GOT7

South Korean boy band GOT7 first appeared in 2015 via the album Identify, which led the Korean charts and introduced the successful single “Stop Stop It.” Their high-energy style fuses hip-hop, trap, and R&B-tinged pop, a sound that has kept them in Korea’s Top Ten across multiple full-length projects such as 2016’s Flight Log: Turbulence, 2018’s Present: You, and 2020’s Breath of Love: Last Piece. The group has also topped the domestic album rankings with several EPs, among them 2020’s Dye and 2022’s GOT7.

JYP Entertainment, the company responsible for Rain and the Wonder Girls, assembled GOT7 in 2014; the name is the Romanized form of the Korean “Gatsebeun.” The seven members comprise South Koreans JB and Junior (also known as Jinyoung), both previously part of the J.J. Project, along with Youngjae and Yugyeom; Mark, born in the United States to Taiwanese parents; Jackson, originally from Hong Kong; and BamBam, from Thailand. The last four participants had earlier competed on the South Korean reality program Who Is Next: WIN. Like other large K-pop ensembles, GOT7 blended rapping, R&B-inflected vocals, stacked harmonies, and precisely coordinated choreography.

Their debut EP, Got It?, surfaced in early 2014, followed six months later by Got Love. Identify arrived toward the end of that year and contained the hit “Stop Stop It.” Departing from the industry’s usual rapid turnover, the next EP waited eight months, arriving in July 2015. Just Right, often called a mini-album, preceded the second Billboard World chart-topper, Mad—a six-track collection of futuristic techno-R&B, sleek pop, and memorable hooks. Beginning in March 2016, the band issued a sequence of recordings under the Flight Log banner: the Flight Log: Departure EP led to the full-length Flight Log: Turbulence later that year, while Flight Log: Arrival appeared in early 2017, strengthening their global profile and securing a number-three position on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. Later in 2017 they released their seventh EP, 7 for 7.

Eyes on You followed in March 2018, highlighted by the international chart-topping single “Look,” and Present: You, their third studio album, emerged later the same year. In 2019 the group delivered the mini-albums and EPs Spinning Top, Love Loop, and Call My Name. Dye, featuring the lead track “Not by the Moon,” reached stores in spring 2020 and was succeeded that autumn by Breath of Love: Last Piece, which peaked at number three in Korea and entered the Top Ten of Billboard’s World Albums chart. The 12th EP, the self-titled GOT7, returned them to the upper ranks of the Korean listings in 2022 and spotlighted the single “Nanana.”