{"id":589088,"date":"2026-04-06T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:25:09","slug":"singer-ten-leaving-sm-entertainment-but-staying-with-groups-nct-and-wayv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589088\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Ten leaving SM Entertainment but staying with groups NCT and WayV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 06 Apr. 2026, 14:31\n                            <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A concept photo from Ten's second EP \u2033Stunner\u2033 (2025) [SM ENTERTAINMENT]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2e34ffb3-80b7-40f6-a572-2f3c2ff23fce.jpg\" data-reuse=\"allowed\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">A concept photo from Ten&#8217;s second EP \u2033Stunner\u2033 (2025) [SM ENTERTAINMENT]<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Singer Ten will leave SM Entertainment but remain as a member of the NCT and WayV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ten&#8217;s exclusive contract with SM Entertainment will end on Wednesday, the agency said Monday.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cAfter a lengthy discussion with Ten regarding his future activities, we have decided to end his exclusive contract on April 8,\u201d SM Entertainment said in a press release on Monday.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> SM Entertainment will continue to communicate with Ten so that he can participate in WayV and NCT&#8217;s future activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank Ten, who has shown outstanding capabilities as a group member and as a solo artist since his debut,\u201d the agency said. \u201cWe will sincerely support his new journey ahead.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>Ten debuted in 2016 as a member of NCT U, a subunit of NCT. He is also a member of WayV, an NCT subunit that targets the Chinese market and SuperM.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>SM Entertainment previously announced Friday that its member Mark will leave both the agency and the band on Wednesday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>BY CHO YONG-JUN [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"9ffcf7f0b1e6f0f1f8f5eaf1aedff5f0f0f1f8fef1f8b1fcf0b1f4ed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 06 Apr. 2026, 14:31 A concept photo from Ten&#8217;s second EP \u2033Stunner\u2033 (2025) [SM ENTERTAINMENT] \u00a0 Singer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-589088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}