KPOP 3rd generation · JYP Entertainment / Studio J
DAY6
PAK ×11 song with a PAK (iChart)HAPPY23 times
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
Last updated:
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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
- 4,072 days (11 years, 1 month)
- Debut song
- Congratulations
- Generation
- 3rd generation
- Fandom name
- My Day(マイデイ)
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Member guide
Profile comparison
| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ソンジン | 1993-01-16 | 33 | 177cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ヨンケイ | 1993-12-19 | 32 | 180cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ウォンピル | 1994-04-28 | 32 | 176cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ドウン | 1995-08-25 | 31 | 177cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ジェイ | 1992-09-15 | 34 | 182cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea · United States |
Ages are as of 2026-10-31.
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
Congratulations MVCongratulations is the debut and still the sharpest thing in the catalogue.
You Were Beautiful MVYou Were Beautiful is the song that made the band's name outside the usual audience.
Time of Our Life MVTime of Our Life is the warmest of the three and the best introduction to the live show.MVView in JapanesePerformanceView in JapaneseLiveView in JapaneseStageView in JapaneseAudioView in Japanese
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From debut to now
- 2015The 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.
- 2016Around Letting Go a change in the line-up firmed up the outline of a band that sings feeling hard.
- 2017I Wait, You Were Beautiful, I Smile and I Like You arrived month by month, widening a catalogue newcomers can follow all at once.
- 2018Shoot 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.
- 2019Around The Book of Us : Gravity and Entropy, Time of Our Life and Sweet Chaos held celebration and speed together.
- 2020On The Demon, Zombie was widely heard and became the kind of entrance DAY6 does well, putting exhaustion and emptiness into words.
- 2021Around 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.
- 2024Welcome 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.
- 2025From The DECADE, carrying INSIDE OUT, the early songs through to the newest can be followed as one band history.
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Achievements
Key milestones
Awards
Daesang (grand prizes)
1 recordMost recent ceremony first, then by category
| 1st Korea Grand Music Awards | Grand Performer | kgma-is.com |
Charts and PAK
Perfect All-Kill (PAK)
1 recordNewest release first (iChart does not publish achievement dates)
Provider record list at the time of retrieval. Changes before the first observation are unknown. (some episodes unverified)
Each record is checked against its source. These are within the collected period, not lifetime totals.
Verified information
Verified English information is not yet available for this section.
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Official links
Official site
Official social accounts and platforms
Shopping guide
Verified English shopping links are not yet available.
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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 10 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.
Trivia worth knowing
Entry point
DAY6 is a band rather than a dance act, so the music videos are only the start — live clips and Killing Voice show what the group really is.
Voice
Sungjin brings grain, Young K brings a solid core, and Wonpil brings clarity, so the emotional temperature shifts from song to song.
Production
The members write and produce a great deal of their own material, and following the lyrics across the releases is the fastest way to hear what makes DAY6 itself.
Signature song
You Were Beautiful sits in the aftermath of a parting, Time of Our Life captures the lift of a live show, and Zombie reads everyday exhaustion.
Former members
Jae stays on the record as guitar and vocals in the early DAY6 years, kept separate from the four-member line-up working today.
Recent years
Fourever, Band Aid and The DECADE are the core releases spanning the restart after military service through to the 10th anniversary stretch.
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Japan activity score
KPOP DISCOVER original metric
No. 137/ 241 groups
No. 137 of 241 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 57%)
- 2Japanese releases
- 5Japan-related tracks
- 0Members from Japan
- 0Official Japanese accounts
The denominator is the 241 groups, out of 564 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 2026-10-26).
How this score is calculated →View in JapaneseFrequently 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.