SEVENTEEN for Beginners: Thirteen Members, Three Teams, One Group
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KPOP NO1 Editorial · Photos added November 3, 2026 · Sources checked October 29, 2026
SEVENTEEN has thirteen members. The name is your first clue to how the group works: thirteen members, three teams and one group add up to seventeen. You don't need to memorize thirteen faces before pressing play. Learn the three teams, follow a few songs across the years, and the lineup becomes much easier to navigate.
That structure also makes a recent album an unusually useful introduction. HAPPY BURSTDAY contains three group songs followed by a solo track for every member. A single track list can take you from the whole group to all thirteen individual names. Here is how to connect those names, the music and the official videos without turning your first listen into homework.
What does the name SEVENTEEN mean?
SEVENTEEN (세븐틴) is a thirteen-member group under PLEDIS Entertainment. Its official Japanese profile records its Korean debut as May 26, 2015, with the first mini album 17 CARAT. The same profile explains the thirteen-plus-three-plus-one formula and says the members participate in making music and choreography. Official group profile
Those dates can get confusing when you browse old videos. The original Adore U upload is dated May 29, 2015. The official profile's debut date and the music video's publication date describe different events; one doesn't replace the other. The video gives you a point of entry into the debut era, even if you're discovering it more than a decade later.
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. Then keep that debut-era image in mind as you move toward the later records. You can follow the history through the releases themselves rather than trying to absorb every milestone at once.
The fandom is CARAT. You will see the name on the official fan-club site and on album editions. Weverse Magazine also identifies CARAT as SEVENTEEN's fandom in its discussion of SPILL THE FEELS. Knowing that one word helps connect the group's member introductions, fan-facing songs and the CARAT versions listed in the discography. Weverse Magazine's album context
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The three teams make thirteen names manageable
The hip-hop team is S.COUPS, WONWOO, MINGYU and VERNON. The vocal team is WOOZI, JEONGHAN, JOSHUA, DK and SEUNGKWAN. The performance team is HOSHI, JUN, THE 8 and DINO. The individual official profiles identify S.COUPS as the group and hip-hop-team leader, WOOZI as the vocal-team leader, and HOSHI as the performance-team leader. Official member profiles
Think of those teams as a map. They help you recognize which lineup you are seeing when a release includes unit songs. They don't mean each person can appear only in that one setting: the official videos linked below include solo releases and smaller partnerships too.
There is a useful distinction between the three standing teams and a named partnership such as JEONGHAN X JOSHUA. Both members belong to the vocal team, but that partnership isn't the entire five-member vocal lineup. Likewise, a WONWOO X MINGYU video features two hip-hop-team members without representing all four. Reading the names on the original upload keeps those relationships clear.
Meet the thirteen members
Birth dates and team positions below follow the official Japanese profiles. Each image is an official video thumbnail linked to its original upload. Some cards share a two-member video; the descriptions name both performers so a partnership isn't mistaken for a solo.
S.COUPS
에스쿱스
Born August 8, 1995. Hip-hop team; group and hip-hop team leader. His official profile identifies two responsibilities: leading SEVENTEEN and its hip-hop team. His card opens 5, 4, 3, the S.COUPS X MINGYU video featuring Lay Bankz. It offers a smaller lineup to follow alongside the full-group videos.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
JEONGHAN
정한
Born October 4, 1995. Vocal team. His profile places him in the vocal team. The JEONGHAN X JOSHUA video for 12 o’clock introduces a two-member partnership within that larger lineup. Compare that pairing with his individually credited Coincidence on HAPPY BURSTDAY.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗JOSHUA
조슈아
Born December 30, 1995. Vocal team. JOSHUA belongs to the vocal team alongside JEONGHAN, WOOZI, DK and SEUNGKWAN. His card shares the JEONGHAN X JOSHUA video rather than presenting it as a solo. HAPPY BURSTDAY also credits him individually on Fortunate Change.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
JUN
준
Born June 10, 1996. Performance team. JUN is one of the four performance-team members. His card opens the Korean version of his solo LIMBO video, making the language version clear before you leave this page. Gemini is his separately credited solo on HAPPY BURSTDAY.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
HOSHI
호시
Born June 15, 1996. Performance team leader. The official profile names HOSHI as the performance-team leader. Spider offers a solo introduction alongside his work with JUN, THE 8 and DINO. That distinction matters: a team position helps you map the group, while a solo gives you another context.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
WONWOO
원우
Born July 17, 1996. Hip-hop team. WONWOO belongs to the hip-hop team. His card opens Bittersweet, a collaboration with MINGYU featuring LeeHi; it is a partnership rather than a solo portrait. HAPPY BURSTDAY’s track list gives him a separate individual entry, 99.9%.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
WOOZI
우지
Born November 22, 1996. Vocal team leader. WOOZI is the vocal-team leader on his official profile. The Ruby video provides an individual introduction before you return to that five-member team. On HAPPY BURSTDAY, look for his solo Destiny in the run of thirteen member tracks.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
THE 8
디에잇
Born November 7, 1997. Performance team. THE 8 belongs to the performance team. His card uses the Korean version of Side By Side, identified as such on the original upload. His HAPPY BURSTDAY solo, Skyfall, opens that album’s thirteen-track run of individual member entries.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗MINGYU
민규
Born April 6, 1997. Hip-hop team. MINGYU belongs to the hip-hop team with S.COUPS, WONWOO and VERNON. The card opens his pairing with S.COUPS on 5, 4, 3, featuring Lay Bankz. His individual track on HAPPY BURSTDAY is Shake It Off.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
DK
도겸
Born February 18, 1997. Vocal team. DK’s official profile places him in the vocal team. The Blue card opens the Cinema Version of the DK X SEUNGKWAN video. It gives you a two-member route into the team; his HAPPY BURSTDAY solo is Happy Virus.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗SEUNGKWAN
승관
Born January 16, 1998. Vocal team. SEUNGKWAN is another of the five vocal-team members. He shares the Blue video with DK, so the image represents their unit rather than a solo release. Raindrops is his individually credited track on HAPPY BURSTDAY.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
VERNON
버논
Born February 18, 1998. Hip-hop team. VERNON belongs to the hip-hop team. His Black Eye video is a solo entry, separate from the four-member unit’s work. The official Japanese site also uses the spelling Vernon; both refer to the same member credited on HAPPY BURSTDAY’s Shining Star.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗
DINO
디노
Born February 11, 1999. Performance team. DINO is the youngest member in the official profile lineup, born in 1999. He belongs to the performance team, and his card opens his solo Wait video. HAPPY BURSTDAY credits him on Trigger, another useful title when following his individual work.
