2nd generation · SM Entertainment
シャイニー / 샤이니
SHINee began in R&B and then spent fifteen years complicating the choreography and the production without ever losing the melody.
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Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho and Taemin started the group, and Jonghyun's writing remains part of how the catalogue is understood.
Start here if you want a group that pushed Korean pop forward repeatedly rather than once.
オンユ온유 · OnewSoloView in Japanese
ジョンヒョン종현 · JonghyunSoloView in Japanese
キー키 · KeySoloView in Japanese
ミンホ민호 · MinhoSoloView in Japanese
テミン태민 · TaeminSoloView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| オンユ | 1989-12-14 | 36 | 177cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ジョンヒョン | 1990-04-08 | 36 | 171cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| キー | 1991-09-23 | 34 | 178cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ミンホ | 1991-12-09 | 34 | 181cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| テミン | 1993-07-18 | 33 | 175cm | B | 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.
Replay MVReplay is the debut and fixed an entire archetype in one song.
Lucifer MVLucifer is the choreography people still argue about, and the difficulty is real.
View MVView brought deep house into Korean pop and remains the most elegant thing they made.1 daesang · 3 awards · 1 No. 1 finish (compiled by KPOP DISCOVER, as of September 17, 2026)
Melon Music Awards MMA
MAMA Awards MAMA
MAMA Awards MAMA
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What anchors SHINee is a sound that changes a great deal from song to song, and a character that survives all of it through the density of the voices and the dancing. SM Entertainment debuted the boy group in May 2008 with Replay, it began with Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho and Taemin, and the work today is discussed with the musical legacy Jonghyun left included, which makes it an important second-generation K-pop group.
The signature songs are Replay, which fixed the younger-boy R&B image, Lucifer, which people talk about for its complex choreography, View, which brought deep-house polish into K-pop, and Don't Call Me, which made the restart after military service land hard. The sound changes a great deal each time, yet the density of the voices and the dancing keeps SHINee recognisable.
Replay covers the R&B origin, the dance practice for Lucifer shows the force of the physical work, View moves on to the polished musicianship, and Don't Call Me shows a group still renewing itself after a long career. Replay, then Lucifer, then View runs from the origin through the choreography to the polish.
Editors' take Replay / Lucifer / View — three songs cover the move from R&B origins through complex choreography to polish in an important second-generation SM group.
No. 10 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 5%)
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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