KATSEYE

Who are KATSEYE?

KATSEYE (캣츠아이) are a six-member girl group on HYBE x Geffen Records, the label HYBE and Geffen Records set up together. In the order their official site lists them, they are Daniela, Lara, Manon, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae. The official site hangs one city on each name, and the six read Atlanta, Los Angeles, Lucerne, Honolulu, Manila and Seoul. They are the first girl group from HYBE to debut in the United States. The official fandom name is EYEKONS.

From the audition to the debut

The members were chosen through The Debut: Dream Academy, an audition programme broadcast from September to November 2023. GMA News Online reported in November 2023 that 120,000 people applied to the audition, run jointly by labels in Korea and the United States, and that twenty of them competed on camera. The names of the final six were announced on 18 November 2023, on YouTube and Weverse. The group debuted the following year, on 28 June 2024.

The records and the stages

‘Gnarly’ arrived on 30 April 2025, and in May the group performed on the Korean music shows, starting with Mnet’s M Countdown. The single ‘Animal’ followed on 24 July 2026 and the third mini album Wild on 14 August 2026, the same day the ‘Hootie Frutti’ music video went up. Wild entered the Billboard 200 at number one on the chart dated 29 August. The tour, THE WILDWORLD TOUR, opened in Dublin on 1 September 2026.

Two stages in 2026

At the 68th Grammy Awards on 1 February 2026, KATSEYE were nominated in two categories: Best New Artist, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for ‘Gabriela’. They performed in the joint Best New Artist showcase at the ceremony, and the award went to Olivia Dean, as Money Today reported the next day. Two months later, on 11 April, they played the Sahara stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.

Where to start

The official videos go up on the KATSEYE YouTube channel and HYBE LABELS, the music videos for ‘Animal’ and ‘Hootie Frutti’ among them. The official site katseye.world gathers the member pages and each member’s own accounts. What each of them has done separately is kept on their own profiles on this site.