J-Hope (3,906 views)

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

J-Hope (real name Jung Ho-seok (정호석), born February 18, 1994)
Member of: BTS (방탄소년단)
Vocal range: F#2 - G#4 - B4
[Note: This vocal range is only representative of what J-Hope has sang melodically in songs. He may be able to speak or rap somewhat lower, and has also demonstrated much higher falsetto - check the "Other Notes" section for that.]

Significant High Notes:

B4 ("Trivia 起: Just Dance")
G#4 ("Hope World", "MORE", "Otsukare")
G4 ("Blue Side" (full version) , "DNA", "EPILOGUE: Young Forever", "MAMA", "Savage Love", "A Supplementary Story: You Never Walk Alone", "Telepathy", "Outro: Ego")
F#4 ("1 VERSE", "Airplane", "Boy with Luv", "Fly To My Room", "Interlude: Wings", "Otsukare", "P.O.P (Piece of Peace)")
F4 ("Answer: Love Myself", "Black Swan", "Blood Sweat & Tears", "Heartbeat")
E4 ("21st Century Girls", "Blue Side", "Boyz with Fun", "Dead Leaves", "Make It Right", "ON", "Outro: Ego", "Outro: Tear", "Permission to Dance", "UGH!")

Significant Low Notes:

D3 ("Film out", "Let Me Know", "Spine Breaker")
C#3 ("Answer: Love Myself", "Butterfly", "Boyz with Fun", "Hold Me Tight", "Miss Right", "Pied Piper", "Rain", "Save ME")
C3 ("Airplane", "Blood Sweat & Tears", "Blue Side", "Coffee", "I Need U", "Let Go", "MAMA", "Your eyes tell")
B2 ("24/7=Heaven", "Could You Turn Off Your Cell Phone?", "Dead Leaves", "Good Day", "Love Maze", "So What", "Tomorrow")
B♭2 ("Blanket Kick", "Blue & Grey", "I Like It", "Intro: Boy Meets Evil", "Mikrokosmos", "Outro: Her", "Spring Day" (various live performances) )
A2 ("Airplane", "Just One Day", "The Stars", "Stay Gold", "We On")
G#2 ("A Brand New Day", "Daydream", "Hope World", "Path")
G2 ("Born Singer", "Jamais Vu", "Louder than bombs", "Outro: Ego")
F#2 ("Magic Shop", "MORE", "P.O.P (Piece of Peace)", "Trivia 起: Just Dance")

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Blue marks falsetto notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix (including octave unisons, etc.). Some may be linked to since their presence is often not obvious.
Boldface marks notes that are particularly impressive for the vocalist's standards.

Vocal Ranges by Release:

Mixtapes:

Hope World (2018) - F#2 - G#4

Albums:

Jack in the Box (2022) - F#2 - G#4 (based on current data)

Albums (with BTS):

Dark & Wild (2014) - B♭2 ^{[see A]}
The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever (2016) - (B2) C#3 - G4
Wings (2016) - B♭2 - G4
Love Yourself: Tear (2018) - (F#2) B2 - E4
Love Yourself: Answer (2018) - F#2 - G4 - B4
Map of the Soul: 7 (2020) - G2 - F#4 (G4) 
BE (2020) - B♭2 - G4

EPs (with BTS):

2 Cool 4 Skool (2013) - G#2 ^{[see A]}
O!RUL8,2? (2013) - A2 ^{[see A]}
Skool Luv Affair (2014) - A2 ^{[see A]}
The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 1 (2015) - (C3) C#3
The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2 (2015) - (B2) C#3 - E4
Love Yourself: Her (2017) - (B♭2) C#3 - G4
Map of the Soul: Persona (2019) - G2 - F#4

Japanese Albums (with BTS): 

Wake Up (2014) - B♭2 ^{[see A]}
Youth (2016) - B2 - G4
Face Yourself (2018) - C3 - F4
Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey (2020) - A2 - F#4

Other:

BTS World: Original Soundtrack (2019) - G#2 - F4

A - No significant highs to list.

Questionable or Omitted Notes:

F5 ("Intro: Boy Meets Evil" ^[2], "N.O, but it's Opera" Soprano legend! )
G#4 ("Dynamite" ^[1])
F2 ("Louder than bombs" ^[1])

1 - Not sang with enough clear pitch to be notable.
2 - Identity unclear (i.e. possibly sang by someone else).

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

Super messy thread as of now; I know! Going to fix up formatting and do more note-watching in the coming days.
J-Hope has a lot of belted moments when he sings, so I thought I wouldn't have many lows, but I underestimated him... there were so many rich lows that I heard in my preliminary research that I just had to bold.

[luxiouskorsay]

G4's in Outro EGO BGVs (there's a lot of them in the song), i think that pre-chorus BGVs also reach E5s in head voice but i'm not sure, in the chorus there's good C3 BGVs
Hobi reach a good F5 in head voice in this Bangtan Bomb of 2013
F#2/G2s

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

May 2, 2021 20:31:15 GMT luxiouskorsay said:

G4's in Outro EGO BGVs (there's a lot of them in the song), i think that pre-chorus BGVs also reach E5s in head voice but i'm not sure, in the chorus there's good C3 BGVs
Hobi reach a good F5 in head voice in this Bangtan Bomb of 2013
F#2/G2s

Wow, thanks for this notewatching!

I did actually notewatch Outro: Ego, but I didn't pick up on the harmonized G4s, just all the E4s. I'll add that. I did already list G2s from the background, so I won't list the C3s as well. The falsetto notes sound like they're from a female backing vocalist.

I usually avoid listing notes from high note challenges, random clips, etc. in the proper main range, but that F5 is actually pretty good lol! I saw it in a compilation, but couldn't find the original video to link, so thanks! I will definitely include it in some way.

