CLOSE YOUR EYES
CLOSE YOUR EYES (클로즈 유어 아이즈) came out of Project 7 with more pressure than most rookie groups ever face, then answered it with real sales and a fast-moving release run. The seven-member team was formed through JTBC's survival series in December 2024 and launched under Uncore, the idol label built by SLL and YG Plus. That setup mattered because CYE arrived with TV-scale visibility, but they still had to prove they could convert that attention into a lasting fandom.
They did it quickly. Debut mini album Eternalt opened in April 2025, Snowy Summer followed in July, and Blackout turned the group from survival-show winners into a real commercial force by pushing first-week sales to 570,000 and carrying total certified sales past 1.2 million. Those numbers gave CYE one of the stronger first-year cases in fifth-generation boy-group traffic, especially for a project act operating on a fixed contract clock.
The 2026 cycle showed the group was still moving forward instead of living off launch momentum. Their sold-out Olympic Hall dates pushed the Beyond Your Eyes tour into an international rollout, and April 2026 single OVEREXPOSED kept the catalog active with Paint Candy driving the next era. The appeal is clear: seven members with different textures, polished survival-show conditioning, and a catalog that already looks bigger than a short-term project group's usually does.
