Itzy

South Korean five-member act ITZY infused K-pop with high-energy drive, crafting buoyant electronic dance tracks built around encouraging messages. Emerging near the end of the 2010s, the group issued the Top Three EP It'z Icy in July 2019 and followed it with It'z Me in March 2020. Additional Top Five releases arrived in the form of 2020’s Not Shy and 2021’s Guess Who. Late that year brought their first full-length effort, the number-one album Crazy in Love. In 2022 the quintet achieved a career-best U.S. placement with the Top Ten EP Checkmate. Continued output included two further EPs, among them July 2023’s Kill My Doubt. The 2024 album Born to Be returned them to the top of the Korean charts, after which they unveiled the Gold EP later the same year.

Sharing JYP Entertainment’s girl-group lineup with Twice, ITZY consists of Yeji, Lia, Ryujin, Chaeryeong, and Yuna. Throughout the mid-2010s the future members participated in multiple television survival programs before the label formed them into the five-piece ITZY. Their January 2019 debut single paired “Dalla Dalla” with “Want It?,” both of which appeared on the summertime EP It'z Icy. That project climbed to number three in Korea while reaching the Top 20 on Billboard’s Heatseekers and World Albums charts. Lead track “Icy” advanced to number two on the World Songs tally. March 2020 saw the arrival of It'z Me, which topped the Korean pop chart, a feat repeated by the August release Not Shy.

Guess Who, another Top Five Korean EP, surfaced in 2021 and marked ITZY’s initial entry on the Billboard 200. Several months afterward the long-awaited full-length Crazy in Love improved on that showing, landing just outside the U.S. Top Ten; the set, which includes the track “Loco,” simultaneously led Billboard’s World Albums and Independent Albums charts and reached number two in Korea. The non-album Japanese-language single “Voltage” appeared in April 2022. Later that year Checkmate became the group’s fifth EP and first U.S. Top Ten release, driven by the single “Sneakers.” Cheshire closed out the year as their sixth EP. July 2023 brought the seventh EP Kill My Doubt, fronted by “Cake,” at which point Lia stepped away from activities for health reasons.

January 2024 marked the release of Born to Be, ITZY’s second Korean-language album and third studio full-length. Preceded by “Untouchable,” the project topped the Circle Albums chart and reached number 14 on Billboard’s World Albums survey. That October the ninth EP, Gold, arrived, restoring Lia to the lineup and featuring new quintet versions of several tracks originally recorded for Born to Be.