[luxiouskorsay]

May 3, 2021 1:24:31 GMT haeksk（ハクサク） said:

May 2, 2021 20:31:15 GMT luxiouskorsay said:

G4's in Outro EGO BGVs (there's a lot of them in the song), i think that pre-chorus BGVs also reach E5s in head voice but i'm not sure, in the chorus there's good C3 BGVs
Hobi reach a good F5 in head voice in this Bangtan Bomb of 2013
F#2/G2s

Wow, thanks for this notewatching!

I did actually notewatch Outro: Ego, but I didn't pick up on the harmonized G4s, just all the E4s. I'll add that. I did already list G2s from the background, so I won't list the C3s as well. The falsetto notes sound like they're from a female backing vocalist.

I usually avoid listing notes from high note challenges, random clips, etc. in the proper main range, but that F5 is actually pretty good lol! I saw it in a compilation, but couldn't find the original video to link, so thanks! I will definitely include it in some way.

Even if it's not in a performance or in a song, it is in Singing context so you should put the F5, it's quite good <3

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

May 3, 2021 22:40:49 GMT luxiouskorsay said:

May 3, 2021 1:24:31 GMT haeksk（ハクサク） said:

Wow, thanks for this notewatching!

I did actually notewatch Outro: Ego, but I didn't pick up on the harmonized G4s, just all the E4s. I'll add that. I did already list G2s from the background, so I won't list the C3s as well. The falsetto notes sound like they're from a female backing vocalist.

I usually avoid listing notes from high note challenges, random clips, etc. in the proper main range, but that F5 is actually pretty good lol! I saw it in a compilation, but couldn't find the original video to link, so thanks! I will definitely include it in some way.

Even if it's not in a performance or in a song, it is in Singing context so you should put the F5, it's quite good

True
I might actually put it in now; I was just keeping it in the bottom of the thread because I wanted to prioritize listing notes from songs first, but he ended up barely using his falsetto in recordings. RIP

[motorist]

May 3, 2021 23:06:56 GMT haeksk（ハクサク） said:

May 3, 2021 22:40:49 GMT luxiouskorsay said:

Even if it's not in a performance or in a song, it is in Singing context so you should put the F5, it's quite good

True
I might actually put it in now; I was just keeping it in the bottom of the thread because I wanted to prioritize listing notes from songs first, but he ended up barely using his falsetto in recordings. RIP

Just a reminder, it should definitely be added to the main thread being a musical context note.

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

May 8, 2022 22:37:59 GMT motorist said:

May 3, 2021 23:06:56 GMT haeksk（ハクサク） said:

True
I might actually put it in now; I was just keeping it in the bottom of the thread because I wanted to prioritize listing notes from songs first, but he ended up barely using his falsetto in recordings. RIP

Just a reminder, it should definitely be added to the main thread being a musical context note.

Yes, I will be adding the F5, and other notes in coming updates! 

At the time, I really was super particular about only showing truly sung moments in songs, etc. but now that J-Hope is going to release a solo album (and also because he's no longer "just" a rapper within the context of BTS), I want to include absolutely everything. RM and Suga might get some updates too.

[aylasaur]

Hi HKSK Vox Researcher,

Did you ever evaluate j-hope's vocals after the Jack in the Box release? I'm writing something on his vocal abilities and it would be helpful to get other perspectives. Thanks!

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

Sept 14, 2023 19:10:30 GMT aylasaur said:

Hi HKSK Vox Researcher,

Did you ever evaluate j-hope's vocals after the Jack in the Box release? I'm writing something on his vocal abilities and it would be helpful to get other perspectives. Thanks!

Hello!

A long time ago, when that came out, I actually did listen through and pick out a good amount of the notes. I think I wrote them down, but I didn't bother entering them in the list. Similarly, RM and Suga / Agust D's threads have been neglected.

The reason for this is because when I started the thread, I made the decision to not ever count the pitch of their rapping, and only focus on including notes that were definitely melodically sung. This ended up being an odd choice, though, because I remember J-Hope was rapping notably low on a song on Jack in the Box (E2 or below), but in terms of what he sang, there was still only F#2 on that album, so I had to ignore it.
By the way, for Suga, since he didn't sing a lot, his lowest sang note was around G2 on the thread, which was ridiculous, because of course he can reach much, much lower. (I heard him sing an E2 later, but did not come back to update it.)
As you can see, my choice to do things this way was a bit odd, so I started to leave the threads alone, thinking they weren't as useful as my threads for non-rappers.

J-Hope can also sing much higher than B4 in falsetto, which has been demonstrated in various clips outside of recorded songs. If you look at the bottom of the thread under "Omitted Notes", I included an F5 that seems like he could really sing! We just haven't heard him do it on actual recorded songs. However, I can say that I've heard him do falsetto C#5s in various live performances of Dynamite!

I excluded a lot of these various clips because at the time, my philosophy was that I wanted to only show what he used in songs in a melodic way.
If you want to hear J-Hope's actual, literal highest note, here's a recording of him trying to yell high. He reaches C#6, but I wouldn't count it towards his actual musical range, because he sounds like a dying animal. LOL




So, I'd say that his range is still F#2 - G#4 like this thread says, and then F5 in falsetto, all with the footnote: "He doesn't sing a lot, so we don't know his full range. This is just what we've seen him use well."
He can definitely do more with his voice; we just don't hear it a lot since he's a rapper.



If you need more help with any of the other members, let me know! I know that Jimin's lower register was used a lot more than usual on his EP, and he had great G2s.

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

I might clean up the threads for all the rappers and add those last few new notes just so it's not abandoned and it's a little more accurate.