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a hundred% (Hangul: 백퍼센트) is a 7-member South Korean boy group that debuted in September 2012 underneath Andy Lee's firm TOP Media with their first single album We, a hundred%.[1]

Pre-debut

In 2009, 100% member Rock-hyun - under his stage identify Rocky (Hangul: 로키) - was one of many two members of Andy Lee's boy group Jumper (Hangul: 점퍼),[2] which promoted two singles, "Sure!" featuring Eric of Shinhwa and "Dazzling" (Korean: 눈이 부셔) featuring Kang Ji-young of Kara.

The identical 12 months, Min-woo was featured throughout Andy's promotion for his tune "Single Man", together with Jumper's second member Park Dong-min (Hangul: 박동민). Min-woo has also been lively as an actor. He starred in KBS2's 2006 drama Sharp 3 (Korean: 반올림3),[3] SBS's 2007 drama The King and I (Korean: 왕과 나)[4] and in two movies, Loopy Waiting (Korean: 기다리다 미쳐) (2007)[5][6] and The place Are You Going? (Korean: 특별시 사람들) (2009).[7]
2012: Debut and Guy Like Me

a hundred% were first launched to South Korea's TV audience in SBS MTV's selection present Teen Prime Rising 100% (Korean: 틴탑의 뜬다 백퍼), wherein they starred alongside fellow TOP Media artist Teen Top and their founder Andy Lee of Shinhwa.[8] The show aired ten episodes between June sixteen and August 18, 2012.

In late 2011 already, before a hundred%'s official debut, a collaboration with labelmate Teen Prime was deliberate, however no additional data concerning this matter was ever released and the mission was not put into action.[9]

On September thirteen, the group was the first featured group on Arirang TV's Pops in Seoul's new section, New Star.com.[10] This was adopted by the discharge of two music video teasers on their official YouTube channel on September 13 and sixteen, exhibiting the seven members dancing in a barren desert and junkyards.[11] Their debut single album We, 100% was released on September 18. It consists of three tracks and one instrumental version, which have been all written and produced by Super Changddai.[12] The identical day, the music video for its lead monitor "Bad Boy" (Korean: 나쁜놈) went on-line on the band's official YouTube channel.[13] a hundred% made their official debut efficiency of "Bad Boy" on September 21, 2012 on KBS Music Financial institution, followed by MBC Music Core and SBS Inkigayo that same weekend.[14]

On October 23, MBC held a press conference for a hundred% and Teen Prime's second own variety program in Jangan-dong, Seoul. Teen Top & 100% Rising Brothers (Korean: 틴탑&백퍼센트의 떴다 브라더스) premiered on MBC Music three days later, showing the 2 music groups undertaking missions.[15]

On December four, the teaser for 100%'s digital single Man Like Me (Korean: 나 같은 놈) was published on the group's official YouTube channel,[16] adopted by the total music video on the day of the music's release three days later.[17][18] "Guy Like Me" was written by Minigun and Tremendous Changddai, the latter of which had already written all of the tracks on 100%'s first release We, a hundred%.[17]
2013: Want U Again and 100% V

On Could fifteenth, a hundred% revealed two mysterious picture teasers displaying off their "chocolate abs" on their official website. The pictures included the comeback date, "2013 . 05 . 23". Just a few days later, TOP Media revealed more teaser images featuring two pictures of every individual member, a gaggle picture, and that the group might be coming back with a mini-album.[19][20] A music thumbnail (music preview) and 2 Music Video teasers have been also launched earlier than the official music video release. The Music Video and Mini-album have been both launched at the similar time on May 23rd at Midday (Korean Commonplace Time).[21]

On July 17, 2013, TOP Media introduced one hundred%'s official fanclub name through their official fancafe. The fanclub identify, PERFECTION (퍼펙션), denotes that with the presence of a hundred% followers, they are a perfect combination together.[22]

On November 14th, TOP Media released data relating to the vocal-line; Rokhyun, Jonghwan, and Hyukjin along with rapper Chanyong, can be making a debut underneath the sub-unit named, a hundred% V. The group released a single album consisting of three tracks on November 20th. The leading single was titled, 되근길 (Missing You). The group held their first stage on KBS Music Bank.[23][24]