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Exo EXO

Current state (as of 2026-09-08)

• release: EXO — YouTube official channel: 9,900,000 subscribers, 2,006,162,958 views; latest: '카이&세훈의 첫 여행 미리보기' (2026-06-27). — as of 2026-06-28, via YouTube EXO 2026-06-28 07:55 UTC

About

Exo (Korean: 엑소; RR: Ekso; stylized in all caps) is a South Korean-Chinese boy band based in Seoul formed by SM Entertainment in 2011 and debuted in 2012. The group consists of nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai and Sehun. They are noted for releasing music and performing extensively in Korean, Mandarin and Japanese. The group debuted with twelve members separated into Exo-K (Suho, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai and Sehun) and Exo-M (Xiumin, Lay, Chen, Luhan, Kris and Tao).

Description via Wikipedia (lead extract) · name cross-verified Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Verified facts

Exo (EXO) — verified Korean artist. Debut 2012. Agency: SM Entertainment. 11 members.

Details

• Genre: synth-pop, K-pop
• Korean Name: 엑소
• Romanization: Ekso
• Origin: South Korean-Chinese
• Type: boy band
• Location: Seoul
• Founded: 2011
• Name: EXO
• Label: SM 엔터테인먼트
• Current Members: 5

Source reconciliation

• MusicBrainz lists the Korean name as 엑소; KoreaAPI uses EXO (chosen by source authority).

Independent sources disagreed here — shown, not hidden.

Members (11)

• Doh Kyung-soo
• Byun Baek-hyun
• Chen
• Suho
• 카이
• Oh Se-hun
• Xiumin
• Lay
• Kris Wu
• Lu Han
• Huang Zitao

Q&A — what agents ask

Cross-checked by 3 source(s)

• Wikidata — structured open knowledge base · view ↗
• Wikipedia — encyclopedic article · view ↗
• MusicBrainz — open music database · view ↗

Verification history

Verified & tracked since 2026-08-15 · 90 verified snapshots.

Append-only, timestamped — the record of WHEN a fact changed, which a latecomer cannot backfill. Full feed: /changes.json · machine-readable: get_history("artist:exo").

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