3rd generation · JYP Entertainment / Studio J

DAY6

デイシックス / 데이식스

DAY6 play their own instruments and write their own songs, which pulled a lot of listeners toward Korean bands who had never tried one.

  • 2015DebutSep 7, 2015
  • 5Members
  • 3thGeneration
  • My DayFandom
Congratulations / Official MV

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In 30 seconds: DAY6

The lyrics deal in ordinary disappointment rather than spectacle, and the live footage is where the band makes its strongest case.

Start here if you want songs about being in your twenties played by the people who wrote them.

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Key facts

Group name
DAY6
Reading / Hangul
デイシックス / 데이식스
Company
JYP Entertainment / Studio J
Debut date
September 7, 2015
Days active
4,028 days (11 years, 0 months)
Debut song
Congratulations
Generation
3rd generation
Fandom name
My Day(マイデイ)
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Member guide

Profile comparison

MembersBirth dateBlood typeMBTINationality
ソンジン1993-01-1633177cmANot disclosedSouth Korea
ヨンケイ1993-12-1932180cmBNot disclosedSouth Korea
ウォンピル1994-04-2832176cmANot disclosedSouth Korea
ドウン1995-08-2531177cmONot disclosedSouth Korea
ジェイ1992-09-1534182cmBNot disclosedSouth Korea · United States

Ages are as of 2026-09-17.

Selected releases

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Start here

Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.

Lovin' the Christmas artwork

December 15, 2025 · Digital Single

Lovin' the Christmas

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From debut to now

  • 2015
    The Day was the debut, and with the storytelling and the playing of Congratulations as the entrance they made the K-band lane inside JYP explicit.
  • 2016
    Around Letting Go a change in the line-up firmed up the outline of a band that sings feeling hard.
  • 2017
    I Wait, You Were Beautiful, I Smile and I Like You arrived month by month, widening a catalogue newcomers can follow all at once.
  • 2018
    Shoot Me : Youth Part 1 put the sharpness of the feeling and the hardness of the band forward, adding signature songs that carry a live room.
  • 2019
    Around The Book of Us : Gravity and Entropy, Time of Our Life and Sweet Chaos held celebration and speed together.
  • 2020
    On The Demon, Zombie was widely heard and became the kind of entrance DAY6 does well, putting exhaustion and emptiness into words.
  • 2021
    Around The Book of Us : Negentropy they released You make Me, a marker carrying the strength of the singing from the early days into the next phase.
  • 2024
    Welcome to the Show and Melt Down set out where the four stand now and showed the heat of the restart on record and on stage.
  • 2025
    From The DECADE, carrying INSIDE OUT, the early songs through to the newest can be followed as one band history.
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Key achievements

Key milestones

2017Every DAY6 completes a monthly release runPutting songs out through a whole year widened the signature songs that are easy to catch up with, such as You Were Beautiful and I Like You.
2020Zombie wins Best Band PerformanceWinning Best Band Performance at the Mnet Asian Music Awards strengthened their presence in the band category.
2024Welcome to the Show restarts full-line-up activityAs the proper restart after military service, it is a key entrance showing the live feel and the present of DAY6 as four.

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Official links

Official site

Official social accounts and platforms

Shopping guide

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KPOP DISCOVER's DAY6 note

DAY6 is a five-piece band signed to JYP Entertainment and Studio J that debuted on September 7, 2015 with the mini album The Day. Sungjin, Young K, Wonpil, Dowoon and Jae sing and play themselves, and from the earliest period they made a position as a band, distinct from a K-pop idol group, explicit. Inside the context of a band from JYP, they built their own place in the third generation as a group whose world stands on their own singing and playing.

For a first listen, Congratulations, You Were Beautiful and Time of Our Life work as the entrance. Congratulations makes the outline of DAY6 easy to grasp through a music video with a story and a band sound, and You Were Beautiful is the signature song that puts the density of the feeling and the layered voices straight in front of you. Time of Our Life is a live anthem with speed and release out front, and lining those up brings the core of DAY6 into view, a band that sings feeling all the way through. The stretch in 2017 where the Every DAY6 project stacked up a song a month also remains as the thickness of the catalogue for listeners now.

Zombie, released in 2020, was widely heard as a song that put exhaustion and emptiness into words and became an entrance to the deeper emotional side. In 2024 Fourever and Band Aid restarted the work with the current line-up and showed the heat on record and on stage. In 2025 The DECADE joined them, and the releases since the debut can now be followed as one band history over ten years. Congratulations, then You Were Beautiful, then Time of Our Life covers the outline, the density of feeling and the release of a live room.

Editors' take Congratulations / You Were Beautiful / Time of Our Life — three songs cover the axis of a band that sings feeling through the playing, from JYP Entertainment.

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Japan activity score

KPOP DISCOVER original metric
No. 125/ 210 groups

No. 125 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 60%)

  • 2Japanese releases
  • 5Japan-related tracks
  • 0Members from Japan
  • 0Official Japanese accounts

The denominator is the 210 groups, out of 525 covered by KPOP DISCOVER, whose raw score reaches at least one point. The score adds 10 points per Japanese-market release, 3 per Japan-related track, 12 per member from Japan, and 8 per official Japanese account. Japanese-market releases carry the most weight because they are the most direct evidence of activity; related tracks add track-level detail; members from Japan stand for Japanese-language communication and continuity; official accounts stand for a permanent point of contact. The weights are an editorial judgement, not a statistical optimisation, and the ranking tracks release volume in Japan closely. Source: releases, tracks, members, and official links recorded by KPOP DISCOVER (updated 2026-09-17).

How this score is calculated →View in Japanese

Frequently asked questions

What defines DAY6?
The lyrics deal in ordinary disappointment rather than spectacle, and the live footage is where the band makes its strongest case.
Why should a new listener start with DAY6?
Start here if you want songs about being in your twenties played by the people who wrote them.
Which songs should a new listener try first?
Start with Congratulations, You Were Beautiful, Time of Our Life, then continue to the official video index.