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Build Up : Vocal Boy Group Survivor (빌드업 : 보컬 보이그룹 서바이벌) is a survival show created by Mnet. It premiered on January 26, 2024.

Background[]

On December 5, 2023, Mnet announced that they would be launching of a new survival program Build Up : Vocal Boy Group Survivor in 2024, in order to create a vocal boy group. Additionally, Star News reported that PENTAGON's Yeo One and about 40 other contestants from idols to solo artists, models, and trainees will be participating, including members of WEi, BDC, VANNER, UP10TION, JUST B, KNK, AB6IX, CIX, ONE PACT, Newkidd, and A.C.E.[1]

On December 26, Mnet announced that the show will premiere on January 26, 2024.[2]

On December 28, Mnet released the show's first teaser.[3]

MCs[]

Judges[4][]

Special judges[]

Contestants[]

# Name Notes
V1 Seung Hun (승훈) Member of CIX
Former YG Treasure Box contestant
V2 Jay Chang (제이창) Soloist
Member of ONE PACT
Member of pre-debut group M.O.N.T Arena
Former Under Nineteen and Boys Planet contestant
V3 Bain (배인) Member of JUST B
Former Under Nineteen contestant
V4 Sunyoul (선율) Member of UP10TION
V5 Lim Jun Hyeok (임준혁) Soloist
Former member of Be-Blossom and DAY6
V6 Jeong In Seong (정인성) Member of KNK
Former MIXNINE contestant
V7 Kang Ha Yoon (강하윤) Former LOUD and Kookmin Singer contestant
V8 Choi Ha Ram (최하람) Musical actor
V9 Lee Min Wook (이민욱) Member of Newkidd
V10 Lee Geonu (이건우) Member of JUST B
Former I-LAND and Dancing High contestant
V11 Jeon Woong (전웅) Member of AB6IX
V12 Wumuti (우무티) Former SWIN member
Former Super Idol, Under Nineteen and Boys Planet contestant
V13 Taehwan (태환) Member of VANNER
V14 Lim Sang Hyun (임상현) Soloist
V15 Park Ju He (박주희) Trainee
V16 Kim Sung Jung (김성정) Musical actor
V17 Choi Su Hwan (최수환) Soloist
Former Produce X 101 contestant
V18 Kim Seo Hyung (김서형) Musical actor
V19 Lee Gwang Seok (이광석) N/A
V20 Lee Dong Hun (이동훈) Member of A.C.E
Former MIXNINE contestant
V21 Hong Sung Won (홍성원) N/A
V22 Hyukjin (혁진) Member of FAVE1
Former member of 100%
V23 Yun In Hwan (윤인환) N/A
V24 Ji Yeon Woo (지연우) Trainee
V25 Ma Jae Kyung (마재경) Member of ROMEO
Former MIXNINE contestant
V26 Jo Hwan Ji (조환지) Musical actor
V27 Hong Seong Jun (홍성준) Member of BDC
Former Produce X 101 contestant
V28 Taewoo (태우) Soloist
Former Sing Again 2 and Vocal Play 2 contestant
V29 Hwang In Hyuk (황인혁) Soloist
V30 Jungsoomin (정수민) Soloist
Former LOUD and Stars Awakening contestant
V31 Jang Intae (장인태) Member of 415
V32 Jeong Yun Seo (정윤서) Trainee
V33 Neon (네온) Soloist
V34 Park Je Up (박제업) Soloist
Member of IMFACT
Former Sing Again 3 and The Unit contestant
V35 Kwon Eui Bin (권의빈) Former The Idol Band : Boy's Battle and Kookmin Singer contestant
V36 Bitsaeon (빛새온) Member of M.O.N.T
Former MIXNINE contestant
V37 Kang Seok Hwa (강석화) Member of WEi
Former YG Treasure Box and Produce X 101 contestant
V38 Lee Hwan Hee (이환희) Member of UP10TION
Former Boys Planet contestant
V39 Kim Min Seo (김민서) Former The Origin - A, B, or What? contestant
V40 Yeo One (여원) Member of PENTAGON

Evaluation[]

Pre-4 Mission[]

The contestants chose their mission song based on the voice check-in ranking, with the highest ranked, Lee Gwang Seok, going first and the lowest ranked, Jang Intae, going last. At the evaluation, the judges chose the top tier, the member which they thought gave the best performance. From performance 4 and onwards, Wendy was absent due to another commitment.

