50 Fun Facts About Loona

NASA put the 2017 solo debut song of Loona's Kim Lip on its playlist for which event?

A total solar eclipse in 2017 came with a NASA playlist, and Kim Lip's debut single, itself titled Eclipse, was on it.

Loona's Korean name, Idarui Sonyeo, reflects how its members were unveiled and translates as what?

Girl of the Month sums up the launch: starting in October 2016, each member was introduced in turn with her own solo single before the full group debuted in August 2018.

Which Beyoncé hit did Chuu sing at her audition before joining Loona as its tenth member?

Halo was her audition piece, and she was revealed as a Loona member in December 2017 with the solo single album Chuu, which reached number 8 on the Gaon Album Chart.

Which Canadian musician is featured on love4eva, the 2018 debut single by the Loona sub-unit yyxy?

Grimes appeared on the track after some of her own fans urged her to work with the group, and its parent EP, Beauty & the Beat, reached number 4 on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart.

When BlockBerry Creative removed Chuu from Loona in November 2022, what did the label accuse her of?

Abuse of power towards staff was the label's stated reason, though it did not make its evidence public. Chuu had already won a partial court injunction against her contract that March.

Star made Loona the second Korean girl group on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart, after which act?

Blackpink had reached it in 2020 with Ice Cream, their collaboration with Selena Gomez, so Loona became the first Korean girl group to get there with a song of their own.

Loona's first EP to reach the Billboard 200, released in October 2020, is titled [12:00] and read as what?

Midnight is how the title is read, and the first teaser made the point with a clock in Seoul creeping on from 11:59 at night while the time in Tokyo and London flashed past.

The name Loossemble, adopted by five Loona members regrouping in 2023, blends Loona with which word?

Assemble was the word, which their agency glossed as five Loona members coming together as one. The quintet debuted in September 2023 with the single Sensitive.

Artms, the group five Loona members launched in 2024, takes its name from the Greek goddess of what?

The Moon is the link: Artms nods to the goddess Artemis and to NASA's Artemis programme, which is working to return astronauts to the lunar surface.

What name do fans of Loona go by, a fandom represented by the stars in the Star music video?

Orbit is the fandom name, and the stars drifting through the Star video stand for those fans lighting the members' way as they chase their dreams.

Loona missed the first round of which 2022 Mnet contest with COVID-19 cases, yet finished runner-up?

Queendom 2 began filming days after three members tested positive, so Loona performed their opening stage at a later date and still climbed to second place in the live finale.

Jinsoul said Loona's 2021 single PTT (Paint the Town) was inspired by the music of which film industry?

Bollywood shaped the track, which layers an Indian flute over dubstep and 808 bass, and it became Loona's first song on South Korea's main Gaon Digital Chart.

Which member was the first of Loona to be revealed, releasing the solo single Vivid in October 2016?

Heejin was the first face of the project, announced in September 2016, and in 2023 she released a solo EP titled simply K.

Loona's Yves was inspired to sing after watching which girl group perform their 2007 debut song Irony?

Wonder Girls made the impression in 2007, and a decade later Yves was unveiled as Loona's ninth member with the solo single New.

Which British singer is featured on Soap, the 2025 title track from the EP Soft Error by Loona's Yves?

PinkPantheress guested on Soap in August 2025, and that October Yves returned the favour on a remix of the British singer's song Stars.

Which instrument did Loona's Hyunjin play in Latency, the band she debuted with in January 2026?

Drums were her role in Latency, a band whose formation was followed by a web series. She left the line-up in May 2026 to focus on her health.

Before she was cast as a trainee, Loona leader Haseul had planned to study which art form in college?

Opera was the plan until a music teacher talked her into entering a song festival, where she was scouted. She had sung in a children's choir at elementary school.

Through which social media platform was Loona's Jinsoul cast before she became a company trainee?

Instagram was where she was spotted, and she went on to make her debut in June 2017 with the solo single Singing in the Rain.

The stage name of Loona's Chuu comes from doing what with her given name, Ji-woo?

Saying it quickly is the whole trick, and she kept the name when she went solo with a new agency in 2023.

In the YouTube series Chuu Can Do It, launched in 2021, the Loona singer promotes which cause?

The environment is the theme: Chuu uses the show to spread awareness of protecting the Earth through eco-friendly practices. The same year she also hosted Hauteur, a web series made with Lotte Department Store.

Which Loona member, the eighth revealed, completes the trio Odd Eye Circle with Kim Lip and Jinsoul?

Choerry joined the trio for its September 2017 debut EP, Mix & Match. She had first appeared on television back in 2009, as a child on MBC's Fantastic Mates.

Which Loona member, the twelfth and last revealed, released the solo single Egoist in March 2018?

Hyeju first performed as Olivia Hye, and switched to her birth name in 2023 when she signed with a new agency.

Which Loona member, unveiled in 2017 with the solo song Kiss Later, went solo in 2026 with Lv1?

Yeojin was the fourth member to be revealed, and her debut single album arrived in March 2026 with the title track Sugar Talk.

Which Loona member debuted in the sub-unit Loona 1/3 before her solo single Everyday I Love You?

Vivi sang on the Love & Live EP in March 2017, weeks before she was officially announced as the fifth member that April.

Which Loona member, unveiled in 2018 with the solo single One & Only, joined the sub-unit yyxy?

