Yuqi
우기- Name
- Song Yuqi
- Born
- 23 September 1999
Wrote and composed every song on her 2026 mini album 27, sung in Chinese.
Their story
A page in China
Yuqi came to Korea from Beijing and debuted with (G)I-DLE in May 2018. Her first solo record, the single album A Page, followed in May 2021 with two lead songs, "Giant" and "Bonnie & Clyde", and was promoted mainly in China. Over the next three years she added soundtracks, features and the Chinese single album Grey Track.
FREAK
The Korean solo debut came with YUQ1 in April 2024, a seven-track mini album with guests pH-1, Lexie Liu and her bandmate Minnie. Its title track "FREAK" came with a quirky video in which she calls herself a certified freak. The album sold 550,170 copies in its first week, a record for a K-pop female soloist's debut EP, and the song went on to run for 100 weeks on Tencent Music's Korean chart.
Writing it herself
"Radio (Dum-Dum)" followed in March 2025. In September the single album Motivation paired the boom bap track "M.O." with "Gone", sung in Korean and Chinese, and she took part in writing and composing all of it. A week after release "M.O." gave her a first solo music show win, on Show Champion. In March 2026 Tencent Music named her one of its Women of the Year in Music.
Where she is now
Her second mini album, 27, came out on 8 October 2026, about thirteen months after Motivation. It is sung in Chinese, her native language, and she wrote and composed all six songs, and the title track "Stay" mixes in English. Three days later she opened a fan concert tour in Guangzhou, with Chengdu, Beijing and Shanghai to follow, and she is still a member of i-dle at Cube Entertainment.