WINNER Members and Updated Profile, Facts and Latest Info

About WINNER

WINNER Member Ages

Ranked from oldest to youngest.

Member	Birthday	Age
1. Jinu	Sep 26, 1991	31 years old
2. Hoony	Jan 11, 1992	31 years old
3. Mino	Mar 30, 1993	30 years old
4. Yoon	Jan 21, 1994	29 years old

WINNER Member Heights

Ranked from tallest to shortest.

Member	Height
1. Hoony	1.82 m (6’0″)
2. Mino	1.82 m (6’0″)
3. Yoon	1.78 m (5’10”)
4. Jinu	1.77 m (5’10”)

Members

WINNER is composed of four members born between 1991 and 1994. Their names are: Yoon, Jinu, Hoony, and Mino. They are the winners of the reality show WIN.

All four members are Korean. The oldest member is Jinu (born Sep 26, 1991). He was 22 years old when he made his debut with WINNER. The youngest member is Yoon (born Jan 21, 1994). He was 20 years old at the time of WINNER’s debut.

The group debuted originally as a five-member group. Former member Taehyun departed from the group in 2016.

Positions

Member	Positions
Jinu	lead vocalist, visual
Hoony	main dancer, lead rapper, vocalist
Mino	main rapper, vocalist
Yoon	leader, main vocalist, maknae

Fun Facts and Trivia

The leader and youngest member (maknae) of Winner is Kang Seung Yoon, better known as Yoon (born Jan 21, 1994).
The oldest member of Winner is Kim Jin Woo, better known as Jinu (born Sep 26, 1991).
The tallest member of Winner is Lee Seung Hoon, better known as Hoony, with a height of 182 cm (6’0”).
The shortest member of Winner is Kim Jin Woo, better known as Jinu, with a height of 177 cm (5’10”).

