On April 4, 2016, SM Entertainment announced NCT’s first sub-unit would be NCT U, meaning “NCT United”, which then consisted of six members: Taeil, Taeyong, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun and Mark. NCT U released the digital singles “The 7th Sense” on April 9 and “Without You” in two versions on April 10 (a Korean version sung by Taeil, Doyoung, and Jaehyun and a Chinese version with the addition of SM Rookies’ Kun). On April 9, NCT U made their first broadcast appearance with NCT On Air on V Live hosted by Super Junior’s Kim Hee-chul. The same day, they had their first live performance in China at the 16th Music Feng Yun Bang Awards alongside Chinese rookies Kun and Winwin. On April 15, the group made their debut in Korea on Music Bank.

NCT U is the first sub-unit of NCT. They debuted with two singles that were released on April 9 and 10, 2016. Their name stands for ‘Neo Culture Technology United’. They do not have a strict lineup as it changes based on the concept.

Overall Thoughts:
There isn’t anything I can think of to say other than I just enjoy listening to their songs. They sing and dance well together. If interested you can check them out if you would like. Click here for the individual profiles of the members. It also shows their official social media sites they’re in if you wanna check them out further.

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SuperM (Hangul: 슈퍼엠) is a South Korean supergroup formed in 2019 by SM Entertainment and Capitol Music Group. The group consists of seven members from four SM Entertainment boy bands: Taemin from Shinee, Baekhyun and Kai from Exo, Taeyong and Mark from NCT 127, and Ten and Lucas from WayV. The group debuted on October 4, 2019, with their self-titled EP, which entered the US Billboard 200 at number one, making SuperM the first Asian artist in history to top the chart with a debut release. Their debut single, “Jopping”, was among Billboard’s Critics’ Picks for the “25 Best K-pop Songs” of 2019.

In 2019, before the official announcement of SuperM’s debut, there had been rumors that SM Entertainment was planning to debut a “K-pop Super Boy Band”. On August 7, 2019, Capitol Music Group chairman Steve Barnett and SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man officially announced the group as SuperM at Capitol Congress 2019. The “M” in SuperM stands for both Matrix and Master, since each member was already an established star in their own groups.The teaser revealed the group members, each excelling in dance performance, vocals, and rap. Described as “the Avengers of K-pop”, the group was to be focused more on performance-based music. SM A&R executive and director Chris Lee stated that the group had been in the works for around one year. Lee felt the analogy to the Avengers was apt: “Each Avenger has their own group and Iron Man has his own movie and Thor has his own, but together, they have an even greater synergy, so like that the members will pursue their own careers and own groups but also join together with synergy—a positive one”.

In April 2020, SuperM became the first group from SM Entertainment to hold a live online concert, entitled Beyond the Future, jointly organised by SM Entertainment and Naver as part of the world first online-dedicated live concert series, Beyond LIVE. For their concert on April 26, they performed songs from their debut album as well as new tracks from an upcoming unannounced release, playing to a live audience of more than 75,000 paying real-time viewers from over 109 countries. The revenue from the online concert, from pure ticket sales excluding merchandise, has been estimated at US$2 million.

In August 2020, the group announced their first studio album, Super One, for a September 2020 release. The album release was preceded by a pre-release single, “100”, released on August 14. SuperM made their US morning television debut through video call on Good Morning America on August 20 with a performance of “100”. In a brief interview prior to the group’s performance, Mark explained that the audience was witnessing the exact same set that they used for their Beyond LIVE concert in April. On August 26, SuperM won the Seoul Mayor Award at the 2020 Newsis K-Expo, making it the group’s first award since their debut. The second pre-release single, “Tiger Inside”, from SuperM’s first studio album was released on September 1. It eventually became the group’s first song to enter the Gaon Digital Chart.

On September 25, SuperM revealed its collaboration with Marvel for a limited edition merchandise series alongside the release of Super One and the album’s third and lead single “One (Monster & Infinity)”. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 104,000 equivalent album units. It became the group’s second top three entry after their debut EP. SuperM participated in on online advocacy event for mental health, The Big Event, by the World Health Organization on October 10. The group performed “Better Days” during the event, which was broadcast live on the WHO’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok channels. Baekhyun enlisted as part of South Korean mandatory military service on May 6, 2021, becoming the group’s first member to enlist. Taemin became the group’s second member to enlist on May 31.

Overall Thoughts:
There’s not much to think of them other than that I enjoy their music a lot of the ones I still listen to and it’s cool the members came from their primary groups. At first I didn’t know that at all but it’s cool SM put them together. I’m still not sure where Lucas is at. I read on website articles he’s on hiatus. I miss seeing him sing. As for if or when he’s coming back I dunno at all. No other thoughts on SuperM to add.

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