Seventeen

K-pop boy music group Seventeen shaped in 2015 less than Pledis Entertainment, boasting an impressive 13 members. Merging dance-pop, R&B, as well as some dubstep and hip-hop, Seventeen is usually put into three subunits. The “hip-hop device” comprises indigenous South Korean users S.Coups (general group and device leader, given birth to Choi Seungcheol), Wonwoo (given birth to Jeon Wonwoo), Mingyu Kim, and American-born Korean Hansol Vernon Choi. The “vocal device” includes Korean-born users Woozi (the group’s maker and leader from the vocal device, given birth to Lee Jihoon), Jeonghan Yoon, DK (aka Dokyeom, given birth to Lee Seokmin), Seungkwan Boo, and Los Angelino Joshua Jisoo Hong. The “overall performance device” is going by primary choreographer Hoshi (given birth to Kwon Soonyoung), with fellow Korean Dino (given birth to Lee Chan) and mainland Chinese language users Jun (given birth to Wen Junhui in Shenzhen) and The8 (given birth to Xu Minghao in Liaoning) rounding out the troupe. They released a set of EPs in 2015, with 17 Carat peaking at quantity eight around the Billboard Globe Albums graph (later getting the longest charting K-pop recording of the entire year) and Males Become topping the same graph a couple of months afterward. Their debut LP, First Like & Letter, found its way to 2016. It climbed to quantity five around the Heatseekers graph and number 3 on the Globe Albums graph, before it had been re-released like a luxurious version mere weeks later. Prior to the end of the entire year, the Heading Seventeen EP showed up, featuring the strike solitary “BOOMBOOM.”