

It sold over one million copies, making EXO the best-selling Korean artist in twelve years. All of Exo's members also maintain solo careers in fields including music, film, and television.ĮXO's first album XOXO (2013), which contains the breakthrough hit "Growl", was a critical and commercial success. In 2019, Chanyeol and Sehun debuted as EXO's second official sub-unit, EXO-SC, and released their first EP, What a Life, in July 22. Since 2016, Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin have also released music and performed as a sub-unit named EXO-CBX. After the departures of Kris, Luhan, and Tao amid legal battles in 20, the band continued with the remaining nine members. EXO-K and EXO-M performed music in Korean and Mandarin, respectively, until the release of their third EP Overdose in 2014. Previously, the band debuted with twelve members separated into two sub-groups: EXO-K (Suho, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai, and Sehun) and EXO-M (Xiumin, Lay, Chen, and former members Kris, Luhan, and Tao).

Since 2014, EXO has exclusively performed as one group, while continuing to release and perform music in multiple languages. The band ranked as one of the top five most influential celebrities on the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list each year from 2014 to 2018, and have been named "the biggest boy band in the world" and the "kings of K-pop" by media outlets. EXO releases and performs music in Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese. Their music incorporates genres like pop, hip-hop, and R&B, alongside electronic dance music genres like house, trap, and synth-pop. The band was formed by SM Entertainment in 2011 and debuted in 2012.

Exo (stylized as EXO) is a South Korean-Chinese boy band based in Seoul, with nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai and Sehun.
