SM Entertainment

South Korean entertainment company

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2025 SM Rookies scheduled to perform in SM Town Live 2025: The Culture, the Future under the group SMTR25.
2025 Starship Entertainment was recognized by Billboard in their Women in Music – Labels & Distributors list, highlighting the company's significant role in the music industry.
March 24 2025 KiiiKiii, Starship's new girl group, debuts.
2025 SM debuts two new groups: DearAlice (first British boy band) and Hearts2Hearts (eight-member girl group)
March 10 2025 Xiumin released his second solo EP 'Interview X' under INB100 Entertainment, which led to a dispute with KBS regarding program appearances.
2025 NCT's Mark and former Riize member Seunghan are scheduled to make their solo debuts.
March 4 2025 One Hundred (parent company of INB100) released a statement condemning KBS for allegedly blocking Xiumin's participation in music programs.
March 3 2025 Starship announces plans to launch a new boy group, their first since Monsta X and Cravity, aiming to debut within the year.
February 2025 Hearts2Hearts, an eight-member girl group and SM's first since Aespa in 2020, is set to debut.
February 14 2025 SM Town releases 'The Culture, the Future' album, reaching #4 on Korean charts and selling 153,194 Korean and 750 Japanese copies.
February 14 2025 Announced plans to launch new girl group KiiiKiii and reorganize management into three divisions for domestic and global promotions.
2024 SM Rookies has no currently active members, effectively concluding the team's primary training and introduction mission.
2024 SM Jazz Trio was launched as one of the artists under SM Classics label.
2024 Baekhyun debuts as a soloist with the album 'City Lights' under SM Entertainment.
2024 Yohan Kim debuted as an artist under the SM Classics label.
2024 Multiple NCT members debut as soloists, including Ten, Lucas, Doyoung, Jaehyun, and Yuta.
2024 Chen debuts as a soloist with the album 'April, and a Flower' under SM Entertainment.
2024 Virtual artist Naevis debuts with the single 'Done' under SM Entertainment
2024 SM plans to debut a new girl group and virtual IP 'Naevis' in the first half of the year.
2024 Seo Hyun-joo won the Best Creator Award at the Asia Artist Awards
October 2024 SM Entertainment launches the contemporary R&B label Krucialize, debuting its first and only artist Min Jiwoon with the single 'Sentimental Love'.
October 2024 R&B singer Yelo debuts on Kustomade with the single 'Naked'.
September 2024 Shohei was announced as a member of SM's upcoming trot boy band, Mytro.
September 2024 Jeong Se-woon chose not to renew his contract after ten years with the label.
April 2024 Kim Woojin releases his EP 'I Like the Way', which becomes the first release under the Kustomade label.
March 18 2024 SM's music publishing subsidiary Kreation Music Rights launched new production label Kustomade, managing soloist Kim Woo-jin and Yelo from MonoTree.
February 2024 NCT Wish, the final NCT sub-unit, made their debut.
January 15 2024 SM Station releases 'Regret of the Times (2024 Remake Ver.)' by Aespa
2023 Conclusion of MV Remastering Project and NCT Lab
2023 Kyuhyun and D.O. debut as soloists, with Kyuhyun releasing 'At Gwanghwamun' and D.O. releasing 'Empathy'.
2023 NCT Nation: To The World concert included Sion and Yushi as members of pre-debut NCT New Team.
2023 SM Rookies completed its initial training cycle, with 30 out of 35 total members having debuted in various SM Entertainment groups including Red Velvet, NCT, Aespa, Riize, and Mytro.
2023 Kreation Music Rights (KMR) acquired independent label 10X Entertainment, setting the stage for the creation of Kustomade label.
2023 Kim Min-jong's contract with SM Entertainment terminates
2023 Riize launches with their debut 'Get a Guitar', becoming the second best-selling first-week debut album in K-pop history with over one million copies sold.
2023 Taeyong from NCT debuts as a soloist with the self-produced and self-written EP Shalala, which recorded over 500,000 pre-order copies on release day.
2023 Kyuhyun debuts as a soloist with the album 'At Gwanghwamun' under SM Entertainment.
2023 SM Entertainment divests Million Market, with BPM Entertainment acquiring the company's shares.
2023 Yoo Young-jin's period with SM Entertainment concludes after 30 years of service as a composer and producer.
2023 Seo Hyun-joo won multiple awards including Best Producer Award at the Asia Artist Awards and Best Producer at the Golden Disc Awards, and received the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Commendation at the Korea Content Awards
2023 Kreation Music Rights and Studio White were established as new divisions.
December 6 2023 NCT U (Kun, Xiaojun, Renjun, Chenle) releases 'Marine Turtle' in the NCT Lab series
November 16 2023 SM Entertainment signed an agreement with British entertainment company Moon&Back and partnered with gamma to debut a new British boy group dearALICE.
November 15 2023 Kun releases 'Phantom (KUN Remix)' as part of NCT Lab
September 27 2023 Yushi and Sion announced their graduation from SM Rookies through handwritten letters on Instagram.
September 7 2023 NCT U (Taeil, Haechan) releases 'N.Y.C.T' in the NCT Lab series
September 4 2023 Riize made their debut.
August 30 2023 SM Station releases 'Different Hearts' by Ginjo x Sole
August 8 2023 NCT Lab continues as a separate project with Jaehyun's solo single 'Horizon'.
August 2 2023 SM published Q2 2023 sales data, reporting a 30% increase in total sales and 84% increase in operating profit compared to the same quarter in 2022.

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