Wendy sets November 23 for Gleam Hour. Here’s her solo career so far.
Red Velvet’s Wendy will release her fourth solo mini album, Gleam Hour, on November 23 at 6 p.m. KST. ASND posted the schedule at midnight; the EP is her first new music since Cerulean Verge.
Mina Park
Wendy is back on a solo clock. Her fourth mini album, Gleam Hour, lands November 23 at 6 p.m. KST, or 4 a.m. Eastern the same day. ASND put the title and schedule up at midnight KST on November 9, about a year and two months after Cerulean Verge. Pre-orders opened Monday afternoon in Korea, the track list is due Tuesday, and concept films and photos will move through Day, Dusk, Blue Hour, and Deep Night before a highlight medley on November 19, an MV teaser on November 20, and a fan listening session on November 22. The title track stays quiet until that list drops.
The agency’s pitch for the album is about past hours that still glow: feelings change as time moves, and the days you already lived are still part of you. The schedule art matches that mood with icy blues and feathers instead of a Red Velvet stage look. Wendy grew up between Ontario and Minnesota before the SM audition that put her in the group. For those fans, this is the part of her career that runs on her name alone.
That solo lane started April 5, 2021, with Like Water, the first Red Velvet member debut. The EP peaked at No. 4 on Korea’s album chart and stayed close to ballads and comfort, led by “Like Water” and “When This Rain Stops.” Wish You Hell arrived March 12, 2024, hit No. 2 on Circle, and sounded sharper, more pop-punk, more interested in dumping an old self than soothing one. In April 2025 her exclusive SM deal ended. She kept Red Velvet for group work and signed with ASND, the same home as several fromis_9 members, later that month.
Cerulean Verge was the first mini under that new roof, out September 10, 2025, with “Sunkiss” up front. It peaked at No. 8 on Circle and took iTunes album No. 1 in 16 regions in the opening week. Group Wendy still lives inside Red Velvet’s dual concepts and shared stages. Solo Wendy keeps choosing records that start with the voice and the mood she wants that year. Gleam Hour is the next one of those, two weeks of teasers away.
You can stream it when Korea does. Until then the useful nights are the November 22 listening session and the November 23 drop.
