Jackson Wang

Jackson Wang, the multifaceted artist from China who launched Team Wang, first stepped onto the global stage as part of the chart-dominant K-pop act Got7 before carving out space for himself both solo and inside Panthepack. His 2019 debut album Mirrors cracked the U.S. Top 40, while subsequent singles included the 2020 release “100 Ways” and the 2021 cuts “Alone” and “LMLY.” In 2022 he dropped the mixtape Lost & Found and reached a new Billboard 200 high with his second LP, Magic Man, landing inside the Top 20.

Raised in Hong Kong, Wang built his professional foundation in South Korea after joining the hip-hop-leaning boy band Got7 and simultaneously mapping out his own recording path. An avid athlete in his youth, he pivoted toward music during his teens and auditioned for JYP Entertainment in 2010. He succeeded, relocated to Seoul for training, and ultimately earned a place in Got7. The group arrived in early 2014 with the EP Got It?, which promptly topped the Billboard World Albums chart.

Even as Got7 sustained its chart momentum, Wang cultivated independent releases. Early offerings ranged from “Some Strange Work” to the pulsating, electronic “Generation 2,” the latter tied to a Pepsi campaign. Summer 2017 brought the English-language single “Papillon.” He briefly stepped away from hip-hop for the expansive theme to Novoland: The Castle in the Sky, then closed the year with the Boytoy-produced track “Okay.” Another Boytoy production, “Dawn of Us,” surfaced in 2018. That same year he teamed with Fendi China for “Fendiman,” which ascended to number one on the U.S. pop streaming chart in May. A cluster of 2019 singles followed, among them several 88Rising collaborations featured on Head in the Clouds II, a popular Chinese remix of “Papillon,” and “Bullet to the Heart,” which appeared on Mirrors. The album also contained a Chinese-language version of his Stephanie Poetri duet “I Love You 3000 II,” plus guest spots from GoldLink on “Bad Back” and Rich Brian on “Titanic.” Upon arrival it registered on charts in Australia, France, and the U.K. while climbing into the U.S. Top 40.

During 2020 Wang unveiled the globally tinged single “100 Ways” and debuted his fashion label, Team Wang Design. Additional non-album tracks that year included “Pretty Please” with Galantis and “Should’ve Let Go” with Singaporean pop star JJ Lin. In 2021 he issued “Alone,” the English-language “LMLY,” and the Internet Money collaboration “Drive You Home.” He also formed Panthepack alongside Ice, J. Sheon, and Karencici; the quartet released their debut album, The Pack, that August. In 2022, between the self-titled single “Jackson Wang” (“Wang Jia Er”) and “Blow,” he put out the mixtape Lost & Found. Later that year he joined 88Rising roster members onstage at Coachella and contributed “Born to Be Alive” to the Minions: The Rise of Gru soundtrack. His sophomore effort, Magic Man, arrived in September and debuted at number 15 on the U.S. chart, his strongest placement yet. Further standalone tracks followed, among them 2022’s “Why Why Why” and 2023’s “Slow,” which featured Ciara.