4minute

They won a Mutizen Award and a Mnet Award for "Muzik", shortly after they released their third single called, "What A Girl Wants". On June 21, a week after the start of "Hot Issue" promotions fans stole various items from the group's van, including clothing. In response Cube Entertainment stated, "It was very unfortunate that such an ordeal occurred.

" Two months later KBS banned the playing of, "Won't Give You (안줄래)" because of the lyrics in which they considered to be overly sexual content. In response Cube stated that the lyrics intended to mean "about the pure feelings of a girl to a guy. " and they were disappointed that they interpreted the lyrics as something sexual.

4minute was featured in fellow label-mate Mario's Christmas digital single "Jingle Jingle", which was released on December 2, 2009; the music video premiered online on December 3, 2009. They also recorded a remix with American artist Amerie for her song "Heard 'Em All" that was released on the Asian version of her fourth album. Cube Entertainment announced that Universal Music Group would be assisting 4minute with an international launch of their album.

They embarked on their Asia Tour that started in January and followed into other countries such as Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan. They had their first solo concert in Japan on May 8, 2010. Cube Entertainment announced that the tickets to the concert had been sold out in a very short period of time.

For their first solo concert in Japan, they performed in front of an audience of 4,000. On April 23, 2010 a new repackaged album of 4minute was sold in Taiwan including HyunA's solo debut "Change" featuring Junhyung of BEAST and their duet song with Amerie "Heard Em All", as well as a bonus DVD of their concert in Taiwan. 4minute released a new mini-album entitled HuH (Hit Your Heart) for their comeback on May 19, 2010.

Along with this, they also released the first single from it, titled "HuH". In the first track "Who's Next? ", 4minute's fellow label-mates, the members of BEAST, were featured and also appeared in the music video for "HuH" and "Who's Next".

They released a new music video for "I My Me Mine" their second single from "Hit Your Heart" on July 5, 2010. Cube Entertainment also announced "I My Me Mine" as their next Japanese single. Three different editions of the single were released.

On July 19, 2010, the song "Superstar" was digitally released for the Korean TV show Superstar K2. 4minute also performed the song live, to further promote the show. They performed for Celebration at Marina, the warm-up concert for the Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010, on August 13, 2010 together with BEAST, becoming the first Korean artists to perform for the Youth Olympic Games.

In September, Far Eastern Tribe Records announced a third Japanese single and their first double single, entitled "First/Dreams Come True". After a teaser was released, the full music video for "First" was officially released on 21 October 2010. The single was released on October 27, 2010.

4minute had their second solo concert entitled 4Minute Energy Live Volume 2: Diamond. It was held for two nights in Tokyo on December 4 and December 5, 2010 in Osaka. It also marked the start of their promotions for Diamond which was rele...