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All artists under SM Entertainment are collectively known as the SM Town.[1] All names listed are adapted from SM Entertainment official website.

Current artists

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Groups

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Name Debut year Debut album Members Ref
TVXQ 2004 Tri-Angle
Former:
[2]
Super Junior 2005 Twins
Former:
[6]
Girls' Generation 2007 Girls' Generation
Former:
[11]
Shinee 2008 Replay
Former:
[15]
Exo 2012 Mama
Former:
[22]
Red Velvet 2014 Ice Cream Cake [23]
NCT 2016 NCT 2018 Empathy

Former:
[27]
Aespa 2020 Savage [28]
Riize 2023 Get a Guitar
  • Shotaro
  • Eunseok
  • Sungchan
  • Wonbin
  • Sohee
  • Anton

Former:
[30]
Mytro[A] 2024 TBA
  • Han Tey
  • Jung Yoon-jae
  • Shohei
  • Lim Chae-pyeong
  • Seo Woo-hyeok
[31]
Dear Alice[B] TBA TBA
  • James
  • Dexter
  • Olly
  • Reese
  • Blaise
[32]

Sub-units

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Name Spinoff of Debut year Debut album Members Ref
NCT 127 NCT 2016 NCT#127
Former:
[33]
NCT Dream The First
[34]
Oh!GG Girls' Generation 2018 Lil' Touch
Former:
[35]
WayV NCT 2019 The Vision
  • Kun
  • Ten
  • Winwin
  • Xiaojun
  • Hendery
  • Yangyang

Former:
[36]
Exo-SC Exo 2019 What a Life [37]
Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi Red Velvet 2020 Monster [38]
NCT DoJaeJung NCT 2023 Perfume
  • Doyoung
  • Jaehyun
  • Jungwoo
[39]
Super Junior-L.S.S. Super Junior Let's Standing Show [40]
NCT Wish NCT 2024 Wish
  • Sion
  • Riku
  • Yushi
  • Jaehee
  • Ryo
  • Sakuya
[41]

Former artists

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Groups

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Name Years active Debut album Members Ref
The Blue 1992–1995; 2009 1st The Blue – New Release [82]
Tin Tin Five 1993–2010 Tin-Tin-Five
  • Pyo In-bong
  • Lee Woong-ho
  • Hong Rok-gi
  • Lee Dong-woo
  • Kim Kyung-sik
  • Jung Sung-hwa
  • Kim Hak-joon
[83]
Major 1994 Easy Rock Single 1
  • Lim Bum-jun
  • Seo Yeon-su
  • Yu Han-ji
[84][85]
J&J 1994 Guitar And Dance Single 1
  • Jay Kim
  • Jay Kang
[86]
H.O.T. 1996–2001; 2018–2019 We Hate All Kinds of Violence [87]
S.E.S 1997–2002; 2016–2017 I'm Your Girl [88]
Shinhwa 1998–present[D] Haegyeolsa [90]
Fly to the Sky 1999–2009; 2014–2019[E] Day by Day [92]
Milk[F] 2001–2003 With Freshness
[94]
Black Beat 2002–2007 The First Performance #001
[95]
Shinvi 2002–2003 15 to 30
  • Yoo Soo-jin
  • Oh Sang-eun
  • Yoo-na
[96]
Isak N Jiyeon 2002–2004 Tell Me Baby [97]
Trax 2004–2012; 2015–2019; 2024 Paradox
[98]
The Grace 2005–2010 One More Time, OK? [99]
f(x) 2009–2016; 2019 Nu ABO [100]

Sub-units

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Name Spinoff of Years active Debut album Members Ref
Super Junior-T Super Junior 2007–2008; 2015 Rokkugo [101]
Super Junior-M 2008–2009; 2011–2014 Me [102]
Super Junior-H 2008 Cooking? Cooking! [103]
Super Junior-D&E 2011–2015; 2017–present[G] Oppa, Oppa [105]
Girls' Generation-TTS Girls' Generation 2012–2017 Twinkle [106]
Exo-CBX Exo 2016–present[H] Hey Mama! [108]

