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Latest Release
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- 15 JUL 2024
- 11 Songs
- WALK - The 6th Album · 2024
- Fact Check - The 5th Album · 2023
- Favorite - The 3rd Album Repackage · 2021
- WALK - The 6th Album · 2024
- 2 Baddies - The 4th Album · 2023
- Ay-Yo - The 4th Album Repackage · 2023
- Highway to Heaven (English Version) - Single · 2019
- WALK - The 6th Album · 2024
- Be There For Me - Winter Special - Single · 2023
- NCT #127 CHERRY BOMB – The 3rd Mini Album · 2017
Essential Albums
- NCT are one of K-pop’s more interesting inventions: a global music collective with multiple “units” who reside in different cities, release separate albums and periodically come together for joint efforts. The brainchild of SM Entertainment, the collective boasts a dizzying array of subgroups, including NCT 127 (based in Seoul; 127 is the city’s longitude), NCT U and NCT Dream, which comprises the band’s underage members. The group’s 2018 debut, NCT 2018 EMPATHY, saw the 18 members joining forces for their first collective full-length release. And like the band itself, the album is a bit of a hodgepodge: at least five of its 13 songs had already debuted—some as far back as two years before. It’s a lot to take in, but once the music starts, you’ll find a startling singularity of purpose. Their hair may be in various pastel shades, but this is not feathery pop music—NCT are making some of the most convincing trap-pop coming out of South Korea. The mood is set from the intro, “Neo Got My Back”. The gloomy, moving-through-syrup opener oozes effortlessly into the authoritative single “BOSS”, whose stabbing synth might give Iggy Azalea déjà vu. It’s fun and swaggering stuff, with a clean-cut edge that keeps the vibe light even as the singers flirt with menace. Perhaps most compelling is “Baby Don’t Stop”, with its drifting analog synths and steamy atmosphere, while “TOUCH” breaks ranks and forges throwback ’90s-style pop. Not every member does (or could) get equal time on the mic, but Empathy proves that teamwork, not ego, provides the most dazzling results.
- 2024
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- Repping Seoul with ratchet raps and EDM party vibes.
- Songs that drive NCT 127, handpicked by the group’s members.
- Soft and soaring numbers from the often-romantic boy band.
Appears On
More To Hear
- Johnny, Jaehyun, and Mark on the group's album '2 Baddies.'
- NCT 127 guests, The Chainsmokers & Bebe Rexha talk new single.
- The group talk NCT #127 WE ARE SUPER HUMAN - The 4th Mini Album.
- The K-pop crew's finest tracks, collected.
- The year's new acts, including Juice WRLD, Bad Bunny, and H.E.R.
- Featuring NCT 127, P!nk, Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.
More To See
About NCT 127
Part of a game-changing concept launched by K-pop mogul Lee Soo-man in 2016, Apple Music Up Next artists NCT 127 have all the hot moves, explosive energy and idol looks that fans may expect from a 10-strong boy band straight out of Seoul. But as the millions of “NCTzens” already know, NCT 127 are actually a “subunit” of NCT (Neo Culture Technology), a Pan-Asian group whose membership is spread across three more groups and assorted overlapping projects in South Korea and China. Add the fact that some of NCT 127’s personnel hail from the U.S., Japan and Canada (and can sing and rap in several languages) and you have a K-pop act that seems uniquely engineered for global domination. That goal may be in reach judging by 2020’s Neo Zone, NCT 127’s second full-length album and the first of Lee’s NCT releases to reach the Top 5 on Billboard in the U.S. and sell over a million copies. Even more impressive is the degree of cohesion the album achieves despite the potentially unwieldy size of the group and the different sounds and styles provided by the large cast of producers that includes The Stereotypes, Grammy winners for their work with Bruno Mars. The reason for that coherence is the smooth ‘90s R&B flavour evident in songs that are otherwise as different as the punchy hip-hop track “Kick It”, the EDM-infused dance-pop banger “Boom” and “Day Dream”, one of NCT 127’s many satisfyingly sweet-hearted ballads. So if Lee Soo-man does take over the world with his grand K-pop plan, NCT 127 will make sure it’s a pretty fly place to be.
- GENRE
- K-Pop