The evolution of IU

During her high school years, she attended 20 auditions, but failed all, and was also scammed by fake entertainment companies.IU used to train at Good Entertainment with Uee, Yubin, Heo Ga yoon, and Jun Hyoseong. After signing with LOEN Entertainment in 2007.

Despite the possibility of being put in a girl group, she made her solo debut in 2008 after ten months of training.Due to her living conditions at the time, IU stated that she "loved being in the studio," where she could eat as much as she wanted and had a place to sleep.

In 2008, After spending ten months as an apprentice, IU released "Lost Child" their first single. Is the lead single from his debut extended play Lost and Found.
For the album, IU received the "Rookie of the Month" award from the South Korean Ministry of Culture and tourism.

In 2009, IU released their first studio album, Growing Up, with the lead promotional single "Boo".The song stood out for its stark contrast to the musical style of "Lost Child," which was described as a "heavy" and "dark" ballad compared to the 1980 "retro sound" of "Boo".

IU released their second mini album "IU ... IM". She began promoting her lead single, "Marshmallow". The song was described as "saccharin" in a style that was a hybrid of rock and roll from the 1960s and "French pop."

In addition to his album releases, he participated in his first soundtracks through two MBC television dramas, Strike Love and Queen Seondeok. He also collaborated with artists like Mighty Mouth and The Three Views on his albums.

As her popularity began to rise, IU made more frequent appearances on variety shows, starring in Star Golden Bell, Kim Jung Eun's Chocolate, and You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook.His acoustic covers of songs by other artists such as Girls' Generation's Gee, Super Junior's Sorry, Sorry.

She became a television presenter for the first time, hosting a weekly music show on Gom TV, while appearing as a stationary guest on multiple radio shows such as Kiss the Radio, Volume Up, MBC Starry Night by Standard FM, and Best Friend Radio by MBC. FM4U.

In 2010, IU released "Nagging", a duo that recorded with 2AM's Im Seul Ong. The single debuted at twelve on the Gaon Digital Chart and rose to number one the following week, where it stayed for three weeks.

Soon after, IU released "Because I'm a Girl," one of the songs from the Road No. 1 drama. The song peaked at number six on the Gaon Digital Chart.

IU's collaboration with Sung Si Kyung on "It's You" for their album, "The First", debuted at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart.

IU's third mini album, Real, was released.Debuted at number four on Gaon's album chart.The lead single, "Good Day" .The uptempo song, as Kim Eana explained, is about "a shy girl who is nervous about expressing her feelings to the boy she likes."Topped the charts on music shows

In 2011, IU was cast in the teen drama Dream High. In her first acting role, IU played Kim Pil Sook.For the drama's soundtrack, she released the single "Someday," which peaked at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart ,the single had sold 2,209,924 copies.

IU's second studio album "Last Fantasy" was released in two editions, a regular retail version and a special storybook editionBillboard noted the "cinematic feel" of the album as stated in the opening song, "Secret."The total number of download sales exceeded 10 million in 2 week

The lead single, "You and I" became IU's most commercially successful single with nearly 5.5 million digital copies sold in late 2012. It topped Gaon's list as well as the newly established Billboard Korea K-list. Pop Hot 100 at launch.

In 2012, as promotions for Last Fantasy and her lead single "You and I" continued in 2012 in South Korea, she began preparations for her Japanese debut by playing two shows at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Shibuya.

Due to their commitments, IU was unable to promote "Spring of a Twenty Year Old" which was released on May. The album, named to celebrate IU's 20th birthday in Korea, contains three songs with the single. Lead "Peach", composed by IU, peaked at number two on the Gaon Chart.

IU released their second Japanese album "Can You Hear Me?", Featuring their first original Japanese songs. Two tracks from the album were released as singles; "Beautiful Dancer" and "New World" reached number 66 and 76 respectively on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.

In 2013. Almost two years later, she released her third studio album "Modern Times" . It was described as "a big change from the young singer's K-pop roots" that showed a "more mature sound and image more sophisticated than his previous work. "

A repackaged version titled "Modern Times - Epilogue" was released on December 20, 2013 with two additional tracks "Friday" and "Pastel Crayon". Her self-composed song "Friday" was originally intended for inclusion in the Modern Times.

In 2914, IU announced that they will release their remake album "Flower Bookmark" on May 16. The album contains seven cover versions of tracks dating from the 1980s and 1990s with a mix of genres including ballad, dance, folk and rock.

IU's collaborations with other artists generated top-10 hits: "Not Spring, Love or Cherry Blossoms," High4's debut single, which featured IU as lyricist and vocalist, reached number one on the Gaon Digital Chart and Billboard Korea K -Pop Hot 100.

In 2015,The series and Cindy's IU portrayal met lukewarm reviews at the premiere. She performed two songs on the character, "Twenty-Three" and "Heart," which were later included as additional tracks on her 2015 album, Chat-Shire. This version is different to the title track.

Despite positive critical reviews and success on music charts, the album became controversial due to the lyrics of "Zezé" and the audio samples used in the extra song "Twenty-Three" (not to be confused with the main single with a similar title).

In 2017, news source reported that the pre-release song would be featuring Oh Hyuk. However, Loen Entertainment later clarified, “The pre-release song is a solo track, not the song with Oh Hyuk. The song in collaboration with Oh Hyuk will be included on their album. "

"Can’t Love You Anymore ”will be officially released, the song is described as an R&B track with realistic lyrics about the opinions of a man and a woman when they experience a state of exhaustion in their relationship.

Palette ”is their fourth studio album and is set to be released.
By sharing the playlist for their new album, IU has revealed a collaboration with BIGBANG's G-Dragon on their promo track, “Palette” and G-Dragon has collaborated and written the rap lyrics for their first song.

The second promotional song is "Dear Name", in which IU has written the lyrics in collaboration with the successful lyricist, Kim I Na

The music video for “Ending Scene” was revealed.The video follows the story of a man and a woman, while they are recalling moments that were part of their relationship. The man in question is Kim Soo Hyun, who agreed to appear in the music video after IU personally asked him to.

The second video is a special clip from IU performing a live performance of Kim Gun Mo's “Sleepless Rainy Night”.

In 2018,A source from Block B's agency confirmed, “Zico's special single is planned to be released later this month. IU will appear in the song. "

IU announced that she would be releasing a new digital single titled "BBIBBI."It debuted at the top of the top realtime charts after its release and by 8:30 PM KST, the song was # 1 on all six: Melon, Genie, Bugs, Mnet, Naver, and Soribada.

In 2019,made his film debut with the Netflix anthology series Persona. He portrayed different characters in each of the four short films that were written and directed by acclaimed directors Lee Kyoungmi, Yim Pil Sung, Jeon Gowoon, and Kim Jong Kwan.

IU starred in the fantasy and mystery drama Hotel del Luna, written by the Hong Sisters. The drama was a commercial success, recording the highest ratings in her time span throughout her career.

The Kakao M agency confirmed in a statement that IU's "Love Poem" will be released in November.

IU has released a detailed release timeline for their upcoming comeback with their fifth mini album "Love Poem."

revealed a teaser for another song with their new video for "Above the Time."

In 2020, SpoTV News reported that IU will sing an OST for tvN's “Crash Landing on You” . This being the first time that IU will sing an official drama OST in nine years. IU's “I Give You My Heart"quickly topped the charts in real time.

IU's official Twitter account shared that the digital single would be titled "Eight" and confirmed that Suga produced and participated in the song.