Exo (band)
| Exo | |
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 Exo (2016) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Seoul , South Korea |
| Genre (s) | K-Pop • R&B • Dance-Pop • Hip-Hop |
| founding | 2012 |
| Website | www.exo.smtown.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Suho Baekhyun Chanyeol D.O. Lay Kai Sehun Xiumin Chen |
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| former members | |
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Kris Luhan Tao |
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Exo ( Korean : 엑소 , spelling : EXO ) is a Korean-Chinese boy group that was founded in 2012 by the label SM Entertainment and currently (as of 2018) consists of nine members.
history
2011–2012: foundation and first successes
In May 2011, during a business seminar at Stanford University , Lee Soo-man announced the idea of debuting a new boy band that would be split into two subgroups, each performing the same songs in South Korea and China. After many changes, Lee Soo-man finally decided on the name of the new group in December 2011: EXO, inspired by the word exoplanet . EXO is divided into EXO-K (“K” for Korean ) for South Korea and EXO-M (“M” for Mandarin ) for China. Her first TV appearance was on December 29, 2011 on SBS 'annual Gayo Daejeon .
In late January, the group released their first single, What Is Love , which reached # 88 on the Gaon Singles Chart. The second single called History was released on March 9th. It reached number 68 on the Gaon Singles Chart and number 6 on the Sina Music Charts. On March 31, the group played their first concert with 3,000 spectators at the Seoul Olympic Stadium.
Both subgroups made their debut on April 8th with the album Mama . On that day, EXO-K appeared on The Music Trend music show , while EXO-M appeared on China's Top Chinese Music Awards with the same song . The Chinese version of Mama reached # 1 on the Sina Albums Chart, while the Korean version reached # 3 on the Gaon Album Charts and # 8 on the Billboards World Albums Chart.
In November, EXO won the award for "Best New Asian Artist" at the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2012. EXO-K received three nominations for the 27th Golden Disk Awards, where they received the Newcomer Award. In addition, EXO-M won the award for the most popular group at the Top Chinese Music Awards 2014.
2013–2014: First studio album XOXO and first internal conflicts
EXO gained great fame through their first album XOXO (2013), which was released on June 3rd. The album was jointly promoted by both groups in South Korea. While Wolf was recorded together, the remaining recordings were made separately. Both versions reached # 1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart.
The repackage version of XOXO called Growl was released on August 5th and contained three additional songs. Growl reached No. 3 on Billboard's Korea K-Pop Hot 100 and No. 2 on Gaon's Singles Chart. Since December 2013, all versions of XOXO have been sold more than 1 million times. EXO became the first Korean artist in 12 years to achieve this goal.
At the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2013, XOXO was crowned album of the year. XOXO is the best-selling album of 2013 in South Korea. The album won the Disk Daesang Award in several award shows such as B. the Golden Disk Award.
The second EP called Miracles in December was released on December 9th. Starting November 28th, EXO's Reality Show Showtime was broadcast on MBC Every 1 . In 2013 alone, EXO had six albums in the annual Gaon Top 10 best-selling albums, including all versions of XOXO and their debut EP Mama.
The third EP called Overdose was released on May 7th, 2014. The release was actually scheduled for April 21st. However, the date was postponed due to the Sewol disaster. The album became the most pre-ordered mini-album in Korean music history with 660,000 pre-orders. The Korean version took number 2 on the Billboard World Albums Chart and number 129 on the Billboard 200 . Overdose became the best-selling album in 2014 in South Korea and the first mini-album to top the annual charts. Overdose was named Best Album of the Year at the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2014 .
On May 24th, EXO held their first solo concert Exo from Exoplanet # 1 -The Lost Planet at the Seoul Olympic Gymnasium. The concert tickets were sold out after just 1.47 seconds.
Nevertheless, two members left the group of twelve this year. On May 15, Kris Wu filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment for being badly treated, disadvantaged and barely given vacation, resulting in severe health problems. Also Luhan filed on October 10, 2014 lawsuit against SM Entertainment one because he felt unfairly treated and left EXO after the lawsuit was annulled.
2015–2016: International success
In January 2015, the solo concert entitled Exo Planet # 2 - The Exo'luxion was announced. Five concerts took place from March 7th at the Olympic Park Stadium in Seoul. 1.2 million fans tried to buy tickets online. The second studio album called Exodus was released on March 30th. With 500,000 pre-orders in 24 hours, Exodus set a new record. The title song Call Me Baby was followed by the accompanying music video after a few days, which became the most watched music video in the first half of 2015. The Korean version of the album took number 1 in the album charts for four consecutive weeks. EXO also became the first K-pop group to hit the Canadian charts.
In total, Exodus was sold more than 1 million times and became EXO's second album after XOXO , which was able to reach this milestone. At the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2015, Exodus was crowned Album of the Year.
However, the member Tao also left the group for health reasons and therefore sued SM Entertainment on August 24, 2015 in order to terminate his contract.
