Cheri (Korean: 체리; stylized in all lowercase), is a soloist and actress under CHROMATIC CREATIVE. She officially made her solo debut on August 25, 2022 with the digital single “Stay Tonight.” Her debut album, LOVERGIRL, was released on October 3, 2022 with the title track “보라빛 밤 (PURPLE NIGHT).” Despite the success of her long-awaited solo debut, many claimed cheri would fail in her new company, and she would always cling to the success of her group.
cheri has maintained her popularity and stability as a solo artist with her consistent chart-topping releases domestically and internationally.
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LABEL. BigHit Entertainment (2013 - 2020), CHROMATIC CREATIVE (current), Republic Records (current)
GROUP. BTS (indefinite hiatus)
DEBUT DATE. June 13, 2013 (group), August 25, 2022 (solo)
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LOVERGIRL is the debut album by cheri. Released October 3, 2022, the album consists of 14 tracks. The album received favorable reviews from critics, most praised the album for its versatile pop sound and overall lyrical themes.
LOVERGIRL marks cheri’s first release after departing from Big Hit and her indefinite hiatus as a BTS member. Many netizens speculated that cheri would not return to music when she was confirmed to appear in the Don’t Worry Darling. cheri confirmed she was working on her first album in late 2021 with former Big Hit producer and CHROMATIC CEO Kayla Hwang. Hwang and cheri served as co-creative directors and producers on the album.
She began teasing the album by posting a video of her walking on a beach at sunset on August 20th. cheri announced STAY TONIGHT two days later and officially released August 25. Two more singles were released from the album following the release — 보라빛 밤 (PURPLE NIGHT) and CONFETTI. The album includes collaborations with CL, BIBI, and Saweetie on a remixed version of CONFETTI.
LOVERGIRL explores themes of love, freedom, and self-discovery, inspired by cheri’s journey of finding her identity as a solo artist. She tapped into disco and pop subgenres.
In an interview, she explained, “I’m really trying to embrace the emotions I’ve felt in various relationships — whether they were romantic, platonic, or… whatever. I was really inspired by 80s pop. I wanted an upbeat, poppy sound, and that kind of contrasts with some of the lyrics and overall theme.”
Promotions kicked off with a performance and her U.S. television debut of STAY TONIGHT on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as well as an interview with him. She hosted private listening sessions for the album in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Seoul. Throughout October, pop-up stores were opened in these cities as well.
Along with the usual K-Pop album packaging, cheri released six vinyl variants of the album — four standard editions and two deluxe editions.
The music videos for STAY TONIGHT, 보라빛 밤 (PURPLE NIGHT), and CONFETTI were all inspired by various movies — PURPLE NIGHT, most notably, by La La Land. cheri was praised for her aerial silk skills in the STAY TONIGHT video. she also released performance videos for DREAM OF YOU and SWEET MELODY, as well as a live band performance of HONEYMOON FADES.
TRACKLIST
1. DIZZY
2. RED LIPSTICK (Feat. CL)
3. 보라빛 밤 (PURPLE NIGHT)
4. HONEYMOON FADES
5. CONFETTI
6. MAGNETIC
7. CRAZY LIKE YOU (Feat. BIBI)
8. STAY TONIGHT
9. OUT LOUD
10. DREAM OF YOU
11. ALL NIGHT LONG
12. GODDESS
13. LETTER OF LIGHT
14. BREAK UP SONG
15. CUT YOU OFF - deluxe track
16. SWEET MELODY - deluxe track
17. CONFETTI (ft. SAWEETIE) - deluxe track
ALBUM CONTENTS
cheri released four standard versions of the album. The deluxe version was available digitally and on vinyl. Each vinyl version came with polaroids that correspond to the album cover. The glow in the dark vinyl was limited edition only, but has since been released for Record Store Day in 2024.
dusk ver.
outbox ( 105 x 102 mm. ) + photobook ( 80p ) + mini poster + sticker sheet ( 1ea ) + lyric poster ( 1ea ) + cd + photo cards ( 3 out of 18 ) + handwritten letter ( 1ea ) + charm bracelet & charms ( 1ea )
honeymoon ver.
outbox ( 105 x 102 mm ) + photobook ( 80p ) + mini poster + sticker sheet ( 1ea ) + lyric poster ( 1ea ) + cd + photo cards ( 3 out of 18 ) + hair clips ( 4ea ) + acrylic rings ( 2ea ) + charm bracelet & charms ( 1ea )
The hate boner for cheri is great, but the tunes produced by her are greater. She had retirement allegations left and right. People were still calling her a nobody who wouldn’t get anywhere without a group. Talentless. But here we are.
