In September 2018, H&I Entertainment posted an audition notice on OTR looking for members of their upcoming girl group, which would debut either in the last half of 2018 or the first half of 2019. In November, they revealed the first three members of MIDNIGHT to be Danbi, Dami, and Byeoljji on their Instagram. In January 2019, it was announced through audition pages and the group's YouTube descriptions that MIDNIGHT would debut in April with five/six members.
By this time, Dami had left the group and Danbi and Byeoljji had stayed. The same month, they introduced two new members, Serin and Yebin, through dance covers. A month later, in February, Jiwon was introduced through the '2018 BEST solo singer medley' dance cover posted on their YouTube channel.
At this point, people started believing Serin had left the group due to the group account unfollowing her on Instagram and her not being a part of the cover videos they released previously. (Her stage name would later be stylized as J. won) The same month, another Jiwon, who went by the stage name Yudi, introduced herself as a member of MIDNIGHT on her personal Instagram.
She was officially introduced on March 2, a couple of days before the release of their first single. As the other three members, she was also introduced through a dance cover. On March 9, the first part of the 'Girl Group's Flooded' project was released.
What the project was about, was only explained in April, after the release of the second part of the project "Swish", in Namdo News. They explained they would release a song every month until they would formally debut to express the members' various colors and charms. On April 8 and 9, H&I introduced two new trainees, Seyeon and Seungeun, as members of MIDNIGHT to replace Yudi, Jiwon, and Yebin, who had left the group in between releases.
On April 19, MIDNIGHT uploaded a cover video by a new member: Cherry (but at the time using her birth name Yujeong). She was, however, never formally introduced as a member, and seems to have left the group after just a couple of days. An April debut fell through at the last moment as they had been posting about it until March 2.
Five days later, MIDNIGHT introduced Chaewon through an Instagram post as a new member, making MIDNIGHT a five-member girl group again. On July 23, a new member was introduced through a vocal cover of "Be Be Your Love" by Rachael Yamagata: Twitch streamer, actress, model, and singer Yunu. Three weeks later, on August 14, MIDNIGHT released a music teaser for their third pre-debut single.
The teaser did not include Yunu and whether she is going to make an appearance in the music video the same style Yudi did, at the end of the music video, is not known right now. The group, however, had already finished shooting their music video before Yunu's introduction. On September 17, MIDNIGHT revealed they were working on their debut album while simultaneously working on their final project song, which they aim to release in December 2019.
They have yet to decide whether this last pre-debut song will be put in a mini-album along with the other pre-debut songs, or if it will be a stand-alone single like the other three. On the same day, it became clear the rumors of Chaewon having left the group had been true. The article talking about MIDNIGHT's final project song introduced the group as a five-member girl group, did not Chaewon as a member and used a picture of MIDNIGHT's line-up excluding Chaewon.
But within a couple of days, she seems to have left the group again. She deleted the message asking for her followers to love her and MIDNIGHT, she unfollowed all the members and the group (and vice versa), and she removed MIDNIGHT from her bio. On October 22, an audition page for new members for MIDNIGHT was published on OTR.
On the page, it was revealed that MIDNIGHT was aiming to debut in the early half of 2020. On December 5, MIDNIGHT introduced Eungyul through a vocal cover of [https://kindie. fan...
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