Biography
Born in Beijing, the Chinese vocalist, composer, and record producer YUQI entered the music scene as part of the chart-topping K-pop act (G)I-DLE. Celebrated for her powerful yet soothing vocal delivery and buoyant dance-pop releases as a solo performer, she climbed to second place on the Korean album rankings with her opening extended play, YUQ1, which appeared in 2024.
Song Yuqi grew up in Beijing and secured a trainee contract with Cube Entertainment during her teenage years after passing an audition. In 2018 she became one of five members—Miyeon, Minnie, Soyeon, and Shuhua—of the Seoul-based Cube girl group (G)I-DLE. Their early extended plays quickly reached the Top Five of Billboard’s World Albums chart, while the third, I Trust, issued in 2020, topped the Korean chart. Alongside Minnie and main songwriter Soyeon, YUQI contributed to writing and producing several of the group’s tracks.
She continued with (G)I-DLE while beginning a solo path in 2021. That May, Cube issued her first single, “A Page,” which contained the energetic dance-pop cuts “Giant” and “Bonnie & Clyde,” and earned her an appearance on the Chinese competition program Stage Boom. Later the same year she performed on “Salute to the Heroes,” the official theme for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games. Additional Chinese variety appearances followed, as did Korean television spots with the group ahead of their first full-length album, I Never Die, which arrived in March 2022 and peaked at number two in Korea. Six months afterward, the EP I Love returned them to the top of the Korean chart.
Early in 2023, YUQI and bandmate Miyeon supplied “Sweet Dream” for the Netflix romantic comedy Love to Hate You soundtrack, and she collaborated with production team HypeerTime on “Not Cinderella,” tied to the webtoon I Wasn’t the Cinderella. She soon joined YENA on the single “Hate Rodrigo” and reunited with Miyeon for “How to Twerk,” featured on the dance competition Street Woman Fighter 2. That year she also made her acting debut in the Netflix thriller series Celebrity. Her widest solo exposure arrived in December 2023 with a guest spot alongside JVKE on Alan Walker’s “Fire!” Meanwhile (G)I-DLE scored another number-one Korean hit with the EP I Feel, their first release to lead Billboard’s World Albums chart, before HEAT reached number two in Korea later that year.
For YUQI, 2024 brought further milestones: (G)I-DLE’s second album, 2, debuted at number one on Korea’s Circle chart in January and number three on World Albums, while her own debut EP, YUQ1, followed closely by reaching number two in April. The multilingual project, which featured pH-1, Lexie Liu, and Minnie, also entered Japan’s Top 40. At the same time, she secured multiple endorsement agreements spanning cosmetics, apparel, and sunscreen brands.
Song Yuqi grew up in Beijing and secured a trainee contract with Cube Entertainment during her teenage years after passing an audition. In 2018 she became one of five members—Miyeon, Minnie, Soyeon, and Shuhua—of the Seoul-based Cube girl group (G)I-DLE. Their early extended plays quickly reached the Top Five of Billboard’s World Albums chart, while the third, I Trust, issued in 2020, topped the Korean chart. Alongside Minnie and main songwriter Soyeon, YUQI contributed to writing and producing several of the group’s tracks.
She continued with (G)I-DLE while beginning a solo path in 2021. That May, Cube issued her first single, “A Page,” which contained the energetic dance-pop cuts “Giant” and “Bonnie & Clyde,” and earned her an appearance on the Chinese competition program Stage Boom. Later the same year she performed on “Salute to the Heroes,” the official theme for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games. Additional Chinese variety appearances followed, as did Korean television spots with the group ahead of their first full-length album, I Never Die, which arrived in March 2022 and peaked at number two in Korea. Six months afterward, the EP I Love returned them to the top of the Korean chart.
Early in 2023, YUQI and bandmate Miyeon supplied “Sweet Dream” for the Netflix romantic comedy Love to Hate You soundtrack, and she collaborated with production team HypeerTime on “Not Cinderella,” tied to the webtoon I Wasn’t the Cinderella. She soon joined YENA on the single “Hate Rodrigo” and reunited with Miyeon for “How to Twerk,” featured on the dance competition Street Woman Fighter 2. That year she also made her acting debut in the Netflix thriller series Celebrity. Her widest solo exposure arrived in December 2023 with a guest spot alongside JVKE on Alan Walker’s “Fire!” Meanwhile (G)I-DLE scored another number-one Korean hit with the EP I Feel, their first release to lead Billboard’s World Albums chart, before HEAT reached number two in Korea later that year.
For YUQI, 2024 brought further milestones: (G)I-DLE’s second album, 2, debuted at number one on Korea’s Circle chart in January and number three on World Albums, while her own debut EP, YUQ1, followed closely by reaching number two in April. The multilingual project, which featured pH-1, Lexie Liu, and Minnie, also entered Japan’s Top 40. At the same time, she secured multiple endorsement agreements spanning cosmetics, apparel, and sunscreen brands.
Albums
Making Waves
2024
YUQ1
2024
Grey Track
2023
Love to Hate You, Pt. 1 (Original Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
2023
Singles
