[EP Hype] CORTIS Are Back With GREENGREEN — And This Time the Album Comes in a Dice
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CORTIS (코르티스) GREENGREEN
Who Are CORTIS
A New Kind
of Creator Crew
CORTIS — Martin, James, Juhoon, Seonghyeon, and Keonho — are BigHit Music's first new boy group in six years, arriving as the direct successors to BTS and TOMORROW X TOGETHER. But they are something unmistakably their own: a self-producing "Young Creator Crew" who write, compose, choreograph, and shoot their own content from the very first day.
With a group name drawn irregularly from the phrase COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, CORTIS built their identity on breaking expectations — and from the moment of debut, they have done exactly that. Their average age at debut was just 17. Their ambition has no such limit.
#15 Billboard 200 — Debut EP
Only 2025 Rookie Group
Only 2025 Rookie Group
300M+ Spotify Streams
1st EP by Jan 2026
1st EP by Jan 2026
500K+ GREENGREEN Spotify
Pre-Saves & Counting
Pre-Saves & Counting
Musical Chronology
The Story
So Far
August 2025
Debut Singles — "GO!" & "What You Want"
"What You Want" — featuring Teezo Touchdown — fused psychedelic rock guitar riffs with trap production: a collision nobody had heard from K-pop before. Both tracks were self-directed, demonstrating the group's creative autonomy from day one.
September 2025
1st EP — "COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES"
The debut mini-album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 15 — the only 2025 rookie group to achieve this milestone. Within the first month it surpassed 100 million Spotify streams, with both "GO!" and "FaSHioN" individually crossing the 100 million mark. Rolling Stone hailed it as "the coolest K-pop debut" of 2025.
October 2025
The Zane Lowe Show — Apple Music 1
CORTIS appeared on Apple Music Radio's globally broadcast Zane Lowe Show, recorded at Apple Music Studios in Los Angeles. The appearance introduced them to Western audiences far beyond the K-pop ecosystem, building a fanbase across Europe and the UK.
February 2026
NBA All-Star Celebrity Game — History Made
CORTIS became the first K-pop group in history to headline the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game halftime show. Named official "Friends of the NBA," they also headlined the NBA Crossover Concert Series. Their song "GO!" was placed on the NBA 2K26 Season 4 soundtrack, and their choreography became a Fortnite dance emote.
May 2026
2nd EP — "GREENGREEN" ← YOU ARE HERE
The first proper comeback — eight months after one of the most decorated K-pop debuts in recent memory. Pre-release on 20 April, full album on 4 May.
Why This Album Matters
Green. Then
Green Again.
The title GREENGREEN — doubled, emphatic, deliberate — signals something renewed and alive. For CORTIS, who spent their debut year proving they were something genuinely different from the K-pop template, this comeback is the moment they build on that foundation and go further.
The album follows a debut EP that accumulated over 1.9 million physical copies sold — with 1.4 million of those moving during a period when the group were not actively promoting, driven entirely by word-of-mouth and organic discovery across global markets.
"We enjoy expressing ourselves not just through music, but also through videos, photography, and every creative medium available to us. The creative process itself is fun for us."
— CORTIS, The Zane Lowe Show, Apple Music, October 2025
What Sets Them Apart
Breaking Every
Rulebook
NBA All-Star Halftime Show
First K-pop act ever to headline the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game — broadcast live across the USA on ESPN.
Zane Lowe Show
Appeared on Apple Music 1's flagship global radio programme — the same platform where Taylor Swift and Tyler, The Creator break news.
Apple Vision Pro
Released "NEAREST" — an immersive spatial experience available in Apple Stores worldwide from January 2026.
Red Bull Partnership
First K-pop artists to sign with Red Bull — crossing into action sports and audiences that have never touched K-pop.
Watch
See Them Move
Revisit the track that started it all — and reminded everyone what K-pop can sound like when the artists themselves are at the controls.
CORTIS — "What You Want" ft. Teezo Touchdown · Official MV · BigHit Music
Available Versions
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Edition
Before the Dice, There Was a Ball. And a Singing Bowl.
CORTIS's debut EP COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES didn't just come with a standard CD — it came in a CORTIS Ball edition (a soft, squeezable ball with a keyring) and a Singing Bowl edition (a real, playable singing bowl with its own stick and tray). Two editions that had nothing to do with how a conventional album looks, and everything to do with how CORTIS want you to experience their music as an object. Both sold out. Both became collector's items. The pattern is clear: with CORTIS, the format is always part of the statement.
① CORTIS Ball Ver.
CORTIS Ball ver. (SOLD OUT)
② Singing Bowl Ver.
Singing Bowl ver. (SOLD OUT)
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✦ SOOJIB Pick — GREENGREEN
The Dice Version
For GREENGREEN, the edition that demands the most attention is the Dice Version. While the Standard and Weverse versions carry the album in a familiar form, the Dice Version leans fully into the "Color Outside the Lines" ethos — packaging the album as a playable object with its own physical dice, origami paper, and mini CD. After a ball and a singing bowl, a dice feels like the logical next step in CORTIS's ongoing experiment with what an album can be. It's the kind of release that blurs the line between album and art piece. The one to get if you want to understand what this group is actually about.
Package + Inner Box Dice Mini CD Sticker Scratch Card (1/5) Photocard Set (6pcs) Origami Paper
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Dice
Ver.
Ver.
Package · Inner Box · Dice · Mini CD · Sticker · Scratch Card (1/5) · Photocard Set (6pcs) · Photocard Sleeve · Origami Paper
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POB Standard Ver.
Standard
+ POB Benefits
+ POB Benefits
CD · Photobook · Magnet · Sticker · Scratch Card (1/5) · Photocard (1/5)
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POB Weverse Album
Weverse Album
+ POB Benefits
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Portrait Ver: Package · Photo Print Set · Photocard (1/5) · QR Card
Panorama Ver: Package · Accordion Book · Photocard (1/5) · QR Card
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Panorama Ver: Package · Accordion Book · Photocard (1/5) · QR Card
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Standard Ver.
Standard
Ver.
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CD · Photobook · Magnet · Sticker · Random Scratch Card (1/5) · Random Photocard (1/5)
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Weverse Album
Weverse
Album Ver.
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Portrait Ver: Package · Photo Print Set · Photocard (1/5) · QR Card
Panorama Ver: Package · Accordion Book · Photocard (1/5) · QR Card
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Panorama Ver: Package · Accordion Book · Photocard (1/5) · QR Card
Vinyl Ver.
Vinyl
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Gatefold · Inner Sleeve · Vinyl (45 RPM) · Booklet (16p) · Photocard Set (6pcs) · Photocard Sleeve
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Pre-release: 20 April · Full album: 4 May 2026 · 6 editions available
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Full tracklist and further details will be updated as announced. 🌿