SM and JYP’s activities plans for 2021 have just been revealed: Red Velvet comes to an important point, TWICE will make a comeback in June?
Meritz Securities has announced the scheduled comeback plans of artists from SM and JYP.
Today (April 14), netizens stirred at the summary of plans of big entertainment companies posted by investment and securities research company Meritz Securities. The companies mentioned in the report are HYBE (Big Hit), SM, JYP and YG – and the information listed includes music product releases, artists’ main schedules for all 4 quarters of 2021.
Securities companies like Meritz Securities often get reports on these plans because entertainment companies will apply to the stock exchange with some specific plans to attract investors’ attention. However, we should also note that the following information is for reference only, and except for the schedules previously confirmed by the host companies, everything else is still subject to change at any time.
In the first part, let’s go through the planned activities of SM and JYP in 2021.
SM Entertainment
DBSK (TVXQ)
- Quarter I / 2021
Super January 18: Yunho’s mini album ‘NOIR’ (sold 138k copies)
SUPER JUNIOR
- Quarter I / 2021
January 27: Full 2nd Japanese album ‘Star’
March 16: Full 10th album ‘Renaisance’ (sold 433k copies)
- Quarter II / 2021
April: Full Japanese album
May: Concert online VLive
- Quarter III / 2021
September: SJ D&E releases 5th mini album (Expected to sell 250k copies)
SNSD
- Quarter III / 2021
September: 5th mini album (Expected to sell 100k copies) (Taeyeon?)
SHINee
- Quarter I / 2021
February 22: Full 7th album (Sold 281k copies)
- Quarter II / 2021
May: Concert online VLive
June: Full Japanese album
- Quarter III / 2021
July: Taemin is scheduled to enlist in the army
- Quarter IV / 2021
November: 6th mini album (Expected to sell 280k copies)
EXO
- Quarter I / 2021
January 3: Baekhyun’s fanmeeting VLive
January 20: Baekhyun releases Japanese album ‘baekhyun’
March 30: Baekhyun releases 3rd mini album ‘Bambi’ (Sold 1.1 million copies)
- Quarter II / 2021
April: Baekhyun enlisted in the army
- Quarter III / 2021
August: EXO-SC mini album (Expected to sell 500k copies)
RED VELVET
- Quarter II / 2021
April 5: Wendy releases a mini album (Sold 150k copies)
- Quarter III / 2021
Re-signing exclusive contract
NCT
- Quarter I / 2021
March 10: WayV releases mini album ‘Kick Back’ (sold 227k copies)
- Quarter II / 2021
April: NCT DREAM releases full album (Expected to sell 900k copies)
April: WayV, NCT Dream and NCT 127 VLive (concert / fanmeeting)
- Quarter IV / 2021
October: NCT 127 releases their 5th mini album (Expected to sell 1.4 million copies)
SUPERM
- Quarter II / 2021
April 9: Mini album (Expected to sell 500k copies)
- Quarter I / 2021
February 5: Digital single ‘Forever’
- Quarter II / 2021
June: 1st mini album (Expected to sell 100k copies)
- Quarter IV / 2021
November: Second mini album (Expected to sell 130k copies)
JYP Entertainment
2PM
- Quarter III / 2021
September: Mini album (Expected to sell 150k copies)
DAY6
- Quarter II / 2021
May 11: Mini album (Expected to sell 79k copies)
- Quarter IV / 2021
October: Mini album (estimated 67k copies)
- Quarter I / 2021
March 6: Open Live in Japanese
- Quarter II / 2021
May 12: 8th Japanese single ‘Kura Kura’
June: 10th mini album (Expected to sell 450k copies)
- Quarter III / 2021
September: 11th mini album (Expected to sell 430k copies)
STRAY KIDS
- Quarter I / 2021
February 20: Fanmeeting Vlive
- Quarter II / 2021
April: Join ‘Kingdom’ (Mnet)
May: 6th mini album (Expected to sell 500k copies)
- Quarter IV / 2021
October: 7th mini album (Expected to sell 560k copies)
ITZY
- Quarter I / 2021
January 22: English album
- Quarter II / 2021
April 30: 4th mini album ‘Guess Who?’ (Expected to sell 270k copies)
- Quarter IV / 2021
November: Full album (Expected to sell 220k copies)
What do you expect about SM and JYP’s activities in 2021? Which artist do you expect most? Please share your opinion!