Obviously the nosy people want to know what the fuck went down for her to just… not promote with the group for a year — and for legal reasons, cheri, the d1 yapper, is not allowed to say.
This album is very obviously a relationship heavy album theme wise, and cheri is publicly down bad, so people were kinda like wtf is going on. Then it’s a major light bulb moment when it finally clicks that some of these songs are actually about the former company and she is indeed happy to be free from their clutches. Kayla being her CEO and producer and close friend is literally like H*BE’s worst nightmare because those mfs HATE the both of them.
It was absolutely no surprise to beotkkots-cherbuds that she was being held back, especially since the only solo work she’d released was pre-pandemic and received major pushback from the company. If you told cherbuds on stan twitter in may 2019 that they would not have to defend cheri’s debut with their life, they’d absolutely not believe you. They have been in the trenches for YEARS.
She was announced as a Tom Ford Beauty ambassador a month after the album released and then it was announced she was working on a perfume collection with them.
The fandom name was officially announced/changed on November 11 — beotkkots forever, but cherbuds reign.
This was truly an album for the arts and charts. The numbers were unbelievable. By award season she was racking up the nominations, but received very few non music show wins.
It definitely seemed like overnight she went from public enemy number 1 to the people’s princess — the origin of chaeprincess, actually.
now welcoming to the MAIN STAGE, CHERI performing SANTA BABY !!
❛❛ cheri has had quite the year! she wrapped up (no pun intended) her very first world tour in october, bagged multiple end of year awards, and is set to make her comeback in the coming months. although she has taken the last few months for a much needed break, the certified queen of christmas could not pass up an opportunity for a christmas special !! ❜❜ — yours truly, BREEZY !!
just saw a post on your talk blog about cheri as a bp addition in an alternate universe, please can you give us any crumbs about her? i'm sooo curious. sorry if i'm being noisy.
anon pls be nosy as much as you want i love nosiness <3 but yes in an alternate universe cheri is a blackpink member!
she’s pretty much still herself, just a lot less trauma ? it’s basically an au where the question is what would’ve happened if she didn’t stay with big hit after her sister died except she was never there?
this isn’t a super developed au but i know like the basics and a lot doesn’t change with cheri but a lot does plot wise yk but thank you for being nosy about this bc now i am going to be thinking
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so now she hasn't been in bts since 2020? kinda excited about it! but how does she get along with the boys since her hiatus and departure from big hit?
it’s very exciting, anon 🙂↕️ the original idea was to have her leave in november of this year but she needed a revamp and i Worked on this. she obviously loves the boys and they love her, but they truly had no idea what her life had been like for the past 7 years and it was causing a lot of problems for her and the group dynamic. they tried to get her to stay and were almost convinced she would renew, and were disappointed that she didn’t. and it also was not her choice to not participate in the 2021-2022 group activities bh didn’t let her but i can’t talk abt that yet.
Cheri (Korean: 체리; stylized in all lowercase), is a soloist and actress under CHROMATIC CREATIVE. She officially made her solo debut on August 25, 2022 with the digital single “Stay Tonight.” Her debut album, LOVERGIRL, was released on October 3, 2022 with the title track “보라빛 밤 (PURPLE NIGHT).” Despite the success of her long-awaited solo debut, many claimed cheri would fail in her new company, and she would always cling to the success of her group.
cheri has maintained her popularity and stability as a solo artist with her consistent chart-topping releases domestically and internationally.
𝑰. ── ㅤBASICS.
LABEL. BigHit Entertainment (2013 - 2020), CHROMATIC CREATIVE (current), Republic Records (current)
GROUP. BTS (indefinite hiatus)
DEBUT DATE. June 13, 2013 (group), August 25, 2022 (solo)
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