Facts

On March 20, singer and songwriter Yoon Jong Shin revealed the participation of WINNER members Seung Yoon and Mino in his monthly project titled WILD BOY.
On June 10, 2014, WINNER kicked off the beginning of its long-awaited debut by releasing a teaser called ‘The Visitor’. This was followed by a launch campaign plan officially released by YG on June 12, which spanned 3 weeks from June 16 to July 6 with the first two weeks titled ‘Test Week’, ‘New York Week’ respectively.
Mino was the leader of Team A, but, unfortunately, he injured his ankle ligament and Yang Hyun Suk decided to replace him with Seung Yoon, he stated that it was the best decision because Seung Yoon has leadership qualities that he does not possess.
One of their flagship songs is a cover of “I’m officially missing you”, they usually sing it to the fans and the fans to them.
After his album release, two videos were uploaded on his official Youtube account for his alternative rock song, ‘Color Ring’ and his mid-tempo hip hop track, ‘Empty’. With the latter he surpasses one million views in less than 24 hours.
‘Empty’ was written and composed almost entirely by iKON’s B.I, who gave it to her as a gift for her debut.
They achieved a perfect all-kill on the Melon charts (digital purchases). They also reached the number one spot on iTunes in 5 countries Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan.
It entered the Billboard World Chart albums ranking in first place for the month of August.
On September 10, the group began its Japanese promotions with the 2014 album S/S: Japan Collection and embarked on its first Japanese solo concert the following day on September 11. It ranked second on the ORICON – Japan chart within hours of its release.
A little less than 2 months after their debut, they won the Triple Crown at M! COUNTDOWN.
They are the second YG entertainment artists to perform on the Weekly Idol variety show (first was G-Dragon).
They were invited to the music program Yoo Hee Yeol’s Sketchbook by acclaimed musician Yoo Hee Yeol, demonstrating their great vocal talent with a live performance of their debut song ‘Empty’ and their cover of 2NE1’s “Missing you”; generating more interest from the public and a great response from the press.
WINNER received the ‘Men of The Year’ award in the ‘New Rising Award’ category at the ninth men’s fashion magazine ‘Arena Homme Plus’ and luxury brand ‘Mont Blanc Korea’ ninth A-Awards held on December 9, 2014. Being considered the most ‘eye-catching and refreshing newcomers of the Korean music scene in 2014.
FUSE TV ranked WINNER 11th among the “13 Top Breakout Artists” of 2014, being the only kpop group that made the list. WINNER is the rookie group that ‘obsessed’ the public in 2014 and the one that generates high expectations for 2015.
WINNER was exceptionally invited by Hunan TV to “2014-2015 Hunan Satellite TV’s New Year’s Concert”, becoming the first international rookie group to be invited to China’s most popular and biggest New Year’s Eve program. This has shown unprecedented popularity, considering that WINNER has not made an official debut as a group in this country.
WINNER was voted “Best Newcomer of 2014” by a panel of 28 music industry experts – soundmen, music producers, TV producers, songwriters and entertainment critics – surveyed by Starnews. Criteria included: sales charts, music program rankings, stage proficiency, musical talent and popularity.
They ranked #1 on the 2014 charts for the month of August on “Billboard’s World Albums Chart” with their debut album WINNER ‘2014 S/S’.
On Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums Chart 2014 WINNER ranked #6 with his album ‘2014 S/S’.
In the GAON 2014 music sales rankings, WINNER is the only group in the top 5 that released only one album (the others came out with multiple versions) but still achieved high positions in the charts.
They ranked #10 with their song “Color Ring” on the Dazed Digital Top 20 songs of 2014 UK chart.
Channel V Asia’s Best Kpop Songs of 2014 ranked “Empty” at #4.
On BUGS Top 10 2014 Music Albums WINNER’s debut album ‘2014 S/S’ ranked #6.
WINNER was selected “BEST NEW ARTIST” through the “M+Special Survey-Asked” survey of 144 artists (kpop idols).
Comments made by surveyed idols who selected WINNER as the best new artist of 2014 were, “They attracted a lot of attention by taking the top spots in online music charts since they debuted”, “They are all very talented”, “They have been received the award of ‘Best new artist’ in all the shows of 2014, showing an amazing debut”.
AMERICA FUSE TV selected WINNER as one of the 13 “Top Breakout Artists of 2014”, expressing great expectations for the group’s future.
They were special guests at Epik High’s ‘Parade 2014’ concert in Incheon, where they sang two songs from their debut album, ‘Empty’ and ‘Different’. Meanwhile, Mino, Seung Yoon and Seung Hoon collaborated on the special performance of the track ‘Born Hater’.
Dispatch and Starcast held their own awards for the best of 2014 ‘BEST OF 2014, giving WINNER and BTOB the ‘Not being able to stay still Award’.
They recorded the second highest ratings during the 5-hour New Year’s concert special broadcast on Hunan TV. The first place in ratings went to a musical collaboration of Chinese artists.
After his performance at “Hunan TV New Year Countdown Concert 2014-2015”, WINNER became the most searched word on Sina Weibo and Weibo SNS. Another most searched word was “MINO” making the phrase “Mino TV” the trending word of the night.
They were named in an article by MTV IGGY, “MTV IGGY: WINNER’s K-Hip-Pop Clobbers the Competition”.
WINNER was among the nominees for MTV IGGY’s “Artist of the Week” on January 3, 2015. On 09/01 MTV IGGY confirmed that *WINNER won first place with more than 50% of the votes.
Within the circle of artists and show business they have been nicknamed “Monster rookies” and “‘The Rookies Awards Collectors”.
A total of 13,500 fans attended “WWIC 2015” in China, held in the cities of Beijing (4,000 local fans), Shanghai (6,500 local fans) and Shenzhen (3,000 local fans).
On January 31, WINNER held its first fan meeting in Seoul as part of the ‘World Wide Inner Circle Conference 2015’ tours, meeting with a total of 10,000 fans who filled the ‘Olympic Gymnastic Stadium’ with their canvases and light sticks.
Some of his agency partners such as Akdong Musician, Lee Hi, Epik High, G-Dragon performed covers of his song Sentimental.
Taehyun was praised for the composition of Baby Baby for experimenting with complex bars such as 6/8 without having the most experience in this musical field and also for suffering from hypoacusis in his left ear, which would hinder his work as a composer.
Mino and Seung Yoon will participate in a program on Batle idol (Chinese program) as producers along with Zico and Jay Park, being the representatives of South Korea. The aim of the program is to give guidelines on how to make good music in different ways.
After their appearance in an episode of the popular show Chino Happy Camp, WINNER ranked #9 as one of the groups with the most fans.
They were greeted on their arrival in China by a huge crowd of fans who occupied a large part of the airport and chanted the group’s name as they walked to the exit. After the incidents that occurred due to the agglomeration of fans, on their second arrival for the KKBE event in China, security guards were put in place to prevent many fans from passing through, making the group’s journey through the airport more orderly.
In a March ranking, WINNER ranked 8th best-selling album with its EXIT:E series released in February.
Jinwoo, Seung Yoon and Mino attended Block B’s concert to support them. Meanwhile, P.O attended EXIT Tour’s concert.
Half Moon Friends children participated in one of the concerts held in Seoul.
Figure skater Misha Ge, winner of 7 international medals, used I’M YOUNG for his new choreography in All that Skate 2016. One of his workout was posted on his Instagram account which was replied by Taehyun days later
On June 15, upon the release of their Japanese digital mini-album EXIT:E, it became #1 on iTunes in the K-Pop category.
Global-IC was upset with YG Entertainmet for changing the Facebook post where only the 4 active members appear, some saying that it should have waited for them to make comeback, and also because of the short time that had passed since they announced their departure.
On March 27, 2017, the first teaser of Fate Number For being their first comeback as a 4-member group was released.
WINNER ranks 4th and 6th among Kpop male groups with the highest number of countries with No. 1 in the TOP digital album sales on iTunes (4th:30 countries OTF /6th: 24 countries FNF).
They are the first boy group to reach 100 million streams while still inside the GAON chart, a record achieved with Really Really.
Mino, Jinwoo and Hoon have entered Kakao’s “silent” chat rooms (in which only photos should be sent as writing is forbidden) related to them, where they shared photos and messages with fans. The first time Hoony entered the chat room, he was deleted for sending a photo of JYP.

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