40 Fun Facts About WayV

The name WayV, chosen for NCT's China-based unit in late 2018, is an acronym for which phrase?

We are your Vision also named the group's first fan-meeting tour, which visited five cities in three countries at the end of 2019.

Which Blackpink member performed a WayV single with trainees on the Chinese survival show Youth With You 3?

Lisa danced to the group's March 2021 lead single in a collaboration stage. A practice video Ten posted of the same song drew more than six million views in three days.

Which WayV member, the eldest of the original seven, is the group's leader?

Kun plays the parent in the group's family, Ten once joked, while the three youngest members are the naughty kids.

Ten, who joined SM Entertainment through a global audition in 2013, comes from which country?

Thailand excused him from mandatory military service in 2018, after a past injury and knee surgery meant he failed the physical exam.

Ten and Lucas of WayV joined which seven-member all-star group, billed as the Avengers of K-pop, in 2019?

SuperM entered the US Billboard 200 at number one with its debut EP in October 2019, the first Asian act to top the chart with a debut release.

Which WayV member, the youngest of the original seven, grew up in Germany and speaks German?

Yangyang was born in Taiwan and moved to Germany as a child, which left him fluent in German and English as well as Mandarin.

WayV's EP Phantom was pushed back to late December 2022 after the death of which former Chinese president?

Jiang Zemin's death brought a national mourning period, so the EP moved from 9 December to 28 December, almost two years after the group's previous one.

The video for WayV's Take Off, full of planes, bikes and race cars, was filmed in which European capital?

Kyiv gave the video its unfinished Podilskyi Bridge, while other scenes were shot in aircraft hangars, gritty streets and car parks.

WayV debuted in January 2019 with a Mandarin remake of which song, first released by a sister NCT unit?

Regular led a three-track debut release, and all three tracks reached the top ten of Billboard's World Digital Songs chart.

Hendery, introduced as an SM trainee alongside Xiaojun in July 2018, comes from which city?

Macau is Hendery's home city, and he was unveiled with Xiaojun and Yangyang only six months before all three debuted in WayV.

Before WayV, Winwin debuted in July 2016 as a member of which Seoul-based boy band unit?

NCT 127 kept him until the end of 2018, when he began an indefinite hiatus from the unit to prepare for his debut in China.

Winwin, born in Wenzhou in 1997, trained at a famous Beijing academy in which style of dance?

Traditional Chinese dance was his major at the Beijing Dance Academy, and SM Entertainment discovered him in 2013, three years before his debut.

Lucas joined which Chinese variety show as a fixed cast member for its seventh season in early 2019?

Keep Running took him on a month after WayV's debut, as one of four new cast members for the season that aired from April 2019.

Ten debuted in April 2016 on which NCT U single, the first release in all of NCT?

The 7th Sense put him alongside Jaehyun, Mark, Taeyong and Doyoung, almost three years before WayV existed.

At 14, Ten won which televised talent contest while performing under the stage name TNT?

Teen Superstar's prize was a chance to sign with Starship Entertainment, but his family would not let him go, and he joined SM two years later.

Before SM, Xiaojun trained with 15 other hopefuls on which Zhejiang Television idol show in 2015?

X-Fire ended without a place for him in the group it produced, and he waited three more years to be introduced as an SM trainee.

Louis, Leon and Levi are the three cats in WayV's dorm; what is the name of the group's dog?

Bella stayed home during the group's 2023 European fan meetings, and Xiaojun admitted he felt guilty after three weeks without seeing her.

WayV's line-up was first revealed on 31 December 2018 through the group's official account on which platform?

Weibo carried the news that four existing NCT members would be joined by three trainees introduced earlier that year.

Which WayV single, staged on Show Champion in October 2019, was their first song performed in South Korea?

Moonwalk came with a video that sends the members on an interstellar journey, dancing their way to a final destination.

Which sensuous R&B track became WayV's first English-language single when it was released in November 2019?

Love Talk debuted at number three on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart and earned a Double Gold certification on QQ Music.

