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Lay Zhang 
 In April 2015, S.M. Entertainment announced that a personal study had been established for Lay's activities in China.
Lay Zhang 
 In June 2015, Lay composed the song "Promise" for the re-release of EXO's second studio album, Love Me Right.
Lay Zhang 
 He also wrote the lyrics for the Chinese version of the song, while the Korean version was co-written by Chen and Chanyeol.
Lay Zhang 
 On September 18, 2015, the limited edition of his autobiography entitled Standing Firm At 24 was published, while the standard edition went on sale on October 7.
Lay Zhang 
 The book documents important events throughout his life and broke several online sales records selling 68,537 copies in the first twenty-four minutes of pre-sale.
Lay Zhang 
 With less than three months of sale with 1.4 million copies sold, it obtained the fourth place in "The 10th Chinese Celebrity Writers List", released by the influential Chinese media, WCC Daily, Cover News and Great Star Media, becoming in the youngest author to enter the list.
Lay Zhang 
 He was also the champion of the 2015 Annual Celebrity Book Sales, and ranked first in Asia's Best Books, twice during his monthly ranking and six times for the weekly list.
Lay Zhang 
 He was also on the Rakuten list, with 400,000 copies sold within six months, and has received much acclaim and praise from readers.
Lay Zhang 
 In the same month, he appeared in the film Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong, and later as protagonist with his labelmate Krystal in the upcoming film entitled Unexpected Love, which was postponed for release in August 2017, whose poster was revealed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lay Zhang 
 In November 2015, Lay made his big-screen debut with a supporting role in the Chinese movie Ex Files 2: The Backup Strikes Back, which was a blockbuster, getting two billion in sales within ten days of its release.
Lay Zhang 
 He later won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2016 China Great Britain Film Festival for his performance.
Lay Zhang 
 He also wrote and recorded an original soundtrack for the film entitled "Alone (One Person)", which reached number one on Baidu Music Chart, and later won the award for the best original soundtrack at 16th Top Chinese Music Awards and 4th V-Chart Awards.
Lay Zhang 
 Lay also starred in the Chinese film Oh My God and collaborated with his co-stars Coco Jiang Wen and Li Xiaolu on an original soundtrack for the film entitled "Happy Youth", which debuted at number eight on Billboard V Chart.
Lay Zhang 
 In May 2016, Lay made her debut on the small screen on the Chinese television series To Be A Better Man and released a Chinese song titled "Monodrama" as part of SM Station.
Lay Zhang 
 Written by Lay and co-composed and arranged with Divine Channel, "Monodrama" broke a record by staying in the first position in YinYueTai VChart for five consecutive weeks.
Lay Zhang 
 In May 2016, Lay starred in the Chinese television drama The Mystic Nine, a prequel to The Lost Tomb.
Lay Zhang 
 The series achieved an unprecedented success, placing first in the television ratings and establishing a record for obtaining several online visits within 24 hours, and has accumulated more than ten billion visits in total.
Lay Zhang 
 The television series went on to have a secondary story called The Mystic Nine Side Story: Flowers Bloom in February, which focused solely on Lay's character, Er Yue Hong.
Lay Zhang 
 The song was ranked number one in China V Chart, as well as in Billboard World Digital Songs and had entered the top 60 of iTunes, making Lay the first Chinese artist to appear on the list.
Lay Zhang 
 On October 28, a day after holding a press conference in Shanghai Town & Country Community, Lay released his first mini-album titled Lose Control, which contains six songs in Mandarin, and the music video for the single.
Lay Zhang 
 Lay participated in the production of the album as a producer, and was personally in charge of the composition, arrangement and writing of the lyrics of each song, as well as the translation of the same lyrics in three other languages including English and Japanese.
Lay Zhang 
 The single "Lose Control" remained in first place in Billboard China V Chart for six consecutive weeks.
Lay Zhang 
 Lose Control broke the record in South Korea by a large majority of sales of a solo artist, with pre-orders surpassing 200,000 copies before the physical album was published, making the number one album in sales.
Lay Zhang 
 Lay also became the first solo artist to sell more than 40,000 copies of the album within a day and 125,000 after a week of album release.
Lay Zhang 
 Later in November, Lay was announced to star in a Chinese remake of the hit Japanese drama television series Operation Love, which began airing on Dragon TV from April 24, 2017 with 32 episodes.
