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Members

11

AgencyYMC EntertainmentDebutMay 2016GenreK-pop

The eleven-month supergroup Produce 101 built — and the blueprint every survival show copied after.

  • Survival-show born
  • Bright pop
  • Short by design
  • Supergroup
  • Nostalgia

LINEUP

Members

MILESTONES

Records & firsts

First girl group assembled by public vote on Produce 101

Eleven members chosen from 101 trainees across competing agencies in 2016.

First full-group music-show win with "Very Very Very"

The October 2016 single, written by Park Jin-young.

A farewell single that won on its way out

"Downpour" took a music-show trophy weeks before the January 2017 disbandment.

Members went on to five further groups

Pristin, Gugudan, WJSN, DIA and Weki Meki all drew from the lineup.

DID YOU KNOW

Trivia & lore

  1. 01

    The group was built to expire: the project contract ran eleven months, and it ended on schedule in January 2017.

  2. 02

    The farewell single "Downpour" was written and co-produced by Seventeen's Woozi.

  3. 03

    "Very Very Very" was written by Park Jin-young, the founder of JYP Entertainment — a rival agency to most of the members' own.

  4. 04

    The members' last television appearance together was on MBC's "Section TV", and the official fan cafe closed on January 31, 2017.

  5. 05

    All eleven reunited in 2026 for the group's tenth debut anniversary, nine years after disbanding.

DISCOGRAPHY

Signature tracks

1
Very Very Very
2016 · Very Very Very
2
Dream GirlsChrysalis
2016 · Chrysalis
3
Downpour
2017 · Downpour
4
Whatta Man (Good Man)
2016 · Chrysalis
5
CrushChrysalis
2016 · Chrysalis

TIMELINE

The journey

ORIGIN

Produce 101

2016

Mnet put 101 trainees from competing agencies into one show and let viewers vote eleven of them into a group. It was the first time a Korean girl group had been assembled that way in public, and the format it established went on to define the next decade of survival programmes.

DEBUT

Chrysalis

2016

The group debuted on May 4, 2016 with the EP "Chrysalis" and the single "Dream Girls", promoting under YMC Entertainment while every member remained contracted to her own agency.

Anchor track: Dream Girls

Very Very Very

2016

The October single, written by JYP founder Park Jin-young, gave the full eleven-member lineup its first music-show trophy and became the song the group is still best remembered for.

Anchor track: Very Very Very

DISBANDMENT

Downpour

2016 — 2017

YMC confirmed in November 2016 that the project would end on schedule. The farewell single "Downpour", written and co-produced by Seventeen's Woozi, took a final music-show win, and the group disbanded on January 29, 2017 — eleven months after debut.

Anchor track: Downpour

Lineup: All eleven members returned to their own agencies at disbandment.

Ten years later

2021

A fifth-anniversary reunion livestream in May 2021 kept the group in view, and in 2026 all eleven reunited for the tenth anniversary of the debut — nine years after they had stopped promoting together.

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