix) | |||
| Nu'est | Needle & Bubble | "Overcome (Re-Mastering)" | ||
| "Love Paint (Re-Mastering)" | ||||
| "Bet Bet (Re-Mastering)" | ||||
| "Love Me (Re-Mastering)" | ||||
| "Different (Re-Mastering)" | ||||
| "Look (A Starlight Night) (Alternative House Ver)" | ||||
| "I'm In Trouble (Urban Ver.)" | ||||
| "Galaxy" | ||||
| "다시, 봄 (Again)" | ||||
| Seventeen | Face the Sun | "Darl+ing" | ||
| "Hot" | ||||
| "Don Quixote" | ||||
| "March" | ||||
| "Domino" | ||||
| "Shadow" | ||||
| "'Bout You" | ||||
| "If you leave me" | ||||
| "Ash" | ||||
| Sector 17 | "Circles" | |||
| "World" | ||||
| "Cheers" | ||||
| Baekho | Good Job OST | "Savior" | ||
| Absolute Zero | "Festival In My Car" | |||
| "Love Burn" | ||||
| "No Rules" | ||||
| "We Don't Care No More" feat. June One of Glen Check | ||||
| "Bad 4 U" | ||||
| "Wanna Go Back" feat. Sik-K (변했다고 느끼는 내가 변한 건지) | ||||
| Seventeen | Non-album single | "Dream" | Korean and Japanese versions | |
| 2023 | BSS | Second Wind | "Fighting" | |
| "Lunch" | ||||
| "7PM" | ||||
| Seventeen | FML | "F*ck My Life" | ||
| "Super" | ||||
| "Fire" | ||||
| "I Don't Understand But I Luv U" | ||||
| "Dust" | ||||
| "April Shower" | ||||
| Sik-K & Haon | Album On The Way! | "Locked In" | ||
| Seventeen | Always Yours | "Sara Sara" | ||
| Seventeenth Heaven | "SOS" | |||
| "God of Music" | ||||
| "Diamond Days" | ||||
| "Yawn" | ||||
| "Back 2 Back" | ||||
| "Monster" | ||||
| "Headliner" | ||||
| Baekho | Non-album singles | "What Are We" feat. Park Jiwon of Fromis_9 | ||
| S.Coups | "Me" (난) | |||
| 2024 | TWS | Sparkling Blue | "Plot Twist" | Credited under the pseudonym Wasurenai |
| "Oh Mymy: 7s" | ||||
| Seventeen | Non-album singles | "The Meaning of Encounter" (만남의의미) ( |
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| Haon | "Over You" | |||
| Seventeen | 17 Is Right Here | "Maestro" | ||
| "Lalali" | ||||
| "Spell" | ||||
| "Cheers To Youth" | ||||
| TWS | Summer Beat! | "hey! hey!" | Credited under the pseudonym Wasurenai | |
| Jeonghan X Wonwoo | This Man | "Last Night" | ||
| "Beautiful Monster" | ||||
| "Leftover" | ||||
| TWS | Summer Beat! | "You + Me = 7942" | Credited under the pseudonym Wasurenai | |
| "If I'm an 'S' please be my 'N'" | ||||
| "Double Take" | ||||
| "If I were Sun" | ||||
| Fromis 9 | Supersonic | "Supersonic" | Credited under the pseudonym Baekgom |
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