Seoul, Korea –K-pop artists GOT7, Monsta X, and Super Junior are confirmed to perform at the 2017 MAMA, announced Asia’s leading content and media company CJ E&M.
Rising boy band Monsta X made their debut through the survival show ‘No.Mercy’ on CJ E&M’s music channel Mnet in 2015. The group is composed of seven members: Jooheon, Shownu, Kihyun, Hyungwon, Wonho, Minhyuk, and I.M. Following their first studio album The Clan Pt. 2 Guilty released in March 2017, the group made their debut in Japan with single “Hero,” which swept Japan’s Tower Records and Oricon Chart. Their second Japanese single “Beautiful” also ranked 1st on those two local music charts in August, 2017.
GOT7 is a multinational, seven-member boy group whose members –JB, Mark, Jackson, Jinyoung, Youngjae, BamBam, and Yugyeom from the U.S., Hong Kong, Thailand, and Korea. Debuted with their first EP Got It? in 2014, they have landed #1 on Billboard’s World Albums Chart four times. They made their official music program debut performing their debut single “Girls Girls Girls” on Mnet’s M Countdown, and later they were awarded Worldwide Favorite Artist at 2016 MAMA and Best Worldwide Act at MTV European Music Awards in 2016. During the first half-year of 2017, their sixth EP Flight Log: Arrival became their highest selling record with more than 300,000 copies sold. GOT7 released their seventh EP 7 for 7 last October.
Debuted in 2005, Super Junior is one of the most celebrated K-Pop bands of all time. They skyrocketed to fame in 2009 with the massive R&B hit “Sorry Sorry,” which was the best-selling Korean album of 2009 in Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Ever since, their successive albums including Mr. Simple (2011), Sexy, Free, and Single (2012), Devil (2015) have topped numerous music charts across the world within days of release. Winning several MAMA awards including Album of the Year (2012) and Best Male Group (2011), Super Junior released their 8th studio album Play on November 6.