Jay Chang was chosen by all six judges as the top tier of "If You", while Choi Ha Ram was chosen by all five judges as the top tier of "Breath".

Following the evaluation, the top tier of each group chose the low tier, the member which they thought gave the worst performance. The two remaining members of each group were automatically categorized as middle tier.

# Original artist Song Contestant Result
1 BIGBANG "If You" Lee Geonu Low tier
Jay Chang Top tier
Kang Ha Yoon Middle tier
Hong Seong Jun Middle tier
2 Sung Si Kyung "Every Moment of You" Jang Intae Middle tier
Seung Hun Top tier
Hong Sung Won Low tier
Bain Middle tier
3 Brown Eyes "Don't Go, Don't Go" Hyukjin Low tier
Neon Middle tier
Lee Dong Hun Top tier
Park Je Up Middle tier
4 Kim Dong Ryul "Shall I Love You Again?" Kim Seo Hyung Low tier
Kim Sung Jung Top tier
Yeo One Middle tier
Yun In Hwan Middle tier
5 NewJeans "Ditto" Wumuti Top tier
Jeon Woong Low tier
Kang Seok Hwa Middle tier
Jungsoomin Middle tier
6 Hyukoh "Tomboy" Lee Gwang Seok Low tier
Park Juhe Top tier
Hwang In Hyuk Middle tier
Jo Hwan Ji Middle tier
7 Park Hwayobi "Something Like That" Kwon Eui Bin Middle tier
Lee Min Wook Top tier
Taehwan Middle tier
Ma Jae Kyung Low tier
8 Park Hyo Shin "Breath" Lim Jun Hyeok Low tier
Choi Ha Ram Top tier
Jeong In Seong Middle tier
Lee Hwan Hee Middle tier
9 MAMAMOO "Décalcomanie" Bitsaeon Middle tier
Ji Yeon Woo Low tier
Sunyoul Middle tier
Choi Su Hwan Top tier
10 Crush "Beautiful" Taewoo Middle tier
Kim Min Seo Low tier
Jeong Yun Seo Middle tier
Lim Sang Hyun Top tier

2 VS 2 Rival Mission[]

For the partner matching, the top tier of each group had priority and could choose any other contestant as their partner. Afterwards, the middle tiers could choose among the remaining contestants. Had some low tiers remained, they would have had to choose among themselves, but all the partner matching was done before that could happen. If one contestant was chosen by multiple other contestants, the selected contestant could choose his partner.

For the rivals matching, all teams had the opportunity to declare themselves as the rival of the selected team. It is currently unknown how the selected teams were selected or in which order they were presented. If several teams wished to battle the selected team, the selected team chose their rivals among those teams. If no team volunteered to battle the selected team, the selected team chose their rivals among the remaining unmatched teams.

At the evaluation, the judges scored each team for a maximum score of 100 per judge. Special judge Seungkwan was present for this mission, therefore the maximum total score was 700. The winning team passed to the next mission, while the losing team was at risk of elimination.

Wumuti and Kang Ha Yoon earned the highest score with 697.

