# Soridata Artist Profile - W

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> **W** (W) is a South Korean Boy Group that debuted in 2001. They consist of 3 members: Han Jaewon, New Dance and Youngjun Bae. 

Starting with the addition of Whale as the main vocal in 2008, they mostly released only with a female lead (Whale, then JAS in 2012), but the trio retains their name as "W" for indepentent releases.

# General Information

- Soridata ID: 7545
- Group Gender: Male
- Stage Name: W (W)
- Aliases: Where The Story Ends
- Active Since: 2001
- Debut Day: 2001-10-17
- Current Status: Active

# Metrics and Achievements

- Success Rating: 0.0
*_Success is a star rating that goes from 0 (min) to 5 (max), each star represents one of the following: Sales up to 500000, Streaming score up to 700, Awards up to 5, Youtube Views up to 250 million, Yearly awards up to 7. Example: An artist with 250000 sales (0.5 stars), 900 streaming score (1 star), 8 awards (1 stars), 200 million Youtube views (0.8 stars) and 6 yearly awards (0.85 stars) would be rated ~4.16._*
- Time to Success: Not reached or 'nugu'
*_Time to Success measures the duration from debut until an artist reaches their first major milestone: reaching #1 on the Circle Chart Weekly, achieving cumulative sales of 100000 units, or winning a music show award (whichever occurs first)._*
- Last Release: 2026-03-05
- Perfect All-Kills (PAKs): 0
- Music Show Awards: 0
- End of year Awards: 0
- Streaming Weekly data (from Circle Chart Digital, available since 2010): Artist never ranked in top 100
- Billboard Global 200 weekly data (available since 2020, counting only Korean acts): Artist never ranked in top 200
- Physical Sales (Circle Chart Album, published since 2010): 0+ units
- Total Youtube Views (from official videos): 881+

# Members of the group

- [Han Jaewon (한재원)](https://soridata.com/artists/Han-Jaewon.md):  from South Korea
- [New Dance (김상훈)](https://soridata.com/artists/New-Dance.md): Kim Sanghoon (Date of Birth: 1975-03-30 - 51 years) from South Korea
- [Youngjun Bae (배영준)](https://soridata.com/artists/Youngjun-Bae.md):  (Date of Birth: 1969-10-25 - 56 years) from South Korea

# Links and references

- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/W-더블유/)
- [Melon](https://www.melon.com/artist/timeline.htm?artistId=101222)
- [Namu.wiki](https://namu.wiki/w/W(밴드))