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IVE아이브

IVE (아이브; stylised in capitals) is a South Korean girl group formed by Starship Entertainment. It has six members: Gaeul, An Yu-jin, Rei, Jang Won-young, Liz and Leeseo. The group debuted on December 1, 2021 with the single album Eleven, and its name is meant to evoke the English phrase "I have".1 Two members, Won-young and Yu-jin, had earlier been in the project group Iz*One, formed through the 2018 survival show Produce 48 and disbanded on April 29, 2021.1

Its second release, the single album Love Dive (2022), gave the group its first number-one song on the Circle Digital Chart, and "Love Dive" won Song of the Year at both the MAMA Awards and the Melon Music Awards in 2022, according to DabPop's archives of every MAMA daesang winner and every Melon Music Awards daesang winner.123 Its first studio album, I've IVE (2023), won Album of the Year at the Melon Music Awards the following year.13 Wikipedia lists "Rebel Heart", from the 2025 EP IVE EMPATHY, as the group's sixth number-one song.1

On album sales, Circle Chart's yearly chart for 2025 has IVE EMPATHY at No. 7 with 1,425,261 copies and IVE SECRET at No. 19 with 1,015,394, both distributed by Kakao Entertainment, in DabPop's ranking of the best-selling albums in Korea in 2025.4 In 2026 the group released its second studio album, Revive+.1

Thumbnail of the official REBEL HEART music video: the group standing in front of a carousel
Pictured: the group in the thumbnail of the official "REBEL HEART" music video, from Starship Entertainment's YouTube channel.5

Key facts

Korean name아이브1
AgencyStarship Entertainment1
DebutDecember 1, 2021, with the single album Eleven1
MembersGaeul, An Yu-jin, Rei, Jang Won-young, Liz, Leeseo1
Song of the Year, 2022"Love Dive": MAMA Awards and Melon Music Awards23
Album of the Year, 2023I've IVE: Melon Music Awards3
2025 album sales (Korea)IVE EMPATHY 1,425,261 (No. 7); IVE SECRET 1,015,394 (No. 19)4

Appears in DabPop rankings

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, Ive (group), retrieved 2026-11-03.
  2. DabPop, MAMA Awards Daesang Winners: Every Grand Prize Since 1999, retrieved 2026-11-03.
  3. DabPop, Melon Music Awards Daesang Winners: Every Grand Prize Since 2009, retrieved 2026-11-03.
  4. DabPop, Best-Selling Albums in Korea: Full Year 2025 (Circle Chart yearly album chart), retrieved 2026-11-03.
  5. YouTube, STARSHIP, "IVE 아이브 'REBEL HEART' MV" (oEmbed-verified, thumbnail checked), retrieved 2026-11-03.