SEVENTEEN faces significant changes over the next few years, as most of its 13 members prepare to enlist in the South Korean military. Despite these new responsibilities, the K-pop group remains focused on their continual musical evolution, releasing a new album, Happy Burstday, on Monday (May 26), which features a solo song performed by each member, in addition to three full-group tracks. In a new feature in The Hollywood Reporter, the members of SEVENTEEN also revealed plans for a series of upcoming solo projects, and a big group comeback post-service.

“This is something that has been inevitable for us all along,” Hoshi told the publication about the group’s enlistments. “We have been prepared. We have a lot of projects that we have discussed with [Hybe] very thoroughly up until now.” In additional SEVENTEEN news, the group is the top K-Pop act on Billboard’s midyear Boxscore charts, ranked No. 3 overall with $120.9 million earned and 842,000 tickets sold between Oct. 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025. SEVENTEEN becomes the highest-ranking Korean act ever on the all-genre midyear list, surpassing BTS’ No. 4 rank in 2022. (Billboard)