Official profile ↗Watch on YouTube ↗The story in songs: a route from 2015 to 2025
After the debut-era Adore U, move to Don't Wanna Cry. Its official upload dates to May 22, 2017, the date the discography lists for the fourth mini album Al1. That gives you an early point of comparison without jumping straight from the debut to a much later anniversary release. Official discography archive
Open
Official video · SEVENTEEN / YouTube
Watch the original on YouTube ↗and follow whichever member first catches your attention. The team map above lets you connect that name to a smaller set of people, then return to the full group.
Next comes HOT, from the 2022 fourth album Face the Sun. The official discography dates the album to May 27, 2022. Super, released in April 2023 during the FML era, supplies another stop. These are different records, so keeping the album names attached to the songs helps when you later browse performances or behind-the-scenes uploads. Official Korean-release catalog
Compare the official
Official video · HYBE LABELS / YouTube
Watch the original on YouTube ↗with
Official video · HYBE LABELS / YouTube
Watch the original on YouTube ↗. This is a route through eras, not a test of which track should become your favorite. Which one makes you want to find the album around it? That's a useful next step.
Three recent group albums, three different ways into the lineup
SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, the eleventh mini album, arrived on October 23, 2023. It has eight listed tracks, including an instrumental of God of Music. In its album feature, Weverse Magazine connects the title to the expression “seventh heaven” and discusses the record through the idea of a festival. That is the publication's interpretation, rather than a listening verdict from us. Official album listing
The
Official video · HYBE LABELS / YouTube
Watch the original on YouTube ↗is the title-track doorway. If that is the song that brought you here, the album guide explains where the unit tracks and instrumental fit.
SPILL THE FEELS followed as the twelfth mini album on October 14, 2024. Its six-track list puts Eyes on you first and LOVE, MONEY, FAME (feat. DJ Khaled) second, before 1 TO 13 and three unit songs. The album therefore gives you a compact way to compare the group and team lineups. Official album listing
Watch
Official video · HYBE LABELS / YouTube
Watch the original on YouTube ↗, then use the SPILL THE FEELS guide to follow the six songs in their published order. The title track is one part of that sequence; the opening song and the unit tracks give you more to explore.
HAPPY BURSTDAY, the fifth studio album, was released on May 26, 2025, the group's tenth debut anniversary. Its sixteen tracks move from three group songs to thirteen solos, beginning with THE 8's Skyfall and ending with S.COUPS' Jungle. It remains the newest full-group Korean studio or mini album in the official catalog checked for this guide; later entries include solo and unit projects. Official album listing
The
Official video · HYBE LABELS / YouTube
Watch the original on YouTube ↗introduces that group-album era. The HAPPY BURSTDAY guide then follows the individual credits. By this point, the names in the member cards have become a listening route of their own.
Archival photo: SEVENTEEN performing Don't Wanna Cry at Dream Concert, Seoul, June 3, 2017. Credit: DaftTaengk, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Linked from Wikimedia Commons at a smaller size; no other edits by KPOP NO.1.
Official videos by era
Dates are the original uploads' publication dates in Korean time. Member-card links above provide additional solo and partnership routes.
| Era | Official video | Published, KST | Channel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debut | Adore U — MV | May 29, 2015 | SEVENTEEN |
| Al1 | Don't Wanna Cry — MV | May 22, 2017 | SEVENTEEN |
| Face the Sun | HOT — MV | May 27, 2022 | HYBE LABELS |
| FML | Super — MV | April 24, 2023 | HYBE LABELS |
| SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN | God of Music — MV | October 23, 2023 | HYBE LABELS |
| SPILL THE FEELS | LOVE, MONEY, FAME — MV | October 14, 2024 | HYBE LABELS |
| HAPPY BURSTDAY | THUNDER — MV | May 26, 2025 | HYBE LABELS |
Where to go after your first listen
If you remember a face before a song title, return to that member's card and follow the original video. If the group structure is what interests you, SPILL THE FEELS makes the three teams easier to trace. If you want an individual track for every name, HAPPY BURSTDAY puts all thirteen in one album.
The SEVENTEEN artist page brings the guides and dated news together. For the current two-member project already covered on KPOP NO1, read the JEONGHAN X JOSHUA DREAMSCAPE news. The full-group catalog and those smaller projects can sit side by side; knowing which lineup a title belongs to is the key to finding your way around.