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Tomorrow X Together (Korean: 투모로우바이투게더 ), commonly known as TXT, is a five-member South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Music. The group consists of five members Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun and HueningKai.
They debuted on March 4, 2019 with the EP The Dream Chapter: Star. The album debuted and peaked at number one on the Gaon Album Chart and BillboardWorld Albums Chart and entered the US Billboard 200 at number 140, at the time becoming the highest-charting debut album by any male K-pop group. The album's lead single "Crown" debuted atop the World Digital Songs with TXT topping the Billboard Emerging Artists Chart, making them the fastest K-Pop group to appear in World Digital Songs and the second fastest K-Pop group to appear in the Billboard Emerging Artist.
The group's commercial reception earned them several new artist of the year awards including Rookie of the Year at the 34th Golden Disc AwardsMelon Music Awards, New Artist of the Year- Album at the 9th Gaon Chart Music Awards and Best New Male Artist at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards.
Name
TXT is an acronym standing for "Tomorrow X Together". In Korean, the group name is "투모로우바이투게더", read as "Tomorrow By Together" and transliterated into Hangul. They do not have a separate Korean version of their name. According to their website, the meaning behind "Tomorrow by Together" is five individuals who "come together under one dream in hopes of building a better tomorrow".
In their first ever interview with MBC's "Section TV", the group mentioned that they prefer being referred to by their full name instead of their initials.
History
Plans for a second boy group from Big Hit Entertainment were announced by founder Bang Si-hyuk as early as 2017 and a date for early 2019 set in November 2018. TXT was officially revealed on January 10, 2019. Over the next ten days, YouTube videos depicting each member, dubbed "introduction films," were released.
2019: Debut and The Dream Chapter: Magic
TXT was the first boy band to debut under Big Hit Entertainment in six years after BTS. A debut broadcast for the group was aired on Mnet and its YouTube page, and it was announced along with the band's debut extended play, The Dream Chapter: Star, which was released on March 4. A debut showcase was held at the Yes24 Live Hall on March 5. Following the release of the EP, the music video of the album's lead single, "Crown" garnered 14.5 million views on YouTube, breaking the record for the most viewed K-Pop debut music video within 24 hours for a boy group and the most liked K-pop debut music video with 2.3 Million likes in 24 hours . The album debuted atop the Gaon Album Chart and Billboard World Albums Chart while "Crown" debuted at number one on the Billboard World Digital Songs Chart. The group debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Emerging Artists and at No. 140 on the Billboard 200 chart for the first time, making them the fastest to appear in these charts (the second fastest K-Pop group to appear in the Billboard Emerging Artist) and highest-charting debut album by any male K-pop group. The album also ranked number 3 on Oricon's Weekly Album Chart. Additionally, the album went onto top the Gaon Monthly Album Chart for the month of March. TXT's first music show performance was aired on March 7, 2019 on Mnet's M Countdown. They earned their first ever music show win on SBS MTV's The Show with the single "Crown" just after a week of their debut. This was soon followed by wins on M Countdown and Show Champion. "Crown" made it on to GQ's Decade-end list of "The game-changers from a decade of K-pop", for the year 2019, with GQ writing, "The bright, effervescent pop of TXT who, [...] are in their own element as they playfully explore teenage growing pains.
On April 9, 2019, TXT announced their first-ever overseas tour, a six-show debut showcase in the United States encompassing six American cities- New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Orlando, and Atlanta over the course of about two weeks, from May 9 to 24. Tickets to all shows were sold out in less than 24 hours. Following their showcase in May, TXT performed at the 2019 iHeartRadio Wango Tango music concert held at Dignity Health Sports Park in Los Angeles on June 1. On June 20, the group announced that they would be performing in two of Japan's largest fashion festivals- Kansai Collection's Autumn/Winter 2019 runway show on August 27, followed by the famous Tokyo Girls Collection's Autumn/Winter 2019 show on September 7, making TXT the first Korean artist ever to perform at both shows during the same season. On July 6, TXT performed at KCON 2019 NY music festival held at Madison Square Garden, New York, in front of 55,000 spectators. Later that month, TXT received their first ever MTV Video Music Award nomination in the category of "Best K-pop."
On August 8, 2019, it was announced by Big Hit Entertainment that they originally had planned to release a new album in August but due to members Soobin being diagnosed with infectious conjunctivitis and Yeonjun affected by back pains, it was then postponed to September. On August 20, Big Hit revealed members Taehyun and Huening Kai had also been diagnosed with conjunctivitis, thus a reschedule of the album "has become unavoidable", citing the change in release date from September to October.
On October 21, 2019, TXT released their first studio album, titled, The Dream Chapter: Magic, with "9 and Three Quarters (Run Away)" as its lead single. Musically, the album incorporates a variety of different music genres, including R&B, tropical house, acoustic pop and hip hop. Commercially, the album debuted atop the Gaon Album Chart, surpassing 124,000 sales in its first week. This marked the group's second chart-topping album following their EP The Dream Chapter: Star. The album debuted at No. 3 on Billboard's World Albums Chart and at No. 6 on the Heatseeker's Album Chart. A total of four tracks from the album entered the Billboard World Digital Songs chart with the lead single "9 and Three Quarters (Run Away)" debuting at No. 2. Billboard and Dazed both later named “9 and Three Quarters (Run Away)” one of the best K-pop songs of the year.
TXT's commercial success in their early months earned them several rookie awards at major Korean year-end music award shows, including the Asia Artist Awards, Melon Music Awards, Mnet Asian Music Awards, Golden Disc Awards, Gaon Chart Music Awards and Seoul Music Awards.
Members
- Soobin (수빈) – leader
- Yeonjun (연준)
- Beomgyu (범규)
- Taehyun (태현)
- HueningKai (휴닝카이)
