Seventeen

Formed under Pledis Entertainment in Seoul back in 2015, the thirteen-piece K-pop outfit Seventeen fuses dance-pop, R&B, and hip-hop while incorporating touches of dubstep. The collective, divided into three specialized subunits, issued its first two EPs that same year—17 Carat and Boys Be—each claiming the top slot on the Billboard World Albums chart. Their opening trio of studio albums—Love & Letter in 2016, Teen, Age in 2017, and An Ode in 2019—each led the Gaon chart and lodged inside the Top Ten of the Billboard World Albums ranking. The 2022 chart-topping fourth album Face the Sun later resurfaced in repackaged form as Sector 17, while 2023 brought further number-one successes via FML and Seventeenth Heaven; 2024 then added the career-spanning collection 17 Is Right Here alongside the Spill the Feels EP.

The group’s expansive roster comprises three distinct units. S.Coups (Choi Seungcheol), the overall leader and head of the hip-hop unit, joins Wonwoo (Jeon Wonwoo), Mingyu Kim, and the American-born Hansol Vernon Choi in that section. The vocal unit, led by producer Woozi (Lee Jihoon), includes Jeonghan Yoon, DK (Lee Seokmin), Seungkwan Boo, and Los Angeleno Joshua Jisoo Hong. Main choreographer Hoshi (Kwon Soonyoung) directs the performance unit, completed by Dino (Lee Chan) plus the mainland Chinese members Jun (Wen Junhui, born in Shenzhen) and the8 (Xu Minghao, born in Liaoning).

Seventeen’s 2015 EPs performed strongly, with 17 Carat reaching number eight on the Billboard World Albums chart—later the year’s longest-charting K-pop title—before Boys Be ascended to number one several months afterward. Their first full-length, Love & Letter, surfaced in 2016, peaking at number five on the Heatseekers chart and number three on the World Albums chart; a deluxe edition followed within months. The Going Seventeen EP closed the year and featured the hit single “BOOMBOOM,” while the six-track A/1 arrived soon after and supported the group’s inaugural tour across Asia and North America. Teen, Age, their second studio album, arrived late in 2017 and was reissued in early 2018 as Director’s Cut; the Japanese debut We Make You landed in May. You Make My Day, their seventh chart-topping release, earned platinum certification shortly after its arrival.

An Ode, the third studio album, topped Korean charts and reached number seven on Billboard’s World Albums chart in 2019. Additional mini-albums followed in 2020 with Heng:garæ and Semicolon. The “Power of Love” campaign carried into 2021, yielding the single “Bittersweet” plus the eighth and ninth EPs, Your Choice and Attacca. Face the Sun, their fourth studio set, debuted in May 2022 with the singles “Hot” and “Darl+ing,” topping charts in Japan, South Korea, and the United States before Sector 17 appeared months later, led by “World.”

Global momentum continued with the tenth EP, FML, in April 2023, again leading charts in Korea and Japan while reaching number two in the United States; the Japanese-language compilation Always Yours arrived soon afterward, spotlighting “Sara Sara.” A collaboration with New Kids on the Block surfaced via Dem Jointz’s remix of “Dirty Dancing.” Seventeenth Heaven, the eleventh EP, followed in October and included the hit “God of Music” plus the Marshmello collaboration “SOS.” The 2024 single “Maestro” ushered in the third greatest-hits package, 17 Is Right Here, which gathered all Korean-language singles, Korean versions of Japanese singles, and four new tracks. Spill the Feels, also released that year, featured the DJ Khaled collaboration “Love, Money, Fame.”