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sang for his audition and was eventually offered a contract. Chanyeol, who took second place in a Smart Model Contest, and Sehun, who went through four auditions in two years, were the next members to become trainees in 2008. The following year, Kai, with encouragement from his father, auditioned at the SM Youth Best Contest he won and received a contract. History 2006–2012: Formation and early yearsĮxo at SM Town Live World Tour III in Singapore in November 2012Įxo-K's leader, Suho, was the first member to join SM Entertainment, after a successful audition through the company's casting system in 2006. It was also reported that Exo would compete with a new girl group from rival YG Entertainment. The news of an upcoming debut from SM Entertainment attracted substantial media attention from within South Korea and internationally, with many comparing Exo to fellow SM boy band TVXQ.
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After several member changes in December 2011, the group finalized its name as Exo, taken from the word " exoplanet". In 2011, SM Entertainment CEO, Lee Soo-man, revealed plans to debut a new boy band that would be divided into two sub-groups, promoting the same music simultaneously in South Korea and China by performing songs in both Korean and Mandarin.
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Outside of music, the band members have endorsement deals with brands such as Nature Republic and Samsung and participate in philanthropic efforts such as Smile For U, an ongoing project by SM Entertainment and UNICEF that began in 2015. Exo's sixth album, Don't Mess Up My Tempo (2018), became their highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at number 23, and their best selling album in South Korea, where it sold over 1.9 million copies.Įxo have won numerous awards throughout their career, including five consecutive Album of the Year awards at the Mnet Asian Music Awards and two consecutive Artist of the Year awards at the Melon Music Awards, and have performed over 100 concerts across four headlining tours and multiple joint tours. Their later works also had strong sales, with their Korean studio albums each selling over one million copies. Each member also maintains solo careers in music, film and television.Įxo's first album XOXO (2013), released alongside breakthrough single " Growl", was a critical and commercial success it sold over one million copies, which made Exo the first Korean artist to do so in twelve years. Members Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin debuted as the sub-unit Exo-CBX in 2016, and members Sehun and Chanyeol began promoting as the sub-unit Exo-SC in 2019. Since 2015, Exo have exclusively performed as one group while continuing to release and perform music in multiple languages. Exo-K and Exo-M performed music in Korean and Mandarin, respectively, until the release of their third EP Overdose in 2014. Kris, Luhan, and Tao departed the group individually amid legal battles in 20. The band debuted with twelve members separated into two sub-groups: Exo-K (Suho, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai, and Sehun) and Exo-M (Xiumin, Lay, Chen, and former members Kris, Luhan, and Tao). The band ranked as one of the top five most influential celebrities on the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list from 2014 to 2018 and have been labeled " Kings of K-pop" and the "Biggest boyband in the world" by various media outlets. Their music-released and performed in Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese-primarily incorporates pop, hip-hop, and R&B, including elements of electronic dance music genres such as house and trap. The band was formed by SM Entertainment in 2011 and debuted in 2012. Exo ( Korean: 엑소 stylized in all caps) is a South Korean-Chinese boy band based in Seoul, consisting of nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai and Sehun.