# Original artist Song Contestant Score
1 SHINee "Sherlock" Park Je Up 645
Choi Su Hwan
Jonghyun "End of a Day" Lee Dong Hun 624
Sunyoul
2 Crush "Hmm-cheat" Neon 650
Seung Hun
Roy Kim "Take Me Back In Time" Yun In Hwan 666
Ma Jae Kyung
3 Charlie Puth "Dangerously" Jay Chang 693
Bitsaeon
Harry Styles "Falling" Wumuti 697
Kang Ha Yoon
4 BLACKPINK "Kick It" Kang Seok Hwa 505
Jeon Woong
Ryeowook "The Little Prince" Ji Yeon Woo 591
Jeong Yun Seo
5 Bishop Briggs "River" Kim Min Seo 690
Bain
Bumjin "A Letter" Lee Gwang Seok 587
Kim Seong Jeong
6 Crush "Don't Forget" Lee Geonu 636
Jungsoomin
Urban Zakapa "I Don't Love You" Hong Seong Jun 601
Kim Seo Hyung
7 LUCY "Play" Hong Sung Won 578
Taehwan
IU "My Sea" Lim Jun Hyeok 579
Yeo One
8 BOL4 "To My Youth" Choi Ha Ram 648
Hwang In Hyuk
The Stray "Moon" Park Juhe 607
Kwon Eui Bin
9 Lee Hong Gi & Yoo Hwe Seung "Still Love You" Hyukjin 543
Jeong Inseong
EXO "Universe" Jang Intae 589
Lee Min Wook
10 Taeyeon "Four Seasons" Lee Hwan Hee 515
Jo Hwan Ji
I.O.I "Downpour" Lim Sang Hyun 641
Taewoo

Following the evaluation, the judges chose 10 survivors among the 20 contestants at risk of elimination.

# Survived Eliminated
1 Jay Chang Kang Seok Hwa
2 Neon Kim Seong Jeong
3 Seung Hun Hong Seong Jun
4 Bitsaeon Hong Sung Won
5 Lee Gwang Seok Taehwan
6 Park Juhe Kwon Eui Bin
7 Kim Seo Hyung Hyukjin
8 Sunyoul Jeong In Seong
9 Lee Dong Hun Lee Hwan Hee
10 Jeon Woong Jo Hwan Ji

Triple Death Match Mission[]

For the partner matching, the 10 winning duos chose their third partner among the 10 contestants who survived elimination. The team with the highest score in the 2 VS 2 Rival Mission, Wumuti and Kang Ha Yoon, was the first to select and the team with the lowest score, Lim Jun Hyeok and Yeo One, was the last.

For the rivals matching, the teams chose their rivals, starting from the team with lowest score to the one with the highest. Teams with a higher score were permitted to push out teams with a lower score.

At the evaluation, the judges chose the best team. Special judge Lim Seul Ong was present, therefore the maximum total score was 7. The winning team passed to the next mission, while the losing team was eliminated.

# Rank Original artist Song Contestant Score
1 5 BTOB "Pray (I'll Be Your Man)" Park Je Up 4
Choi Su Hwan
Seung Hun
2 KISS OF LIFE "Bad News" Kim Min Seo 3
Bain
Bitsaeon
2 6 Choi Yuree "Forest" Lim Sang Hyun 1
Taewoo
Neon
4 Taeyeon "Drawing Our Moments" Choi Ha Ram 6
Hwang In Hyuk
Sunyoul
3 8 AKMU & IU "NAKKA" Ji Yeon Woo 1
Jeong Yun Seo
Park Juhe
7 BIG Naughty ft. JAMIE "Joker" Lee Geonu 6
Jungsoomin
Kim Seo Hyung
4 9 Hoppipolla "Enough" Jang Intae 3
Lee Min Wook
Jeon Woong
1 J.Y. Park "Fever" Wumuti 4
Kang Ha Yoon
Jay Chang
5 3 BTS "The Truth Untold" Yun In Hwan 3
Ma Jae Kyung
Lee Dong Hun
10 Jung Seung Hwan "An Ordinary Day" Lim Jun Hyeok 4
Yeo One
Lee Gwang Seok

Following the evaluation, the judges saved 5 contestants through the Build-Up Pass,

# Survived Eliminated
1 Lee Dong Hun Lim Sang Hyun
2 Bain Taewoo
3 Kim Min Seo Neon
4 Jeon Woong Ji Yeon Woo
5 Bitsaeon Jeong Yun Seo
6 Park Juhe
7 Jang Intae
8 Lee Min Wook
9 Yun In Hwan
10 Ma Jae Kyung

