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PLAVE perform as avatars, and the five of them write, compose and choreograph their own material rather than fronting somebody else's.
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YEJUN, NOAH, BAMBY, EUNHO and HAMIN have taken the project past novelty: the 2026 record sold more than a million copies in its first week.
Start here if you want to see the virtual format treated with the same effort as any other Korean group gets.
イェジュン예준 · YEJUNView in Japanese
ノア노아 · NOAHView in Japanese
バンビ밤비 · BAMBYView in Japanese
ウノ은호 · EUNHOView in Japanese
ハミン하민 · HAMINView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| イェジュン | 2001-09-12 | 25 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea | |
| ノア | 2001-02-10 | 25 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea | |
| バンビ | 2002-07-15 | 24 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea | |
| ウノ | 2003-05-24 | 23 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea | |
| ハミン | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-09-17.
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
Wait for you MVThe debut is where the story and the singing are introduced.
The 6th Summer MVThe 6th Summer uses animation for something live action could not do, and the adolescence in it lands.
WAY 4 LUV MVWAY 4 LUV is the one that stands up beside any other title track of its year.2 daesang · 11 awards · 3 No. 1 finishes (compiled by KPOP DISCOVER, as of September 17, 2026)
Hanteo Music Awards HMA
Hanteo Music Awards HMA
Hanteo Music Awards HMA
Melon Music Awards MMA
Asia Star Entertainer Awards ASEA
The Fact Music Awards TMA
Golden Disc Awards GDA
Melon Music Awards MMA
Seoul Music Awards SMA
The Fact Music Awards TMA
Asia Star Entertainer Awards ASEA
Source: announcements by each award ceremony and official chart
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PLAVE is YEJUN, NOAH, BAMBY, EUNHO and HAMIN, a K-pop group that appears as avatars. Motion capture carries the movement of the members themselves into the animation in real time, and they handle the singing, the lyrics, the composing and the choreography. Since debuting with Wait for you on March 12, 2023, they have treated the virtual form and the full strength of K-pop as one and the same thing.
For a way in, Wait for you, The 6th Summer and WAY 4 LUV make the clearest set of 3. The debut song gives you the voices and the world, The 6th Summer delivers an immersion that only avatar production can, and WAY 4 LUV reaches the point where vocals, choreography and staging all arrive together. The musical range is wide, from clear-toned pop to dance tracks, so any entry point works.
Dash deepened the storytelling in 2025, and a Japanese 1st single opened the door to listeners in Japan. The 4th mini album Caligo Pt.2 of April 2026, with Born Savage as its title song, set a personal best of more than one and a quarter million copies in its opening week and became their 3rd million-seller. Wait for you, then WAY 4 LUV, then Born Savage runs from the world of the debut to the height of the craft and on to the present.
Editors' take Wait for you / WAY 4 LUV / Born Savage — 3 years of change since the debut, in three songs from a VLAST five-piece.
No. 99 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 47%)
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).
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