F.T.Island (Korean:에프티 아일랜드),Five Treasure Island,or FTI,is a five-member South Korean band.The name F.T.Island stands for 'Five Treasure Island',noting that each of the five members is a treasure of talents of their own.Their debut album,titled "Cheerful Sensibility",was the sixth best-selling album in 2007.Their debut song 'Lovesick' stayed on top of K-Pop charts for 8 consecutive weeks.The official fanclub name is "Primadonna" and the official fanclub color is sunshine yellow; the band's fans carry yellow flags known as "pentasticks".
Members
Current members
Choi Jong Hoon- Leader,Lead Guitarist,Keyboardist,occasional Composer,Lyricist,and Sub Vocalist.Birthdate:March 7,1990 (Age 21)
Lee Hong Ki- Lead Vocalist.Birthdate:March 2,1990 (Age 21)
Lee Jae Jin- Bassist,occasional Sub Vocalist,Lyricist.Birthdate:December 17,1991 (Age 20)
Song Seung Hyun- Second Guitarist,Sub Vocalist,Rapper.Birthdate:August 21,1992 (Age 19)
Choi Min Hwan- Drummer,occasional Sub Vocalist.Birthdate:November 11,1992 (Age 19)
Former members
Oh Won Bin- Vocalist,Guitarist,Rapper,occasionally played the Harmonica.(He is now a solo artist under the same label.) Birthdate:March 26,1990 (Age 21)
Success in Taiwan
Due to their immense popularity in Taiwan,F.T.Island held a concert on December 25,celebrating Christmas together with 9000 fans.F.T.Island is Korea’s first rock band to hold a big scale concert in Taiwan and they had no other special request besides asking for the best sound systems and hardware.Former vocalist and guitarist,honoured guest Oh Wonbin,performed his first single as a solo artist and a brand new song,which has yet not been released,at the concert.F.T.Island performed songs in three languages,Korean,Japanese,and Chinese.Though they have only entered the Taiwan music industry for a short period of 10 months,with an album sales record over 100,000,FT Island won favorable comments in the Chinese media.just for the concert tickets and merchandises alone,the revenue for FTIsland’s [Beautiful Journey] concert have exceeded a total of NT$20Million.They have been named the Korean artistes who earned the most money for the end of 2010 and FTIsland also wished to visit Taiwan again soon.Four main news agencies namely,China Times,Yonhap News,Apple Daily and Liberty Times,covered news on the concert,showing the band’s high popularity.FT Island also broke several records in Taiwan with 500,000 hits on mobile downloads and 10,000,000 hits on music downloads