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The World EP.Fin: Will (2023)

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This final chapter of The World series gave Ateez its first US number-one album, debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 152,000 album-equivalent units.

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The World EP.Fin: Will is the second Korean-language and fourth overall studio album by South Korean boy band Ateez
Released 1 December 2023 through KQ Entertainment, RCA Records and Legacy Recordings
Final installment in the group's The World series
Released six months after The World EP.2: Outlaw
Released simultaneously with the single "Crazy Form" and its music video
Debuted at number one in South Korea and the US

Captain Hongjoong said the album wraps up the group's first five years as Ateez and previews what comes in the following years
He pointed out that unit and solo songs are included for the first time
Hongjoong said the first song chosen for the album was "Crazy Form"
The rest of the album was built around that single

Ateez is a South Korean boy band formed by KQ Entertainment.
Hongjoong became the company's first official trainee; Yunho joined six months later, and the other members joined over the following year.
Members Hongjoong, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho competed on the survival show Mix Nine in late 2017.
The group was known as "KQ Fellaz" before debuting; the name Ateez is short for "A TEEnager Z".
They debuted on October 24, 2018 with the EP Treasure EP.1: All to Zero.

Hongjoong (leader, rapper, composer), Seonghwa (vocalist), Yunho (performance, vocalist), Yeosang (vocalist, performance), San (vocalist, performance), Mingi (rapper, performance), Wooyoung (performance, vocalist), Jongho (vocalist).
Members actively take part in songwriting, production and concept creation.

By mid-2026 they have released fourteen EPs, two studio albums and many singles in Korean and Japanese.
Several albums topped the Korean Circle Album Chart; The World EP.Fin: Will gave them their first No.1 on the Billboard 200.
They were the first K-pop boy group to perform at Coachella (2024) and the first K-pop act to headline the Mawazine festival in Morocco.
Golden Hour: Part.5 (2026) debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200.
Ateez sold over eleven million physical albums worldwide and have donated to disaster relief, including ₩100 million after the 2022 Seoul Halloween crowd crush.

Billboard's Jason Lipshutz wrote that the album is filled with percussive breakdowns, rap verses that spring into melodic hooks, and clean interplay between the various group members

Debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 152,000 album-equivalent units, of which 146,000 were pure album sales
Ateez's first number-one album in the US
Ateez's fourth top-10 album in the US
Sold over 910,000 copies on its first day of availability in South Korea according to the Hanteo Chart
Debuted at number one on the Circle Album Chart
Sold a combined 1.6 million copies of its two charting versions in South Korea in its first week

The album was released simultaneously with the single "Crazy Form" and its music video.
Hongjoong said the first song chosen for the album was "Crazy Form", and the rest of the album was built around that single.
Released six months after The World EP.2: Outlaw, the album closes the series.
The album debuted at number one in both South Korea and the US.