ALL ABOUT SEVENTEEN

SEVENTEEN (세븐틴 )

Debut: May 26, 2015

Members

S.Coups was born Choi Seungcheol (: 최승철) - Leader

Wonwoo was born Jeon Wonwoo (: 전원우) 

Mingyu was born Kim Mingyu (: 김민규) 

Woozi was born Lee Jihoon (: 이지훈)

Jeonghan was born Yoon Jeonghan (: 윤정한)

Joshua was born Hong Jisoo (: 홍지수)

DK, also known as Dokyeom, was born Lee Seokmin (: 이석민)

Seungkwan was born Boo Seungkwan (: 부승관)

Hoshi was born Kwon Soonyoung (: 권순영)

Jun was born Wen Junhui (: 文俊辉)

The8 was born Xu Minghao (: 徐明浩)

Dino was born Lee Chan (: 이찬) 

Meaning of Seventeen

Seventeen (: 세븐틴), also stylized as SEVENTEEN or SVT is a boy group formed by . The thirteen-member group is separated into three different units with different areas of specialization: a hip-hop unit, a vocal unit and a performance unit. The group's members are deeply involved in the evolution of their discography, including the composition and production of their tracks and the development of their choreographies.

History

In July 2012, Pledis Entertainment announced that they would be debuting their 2nd and new boy group "Seventeen" in early 2013. Seventeen would consist of 17 members that would be split into 3 sub-units that would promote in Korea, Japan & China. Seventeen was originally a 5 member boy group called "Tempest" (Seungcheol, Doyoon, Jihoon, Yusang and Youngwoon) that was set to debut in 2012 but the members were then moved to Seventeen. Unfortunately, Yusang and Youngwoon had already left the company thus only Seungcheol, Doyoon and Jihoon joined Seventeen.

On December 2012, Pledis Entertainment announced the release of "SEVENTEEN TV", which was a pre-debut training show that would help fans learn the names and faces of the members before their debut and where they could evaluate the boys training. After the airing of the first episode of 'SEVENTEEN TV', in January 2013, Pledis Entertainment announced that the boys that appeared in the first episode were not the final members of the group but were instead still all trainees. The final members of the group would be selected based off fan feedback towards each member. Their original plan was to create a 17 membered group, and so they started off with 11 trainees (Junhui, Soonyoung, Wonwoo, Jihoon, Mingming, Seokmin, Mingyu, Seungkwan, Hansol, Chan, Samuel), and throughout the 5 seasons of 17TV, new trainees were added (Seungcheol, Doyoon, Dongjin, Joshua, Jeonghan, Minghao), however trainees were also removed (Samuel, Mingming, Doyoon, Dongjin), leaving 13 fixed members. Plans for sub-units in 3 different countries were unknown for now. The group still continues using their name as Seventeen explaining that the reason behind it is that there are 13 members, 3 units but they are still 1 team, making them 17.

On April 2015, Pledis Entertainment announced 'Seventeen Project: Debut Big Plan', a debut reality show where the boys would complete missions and do guerrilla performances to garner 1000 fans and hold a showcase at the end of the show. If they succeed, they would be able to make their official debut through a one hour special live debut showcase broadcast. They managed to successfully gather the 1000 fans and made their official debut on May 26th making them the first group ever to hold a live debut showcase. They performed every song of their debut mini album including their title track 'Adore U'. They made their official music program debut on May 27th of 2015 at MBC Show Champion and released their first mini album and music video for the title track 'Adore U' on May 29th.

Pre-Debut

In 2013, Pledis Entertainment began the regular live broadcasting of a program called 17 TV on the online streaming platform . During various broadcasts, fans were invited to watch Seventeen as they trained in their practice room. The show had different 'seasons' in which Pledis unveiled their trainees to the public, some ending in their ownLike Seventeen Concerts.[]

Big Debut Plan

On April 19, 2015, Pledis Entertainment began releasing teasers for Seventeen's first reality show, Seventeen Project: Big Debut Plan on a major broadcasting channel, . The first episode premiered on May 2, 2015 and the show ended on May 26 with the live debut showcase.

2015: Debut,"Boys Be" and "Boys Wish"

Seventeen debuted on May 26 with a live showcase, the first male K-pop group to debut with a 1-hour live showcase on a major broadcasting channel, MBC. Labelmates and from served as MCs. Three days later the extended play 17 Carat was digitally released along with the music video for their title track "Adore U" (아낀다). The physical album was later released on June 2. Despite the group originating from a relatively small company, the album ranked ninth on the World Albums chart a week after its release and peaked at eighth, staying on the chart for a total of eleven weeks.17 Carat later ranked 9th on 's list of the 10 Best K-pop Albums of 2015, the only rookie album on the list.

After the release of teasers for Seventeen's second mini album, including the tracklist and two versions of album packaging, their second extended play titled Boys Be was released on September 10 together with the music video for the title track "Mansae" (만세). Pre-order sales for Boys Be surpassed 30,000 album copies, with further sales confirming the group's popularity, as it became the highest selling rookie album of 2015. The album debuted at number one on 's World Albums Chart. The group was listed as the only K-Pop group under 's 21 Under 21 chart for the most promising young artists of the year, and also earned them nominations for various awards, such as the and the .

On December 4 a digital single titled "Q&A" was released by Seventeen. The single featured members S.Coups, Woozi and Vernon, who were joined by singer . The track was revealed to have been created the previous year by Woozi, long before the group's debut.

Seventeen held four concerts entitled 2015 LIKE SEVENTEEN - Boys Wish from the 24th to the 26th of December as an end-of-year celebration at Yongsan Art Hall, Theatre Mir. All tickets sold out within one minute. After the concerts' success, Seventeen held two more concerts on February 13 and 14 entitled LIKE SEVENTEEN - Boys Wish Encore Concert which sold out in five minutes. At the second concert the official fanclub name 'Carat' was announced.                    

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