Lay Zhang 
 On January 27, 2017, Zhang made his first appearance at the CCTV Spring Gala Festival and presented alongside Chinese actor Jing Boran.
Lay Zhang 
 In April of that same year, it was confirmed in the cast of the historical film The Founding of the Army, released on July 28, 2017 to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Lay Zhang 
 In May he released the song "祈愿 (Pray)" for the soundtrack of Operation Love, reaching the top position in QQ Music.
Lay Zhang 
 Also in May, he participated in the release ceremony of Huawei Nova 2 at the Hunan International Exhibition and Conference Center, where he expressed his gratitude for his continued appointment as Huawei Nova's ambassador.
Lay Zhang 
 He was later revealed as the voice actor of the Chinese dubbing for the main antagonist of the cartoon film Cars 3.
Lay Zhang 
 On September 17, 2017, it was confirmed to be or protagonist of drama The Golden Eyes, announced in a pre-release conference.
Lay Zhang 
 On September 25, he released the song "I Need U (需要 你)" as a pre-release track for his first studio album Lay 02 Sheep, digitally released on October 7, 2017, along with the title track "Sheep (羊)".
Lay Zhang 
 On October 10, 2013, the survey on the "Top 10 of Asia's Most Beautiful Men" organized by Youth Entertainment's website reported that Lay ranked at #6 position with more than 27 million votes.
Lay Zhang 
 In March 2017, the Top Star News did a study to see which hallyu stars were most popular in China between January and February 2017, referring to Weibo hashtags, showing Lay at the top with ten billion views and queries.
Lay Zhang 
 Between 2015-2016, Lay was chosen to be the spokesperson for several brands, in particular Pancoat and Mentos for which he became the first spokesperson in Asia.
Lay Zhang 
 In addition to endorsing the Lay's brands, Olay, Clarisonic, Kangshifu Ice Tea, Tide, Huawei, AirBender, Chushou TV, Tmall and Cornetto.
Lay Zhang 
 The service was carried out by Chinese bicycle company AIMA to help people who were returning home during Lunar New Year holidays on motorcycles.
Lay Zhang 
 Lay represented all EXO members and handed out hot water bags, handkerchiefs, emergency medicine, ramen, water and toys for everyone.
Lay Zhang 
 On October 7, 2015, Lay fans collected money that was donated on their behalf for the construction of a well and a public toilet in a needy village in Cambodia.
Lay Zhang 
 On October 6, the fan club "DAILYIXING" posted photos of the finished project, including photos of some of the village residents with a sign thanking Lay and wishing him a happy birthday.
Lay Zhang 
 They also donated money on behalf of Lay to the Coal Briquettes organization for neighbors in Korea, which helps keep the heat needed in the winter by providing them with charcoal briquettes for their heaters.
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 singer.
Park Chan-yeol 
 After watching the film School of Rock in elementary school, Chanyeol became interested in music and began to play drums.
Park Chan-yeol 
 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In the same year, he reached second position Smart Model Contest and became a trainee of S.M. Entertainment.
Park Chan-yeol 
 The following year, she appeared in the Japanese version of the video "Genie" of the group Girls' Generation.
Park Chan-yeol 
 He went on to dream of being a singer after listening to the song "Unconditional Kismet" of songwriter and music producer Yoo Young-jin.
Park Chan-yeol 
 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In October 2013, Chanyeol joined the cast of SBS's Law of the Jungle reality show during filming in Micronesia.
Park Chan-yeol 
 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In May 2014, he became a regular cast member of the first season of the SBS's Roommate reality show.
Park Chan-yeol 
 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In June of 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 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.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In April 2016, Chanyeol wrote and performed rap for the song "Confession" of Yesung's debut EP, Here I Am.
Park Chan-yeol 
 On EXO's third studio album, EX'ACT, released in May 2016, he co-wrote the lyrics for the track "Heaven."
Park Chan-yeol 
 In June 2016, Chanyeol starred with actresses Yuan Shanshan and Seohyun in the South Korean-Chinese film So I Married an Anti-fan.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In October 2016, Chanyeol and singer Tinashe participated in the song "Freal Luv" by artists Far East Movement and Marshmello.