Notes

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  1. ^ Eunhyuk left SM Entertainment in 2023 but remains a member of Super Junior.[3]
  2. ^ Donghae left SM Entertainment in 2023 but remains a member of Super Junior.[3]
  3. ^ a b Kyuhyun left SM Entertainment in 2023 but remains a member of Super Junior.[3]
  4. ^ Hangeng left Super Junior in 2009 but remained under contract with SM Entertainment until 2011
  5. ^ Kangin left Super Junior in 2019 but remains with SM Entertainment.[4]
  6. ^ Kibum last performed with Super Junior in 2009 but remained a member until 2015 when he left SM Entertainment.[5]
  7. ^ Sunny left SM Entertainment in 2023 but remains a member of Girls' Generation.[7]
  8. ^ a b Tiffany left SM Entertainment in 2017 but remains a member of Girls' Generation.[8]
  9. ^ Sooyoung left SM Entertainment in 2017 but remains a member of Girls' Generation.[8]
  10. ^ a b Seohyun left SM Entertainment in 2017 but remains a member of Girls' Generation.[8]
  11. ^ Jessica left Girls' Generation in 2014[9] but remained with SM Entertainment until 2015.[10]
  12. ^ a b Onew left SM Entertainment in 2024 but remains a member of Shinee.[12]
  13. ^ a b Taemin left SM Entertainment in 2024 but remains a member of Shinee.[13]
  14. ^ a b Jonghyun died in December 2017.[14]
  15. ^ a b Xiumin left SM Entertainment in 2024 but remains a member of Exo.[16]
  16. ^ a b Lay left SM Entertainment in 2022 but remains a member of Exo.[17]
  17. ^ a b Baekhyun left SM Entertainment in 2024 but remains a member of Exo.[16]
  18. ^ a b Chen left SM Entertainment in 2024 but remains a member of Exo.[16]
  19. ^ a b D.O. left SM Entertainment in 2023 but remains a member of Exo.[18]
  20. ^ Luhan left Exo in 2014 but remained under contract with SM Entertainment until 2022.[19]
  21. ^ Kris left Exo in 2014 but remained under contract with SM Entertainment until 2022.[20]
  22. ^ Tao left Exo in 2015 but remained under contract with SM Entertainment until 2022.[21]
  23. ^ a b Taeil left NCT in August 2024 and SM Entertainment altogether in October of the same year.[24]
  24. ^ a b Lucas left NCT in 2023 but remains with SM Entertainment.[25]
  25. ^ Shotaro left NCT in 2023 to join SM's new boy band Riize.[26]
  26. ^ Sungchan left NCT in 2023 to join SM's new boy band Riize.[26]
  27. ^ Seunghan left Riize in 2024 but remains with SM Entertainment.[29]
  28. ^ Sunny left Oh!GG upon the expiration of her contract with SM Entertainment in 2023, though she remains a member of Girls' Generation.[7]
  29. ^ J-Min originally debuted in 2007, but Shine is her first release with SM Entertainment.
  30. ^ Imlay has been active as a DJ since 2016 but debuted as an SM Entertainment artist in 2017.
  31. ^ Raiden has been active as a DJ since 2013 but debuted as an SM Entertainment artist in 2019.
  32. ^ Lee has been managed by SM Entertainment since 2012.
  33. ^ Yoo has been managed by SM Entertainment since 2012.
  34. ^ Sulli died in October 2019.[126]
  1. ^ Co-managed with YumYum Entertainment
  2. ^ Co-managed with Moon&Back Media
  3. ^ The following list includes all SM Entertainment artists that have been declared by SM to have made (or are soon to make) their official debut as a soloist. It does not include artists who have only released digital singles or soundtrack songs.
  4. ^ Shinhwa departed SM in 2003[89]
  5. ^ Fly to the Sky departed SM in 2004[91]
  6. ^ Milk were formed under SM's sister label, BM Entertainment[93]
  7. ^ Super Junior-D&E departed SM in 2023[104]
  8. ^ Exo-CBX departed SM in 2024.[16][107]
  9. ^ The following list includes all former SM Entertainment artists that had been declared by SM to have made their official debut as a soloist. It does not include artists who only released digital singles or soundtrack songs.
  10. ^ Also credited as "Hyun Jin-young & Wawoowa!"

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  23. ^ Debut: Sun-min, Lee (2014-07-28). "SM brings a touch of velvet to K-pop". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
    Yeri joins: Jang, Da-hee (2015-03-11). "레드벨벳 새 멤버, 예리는 누구? 'SM루키즈 출신'" [Red Velvet's new member, who is Yeri? 'Former SM Rookies']. XportsNews (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-11-16.
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  27. ^ Debut: Bahk, Eun-ji (2016-04-04). "SM's new K-pop band NCT U to debut this week". Korea Times. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
    Debut album: Dam-young, Hong (2018-03-15). "Global boy band project NCT on attack as full group". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
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    Debut album: Moon, Wan-sik (2021-09-14). "에스파, 첫 미니앨범 'Savage' 10월 5일 발매..6곡 수록[공식]" [Aespa first mini album 'Savage' to be released on October 5th.. 6 songs included [Official]]. Star News Korea (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-11-16.
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