라이즈
RIIZE
Members
6
Fandom
Briize
SM's "emotional pop" bet — a rookie group that traded concept armour for warmth.
- Emotional pop
- Warm
- Performance-first
- Melodic
- Rookie-to-arena
LINEUP
Members
MILESTONES
Records & firsts
A million first-week sales for a debut single album
"Get a Guitar", September 2023 — the second-highest first week for a rookie group's debut album.
First music-show wins with "Love 119"
M Countdown on January 18 and Inkigayo on January 21, 2024.
US deal with RCA Records on debut day
Announced September 4, 2023.
DID YOU KNOW
Trivia & lore
The name blends "rise" and "realize" — the idea of a team that grows together and realises its dreams.
The fan club was announced as "Sunz" at the debut showcase and renamed Briize two days later, after unintended readings of the first name surfaced.
Shotaro and Sungchan were both members of NCT before moving to Riize in 2023.
The pre-debut single "Memories" came out before the group officially launched with "Get a Guitar".
Briize donated 100 million won to a charity running arts and culture programmes for underprivileged children.
DISCOGRAPHY
Signature tracks
TIMELINE
The journey
ORIGIN
Two names already known
2020 — 2023
Riize did not start from zero. SM Entertainment had introduced Shotaro and Sungchan into NCT in 2020, and in 2023 moved both into a new group built around them — so the act arrived with an existing fanbase, a rare running start for a rookie launch.
DEBUT
Get a Guitar
2023 — 2023
The group debuted on September 4, 2023 with the single album "Get a Guitar", which sold over a million copies in its first week. The sound was pitched as "emotional pop": warmer and more melodic than SM's usual rookie launch.
Anchor track: Get a Guitar
Love 119
2024 — 2024
"Love 119" brought the group's first music-show wins in January 2024, and the EP "Riizing", led by "Boom Boom Bass", followed in the summer. Inside a year the group had moved from single albums to a steady release cadence.
Anchor track: Love 119
LINEUP
Six, not seven
2024 — 2024
Seunghan left the group in October 2024 after a year of intermittent activity, and Riize continued as a six-piece.
Odyssey
2025 — 2025
The first studio album "Odyssey" arrived in May 2025 with "Fly Up", alongside the Riizing Loud tour across ten Asian countries; the single album "Fame" closed the year.
Anchor track: Fly Up
II
2026
The second EP "II" came on June 15, 2026, led by "Do Your Dance" — a hip-hop and electropop track built on a distorted 808 bass, a harder edge than the debut's emotional pop.
Anchor track: Do Your Dance
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