One Team Mission[]

Following the previous evaluation, the judges also chose a top tier per winning team and ranked each team. For the partner matching, each top tier chose whether to disband his team and rebuild a new team with only new members or maintain his current team and add a new member. The top tier then chose his new member(s). The teams will be permanent until the finale, including the final mission. The top tier of the first ranked team in the Triple Death Match Mission, Park Je Up, was the first to select and the top tier of the last ranked team, Sunyoul, was the last.

# Top tier Team Decision
1 Park Je Up "Pray (I'll Be Your Man)" Disband
2 Jay Chang "Fever" Disband
3 Lee Gwang Seok "An Ordinary Day" Maintain
4 Jungsoomin "Joker" Maintain
5 Sunyoul "Drawing Our Moments" Disband

At the Mid-Check Day, the teams chose a top tier team and low tier team based on each team's performance at the song choice meeting. The top tier team chose the performance order for the mission. Team DO-RE-MI-FA was chosen as the top tier team by three teams, while Team MILKY-UP was chosen as the low tier team by three teams.

At the evaluation, the judges scored each team for a maximum score of 100 per judge and a maximum total score of 600. On-site evaluators were able to vote for their two favorite teams for a maximum score of 300. The second online voting period provided benefits for a maximum score of 100.

Team MILKY-UP earned the highest score with 877. The last ranked team, Team DO-RE-MI-FA, was eliminated with a score of 641.

# Original artist Song Team Contestant Total Score Judges Score On-site Evaluators Score Pre-Online Voting Score
1 WOODZ "Drowning" HunMinJayBit Jay Chang 754 528 190 36
Bitsaeon
Seung Hun
Kim Min Seo
2 Taemin "Guilty" The Partners Park Je Up 841 561 254 26
Lee Dong Hun
Bain
Jeon Woong
3 Aespa "Drama" WATERFIRE Sunyoul 715 549 147 19
Wumuti
Kang Ha Yoon
Choi Su Hwan
4 Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" MILKY-UP Jungsoomin 877 568 300 9
Lee Geonu
Kim Seo Hyung
Choi Ha Ram
5 Park Hyo Shin "Gift" DO-RE-MI-FA Lee Gwang Seok 641 538 93 10
Lim Jun Hyeok
Yeo One
Hwang In Hyuk

New Song Mission[]

As the winners of the previous evaluation, Team MILKY-UP chose the performance order for the mission.

At the evaluation, the judges scored each team for a maximum score of 100 per judge and a maximum total score of 600. On-site evaluators were able to vote for their favorite team for a maximum score of 300. The third online voting period provided benefits for a maximum score of 100.

Team HunMinJayBit earned the highest score with 983 and performed on M Countdown on March 28, 2024. The last ranked team, Team MILKY-UP, was eliminated with a score of 781.

# Song Team Contestant Total Score Judges Score On-site Evaluators Score Pre-Online Voting Score
1 "Flower" HunMinJayBit Jay Chang 983 583 300 100
Bitsaeon
Seung Hun
Kim Min Seo
2 "Lose Yourself" The Partners Park Je Up 845 544 262 39
Lee Dong Hun
Bain
Jeon Woong
3 "Someday" WATERFIRE Sunyoul 890 572 298 20
Wumuti
Kang Ha Yoon
Choi Su Hwan
4 "You&I" MILKY-UP Jungsoomin 781 550 221 10
Lee Geonu
Kim Seo Hyung
Choi Ha Ram

Finale[]

The fourth online voting period was used as part of the pre-online voting for a maximum score of 1000. The live broadcast voting provided a maximum score of 2000.

Team HunMinJayBit earned first place with a score of 1418 and will debut as B.D.U. Team The Partners earned second place with a score of 1169 and Team WATERFIRE earned third place with a score of 413.

