Park Chan-yeol

**Park Chan-yeol** (hangul: 박찬열; hanja: 朴燦烈; born November 27, 1992 in Seoul), better known by mononym **Chanyeol**, is a South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and model. He is a member of the South Korean boy band EXO.

## Early years

Chanyeol was born November 27, 1992 in Seoul, South Korea. After watching the film _School of Rock_ in elementary school, Chanyeol became interested in music and began to play drums. During his teenage years, he studied at Hyundai Senior High School in Apgujeong-dong. He participated in the band of his school, Siren. When he was in his first year of high school, Chanyeol formed a band with his best friends, Heavy Noise, having played in it for three years. At the age of sixteen, he was accepted into a private acting university. In the same year, he reached second position Smart Model Contest and became a trainee of S.M. Entertainment. Also in 2008, he participated in the clip "HaHaHa Song" of his companion of company TVXQ. The following year, she appeared in the Japanese version of the video "Genie" of the group Girls' Generation. He went on to dream of being a singer after listening to the song "Unconditional Kismet" of songwriter and music producer Yoo Young-jin.

### 2012─2014: Early career

On February 22, 2012, Chanyeol was officially introduced as one of the twelve members of the original formation of the South Korean-Chinese group EXO. The group debuted on April 8 of the same year with the release of extended play _MAMA_. In April 2012, he participated in the music video for the song "Twinkle", debut single from the first sub-unit of Girls 'Generation,Girls' Generation-TTS. In October 2013, Chanyeol joined the cast of SBS's _Law of the Jungle_ reality show during filming in Micronesia. He also composed and recorded a soundtrack titled "Last Hunter" for the show.

In 2014, Chanyeol wrote the rap of the Korean version of the "Run" track of EXO's extended extended play, _Overdose_, and participated in the debut EPs of his companions Henry and Zhou Mi. In May 2014, he became a regular cast member of the first season of the SBS's _Roommate_ reality show. He left the program in September of the same year because of scheduling conflicts.

### 2015─present: Debut as an actor and compositions

In April 2015, Chanyeol made his film debut with South Korean film _Salut d'Amour_ alongside actress Moon Ga-young, who later co-starred with him on the _EXO Next Door_ web drama. In June 2015, cast-wrote the Korean version of the track "Promise" of the reissue of the success of sales _EXODUS_, titled _Love Me Right_, next to its companions of group Chen and Lay. He later wrote the rap for "Lightsaber", the EXO promotional single for _Star Wars: The Force Awakening_, which was later included in the band's extended play _Sing for You_.

In April 2016, Chanyeol wrote and performed rap for the song "Confession" of Yesung's debut EP, _Here I Am_. On EXO's third studio album, _EX'ACT_, released in May 2016, he co-wrote the lyrics for the track "Heaven." In June 2016, Chanyeol starred with actresses Yuan Shanshan and Seohyun in the South Korean-Chinese film _So I Married an Anti-fan_. He and Yuan Shanshan also recorded a duet titled "I Hate You" as the soundtrack for the film. In October 2016, Chanyeol and singer Tinashe participated in the song "Freal Luv" by artists Far East Movement and Marshmello. The song, which he helped write and produce, was released on October 14. In December 2016, she collaborated with singer Punch on the song "Stay With Me," part of the soundtrack for the _Goblin_ drama.

In January 2017, Chanyeol participated in the drama _Missing 9_. On February 22, he released a duet titled "Let Me Love You" with Junggigo.

### Songs

|rowspan="2"|Title|rowspan="2"|Year|colspan="4"|Peak chart positions|rowspan="2"|Sales <small>(DL)</small>|rowspan="2"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2014|—|—|—|—|* KOR: 12,096|_Exology Chapter 1: The Lost Planet_||||
|2016|38|—|—|—|*KOR: 47,208|_Two Yoo Project Sugar Man_ _Part 32_||||
|2017|16|—|—|—|* KOR: 101,508+|_Across the Universe_||||
|rowspan="2"|2014|75|—|—|—|*KOR: 27,192|_Fantastic_|||
|—|—|—|5||_Rewind_|||||
|2015|43|—|—|—|*KOR: 60,192|_Unpretty Rapstar 2 Semi-final Part 1_||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|133|—|—|—|* KOR:  21,890|_Here I Am_|||
|—|—|—|—|* KOR: 22,665|_Identity_|||||
|rowspan="3"|2016|—|—|—|—||_Law of the Jungle OST_|||
|—|11|—|—||_So I Married an Anti-fan OST_|||||
|3|—|12|3|* KOR: 1,379,207+|_Guardian: The Lonely and Great God_ _OST_|||||
|colspan="8"|<small>"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.</small>|||||||||

