NCT 127 subsequently released the EP We Are Superhuman that year and their second Korean studio album, Neo Zone, in 2020, the latter becoming their first top-five entry on the US Billboard 200 and their first release to sell over one million copies.
In 2021, NCT 127 released their record-breaking third Korean studio album, Sticker, and its repackage album Favorite, which sold a combined 3.58 million copies and became the best-selling album of all-time by an act under SM Entertainment. The album also debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, becoming the highest-ranking K-pop album on the chart in 2021. NCT 127 have also ventured into the Japanese music scene with a Japanese version of their second single "Limitless", an EP, and a studio album. In January 2016, SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man delivered a presentation at the SM Coex Artium titled "SMTOWN: New Culture Technology 2016". Lee announced that the label planned to debut a new boy group with an "unlimited" number of members, in alignment with their " culture contents" strategy. The group would have "sub-unit teams" of different members from different cities around the world, and the units would collaborate with each other frequently. Lee revealed the name of the group to be NCT, an acronym of the presentation title. NCT was to be SM Entertainment's first idol group to debut since Red Velvet in August 2014 and the label's first boy group to debut since South Korean–Chinese boy band Exo in 2012. During the presentation, Lee also announced plans to debut the first NCT unit within the first half of 2016 in Seoul and Tokyo, with sub-units based in Chinese cities to follow in the latter half of the year and units in Southeast Asia and Latin America later. On July 1, 2016, NCT 127 was announced as the second sub-unit, a Seoul-based multi-national boy group that would promote actively in South Korea. NCT 127's initial seven-member lineup performing in Busan in August 2016 History 2013–2016: Formation, pre-debut activities and early days The name "NCT 127" combines the acronym for Neo Culture Technology with the number "127", the longitude coordinate of the city of Seoul. Prior to the unit's debut, several members had solo activities during their time in SM Rookies, including Taeyong's music video for "Open the Door" and feature in Red Velvet's second single " Be Natural" (credited as SR14B's Taeyong) in 2014. Taeyong then joined fellow trainees Johnny, Mark, Donghyuck, Yuta and Jaehyun in the Mnet-produced reality show Exo 90:2014. Doyoung and Jaehyun became fixed MCs for the music show Show Champion from January to June 2015, while Mark and Donghyuck were Mouseketeers on Disney Channel Korea’s The Mickey Mouse Club in July 2015. The members eventually had their first official show, titled SMRookies Show, in Seoul in September 2015 and later in Bangkok, Thailand in February 2016.
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