Since 2017: The War and the Olympic Games
On May 27th and 28th, EXO ended the EXO'rDium tour with two concerts at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. Thus EXO became the fifth and youngest K-Pop act to hold a concert at the stadium. The tickets for both concert days were sold out after 20 minutes each.
On July 18, the group released their fourth studio album called The War with the theme song Ko Ko Bop . The album was with 807,235 pre-orders for meistvorbestellten album in the history of South Korean music and thus broke the record of Ex'Act . The album topped the Billboard World Album Charts as well as the South Korean Gaon Album Charts and took number 87 on the Billboard 200. The title song Ko Ko Bop again topped the Billboard World Digital Song Charts and the Gaon Digital Charts. On August 15, The War became EXO's fourth album, selling 1 million copies each. On September 5th, the repackage version of The War called The War: The Power of Music came out with the theme song Power . At the. December 26th they released their fourth winter album entitled Universe .
On January 16, the group traveled to Dubai to represent their theme song Power at the so-called Dubai Fountain Show. EXO became the first K-Pop act to do this.
On January 31st, EXO released their first Japanese studio album titled Countdown . The title song Electric Kiss was uploaded as a short music video on December 5, 2017 on the official SM Entertainment YouTube channel.
2018
On February 25, Exo performed during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics . On September 15th they came to Germany through KBS-MUSIC BANK, to Berlin, where they performed with Stray Kids, Wanna One, (G) I-DLE, Taemin and Somi. This show was hosted by Park Bo Gum. On November 2nd her fifth album 'Don't mess up my tempo' with the title track 'Tempo' was released.
Members
Current members
| stage name | Birth Name | Date of birth | place of birth | position | |
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| Suho | Kim Jun-myeon | May 22, 1991 | Seoul ( South Korea ) | Leader, lead vocalist | |
| Baekhyun | Byun Baekhyun | May 6, 1992 | Bucheon ( South Korea ) | Main vocalist | |
| Chanyeol | Park Chanyeol | November 27, 1992 | Seoul ( South Korea ) | Main rapper | |
| DO | Do Kyungsoo | January 12, 1993 | Goyang ( South Korea ) | Main vocalist | |
| Quay | Kim Jongin | January 14, 1994 | Seoul ( South Korea ) | Main dancer, lead rapper, vocalist, center | |
| Sehun | Oh sehun | April 12, 1994 | Seoul ( South Korea ) | Lead dancer, lead rapper, sub-vocalist | |
| Xiumin | Kim Minseok | March 26, 1990 | Seoul ( South Korea ) | Lead vocalist, lead dancer, rapper | |
| Chen | Kim Jongdae | September 21, 1992 | Siheung ( South Korea ) | Main vocalist | |
| Lay | Zhang Yixing | October 7, 1991 | Changsha ( China ) | Main dancer, vocalist | |
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former members
| stage name | Birth Name | Date of birth | place of birth | position | annotation |
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| Kris | Wu Yifan | November 6, 1990 | Guangzhou ( China ) | Main rapper, leader (EXO-M), vocalist | Resigned in 2014 |
| Luhan | Lu Han | April 20, 1990 | Beijing ( China ) | Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Face of The Group | Resigned in 2014 |
| Tao | Huang Zi Tao | May 2, 1993 | Qingdao ( China ) | Lead rapper, vocalist | Resigned in 2015 |
Sub-unit
On October 5th, 2016, SM Entertainment announced the first sub-unit of EXO with Baekhyun, Chen and Xiumin. The three had previously sung the song For You for the SBS TV series Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo . The new name was announced on October 24th: EXO-CBX , where CBX is a combination of the initials of the artist names of the three members. On October 31, EXO-CBX released their debut EP Hey Mama with the accompanying music video.
On April 1, 2017 it was announced that EXO-CBX would make its Japan debut on May 24 with the EP Girls . The short version of the music video for the theme song Ka-CHING! was released on May 1st. On June 14, it was also announced that EXO-CBX would sing the theme song for the SBS animated series Running Man .
On June 2019, SM Entertainment announced the second sub-unit with Sehun and Chanyeol. Exo-SC released their first EP "What a life" on July 22nd with three title songs "Just us 2 ft. Garbo", "What a life" and "Closer to you".
Discography
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Filmography
Reality TV shows
drama
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Video albums
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Tours
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Awards
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Tao stopped working with EXO in April 2015 and has been in a legal dispute with SM Entertainment since August 2015
Individual evidence
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- ↑ The 27th Gold Disc Awards in Kuala Lumpur. (No longer available online.) February 6, 2013, archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; accessed on August 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ EXO Gifts Fans With Intense Winter Ballad, 'Miracles in December' . In: Billboard . ( billboard.com [accessed August 16, 2017]).
- ↑ EXO'S 쇼 - 타임. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 2, 2017 ; Retrieved August 16, 2017 (Korean). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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