### Songwriting and producing credits

|rowspan="2"|Year|rowspan="2"|Album|rowspan="2"|Artist|rowspan="2"|Song|colspan="2"|Lyrics|colspan="2"|Music|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||2014||EXO-K|"Run"||||||||
|rowspan="6"|2015||rowspan="3"|Chanyeol|"Last Hunter"|||||||
||"Who I Am"|||||||||||
||"Young Street"|||||||||||
||Heize ft. Chanyeol|"Don't Make Money"||||||||||
||rowspan="2"|Exo|"Promise"||Chen & Lay|||||||
||"Lightsaber"|||||||||||
|rowspan="5"|2016||Chanyeol|"You Are"||||||||
||Yesung|"Confession"||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Exo|"Heaven"||Min Yeon-jae||||||
|"Heaven"||Min Yeon-jae, Wang Jung-un||||||||||
||Far East Movement and Marshmello ft. Chanyeol & Tinashe|"Freal Luv"||Kevin Nishimura, J. Roh, Virman Coquia, C. Comstock, Tinashe, William Phillips||Kevin Nishimura, J. Roh, Virman Coquia, C. Comstock, Tinashe, William Phillips||||||

### Films

|style="width:12em;"|Title|Year|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2015|Min-sung|Supporting role|||
|2016|Hoo Joon|Lead role|||

### Television dramas

|style="width:12em;"|Title|Year|Network|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2008|KBS2|High school student|Cameo; episode 71|||
|2012|SBS|Himself|Cameo; episode 2|||
|2013|jTBC|Himself|Cameo; episode 2|||
|2015|Naver TV Cast|Chanyeol|Main role|||
|2017|MBC|Lee Yeol|Supporting role|||

### Television shows

|style="width:12em;"|Title|Year|Network|Role|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|2014|SBS|Recurring cast|Episodes 90-94||
|SBS|Main cast|Season 1||||
|2015|SBS|Recurring cast|Episodes 175-177|||

### Music videos

|Title|Year|Ref.|
| --- | --- | --- |
|2013|||
|rowspan="3"|2016||
|2008|||
|2010|||
|2012|||
|2013|||
|2014|||
|rowspan="2"|2015||

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Award|Category|Nominated work|Result|Ref.||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2015|rowspan="2"|8th Korea Drama Awards|Best New Actor|rowspan="2"|_Exo Next Door_|||
|Hallyu Star Award|||||||||
|2016|16th Top Chinese Music Awards|Most Popular Foreign Idol|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2017|rowspan="2"|5th YinYueTai VChart Awards|Best Collaboration|"I Hate You"||||
|Most Popular Artist <small>(South Korea)</small>|||||||||

## Other websites

- Instagram

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Chanyeol
- **background**: solo_singer
- **img**: Chanyeol at Acqua Di Parma’s Cipresso Di Toscana Launching Party on May 9, 2019 (2).png
- **img capt**: Park Chan-yeol in May 2019
- **birth name**: Park Chan-yeol
- **alias**: Chanyeol
- **origin**: Seoul, South Korea
- **genre**: K-pop, Contemporary R&B, R&B, Dance music, dance
- **occupation**: Singer, rapper, songwriter, model (person), model, actor
- **instrument**: Vocals, drums
- **years active**: –present
- **label**: S.M. Entertainment
- **associated acts**: Exo
SM Town
- **url**: [http://exo.smtown.com Official website]


## Infobox (korean name)

- **color**: khaki
- **title**: Korean name
- **hangul**: 박찬열
- **rr**: Bak Chan-yeol
- **mr**: Pak Ch'an-yŏl