50 Fun Facts About GOT7

Which Thai idol, once in the dance crew We Zaa Cool with Blackpink's Lisa, raps in GOT7?

BamBam takes his stage name from Bamm-Bamm Rubble of The Flintstones. He moved to South Korea at 13 after passing a JYP audition in Thailand.

Which Hong Kong-born rapper ranked first in Asia in youth sabre fencing before training for GOT7?

Jackson Wang turned down fencing scholarships, including one from Stanford, once he passed JYP's audition. His father was an Olympic fencer who coached Hong Kong's team.

The music video for GOT7's 2020 single Not By the Moon drew heavily on which Shakespeare tragedy?

Romeo and Juliet shaped a video full of royalty, astronomy and magic, with the band dancing in white. The single went on to win on three music shows.

Which 2018 GOT7 single was released in Korean, English, Chinese and Spanish versions?

Lullaby fronted the album Present: You, and its video drew 10 million views within 24 hours.

The family of GOT7 leader Jay B, who grew up in Goyang, runs a farm growing which crop?

Tomatoes are the family trade in Ilsan. Jay B was spotted by JYP at a b-boy contest in 2009 and auditioned only because his father pushed him to.

Which Los Angeles-born rapper did a JYP scout spot at Arcadia High School before he debuted in GOT7?

Mark Tuan had no wish for a music career until friends and family urged him to audition. He spent part of his childhood in Paraguay and Brazil.

After re-reading old diaries, Jay B chose which toy as the symbol of GOT7's 2019 EP about anxiety?

A spinning top stood for a mind circling the same worries: upright it meant security and light, and once it tilts, insecurity and darkness.

Why did all seven members of GOT7 leave JYP Entertainment together in January 2021?

Their contracts expired on January 19 and, by mutual agreement, not one member renewed. The seven stayed together as GOT7 and put out a new single a month later.

Which acrobatic discipline did GOT7 build into their debut-era choreography alongside b-boying?

Martial arts tricking drew comparisons with the acrobatic stages of the group's JYP seniors. It was said to be an evolution of that stunt-heavy style.

GOT7 made their debut on Mnet's M Countdown in January 2014 performing which single by J.Y. Park?

Girls Girls Girls passed one million YouTube views within two days, an unusual start for a new group. The debut EP followed four days after that first broadcast.

GOT7 launched in 2014 as JYP's first boy group since which act, known for acrobatic stages?

2PM debuted in 2008, and the newcomers were dubbed 'Post 2PM' until the name GOT7 was settled late in 2013.

Under which duo name did GOT7's Jay B and Jinyoung debut in 2012 with the single Bounce?

JJ Project was preparing a second album when JYP moved both singers back into the trainee line-up that became GOT7.

Jay B and Yugyeom teamed up in March 2019 as which GOT7 duo, debuting with the EP Focus?

Jus2 blends the words 'just' and 'two', by Yugyeom's account. The pair gave their first performance on M Countdown two days after the EP came out.

Which 2015 GOT7 single was composed by the sibling duo The Jackie Boyz, with lyrics by J.Y. Park?

Just Right has a boyfriend telling a girlfriend who frets over her looks that nothing needs changing. It stayed in the top three of Billboard's World Digital Songs chart for two weeks.

Which 2016 single from Flight Log: Turbulence became GOT7's biggest hit in South Korea?

Hard Carry was hailed by Billboard as a 'sonic whirlwind' of whirring synths, finger snaps and howls. Its parent album sold 200,000 copies in a month.

Which colour, used for GOT7's self-titled 2022 EP, stands for the group's fandom?

Green marks the fans, who are likened to a 'green milky way' in the 2018 song Thank You. The EP's artwork borrowed building-site imagery for the new home the group had made.

Before GOT7, Jay B and Jinyoung appeared together in which KBS drama in January 2012?

Dream High 2 also used their voices on its soundtrack, and that May the two trainees were launched as a singing duo.

GOT7 sold out two 2025 stadium concerts on the first day of ticket sales in which city abroad?

Bangkok's Rajamangala Stadium hosted both Nestfest nights that May, and all 85,000 tickets went on the first day.

Which GOT7 motto do the lyrics of the 2025 song Our Youth recall, alongside a nod to the EP 7 for 7?

Come and get it surfaces in a song written about the debut and everything the seven achieved after it, urging the members to keep moving forward together.

Which 2016 GOT7 single began a trilogy of records, a song the group likened to 'seeing the light'?

Fly began the Flight Log run, on which the members took over the songwriting, and NME called it one of the crowning jewels of their reinvention.

Which 2014 release was GOT7's first full-length album, promoted with the single Stop Stop It?

Identify topped Gaon's weekly album chart in its first week. J.Y. Park produced it to pin down the group's character, which he summed up as a 'familiar magnetism'.

In January 2015 GOT7 won which prize at both the Golden Disc Awards and the Seoul Music Awards?

New Artist Award wins at both ceremonies capped a first year that produced two EPs, a full album and a Japanese debut single.

In which 2015 web drama did the members of GOT7 play mysterious boys with magic powers?

Dream Knight paired the seven with actress Song Ha-yoon and won Best Drama, Best Director and Rising Star at K-Web Fest that July.

GOT7's Jinyoung played the teenage version of Lee Min-ho's character in which 2016 SBS drama?

Legend of the Blue Sea cast him as the young Heo Joon-jae, who grows up to be a witty con artist loved by a mermaid.

In which tvN drama, based on a webtoon, did GOT7's Jinyoung play Yoo Ba-bi opposite Kim Go-eun?

Yumi's Cells brought him back for its second season in 2022, when he also sang 'Shining on Your Night' for the soundtrack.

