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Turkish Boy Band

It's been a while since I've shared any Turkish music on the blog (I did a couple of posts last year). So today I thought it would be cool to feature new Turkish boy band CRUSH! :)

In recent years, the rise of K-pop globally has inspired other countries to create more next/new generation pop groups. In Turkey, girl group manifest made their debut last year. And now there is a male group counterpart!

CRUSH were formed through the Idol House Türkiye reality show competition, which was inspired by the South Korean idol training system. The contestants were virtually enrolled in a professional idol camp for training and then competed on the show, which was broadcast on YouTube. The winning members were chosen by a jury and public vote.

The  group is signed to Istanbul and New York based record label ETL Records and Turkey' largest record label DMC Music Company (aka Dogan Music Company). Their goal is to "bring together the different strengths of the members to create a new identity in modern pop music".

CRUSH consists of 7 members- Efe Şan, Arda Soydoğan, Oğuzhan Çifçi, Batu Cengiz, Barış Çağan Yüksekkaya, Miraç Firat and Milan Önder. All the members are from Turkey, although Milan was born in Russia and later moved to Turkey.

CRUSH debuted with their self-titled debut single on 30th July. Their 2nd single BENİM OLSANA followed earlier this month.

 

CRUSH! 

CRUSH! is their debut single and was released on 30th July. It's described as a modern pop song with touches of R'n'B. 

The music video premiered on the same day. Click "Subtitles/closed captions" on YouTube for English subtitles! :)  

 


 

BENİM OLSANA

And here is their 2nd and newest single  BENİM OLSANA. It came out on 10th September. I think the titles translates as "Come on, be mine" or "Why Don't You Be Mine?" in English.

BENIM OLSANA is more of a dancey song, which sees the boys making a confident declaration of love. English subtitles available! :)  

 


For more on CRUSH visit these links:

Kprofiles: https://kprofiles.com/crush-members-profile-2/

Official site (Turkish language but Google has a translate option): https://wearecrushboys.com.tr/

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearecrushboys 

Official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wearecrushboys

 

And for more Turkish music, check out these posts: 

Turkish Songs (includes Hadise and manifest): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/07/turkish-songs.html

Music video for Deliler by Ayshe: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/12/weekly-music-video.html

 



 

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