# Song Team Contestant Total Score Pre-online Voting Live Broadcast Voting
1 "Now" WATERFIRE Sunyoul 413 122 291
Wumuti
Kang Ha Yoon
Choi Su Hwan
2 "Your Season" The Partners Park Je Up 1169 407 762
Lee Dong Hun
Bain
Jeon Woong
3 "Hold Me" HunMinJayBit Jay Chang 1418 471 947
Bitsaeon
Seung Hun
Kim Min Seo

Rankings[]

Voice check-in[]

The contestants were asked to vote for the fellow contestants with which they would like to perform.

Rank Name Votes
1 Lee Gwang Seok 32
2 Park Je Up 28
3 Kang Ha Yoon 27
4 Lim Sang Hyun 25
4 Kim Sung Jung 25
4 Taewoo 25
4 Jungsoomin 25
8 Sunyoul 24
8 Kwon Eui Bin 24
10 Jay Chang 23
11 Jeong In Seong 22
11 Hwang In Hyuk 22
11 Yeo One 22
14 Hong Sung Won 21
14 Bitsaeon 21
16 Kim Seo Hyung 18
16 Lee Dong Hun 18
16 Jo Hwan Ji 18
19 Ji Yeon Woo 17
20 Kang Seok Hwa 15
21 Choi Ha Ram 14
21 Jeon Woong 14
21 Lee Hwan Hee 14
24 Wumuti 13
24 Park Juhe 13
24 Yun In Hwan 13
24 Hong Seong Jun 13
24 Jeong Yun Seo 13
24 Neon 13
24 Kim Min Seo 13
31 Taehwan 12
31 Ma Jae Kyung 12
33 Lee Min Wook 11
33 Lee Geonu 11
33 Choi Su Hwan 11
36 Hyukjin 10
37 Bain 9
38 Seung Hun 7
38 Lim Jun Hyeok 7
40 Jang Intae 5

Online voting[]

The first voting period was held from December 28, 2023 to January 26, 2024. The results were released on February 2, 2024. It is currently unknown what the benefits were.

The second voting period was held from January 27, 2024 to February 25, 2024, with interim results released on February 9, 2024, February 16, 2024, and February 23, 2024. The benefits were used for the One Team Mission.

The third voting period was held from March 9, 2024 to March 11, 2024. The benefits were used for the New Song Mission.

The fourth voting period was held from March 22, 2024 to March 29, 2024. The votes were used as part of the pre-online voting for the finale.

