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Dowoon releases debut solo mini-album “Mayday″

CHARM’s Dowoon has made his solo debut with the release of his first solo mini-album! Dowoon debuted as CHARM’s performance unit leader and main dancer in 2015, but has only recently started to branch out into activities outside of his group as a guest mentor on Hot Topic(k).

Mayday serves to introduce different facets of Dowoon’s identity as a solo artist to fans. The mini-album begins with its titular track “Mayday”, which includes a feature by Lucid’s Jaein, is a chill trap song that relaxes the listener before the more intense “TOUCHIN’” and more energetic “Hit It Off”, featuring Dowoon’s groupmate Yuanjun, take their turns in the track list. The mini-album ends with track four, “I HOPE”, the brightest song off of the album.

“TOUCHIN’”, which will serve as the mini-album’s promoted single, is a sleek dance track driven by electronic guitar synths. In the music video, Dowoon takes on dual roles of the star of an action movie, and the viewer at home watching the movie on his own. Reports have confirmed that Dowoon made the song’s choreography, which is highlighted throughout the video. “TOUCHIN’” will be promoted for two weeks on music shows and b-side track “I HOPE” will also be staged for the first week of promotions.

The track list can be found below.

TRACK LIST

Mayday ft. Jaein

TOUCHIN’

Hit It Off ft. Yuanjun

New mentor lineup for Hot Topic announced

The third mentor lineup for the currently airing survival show Hot Topic have been announced!

According to a new press release, Knight’s Duri and Aria’s Nina have been cast to help mentor the show’s contestants on their vocals, while CHARM’s Dowoon and Element’s Sun will be dance mentors for the position evaluations, and Knight’s Haon and Unity’s Jaewon will help the contestants with rap. They’ll appear in the episodes set to air January 22 and 29.

The popularity of Hot Topic has only risen in recent weeks as the show’s contestants increasingly gain attention and fans as the season approaches its halfway point.

According to reports, the mentors have all already filmed their appearances on the show.

COMMENTS

[+1,110, -39] the episodes keep getting better and better with all of the celebrity mentors and bang sunyoung is doing really well as the host

[+817, -21] haven’t some of the contestants said they’re fans of these idols’ groups? they’ll be really excited

[+198, -31] the mentors are all knowledge. the show’s casting team must have saved the country in their past lives.