Park Chan-yeol 
 In December 2016, she collaborated with singer Punch on the song "Stay With Me," part of the soundtrack for the Goblin drama.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 Byun Baek-hyun (hangul: 변백현; hanja:卞白贤; born May 6, 1992 in Bucheon) better known for his mononym name Baekhyun, is a South Korean actor, singer, dancer and TV presenter.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 He attended Jungwon High School in Bucheon, where he was the lead singer of a band called 상태 상태 (Coma), which won at a local music festival.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In addition to musical activities, Baekhyun was formed as a martial artist in his youth and obtained a black belt in Hapkido.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 Baekhyun was discovered by an agent of S.M. Entertainment when he was practicing for his admission exams for the Seoul Institute of Arts.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 He and his fellows Chanyeol and Suho attend Kyung Hee University taking culture and arts classes in the Department of Business Administration.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 Baekhyun was the last member to join EXO and was officially revealed as the ninth member of the group on January 30, 2012.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In February 2014, Baekhyun and his partner Suho became regular hosts for SBS's Inkigayo television program.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In July 2014, Baekhyun made his musical theater debut, playing the lead role of Don Lockwood in South Korean production of the musical Singin' in the Rain by SM C&C.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In April 2015, Baekhyun released its first song solo since its debut titled "Beautiful" like the soundtrack of the drama EXO Next Door.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 The song became the first soundtrack of a web drama that was within the best positions of several musical lists.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In May 2015, Baekhyun was announced that it would be the protagonist of the action film Dokgo alongside actor Yeo Jin-goo.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In December 2015, Baekhyun paid a tribute to the late South Korean singer Kim Hyun-sik performing his song "Like Rain Like Music" on SBS Gayo Daejeon's end-of-year music program.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 The song quickly reached the best position in the music charts after it positioned itself in the first place of Gaon Digital Chart. "
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In April 2016, Baekhyun received a YinYueTai V-Chart award for being the Most Popular Singer in South Korea.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In May 2016, Baekhyun and South Korean singer K.Will released a duet titled "The Day" as part of SM Station.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In August 2016, Baekhyun made his acting debut on the small screen in the historical drama Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo, a South Korean adaptation of the Chinese novel Bu Bu Jing Xin.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 He also collaborated with his labelmates Chen and Xiumin on a soundtrack titled "For You" for the drama.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In October 2016, along with Chen and Xiumin, Baekhyun became a member of the first official EXO unit, EXO-CBX.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In November 2016, Baekhyun began to participate S.M. Entertainment's League of Legends tournament "2016 S.M. Super Celeb League", where he and his labelmate, Heechul, played with professional players and fans from China and South Korea.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In February 2017, Baekhyun and Soyou of Sistar released a duet titled "Rain" The song peaked at number one on several music charts and achieved an achievement known as "all-kill", making it the first artist of S.M. to achieve an "all-kill" in 2016 and 2017 with "Dream" and "Rain", respectively.
Byun Baek-hyun 
 In April 2017, Baekhyun released a single titled "Take You Home" for the second season of SM Station.
Luhan 
 Lù Hán (hanja: 鹿晗; hangul: 루한; born April 20, 1990 in Haidian) better known by mononym Luhan, is a Chinese singer.
Luhan 
 He was introduced as a member of EXO in December 2011, officially debuting in April 2012, and in October 2014, left the group after filing a lawsuit against S.M. Entertainment to reverse its exclusivity agreement.
Luhan 
 In December 2014, China National Radio ranked Luhan in sixth place among the top 10 most popular entertainment stars in the country.
Luhan 
 Luhan  made his debut as a solo artist with the release of his first extended play, titled Reloaded I, on September 14, 2015.
Luhan 
 He became the first celebrity born after the 1990s to be named the "Artist of the Year" by China Newsweek in 2016.
Luhan 
 He graduated from Beijing Shida Middle School and attended the Beijing Haidian Foreign Language Shi Yan School before leaving for South Korea to attend Yonsei University as an exchange student.
Luhan 
 In 2008, he auditioned for JYP Entertainment's worldwide audition in China, but did not pass the audition.
Luhan 
 While studying in Seoul, he was observed by an S.M. Entertainment agent, who advised him to do a successful audition for the agency, being placed in a dormitory with other SM interns, and trained in singing, dancing, and acting.
