NCT - EMPATHY (Romanized)

With the intention of bringing together NCT’s eighteen members at the time, the group’s first full-membered project was presented with EMPATHY, a compilation of the group’s preceding work and a fresh presentation of NCT’s newest concepts.

Consisting of mostly singles and including five previously released songs, the album is meant to shine a light on the group’s performative abilities and properly introduce newly added members Kun, Jungwoo, and Lucas, as well as the reintroduction of member Jaemin into the group after going on hiatus for approximately a year due to an injury. Its structure features all of NCT’s umbrella sub-units as of then: NCT U, NCT 127, and NCT DREAM.

The release schedule for the album’s title tracks lasted for two months with the release of NCT U’s “BOSS” being the first one, then followed by NCT U’s “Baby Don’t Stop,” NCT DREAM’s “GO,” NCT 127’s “TOUCH,” NCT U’s “YESTODAY,” and finalized with “Black on Black,” a performance song presented by all of NCT’s active members as of then under the name of NCT 2018.

Being recognized as one of the comebacks that attracted the most fans for the group, the album reached a new peak for the group at the time, as it achieved 203,000 pre-orders and topped 18 iTunes album charts, helping it gain a Platinum certification by KMCA and becoming Gaon’s thirteenth best-selling album of 2018.