50 Fun Facts About Nct 127

The 127 in NCT 127's name is the longitude coordinate of which city, the unit's home base?

Seoul lies at about 127 degrees east, and SM Entertainment worked the figure into the name when it unveiled the unit as a city-based team in July 2016.

NCT 127's 2020 single Kick It, with its martial-arts music video, pays tribute to which film star?

Bruce Lee is the hero the members liken themselves to on stage, and the song also nods to his fighting style, Jeet Kune Do, and his film Enter the Dragon.

NCT 127 became the first Korean act to perform at which televised New York holiday event in 2019?

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade hosted the group on November 28, 2019, and they followed it with an appearance on the Today show the next morning.

In 2022 NCT 127 became the second K-pop act to debut three albums in the Billboard 200's top five, after whom?

BTS were the only K-pop act to have done it before, and NCT 127 matched them when their fourth Korean album entered the US chart at number three.

NCT 127 made their debut on M Countdown in July 2016 with which lead single from their first EP?

Fire Truck arrived with a music video on July 7, 2016, and the first seven-member line-up performed it on Mnet the same day.

Highway to Heaven, a 2019 NCT 127 single, came from Social House, the producers behind which singer's Thank U, Next?

Ariana Grande's hits Thank U, Next and 7 Rings both came from Social House, who helped produce the NCT 127 synth-pop ballad a few months later.

NCT 127's 2021 single Sticker is built around a prominent melody played on which instrument?

Flute is the sound that runs through the track, and its producer said the odd structure came from simply wanting to be different.

NCT 127: The Lost Boys, a 2023 documentary on the members' childhoods, premiered worldwide on which streaming service?

Disney+ released the four-part series in August and September 2023, mixing interviews with footage from the group's concert tour.

NCT 127 and Exo's Lay Zhang joined which American singer on the 2019 single Let's Shut Up & Dance?

Jason Derulo released the track in February 2019, weeks before NCT 127 took their first concert tour to North America.

Which NCT 127 member missed the 2019 single Wakey-Wakey and its album Awaken while promoting with WayV?

Winwin had stepped away to promote with the China-based unit, which made Awaken the first NCT 127 release recorded without him.

NCT 127's first Japan tour, held in the Wakey-Wakey era, opened in which city, capital of Yuta's home prefecture?

Osaka staged the opening night in February 2019, and the tour then ran through Hiroshima, Kanazawa, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Saitama.

Which 2017 single gave NCT 127 a domestic breakthrough and the unit's first music-show trophy?

Cherry Bomb broke through even though the broadcaster KBS ruled it unfit for broadcast, and it is now treated as one of the unit's signature songs.

Johnny, the first NCT 127 member to join SM Entertainment, passed a 2007 audition in which American city?

Chicago is where Johnny auditioned in 2007, which left him waiting almost a decade for his NCT 127 debut at the start of 2017.

Mark, the Canadian rapper who debuted with NCT 127 in 2016, passed his SM Global Audition in which city?

Vancouver hosted the 2012 audition, although Mark was born on the other side of Canada, in Toronto.

Yuta, NCT 127's Japanese member, played which sport from age five to 16, hoping to turn professional?

Soccer was his first ambition, and he gave up the dream of becoming a professional footballer to pursue a career as an idol.

NCT 127's Jaehyun moved at age five to which American state, where he went by the name Jay?

Connecticut was his home until he returned to South Korea at ten, and he has said he was the only Asian student at his school there.

NCT 127's Doyoung is the younger brother of which South Korean actor, known for the 2019 film Extreme Job?

Gong Myung is a stage name, since the actor was born Kim Dong-hyun, and the brothers appeared together on the MBC show We Got Married in 2017.

NCT 127's Jaehyun was named a global ambassador in 2022 for which Italian fashion house?

Prada appointed him in June 2022, the month his long-delayed first acting project, a college romance series, finally premiered.

Which singer became NCT 127's tenth member in 2018, months after debuting with NCT U on Boss?

Jungwoo was introduced in September 2018 ahead of the unit's first studio album, completing a line-up that had started with seven.

Johnny and Doyoung made their NCT 127 debut on which second EP, the unit's first release as a nine-piece?

Limitless topped the Gaon Album Chart on its release in 2017, and its title track arrived with two different music videos.

Which Latin-inspired 2018 single did NCT 127 perform in English on Jimmy Kimmel Live, their first US television spot?

Regular was the unit's first English-language song, and a Chinese version later served as the debut single of the sister unit WayV.

Which single from the 2018 repackage Regulate gave NCT 127 a first number one on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart?

Simon Says was only a moderate success in South Korea, but it also gave the unit a first entry on New Zealand's Hot 40 Singles chart.

Which 2020 album gave NCT 127 a first top-five entry on the Billboard 200 and their first million seller?

Neo Zone entered the US chart at number five, and combined sales with its repackage, The Final Round, passed 1.2 million copies.

Which lead single of NCT 127's 2020 repackage The Final Round premiered live during an online Beyond Live concert?

Punch was first performed two days before its release, at a streamed show that sold more than 104,000 virtual tickets across 129 countries.

NCT 127's 2022 album 2 Baddies debuted at number three, the unit's best placing there, on which country's albums chart?

Australia gave the unit their highest chart placing there, while the album sold 1.5 million copies in its first week, then a record for an SM act.