Luhan 
 Along with Tao, Chen, and Kai, he made his first television performance at the SBS Gayo Daejun event on December 29 of the same year.
Luhan 
 The pre-show showcase of the group was held at the Seoul Olympic Stadium on March 31, 2012, one hundred days after the launch of the first trailer of its debut on December 21, 2011.
Luhan 
 The showcase was held for about 3,000 fans ff 8,000 selected candidates to watch their performances.
Luhan 
 The group held a press conference and showed their performances at the Great Hall of the University of Economics and International Business in Beijing, China on April 1, 2012.
Luhan 
 On April 24, along with D.O., Baekhyun, Chen, BoA, Kangta, TVXQ, Taeyeon, Yesung, Jonghyun and Luna, released a song for the soundtrack of the film I AM.,
Luhan 
 On August 23, 2012, S.M. Entertainment announced that Luhan would perform with BoA in the song "Only One," for the August 24 episode of Music Bank.
Luhan 
 On October 16 of the same year, it was announced that he would participate in the 6-member dance group Younique Unit, alongside Eunhyuk, Hyoyeon, Taemin, Henry Lau and Kai performing the veloster theme song titled "Maxstep" for the album PYL Younique Album, being a collaboration album between S.M. Entertainment and Hyundai.
Luhan 
 On June 23, 2013, he participated in the Chinese team for a football match at the 2013 Asian Dream Cup in Shanghai.
Luhan 
 The film is a Chinese version of the Korean film, Miss Granny, in which an old lady returns to be young, and premiered in January of 2015.
Luhan 
 On August 13, 2014, a post by Luhan on his official Weibo account reached over 13 million comments, thus entering the "Guinness World Records" as the person who has the most comments in a Weibo post.
Luhan 
 On August 19, S.M. Entertainment posted a photo of Luhan with his "Guinness World Records" certificate and a world record holder medal.
Luhan 
 On October 10 of the same year, he filed a lawsuit against S.M. Entertainment to cancel its exclusivity agreement, mainly due to health problems.
Luhan 
 Still in October, he starred in the remake of the music video for "The Last Game" made for EXO 90:2014.
Luhan 
 On January 26, 2015, it was announced that Luhan would sing the theme song for the release of the movie Comrades: Almost a Love Story, in China.
Luhan 
 On January 28, it was announced that the South Korean film Blind would win a Chinese version, titled The Witness, starring Luhan.
Luhan 
 On March 11, Legendary Entertainment announced that Luhan would be cast in The Great Wall, directed by Zhang Yimou along with Matt Damon, Andy Lau and Pedro Pascal.
Luhan 
 The film was released by China Film Group in China on December 15, 2016, and in the United States on February 17, 2017 by Universal.
Luhan 
 On May 27, 2015, it was revealed that Luhan and Taiwanese singer David Tao had recorded the theme song for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Luhan 
 On August 28, he became a fixed member of the Chinese version of Running Man program, titled Hurry Up, Brother.
Luhan 
 On September 11, Luhan was confirmed in the movie version of the popular web drama The Lost Tomb, titled Time Raiders, playing Wu Xie.
Luhan 
 On September 14, he released his first mini-album titled Reloaded I, along with the title track "That Good Good", via QQ Music Charts.
Luhan 
 The album sold 880,000 copies on the first day, the highest number of sales recorded on the first day of official release, and also reached more than one million sales at QQ Music, setting the record for faster digital album sales.
Luhan 
 Still in September Lu Han broke his own record on Guinness World Records as the person with the highest amount of comments in a Weibo post, surpassing 87 million comments.
Luhan 
 On October 14, 2015, he released the song "Medals" as a single and soundtrack for the movie The Witness.
Luhan 
 Being released on iTunes on November 4 of the same year, debuting at number one position on the China V Chart as well as Billboard Hot 100, making it the first single in Mandarin to come in last.
Luhan 
 In early November he released the music video for the song "Promises", being released as a single days later.
Luhan 
 The album topped the Tower Records chart in Japan, and became the only album from mainland China to enter the Top 5 of Taiwan's G-Music chart.
Luhan 
 On January 6, 2016, he released the song "The Inner Force" for the soundtrack of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, debuting at number two on the China V Chart.