Rank Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 16 Feb. 23
Name Name Name Name
1 Jay Chang Jay Chang
(=)
Jay Chang
(=)
Jay Chang
(=)
2 Lee Dong Hun Lee Dong Hun
(=)
Lee Dong Hun
(=)
Lee Dong Hun
(=)
3 Wumuti Wumuti
(=)
Wumuti
(=)
Wumuti
(=)
4 Seung Hun Seung Hun
(=)
Seung Hun
(=)
Kang Seok Hwa
(+1)
5 Jeon Woong Kang Seok Hwa
(+3)
Kang Seok Hwa
(=)
Seung Hun
(–1)
6 Lee Hwan Hee Yeo One
(+1)
Lee Hwan Hee
(+1)
Park Je Up
(+2)
7 Yeo One Lee Hwan Hee
(–1)
Yeo One
(–1)
Bitsaeon
(+3)
8 Kang Seok Hwa Jeon Woong
(–3)
Park Je Up
(+1)
Yeo One
(–1)
9 Park Je Up Park Je Up
(=)
Jeon Woong
(–1)
Lee Hwan Hee
(–3)
10 Lee Geonu Taehwan
(+1)
Bitsaeon
(+3)
Jeon Woong
(–1)
11 Taehwan Lee Geonu
(–1)
Taehwan
(–1)
Taehwan
(=)
12 Bitsaeon Jeong Inseong
(+1)
Lee Geonu
(–1)
Jeong Inseong
(+1)
13 Jeong Inseong Bitsaeon
(–1)
Jeong Inseong
(–1)
Lee Geonu
(–1)
14 Hong Seong Jun Sunyoul
(+1)
Sunyoul
(=)
Sunyoul
(=)
15 Sunyoul Hong Seong Jun
(–1)
Kang Ha Yoon
(+2)
Kang Ha Yoon
(=)
16 Neon Neon
(=)
Neon
(=)
Neon
(=)
17 Kang Ha Yoon Kang Ha Yoon
(=)
Hong Seong Jun
(–2)
Bain
(+2)
18 Bain Bain
(=)
Lee Gwang Seok
(+3)
Hong Seong Jun
(–1)
19 Hyukjin Hyukjin
(=)
Bain
(–1)
Lee Gwang Seok
(–1)
20 Hong Sung Won Jungsoomin
(+1)
Jungsoomin
(=)
Jungsoomin
(=)
21 Jungsoomin Lee Gwang Seok
(+2)
Hyukjin
(–2)
Kim Min Seo
(+3)
22 Kim Min Seo Hong Sung Won
(–2)
Park Juhe
(+1)
Yun In Hwan
(+1)
23 Lee Gwang Seok Park Juhe
(+4)
Yun In Hwan
(+8)
Park Juhe
(–1)
24 Choi Su Hwan Kim Min Seo
(–2)
Kim Min Seo
(=)
Hyukjin
(–3)
25 Kim Seo Hyung Kim Seo Hyung
(=)
Hong Sung Won
(–3)
Kim Seo Hyung
(+1)
26 Kim Sung Jung Lee Min Wook
(+12)
Kim Seo Hyung
(–1)
Hong Sung Won
(–1)
27 Park Juhe Kim Sung Jung
(–1)
Choi Su Hwan
(+2)
Choi Su Hwan
(=)
28 Ji Yeon Woo Lim Sang Hyun
(+6)
Lim Sang Hyun
(=)
Lim Sang Hyun
(=)
29 Lim Jun Hyeok Choi Su Hwan
(–5)
Lee Min Wook
(–3)
Taewoo
(+10)
30 Choi Ha Ram Hwang In Hyuk
(+9)
Hwang In Hyuk
(=)
Ma Jae Kyung
(+2)
31 Jo Hwan Ji Yun In Hwan
(+9)
Kim Sung Jung
(–4)
Kim Sung Jung
(=)
32 Ma Jae Kyung Taewoo
(+4)
Ma Jae Kyung
(+1)
Hwang In Hyuk
(–2)
33 Kwon Eui Bin Ma Jae Kyung
(–1)
Kwon Eui Bin
(+5)
Kwon Eui Bin
(=)
34 Lim Sang Hyun Jo Hwan Ji
(–3)
Jang Intae
(+6)
Choi Ha Ram
(+2)
35 Jang Intae Choi Ha Ram
(–5)
Jo Hwan Ji
(–1)
Jo Hwan Ji
(=)
36 Taewoo Jeong Yun Seo
(+1)
Choi Ha Ram
(–1)
Jeong Yun Seo
(+2)
37 Jeong Yun Seo Ji Yeon Woo
(–9)
Lim Jun Hyeok
(+2)
Lee Min Wook
(–8)
38 Lee Min Wook Kwon Eui Bin
(–5)
Jeong Yun Seo
(–2)
Lim Jun Hyeok
(–1)
39 Hwang In Hyuk Lim Jun Hyeok
(–10)
Taewoo
(–7)
Ji Yeon Woo
(+1)
40 Yun In Hwan Jang Intae
(–5)
Ji Yeon Woo
(–3)
Jang Intae
(–6)

Aftermath[]

  • The winning team officially debuted as B.D.U on June 26, 2024.

Other contestants

  • The third place team WATERFIRE debuted on May 30, 2024.
  • Lee Donghun and Park Je Up formed the duo D&J, and subsequently debuted on July 13, 2024.

Discography[]

Special EPs[]

Digital EPs[]

Gallery[]

References[]

Official links[]