Why was the physical edition of WayV's album Awaken the World delayed by nine days in June 2020?

Issues with the outfits pushed the physical album back from 9 June to 18 June, while the digital release went ahead on schedule.

Which lead single from WayV's first studio album was also released in a Korean version in June 2020?

Turn Back Time held the top of QQ Music's popularity chart for seven straight days and gave the group a first top-three entry on Tencent's UNI Chart.

An English version of which Awaken the World track topped QQ Music's daily sales chart within hours?

Bad Alive earned a Gold certification on the platform within hours, with English lyrics co-written by the American singer Vedo.

WayV's first-ever concert, held online in May 2020, was part of which series run by SM and Naver?

Beyond LIVE was billed as the world's first online-only concert series, and the group used the night to preview two songs from a studio album still five weeks away.

Which song did WayV record for NCT 2020 Resonance Pt. 1, their first official promotion as an NCT unit?

Nectar debuted at number twelve on the UNI Chart, and the same project formally inducted the group's three newest members into NCT.

Which WayV release was the group's first number one on Korea's Gaon Album Chart and first Platinum seller?

Kick Back sold more than 200,000 copies in its first month on the chart and went on to pass the 250,000 needed for Platinum.

WayV's 2021 song Everytime was recorded for the soundtrack of which Chinese television drama?

Falling Into Your Smile follows a young woman who becomes the first female player in a professional esports league, and it premiered the day the song came out.

Which pop ballad launched WayV's first sub-unit, a duo, as a single album in June 2021?

Back to You later reappeared as a bonus track on a 2022 EP, next to the hip-hop single made by the group's second sub-unit.

Which hip-hop single did Ten release in August 2021 as half of WayV's second sub-unit?

Low Low arrived in the same month as Paint Me Naked, his third solo single for the SM Station project.

Which single by a planned third WayV sub-unit was cancelled just before its August 2021 release?

Jalapeño was shelved when controversy over one member's private life broke that month; he was suspended from promotions and left the group in 2023.

The WayV track Try My Luck, which opens with an air-raid siren, samples a Requiem by which composer?

Mozart's Dies irae drives the track, which sits on an EP whose lead single layers its chorus with Gregorian chants.

Which WayV album, backed by a sold-out showcase tour of Chinese cities, includes the track Be Alright?

On My Youth was the group's second studio album and second Platinum seller in South Korea, and the leader co-wrote the lyrics of Be Alright.

On which Korean music programme did WayV take a first-ever trophy, eight days after releasing Give Me That?

The Show handed over the trophy in June 2024, more than five years after the group's debut.

WayV's 2024 EP The Highest marked the group's official debut in which country?

Japan sent the EP to number one on the Oricon Albums Chart, and the group's first concert tour opened in Nagoya that August.

What was the title of WayV's first concert tour, which began in August 2024 and ran into 2025?

On the Way toured Asia until February 2025, and the wordplay carried on with its successors, No Way Out and Born This Way.

Which Mandopop star did WayV name among their musical influences, alongside Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar?

Jay Chou heads a list that also runs to Travis Scott and Justin Bieber, while Ten has pointed to Shinee's Taemin as his own inspiration.

WayV's song Unbreakable blends trap elements with chords influenced by which pop superstar?

Michael Jackson's influence shapes the harmony of a song that closes a heartbreak trilogy begun on the group's 2019 EPs.

Which single album marked Lucas's solo debut in April 2024, almost a year after he left WayV?

Renegade entered South Korea's Circle Album Chart at number 13 and sent him on a fan-con tour of Asia that opened in Hong Kong.

Which French luxury fashion house appointed Ten as a brand ambassador in March 2024?

Yves Saint Laurent signed him a month after his self-titled solo debut EP, and Maybelline made him a brand spokesperson that June.

WayV's July 2020 charity donation helped victims and relief workers facing which disaster in Jiangxi and Hunan?

Floods had struck both provinces that summer, and the group gave through a China Social Welfare Foundation project that also supported front-line workers.