Which title did NCT 127 give the 2023 reissue of their fourth Korean album, lifting its sales past 3.2 million?

Ay-Yo added three new tracks to the album and made it the unit's second release to sell more than three million copies.

Which fifth Korean studio album did NCT 127 support with The Unity tour, which ended in Tokyo in March 2024?

Fact Check topped South Korea's Circle Album Chart in 2023, and Rolling Stone praised the maturity the group showed across its nine tracks.

Which 2024 album, NCT 127's sixth in Korean, was the last the unit released with rapper Mark?

Walk was teased with a trailer called Walking Club 127 and a three-episode miniseries, and its title track doubled as the lead single.

Which 2021 EP for the Japanese market, led by Gimme Gimme, was NCT 127's first to top Japan's weekly albums chart?

Loveholic sold more than 133,600 copies in Japan in its first week, after production problems had pushed its release back by about two months.

NCT 127 became the first K-pop group to perform at which ceremony when Seville hosted it in 2019?

MTV Europe Music Awards organisers booked the group for the Seville ceremony in November 2019, weeks after a guest slot at the Global Citizen Festival.

NCT 127 became the first K-pop act to perform at which Texas event in March 2020, days after releasing Kick It?

RodeoHouston, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, booked the group for March 10, 2020, three months before a North American tour that the pandemic then cancelled.

In October 2018 NCT 127 became the first K-pop artist chosen for the Up Next series of which streaming service?

Apple Music followed up with an exclusive digital EP that included a new song featuring the American singer Marteen.

NCT 127's growing global popularity led SM Entertainment to sign a 2019 marketing deal with which American company?

Capitol Music Group took on marketing while Caroline Distribution handled distribution, and the EP We Are Superhuman followed a month later.

Which subtitle did NCT 127 give the Neo City tour that reached North America in spring 2019?

The Origin ran until early 2020 and grew well beyond Asia, with twelve shows in North America in its first spring.

NCT 127 opened their second world tour in December 2021 with three concerts at which South Korean venue?

Gocheok Sky Dome also hosted the opening of the unit's fourth tour in 2025, when only six members were active.

NCT 127's 2023 Latin American tour dates included a show billed as the first large-scale K-pop concert in which country?

Colombia hosted the show at Bogotá's Movistar Arena, which Korean press reported as the country's first K-pop concert in a venue of 10,000 seats or more.

Sticker's huge sales earned NCT 127 a daesang at a January 2022 ceremony, a Korean award-show term meaning what?

Grand prize is the meaning, and a daesang is the highest honour that a South Korean music awards ceremony hands out.

Doyoung, Jaehyun and a third NCT 127 vocalist debuted as an NCT trio in 2023 with which EP?

Perfume introduced NCT's fifth sub-unit, an all-vocal R&B act named after the first syllables of its three members' names.

Taeyong, NCT 127's leader, became the first NCT member to debut as a soloist with which 2023 EP?

Shalala came out in June 2023, four years after his first solo song, Long Flight, which he wrote and co-composed.

NCT 127 performed in 2018 on an ABC television special celebrating the 90th anniversary of which cartoon character?

Mickey Mouse was the star of Mickey's 90th Spectacular, which aired in November 2018 during the group's first run of American television appearances.

NCT 127's Taeyong and Mark both debuted in 2019 with which SM Entertainment supergroup, a joint project with a US label?

SuperM released a self-titled debut EP in October 2019, led by the single Jopping, and aimed its early promotions at the American market.

Which NCT 127 vocalist, born in 2000, was raised between the South Korean capital and the island of Jeju?

Haechan joined his mother on Jeju at the age of six, and his stage name, picked by SM's founder, carries the sense of shining brightly.

NCT 127's bright tropical house single Touch appeared in 2018 on which album uniting every NCT unit?

Empathy was the centrepiece of the NCT 2018 project, and Touch was later re-recorded in Japanese for the album Awaken.

Wakey-Wakey led NCT 127's 2019 album Awaken, which was released by which Japanese record label?

Avex Trax signed NCT 127 in late 2017 and launched them in Japan the following spring with a showcase tour.

Wakey-Wakey's parent album continued a story begun on which earlier release, NCT 127's first Japanese EP?

Chain reached number two on Japan's Oricon albums chart in 2018 and was the last release by the nine-member line-up.

Doyoung of NCT 127 made his stage-musical debut in 2021 as Count Axel von Fersen in which show?

Marie Antoinette cast him as one of three actors sharing the male lead, a month after he first acted on screen in the drama series Midnight Cafe.

Before NCT 127 debuted, trainees Doyoung and Jaehyun spent the first half of 2015 hosting which weekly music programme?

Show Champion gave both an early start as presenters, and each later hosted the SBS programme Inkigayo after debuting.

Yuta of NCT 127 made his acting debut in 2022 in a film from which Japanese franchise?

High&Low The Worst X, released in September 2022, gave him his first screen role two years before his first solo EP.

Which American producer co-composed NCT 127 lead singles including Kick It and Sticker with Yoo Young-jin?

Dem Jointz is a frequent collaborator of the group, and he has named Sticker among his favourite tracks he has worked on.

In April 2019 NCT 127 gave Superhuman its first live performance on which US breakfast television programme?

Good Morning America hosted the song's debut on April 18, 2019, five weeks before We Are Superhuman, the EP it led, was released.