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After sending a letter and mixtape to the company, Hongjoong was taken on as its first official trainee, and Yunho followed about six months later.

Hongjoong, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho took part in the survival show MIXNINE, their first public appearances.

The trainees released a first performance video in May and a web series about training in America, then the name ATEEZ and the reality show Code Name is Ateez were announced in summer.

The second mini album, led by "Say My Name," came out January 15 and hit No. 5 on Heatseekers. A sold-out Expedition Tour followed, with five U.S. stops in March and ten European countries in April.

The June 10 release peaked at No. 2 on the Gaon chart, and the October full-length Treasure EP.Fin: All To Action topped it.

Treasure Epilogue: Action To Answer opened the year at No. 1, and Zero: Fever Part.1 followed in July with sales above 400,000. Korea's culture and information service named the group 2020 promotional ambassadors.

Zero: Fever Part.2 arrived in March with the lead "Fireworks (I'm the One)" and sold more than 500,000 copies on the Circle Chart. Japanese projects included the album Into the A to Z and the single Dreamers.

A world tour delayed since 2020 by the pandemic finally reached London's Wembley Arena in April.

The Golden Hour series began with Part.1 on May 31, followed by Part.2 on November 15.

Part.3 arrived June 13 with an In Your Fantasy Edition in July, and the tour began with two nights in Incheon plus a North American leg that summer.

The February 6 EP, with the single "Adrenaline," debuted on the Billboard 200 with 200,000 equivalent units, 195,000 of them pure sales, their biggest sales week.

The June 26 EP and its lead single "BAD" gave the group a third Billboard 200 No. 1 with a career-high 228,000 units. Two days later they headlined London's BST Hyde Park, and they logged their first Billboard Global 200 entry.

The next installment in the series is listed for release on November 13.