Super Junior, known as SJ or SuJu, is a South Korean boy band formed by Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment in 2005.
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43 Facts About Super Junior
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Super Junior launched into international recognition following the release of their best-selling single "Sorry, Sorry" in 2009, the title song of their most critically successful album, Sorry, Sorry.
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Super Junior was the best-selling K-pop artist for four years in a row.
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In March 2020, Super Junior broke their own record topping the Korean Album Chart of Taiwan's KKBOX for 122 consecutive weeks since 2017 with their 8th album Play, the 8th album repackage REPLAY in 2018, the 9th album Time_Slip from 2019, and 9th album repackage Timeless.
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Super Junior called this singing group to be "The Gateway to Stardom of Asia, " as most of the members in this group were chosen for their experiences as actors, MCs, models, and radio hosts prior to debut.
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Super Junior 05 made their pre-debut performance on the Korean channel Mnet on September 11,2005.
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In February 2006, Super Junior 05 began performances for "Miracle", the second promotional single from their debut album.
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Super Junior even prepared a list of chosen members that were to graduate from the group.
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Super Junior collected two more recognitions at the 22nd Golden Disk Awards, including a Disk Bonsang award.
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In November 2008, Super Junior-T made a debut in Japan, collaborating with Japanese comedy duo Moeyan.
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Super Junior parted with the group and released his solo album Geng Xin in July 2010, which sold over 510,000 copies.
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In February 2011, Super Junior released a 3D movie version of their tour, Super Show 3 3D in all CGV and Primus movie theaters.
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Between Super Junior Show 3 stops, the group took part in the SMTown Live '10 World Tour and toured in Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and New York City along with other SM Entertainment-managed artists, performing outside of Asia for the first time.
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Super Junior's performances were well received by the media, and they were honored as Korea's National Pop Culture Icon for their role in spreading the Hallyu Wave, receiving the Minister of Culture Awards by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the Pop Culture Art Awards.
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Super Junior began their first world tour, the Super Show 4 in November 2011.
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Super Junior ranked first place on Hanteo's "Top 5 K-Pop Artists" 2012, winning Hanteo "Singer Award".
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Super Junior began their world tour Super Show 6 in September 2014, with the first stop at Seoul.
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Super Junior are the first Korean artist to perform 100 concerts worldwide.
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On September 10,2015, SM Entertainment announced that Super Junior had released part two of its special 10th anniversary album, Magic on September 16.
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On September 27,2017, Super Junior's website began a countdown to November 6, – the date of their 12th anniversary – announcing it as their comeback date for their eighth album which would be without Ryeowook and Kyuhyun as they were fulfilling their military service.
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Super Junior's discharge was shown in a special 2 part episode of Super TV filmed on Jeju Island.
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On July 12,2019, Super Junior brought their Super Show 7S world tour to King Abdullah Sports City as part of the Jeddah Season festival, becoming the first Asian and K-Pop act to hold a solo concert in Saudi Arabia.
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Nine-member lineup of Super Junior released their ninth studio album, Time Slip, on October 14,2019, with Sungmin to have personal activities outside the group in the meantime.
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Super Junior was scheduled to release their tenth studio album, The Renaissance, in December 2020.
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Meanwhile, Super Junior unveiled a new unreleased single from their album during 2020's The Fact Music Awards on December 12.
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On February 28,2022, Super Junior released a special single album entitled The Road: Winter for Spring.
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On June 13,2022, Super Junior announced their eleventh studio album The Road: Keep on Going, which was released on July 12.
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Super Junior subsequently won the lawsuit in December 2010, though his departure from Super Junior was not made official until September 27,2011, when SM Entertainment finally released a statement to that effect.
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On March 3,2011, Super Junior were appointed by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Korea as the 2011 Honorary Korean Food Ambassadors to promote Korean cuisine all over the world.
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On June 17,2011, Super Junior were chosen to be the ambassadors of Seoul Summer Sale 2011.
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MBC temporarily banned the rest of Super Junior from appearing in any future performances and shows hosted by MBC.
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However, MBC concluded that Super Junior's ban was never official, but just a decision for shows' producers to decide.
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In terms of recognition in other areas of Asia, Super Junior is the first overseas artist to win Asia's Artist of the Year at the Tencent Stars Magnificent Ceremony in China, and is the second musical group to win Favorite Artist Korea at the MTV Asia Awards, after jtL in 2003.
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Super Junior is the first Asian artist who won International Artist at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards.
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Super Junior is the first non-Chinese artist to receive the 'Artist of the Year' award.
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Super Junior have gained recognition for their dress style and fashion throughout their career.
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