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NCT (group) : NCT (Korean: 엔시티; an acronym for Neo Culture Technology)

NCT is a South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment in 2016. It consists of 23 members divided among four sub-units: NCT U, NCT 127, NCT Dream, and WayV. The sub-units promote separately but have also come together for three full group albums. NCT debuted their rotational sub-unit NCT U in 2016 and has since debuted the other sub-units. They are the best-selling act under SM Entertainment, having sold over 24 million albums across their sub-units.

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NCT is a South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment in 2016. It consists of 23 members divided among four sub-units: NCT U, NCT 127, NCT Dream, and WayV. The sub-units promote separately but have also come together for three full group albums. NCT debuted their rotational sub-unit NCT U in 2016 and has since debuted the other sub-units. They are the best-selling act under SM Entertainment, having sold over 24 million albums across their sub-units.

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NCT (group)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NCT (Korean: 엔시티; an acronym for Neo Culture Technology)[2] is a South Korean
boy band formed by SM Entertainment and introduced in January 2016. The group
consists of 23 members and divided into four different sub-units: NCT U, NCT 127, NCT
Dream, and WayV. In South Korean charts, NCT has recorded more than 24 million
album sales across all sub-units, making them the best-selling act under SM
Entertainment.[3]
The group debuted their first sub-unit, the rotational NCT U, on April 9, 2016, with the
double digital single "The 7th Sense" and "Without You". It was followed by the Seoul-
based sub-unit NCT 127 on July 7, 2016, with their eponymous extended play and the
then-teenaged sub-unit NCT Dream on August 24, 2016, with the digital single
"Chewing Gum". WayV, a seven-member sub-unit based in China and NCT's first
overseas sub-unit, debuted on January 17, 2019, with the single album The Vision.
Although each sub-unit promotes separately, NCT has united three times as a group to
record three full-length albums: Empathy (2018), Resonance (2020),
and Universe (2021). Within two months of release, Resonance sold over 2.6 million
copies across its two parts, becoming the highest-selling physical album released by an
act from SM Entertainment at the time and earning the group their first Daesang (Grand
Prize) Award at the 2020 Asia Artist Awards. Universe, which was released in
December 2021, became their most pre-order album at 1.7 million copies, and later
surpassed 1.8 million sales after its release.

Background and name


In January 2016, SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man delivered a presentation at the SM Coex
Artium titled "SMTOWN: New Culture Technology 2016".[4] The label planned to debut a new boy
group that would "fall in line" with their culture contents strategy, one that would contain an
"unlimited" number of members that would debut in separate sub-units within the group.
Furthermore, the members would form "sub-unit teams" and have "collaborations" with each
other.[5][6] The name of the group was later revealed to be NCT, an acronym for the presentation title.
NCT as a whole was SM Entertainment's first idol group to debut in nearly two years since Red
Velvet in 2014 and SM Entertainment's first boy group to debut since Exo in 2012.

History
2013–2016: Formation and pre-debut activities
See also: SM Rookies
Prior to joining SM Entertainment, some of the members were already involved in the entertainment
industry. Jeno appeared in various commercials as a child. Jisung was a child actor and filmed
movies such as Boys, Be Curious (2012) and Go, Stop, Murder (2013). Chenle was active on the
Chinese music scene as a singer from 2009 to 2015; he released three albums and headlined a
concert in China. In 2011, Yuta participated in the singing competition "Juice Winter Collection" in
Japan, while Ten competed on the Thai TV show Teen Superstar under the name TNT. Xiaojun was
a singing contestant on the Zhejiang TV program X-Fire in November 2015.
Johnny, Yuta, Ten, Mark and Renjun joined the company via SM Global Auditions, while the
remaining members were discovered through street casting, personal recommendation, community
entertainment shows, and local auditions. Prior to their debut as members of NCT, 19 of the 23
current members of NCT were introduced as part of SM Rookies, a group of trainees under SM
Entertainment created in December 2013. The first members of NCT to be introduced
were Taeyong and Jeno.[7] Sixteen other members were introduced through SM Rookies until early
January 2016.
Taeyong released the short rap track "Open the Door" in July 2014 and featured on Red Velvet's
second single "Be Natural" in October of the same year. He appeared alongside Johnny, Yuta,
Ten, Jaehyun, Mark, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin and Jisung on the Mnet-produced Exo 90:2014, a
show starring labelmates Exo, where they performed dances to K-pop songs from the 1990s. Some
members appeared in various Exo music video remakes in the same year. From January through
June 2015, Doyoung and Jaehyun were the hosts of the music show Show Champion; from July
through December of that year, Yuta was a Japanese representative on Abnormal Summit, a series
in which non-Korean men debate Korean culture. Mark, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin and Jisung were
Mouseketeers on Disney Channel Korea's The Mickey Mouse Club. SM Rookies Boys held their first
concert, titled SM Rookies Show, which started in Seoul in September 2015 and expanded
to Bangkok, Thailand in February 2016. Taeil released his first solo soundtrack "Because Of You" for
the series The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 on January 26, 2016. In April 2016, Kun sang with NCT U on
the Chinese version of "Without You" and joined them for the song's promotional stages. Winwin
performed NCT U's "The 7th Sense" at their first live performance in China at the 16th Music Feng
Yun Bang Awards that same month. In October 2016, Johnny participated in the music festival
"Spectrum Dance Music Festival" as an SM Dreamstation Crew DJ.
SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man held a presentation at the SM Coex Artium titled "SM
Town: Neo Culture Technology 2016" on January 28, 2016, where he outlined the company's plans
for a new boy group in line with their "culture contents" strategy that would debut different teams
based in different cities and countries around the world.[8][9][10]

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