TWICE

Seoul-based K-pop act Twice unites performers hailing from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan around their signature bright, catchy pop sound. Upon its 2017 release, the group’s first full-length effort, Twicetagram, reached the summit of the Korean, Taiwanese, and U.S. World charts. Their ninth EP, More & More, marked their Billboard 200 debut in 2020, only for the follow-up studio album Eyes Wide Open to improve on that placement months afterward. Every Japanese studio album has landed inside the Oricon Top Five, and the 2022 release Formula of Love: O+T=<3 returned them to the Billboard 200 at number three. Two further Korean EPs, Between 1&2 in 2022 and Ready to Be in 2023, also secured Top Five positions at home. In 2024 the Japanese studio set Dive appeared, joined later by the EP Strategy whose title track featured a guest verse from Megan Thee Stallion.

JYP Entertainment assembled the nine-piece lineup in 2015 via the survival program Sixteen. The roster comprises leader and main vocalist Jihyo Park together with Nayeon Im, Jeongyeon Yoo, Dahyun Kim, and Chaeyoung Son from South Korea; Momo Hirai, Sana Minatozaki, and Mina Myoui from Japan; and Tzuyu Chou from Tainan, Taiwan. Late that year the mini-album The Story Begins introduced them, led by the single “Like Ooh-Ahh.” Their second EP, Page Two, extended their chart climb across Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. Issued in late 2016, the mini-album Twicecoaster: Lane 1 was swiftly followed by the reissue Twicecoaster: Lane 2, which entered the Top Five in Korea, Taiwan, and on the Billboard World chart in early 2017; both projects yielded the hit singles “TT” and “Knock Knock.”

The fourth mini-album, Signal, arrived the following spring and became their third Korean and fourth Taiwanese number one while peaking at number three on the Billboard World chart. That summer they entered the Japanese market with the compilation #Twice, whose Japanese-language versions of prior hits gave the group their first New Zealand chart entry. October brought the full-length Twicetagram, again topping charts in Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S. World Albums category and supported by the single “Likey.” February 2018 saw the chart-topping “Candy Pop” precede their second studio album—and first Japanese-language LP—BDZ in September. On the Korean side they also released the mini-album What Is Love? (and its reissue Summer Nights) plus the sixth mini-album Yes or Yes, which topped the domestic chart.

Several Japanese projects opened 2019, among them the Oricon-topping studio album &Twice and the companion compilation #Twice2. The seventh mini-album Fancy You followed in April, reaching the Top Five in Japan, South Korea, and the United States; its platinum certification made Twice the best-selling Korean girl group at that point. Their eighth mini-album Feel Special quickly added another domestic number one. The ninth mini-album More & More, issued amid further short-form releases in 2020, delivered their first Billboard 200 entry.

September 2020 brought the higher-charting second LP Eyes Wide Open, whose single “I Can’t Stop Me” drew on ’80s synth-pop textures and secured the group’s first U.S. television performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In October, six members joined K/DA’s All Out EP alongside Bekuh Boom and Annika Wells for the track “I’ll Show You.” The tenth mini-album Taste of Love surfaced in June 2021 with a summery collection of romantic anthems. Later that year the first English-language single “The Feels” debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Global 200, their best placement to date, while the third Japanese studio album Perfect World reached number two on the Oricon Albums chart.

November saw the arrival of their third Korean-language studio album Formula of Love: O+T=<3, a love-themed project that became their biggest-selling LP. The fourth Japanese studio album Celebrate followed in July 2022 at number two on the Oricon chart. August brought the EP Between 1&2 and its single “Talk That Talk.” Ready to Be appeared in March 2023, promoted by “Set Me Free” and “Moonlight Sunrise,” topping the Korean albums chart and peaking at number two on the Billboard 200. The tenth Japanese single “Hare Hare” arrived in May, after which the group completed the remainder of the Ready to Be tour. Early 2024 opened with the single “I Got You,” preceding the mini-album WITH YOU-th in February. July introduced the Japanese studio album Dive, and December’s Strategy EP topped Korea’s pop chart; its title track paired Twice with American rapper Megan Thee Stallion.