Go Won was the eleventh member to be revealed, and Kim Lip guested on See Saw, another track on her debut single album.

Which August 2018 digital single was the first Loona release to feature all twelve members?

Favorite arrived two weeks before the debut EP, with a music video that showed off the choreography of the complete lineup in matching uniform-style outfits.

Loona won their first music show trophy in March 2020, on Mnet's M Countdown, with which song?

So What took the trophy five weeks after its release, though the showcase for the song had been held without fans because of COVID-19 concerns.

Which 2019 Loona single has a video shot in five countries, showing women from around the world?

Butterfly intercut those scenes with the group dancing in a lilac-hued amphitheater, and it led [X X], the repackaged edition of the debut EP.

Which title track of Loona's debut EP did NME crown in 2022 as the group's best song?

Hi High carries a double meaning, the group has said: a hello to the newly complete lineup of twelve, and a nod to their aim of climbing to the top of the music scene.

Which song led Chuu's self-titled solo single album in December 2017, ahead of Loona's full debut?

Heart Attack fronted the single album Chuu, and its second track, Girl's Talk, featured fellow member Yves.

Which K-pop mogul helped produce Loona's 2020 EP [#] after watching the group cover NCT 127's Cherry Bomb?

Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment, came on board after seeing that cover video, as Yves confirmed at the album's press showcase.

Which label, co-founded by Loona's former creative director, signed the five members who formed Artms?

Modhaus was co-founded in 2021 by Jaden Jeong, who had steered Loona's concept until 2019, and the label is also home to the 24-member group TripleS.

Which group won the 2022 Mnet contest in which Loona finished runner-up with the finale song Pose?

WJSN took first place in the live finale in June 2022 and marked the win a few weeks later with the special single album Sequence.

On which 2017 JTBC survival show did Loona's Hyunjin reach the final episode as a contestant?

Mix Nine sent YG Entertainment founder Yang Hyun-suk around Korea's music agencies in search of new stars, and Hyunjin lasted until the final episode before being eliminated.

What led BlockBerry Creative to indefinitely postpone Loona's EP [0], announced for January 2023?

A fan boycott did it: after Chuu's removal, supporters angry at the label's treatment of the members pledged to shun the release, and it was shelved on December 22, 2022.

Loona's Chuu competed as Spring Girl, with flowers in her hair, on which South Korean TV show in 2020?

King of Mask Singer hides its celebrity contestants behind costumes, and Chuu was eliminated on the second of her two days in the competition.

Loona's Hyunjin was a panelist on Catharsis, an MBC show previewing which sporting event?

The FIFA World Cup in Qatar was the subject of Catharsis, though Hyunjin was suddenly absent from the panel from November 27, a week into the tournament.

Which fruit does former Loona member Yves use as a signature image in her branding as a solo artist?

Apple imagery runs through her solo work, and fans widely tie it to the forbidden fruit and to the LGBTQ+ community, a following Yves has acknowledged in an interview.

In which city did Loona open their first world tour, Loonatheworld, in August 2022?

Los Angeles got two nights after a second date was added, and the tour brought Loona's first concerts outside Seoul since their 2018 debut.

Loona's English-language single Star is a version of which Korean track from the same 2020 EP?

Voice is the Korean original on [12:00], and its English twin went to American radio that December as the first English single released by the whole group.

Which single did Loona release in December 2019 as an appreciation song for fans, ahead of the EP [#]?

365 kept Haseul's vocals even though she sat out the promotions for the EP that followed, having stepped back for health reasons that January.

The English name Loona comes from rearranging which parts of the group's Korean name, Idarui Sonyeo?

Initial consonants do the job: taken from each syllable block of the name and reshuffled, the Hangul letters ㄴㅇㅇㄷㅅ look like LOONA in Latin script.

Four Loona members recorded the 2021 singles Yum-Yum and Yummy-Yummy with which children's TV show?

Cocomong teamed up with Kim Lip and three of her bandmates for Yum-Yum in June 2021, and the follow-up Yummy-Yummy arrived that September.

Which production company, credited as Loona's visual director, directed many of the group's early music videos?

Digipedi travelled across three continents for one 2019 shoot alone, aiming to capture the freedom and courage of girls worldwide.

BlockBerry Creative, the label that launched Loona, was set up in 2016 as a subsidiary of which company?

Polaris Entertainment was the parent company, and by June 2023 every Loona member had won her case to leave the subsidiary.

Loona's Japanese debut in September 2021 was a double A-side single pairing Star Seed with which song?

Hula Hoop led the release, issued through Universal Music Japan's EMI Records, and it reached the top ten of Japan's Oricon singles chart.

The Loona trio Odd Eye Circle returned in July 2023 with the EP Version Up, led by which single?

Air Force One fronted the trio's first release for a new label, and a four-stop European tour followed that August.

Which studio album did Artms, a group of five Loona members, debut with in May 2024, led by Virtual Angel?

DALL stands for Devine All Love & Live, with devine a deliberate twist on the word divine, and four pre-release singles led up to it.

Which shape gives its name to the independent label that Loona's Hyunjin founded in June 2025?

Triangle ENM takes its name from three vertices that Hyunjin says stand for the self, reality and one's dreams, and she spoke of recruiting other artists to it.

Loona made their first appearance in the United States in August 2019 at which fan convention?

KCON 2019 gave Loona their first American stage almost exactly a year after their debut as a full group.