XngHan's First Mini Album 'Glow' Drops April 27 With Fanmeeting, Full Xoul Crew

RIIZE's former member XngHan (승한) will release his first mini album Glow on April 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM KST through SM Entertainment, according to SM's April 3 release notice as relayed by Korea JoongAng Daily. The five-track EP arrives under the XngHan&Xoul artist-crew brand he built with dancers Kyohong and Yul, giving his post-RIIZE reset a much clearer shape than the tentative solo rollout that came before it. CHOSUNBIZ reported that the title track "Glow" leans on pop house and rhythmic R&B while pitching the project around renewal, shared energy, and a fresh start. That framing matters because this is the first release positioned as a full statement rather than a test balloon. Pre-orders opened the same day in multiple physical versions, including Glow Ver and XngHan Ver editions, and the campaign now rolls straight into a Seoul fanmeeting on April 26.

From RIIZE to XngHan&Xoul: the rebrand that rewrote the narrative

XngHan's path to this mini album is one of K-pop's most closely watched reinventions. He debuted as a member of RIIZE in September 2023 with "Get a Guitar," only to be placed on indefinite hiatus two months later after private photos circulated online. For nearly a year, his career existed in limbo. Then in November 2024, SM Entertainment confirmed he would pursue a solo path, and by June 2025 he had rebranded entirely. The name "XngHan" incorporates an "X" to symbolize limitless potential and creative crossover, according to SM's announcement cited by Korea JoongAng Daily. Rather than positioning him as a conventional soloist, SM built XngHan&Xoul as a collaborative performance brand with professional dancers Kyohong and Yul forming the core crew. It was a deliberate move to give him an identity completely separate from RIIZE, even as the group kept building momentum in its own breakout 2026 run.

Glow tracklist and sound direction

The mini album contains five tracks with the title song "Glow" leading the set. CHOSUNBIZ reported on April 23 that the title track is a pop house song built around hopeful, youthful energy. The same report said XngHan described Glow as a release about shared moments and an inner urge to move, which tracks with the rollout's heavy performance branding. The sonic palette expands from the synth-pop and rhythmic R&B foundation established by "Waste No Time" into something more dance-driven and communal. SM has positioned the album's overarching theme around self-discovery and the internal light that emerges after a period of reflection, a narrative thread that resonates with XngHan's own public journey. The full tracklist has not yet been publicly detailed beyond the title track, but the five-song structure already tells you this is being sold as a concise identity statement, not filler between bigger plans.

The Let's Glow fanmeeting at XSCALA Seoul

One day before the album drops, XngHan&Xoul will host "2026 XngHan&Xoul Fanmeeting [Let's Glow]" on April 26 at XSCALA in Jung-gu, Seoul, confirmed by SM's official channels and summarized by STARNEWS. The venue will host two sessions at 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM KST, with ticketing handled through Melon Ticket. That matters because the fanmeeting is not a side event. It is the emotional front porch for the whole comeback. Fans get the first live encounter with the new era before the album officially hits streaming platforms, which gives the EP a built-in word-of-mouth push before release night. It also separates XngHan's current lane from RIIZE's arena-scale trajectory, making the reset easier to read as its own performance-driven project instead of a shadow story about what might have been.

What Waste No Time proved

His July 2025 debut single "Waste No Time" quietly validated the whole experiment. The single album moved past 50,000 copies in early chart tracking, a healthy result for a rebranded artist working without the usual group safety net, and the hanbago-directed MV signaled that SM Entertainment was funding the project like a serious long-term play. Fans on Reddit's r/kpop immediately clocked the production spend and treated the debut less like damage control and more like the start of a new lane. That reaction matched the industry read. In his debut interview with The Hollywood Reporter, XngHan said he wanted to "burn the soloist XngHan into your brain," a line that landed because the release already felt more defined than a typical reset single. Nine months later, Glow is the project that tests whether that early curiosity can turn into durable demand.

Fan community split and the road ahead

Fan reaction to this comeback has been divided in exactly the way you would expect from a release carrying this much backstory. Supporters who stayed with XngHan through the hiatus and rebrand are treating Glow like the first full proof that the reset has real momentum, while some corners of the wider RIIZE fandom are still uneasy about how the split from the group is being processed in public. Reddit threads and X posts over the past week have shown both responses side by side, which is why this rollout feels more charged than a standard rookie-era teaser cycle. That tension matters because Glow is not only being judged as music. It is being judged as a long-term viability test for the XngHan&Xoul model itself, a format that still looks unusual in a market dominated by either traditional solo acts or full groups.

The album also arrives at a productive moment for SM Entertainment's roster. With RIIZE confirmed for their second mini album in June and XngHan building a more defined lane of his own, the company now has two separate stories moving at once instead of one unresolved fallout narrative hanging over both sides. That is healthier for everyone involved. According to SM's April release notice as reported by Korea JoongAng Daily, Glow drops April 27 at 6:00 PM KST on major streaming and retail platforms after the April 26 fanmeeting at XSCALA. The real question now is whether the stronger framing, clearer identity, and fanmeeting-first rollout can convert sustained curiosity into durable demand for the XngHan&Xoul format.