TVXQ동방신기

TVXQ (동방신기, stylised TVXQ!) is a South Korean duo formed by SM Entertainment, made up of U-Know Yunho (유노윤호) and Max Changmin (최강창민). It was formed in 2003 as a five-member boy band and debuted with the single "Hug" in 2004; Yunho and Changmin have performed as a duo since SMTOWN LIVE on January 25–26, 2011. In Japan the group is known as 東方神起.¹

Its first four Korean albums as a quintet, Tri-Angle (2004), Rising Sun (2005), "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. (2006) and Mirotic (2008), topped the charts in South Korea, and Mirotic won the Golden Disk Award for Album of the Year. Wikipedia describes the group as one of the first Korean artists to lead the Korean Wave in Japan, where its fourth Japanese album The Secret Code (2009) propelled it to mainstream stardom, and says its tenth Japanese album XV (2019) made it the first foreign act in Japan with six number-one albums in a row.¹

DabPop's archive of MAMA daesang credits TVXQ with three of the show's early grand prizes: Most Popular Music Video for "Rising Sun" (2005), Artist of the Year (2006) and Album of the Year for Mirotic (2008).² SM Entertainment's FY2025 business report names a Japan tour by TVXQ among the label's concert activity.³