Why 2019 was SEVENTEEN’s year
Boo Seungkwan started off the year by going viral among K-netizens for his hilarious impression of Yoon Jong Shin’s 2017 song ‘Wi-Fi’.
In the 2019 ISAC Ceremony, DK scored 4 bullseyes in a row in the archery competition and achieved the highest score in ISAC history of 95.
SEVENTEEN won the ‘Disk Bonsang’ at the 2019 Golden Disk Awards for You Make My Day, their 2018 summer 5th mini album. This is also where they infamously broke the stage due to how passionately they were dancing.
SEVENTEEN won two awards at the 2019 Gaon Chart Music Awards: ‘Hot Performance Artist’ and ‘World Hallyu Star’.
SEVENTEEN’s 6th mini album, You Made My Dawn, topped the Worldwide iTunes Chart, beating out Queen and the A Star Is Born OST. Furthermore, they became the fourth group to surpass over 300K first week sales on Hanteo.
You Made My Dawn’s title track, ‘Home’, won 1st place 10 times on Korean music shows, giving SEVENTEEN not only their first Inkigayo and Show! Music Core wins, but triple crowns on Music Bank and M Countdown. This meant that SEVENTEEN became the K-Pop group with the highest number of music show wins in 2019. They held that title until April, when BTS surpassed them.
The8 (Minghao) was chosen to be a dance mentor for the second season of Idol Producer, and warmed the hearts of viewers with his patience and kind attitude towards the trainees.
Woozi was promoted to be a regular member of the Korean Copyright Music Association alongside BUMZU (Woozi’s composing partner).
SEVENTEEN’s Chinaline (Jun & The8) both partook in an OST for the Chinese drama Seven Days, recording a song called ‘Brothers For One Time’.
DK was chosen to star in the summer musical Xcalibur, and was cast as the lead role, Arthur. The musical was well received and DK was praised for solid performance as Arthur.
The8 released solo Chinese single entitled ‘Dreams Come True’, which went on to perform very well in the Chinese charts, beating out 95.56% of new Chinese songs in Q2.
Vernon featured on, American rapper, Tobi Lou’s song ‘Looped Up’, which appears on the latter’s album Live On Ice.
Jun starred in a music video to promote a brand new Chinese mobile game, A Dream Of Jianghu.
SEVENTEEN broke all their previous album records by just surpassing 700K first week sales for their 3rd full album, An Ode. The album also landed first place on the Japanese Oricon Charts for first week sales, and SEVENTEEN were 17th on the Global Digital Artist Ranking Chart.
SEVENTEEN have also partook in charity work. Mingyu and The8 showed their support for the Pink Pony breast cancer organisation, and The8 donated the profits from his Chinese single to help others “make their own dreams come true”, as well as doing community service for local Chinese primary schools.
SEVENTEEN won ‘Worldwide Fan Choice’ at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards.
SEVENTEEN won ‘Stage of The Year’ at the 2019 MelOn Music Awards for the Seoul stop of their 2019-20 world tour, Ode To You. The award is solely decided by judges, meaning no fandom bias and/or chart performance can interfere with true, raw talent.
SEVENTEEN performed ‘HIT’ and ‘Very NICE’ at the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards and broke the ‘idol graveyard’ associated with actors by not only getting the audience to stand up, but happily sing and dance along with them.
SEVENTEEN was 7th in Billboard’s Top Social 50 Groups Of The Decade, coming behind Linkin Park and in front of Monsta X. This is especially commendable for a group that has only been around for the latter half of the decade (having debuted in May 2015).
SEVENTEEN hold the title for K-Pop group with the best selling album in the first and third quarter of the year on Gaon, with You Made My Dawn and An Ode, respectively.
SEVENTEEN won a total of THREE daesangs this year: ‘Album of The Year’ and ‘Group of The Year’ at the Asian Music Festival in Shenzhen and another ‘Album of The Year’ daesang at the Asian Awards in Vietnam.
In conclusion, 2019 was an incredible year for SEVENTEEN. I’m so proud of them and all they’ve achieve and I know they can only go up from here! Here’s to another year with our 13 Shining Diamonds! 💖💎
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