GOT7's Yugyeom won the final of which 2016 Mnet show pairing idols with professional dance crews?

Hit the Stage placed him second in his first episode before he took first place in the finale. He has also helped choreograph GOT7 songs such as Poison.

GOT7's Youngjae played Sam, heir to a food chain, in which Netflix sitcom set in a student dorm?

So Not Worth It was Netflix's first Korean sitcom, and he sang its title song as well as acting in it.

The GOT7 track No Jam, on Flight Log: Turbulence, is titled with a bilingual pun meaning what?

No fun is how the English-Korean wordplay translates. Four of the seven members share the lyric credit on the song, part of the album's member-written middle stretch.

J.Y. Park produced which single, the lone outside-written track on GOT7's EP Flight Log: Arrival?

Never Ever is a hip-hop love song with a happy ending. The EP it opens became the group's first record to sell more than 300,000 copies.

The skies of the Japanese film Your Name inspired Jay B to write which 2017 GOT7 single?

You Are began life as Beautiful Sky, until J.Y. Park suggested a change to fit lyrics that thank a loved one. It topped South Korea's real-time charts on release.

Which 2019 GOT7 single, co-written by Jay B, voices the fear of failing to protect loved ones?

Eclipse led the group's ninth Korean EP, which topped the Gaon album chart and was certified platinum within two months.

Which single, written by Jay B, fronted GOT7's self-titled comeback EP in May 2022?

Nanana was chosen because the members felt they had shone brightest on stage with music Jay B produced. The EP went double platinum within two months.

Which title track led Winter Heptagon, the 2025 EP that reunited GOT7 after three years?

Python sets a pop melody over a hip-hop beat to describe a love there is no escaping. Billboard Brasil ranked it sixth among the year's best K-pop songs.

Which single did GOT7 release via Warner Music Korea in February 2021, a month after leaving JYP?

Encore was teased on a brand-new YouTube channel the day before it came out. The members then spent the following year on solo work.

Which solo singer featured on One and Only You, the 2018 single GOT7 released ahead of Eyes on You?

Hyolyn, formerly of Sistar, joined the group on an R&B, hip-hop and EDM track that the webzine Idology named one of GOT7's catchiest songs.

Which 2015 GOT7 single, the lead track of the EP Mad, was composed by Black Eyed Pilseung?

If You Do placed 95th on Billboard's list of the 100 best K-pop songs of the 2010s, cited as a cornerstone of the group's sound. Its lyrics rage about being pushed off a cliff.

GOT7's Jinyoung hosted SBS's Inkigayo from 2017 with NCT's Doyoung and which Blackpink member?

Jisoo, Doyoung and Jinyoung were named the show's fixed hosts that February. Jinyoung had already presented Mnet's M Countdown for a year from March 2015.

After leaving JYP in 2021, GOT7's Yugyeom signed with which hip-hop label founded by Jay Park?

AOMG announced the signing with a video of him dancing to Travis Scott's 'Franchise'. His first EP there featured Jay Park, Loco and Gray.

GOT7 leader Jay B danced under which b-boy name, later used as his songwriting credit?

Defsoul was inspired by Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends' video. The name, sometimes shortened to Def., now sits in the writing credits of many GOT7 songs.

GOT7's main vocalist Youngjae has written songs since 2016's Rewind under which pen name?

Ars first showed up in the credits of Flight Log: Departure, on the first of his songs the group recorded. He later called a clothing line for people and dogs Ars X Coco.

JYP found GOT7's Youngjae in 2013 through a closed audition at a music academy in which port city?

Mokpo is his hometown, where he won a vocal prize at a youth music festival in 2011. He debuted after only seven months of training.

GOT7's Yugyeom spent part of his childhood in which country because of his father's job?

Saudi Arabia was home only briefly; he lived in Yeosu from six to eleven and then grew up in Namyangju. He taught himself dance routines by copying them from television.

GOT7's Jinyoung won a Baeksang Best New Actor award for which 2022 thriller about twin brothers?

Christmas Carol had him play both twins, one of whom enters a juvenile detention centre to avenge the other. He took the Most Popular Actor prize the same night.

GOT7's name grew out of 'Got6', J.Y. Park's working title for which first-generation K-pop group?

G.O.D were first planned as a six-member mixed line-up with Park himself on board. The digit in GOT7 stands for seven lucky people who found each other.

Four future GOT7 members faced YG trainees in a 2013 episode of which Mnet survival show?

WIN: Who Is Next set two YG trainee teams against each other, and they later debuted as Winner and iKon. The JYP guests appeared in its fourth episode.

GOT7 won their first daesang, for Performance of the Year, at which annual ceremony in 2019?

Asia Artist Awards organisers gave the group that grand prize at their fourth ceremony. GOT7 also ended 2019 fourth on Billboard's year-end Social 50 artists chart.

On their 2018 world tour GOT7 became the first K-pop group to perform at which New York arena?

Barclays Center in Brooklyn was a stop on the Eyes On You tour, which opened in Seoul that May and sold out shows across Asia, Europe and the Americas.

In June 2019 GOT7 became the first Korean group to perform on which American morning programme?

The Today Show booked them on June 26, during the North American leg of their third world tour.

In 2016 GOT7 became the first Korean act to reach Billboard's Artist 100 chart since which solo star?

Psy was the last Korean name on the chart before the EP Flight Log: Departure put GOT7 there. The record also reached No. 2 on Billboard's World Albums chart.

GOT7's debut single samples the cry 'eomona' from Tell Me, a hit by which girl group?

Wonder Girls were labelmates at JYP, and J.Y. Park wrote and produced both songs, so he was borrowing the exclamation from his own earlier hit.