Luhan 
 On February 16 of the same year, he released the mini-album Reloaded+, along with the title track "Excited".
Luhan 
 On March 26, 2016, Luhan began his first solo tour, titled Luhan Reloaded: 2016 Luhan 1st China Tour, in Beijing and Guangzhou on April 2, and Shanghai on April 9 of the same year.
Luhan 
 In June 2016, he landed the lead role of Chen Changsheng in the Hunan Television series, Fighter of The Destiny.
Luhan 
 On October 21 of the same year, he released the Xperience mini-album, with the title track "Catch Me When I Fall".
Luhan 
 In December On December 27, he released the mini-album Xplore, along with the songs "Winter Song" and "Skin to Skin".
Luhan 
 In 2017, Luhan will be starring in his first television drama, Fighter of the Destiny, a series of wuxia fantasy.
Luhan 
 In February of the same year he was also cast for the film 5 Centimeters Per Second adapted from the Japanese novel of the same name.
Luhan 
 On January 21, it officially launched the single digital album Venture along with the single "What If I Said" on QQ Music, KuGou Music and Kuwo Music, selling 60,000 copies in just 3 minutes and 160,000 in 10 minutes.
Luhan 
 He released the mini-album Imagination on April 19, 2017, accompanied by songs "On Call" and "Say It".
Luhan 
 On October 10, 2013, the survey on the "Top 10 of Asia's Most Beautiful Men" organized by Youth Entertainment's website reported that Luhan was chosen as Asia's most handsome man 2013 with over 40 million votes.
Luhan 
 On May 11, 2015, it was the cover of Forbes China magazine, where it ranked 37th among the richest celebrities for making a profit of 28.5 million yuan (about $ 4.6 million).
Luhan 
 In the edition, Forbes described Luhan as: "In less than five months, attracted the most attention by the Chinese entertainment industry, becoming a new force on the rise."
Luhan 
 Also in May, Models.com selected Luhan as one of their "Five Faces of China", which were chosen for their innovative talent, creativity and originality.
Luhan 
 The site describes him as the "reigning king of the idol scene" being one of the most famous in the world, and credits his fame partially to his "army of fans."
Luhan 
 And that although Luhan is constantly followed by the eyes of millions of fans (especially in social media), he remains humble.
Luhan 
 In July 2015, during the press conference of The Great Wall, Matt Damon revealed that he was impressed by Luhan's popularity, saying, "I think the first night we started filming there were about 400 flower arrangements that they came to Luhan all the way down to the hotel."
Luhan 
 He became the first Chinese celebrity to grace the covers of China Elle, GQ Style, China Forbes, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.
Luhan 
 He received the Guinness World Record for having more than 200,000 people buying a limited edition of 20,000 copies of a magazine cover in a second.
Luhan 
 In October 2016, Luhan was featured in the "BOF 100" ranking of Business of Fashion, becoming the only Chinese celebrity to reach the ranking and received the title of "Most Anticipated Chinese Star".
Luhan 
 He also became the first celebrity born after the 1990s to be named the "Artist of the Year" by China Newsweek in December 2016.
Luhan 
 In April 2014, endorsed commercial to Chinese cosmetics company KanS. During 2015, he starred in campaigns for the French cosmetics company L'Oréal, as well as endorsing for Baidu Maps OPPO's R7 Plus, Lenovo, KFC and Sony.
Luhan 
 He released a single titled "The Inner Force", which is the official Chinese theme song for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Luhan 
 On February 5, 2015, S.M. Entertainment released an official statement that stated that Luhan had left the EXO without permission and announced that the company had filed lawsuits against not only Luhan but also the advertisers who used it as a spokesperson.
Luhan 
 According to Chinese entertainment source Sina Entertainment, a representative of Luhan issued an official statement on February 6 on allegations made in the lawsuit filed against S.M. Entertainment.
Luhan 
 The representative said: "We are launching this official statement in order to clarify the truth and protect the reputation of Luhan.
Luhan 
 SM filed a lawsuit for the Shanghai courts, claiming that 'Luhan has been participating in activities in China without permission.'
Luhan 
 However, according to the rules of jurisdiction, SM has no right to bring a lawsuit over [Luhan's] exclusive contract to a Chinese court.