SEVENTEEN's Jeonghan & Joshua Drop DREAMSCAPE: Joshua's First Unit Album Rewrites the Group's Record Books

SEVENTEEN's Jeonghan and Joshua released DREAMSCAPE — their debut mini album as the duo unit JXJ — on October 19, 2026, completing one of the most-anticipated milestones in the group's eleven-year history: Joshua Hong's first official unit project since SEVENTEEN's 2015 debut. The 7-track album opens with the disco-funk title track '12 o'clock,' a production that applies 1970s–80s rhythmic textures to a contemporary K-pop frame, and closes with member-written solo tracks from each — 'Not personal' (Joshua) and 'Coloring' (Jeonghan) — placing creative ownership at the centre of a release that was years in the making.

The seven-track runtime covers more stylistic ground than any previous SEVENTEEN unit album. '12 o'clock' leads a full-group tracklist that includes 'Like you,' 'Outside,' and 'One plus one' before pivoting to its most personal territory: 'Not personal,' Joshua's first solo composition within SEVENTEEN's discography, and 'Coloring,' Jeonghan's solo track written from the perspective of the dreamscape the album takes its name from — a liminal space where fantasy and ideal collide and refuse to separate. 'No looking back' closes the project as a joint declaration. Both members received writing credits across multiple tracks, deepening a creative footprint Jeonghan established with his 2024 JxW unit alongside Wonwoo.

The concept — a dreamscape where the fantasies that bloom during sleep and the ideals one pursues in waking life continuously mesh and collide — was developed during Jeonghan's mandatory military service. He was discharged on June 25, 2026, the first SEVENTEEN member to complete service after enlisting in September 2024. The unit project was confirmed by Pledis Entertainment in July and moved quickly: The Dream Game Show, a variety-format special hosted by Seungkwan, aired October 13–14, and the Seoul album pop-up sold out every reserved time slot within hours of booking opening.

Of SEVENTEEN's thirteen-member roster, Joshua was the only member who had never participated in a subunit project across the group's entire history — a distinction fans had noted since SEVENTEEN's systematic unit rollout accelerated with duo pairings from BSS to V8. The gap between his debut and his first unit project is the longest in the group's architecture. Its resolution in a joint release with Jeonghan — another Vocal Unit member, a long-standing off-stage friendship translated into music — gives DREAMSCAPE a weight beyond catalogue placement alone.

SEVENTEEN's subunit commercial track record is formidable context. Jeonghan's previous unit JxW with Wonwoo set a Hanteo first-week subunit record with 787,046 copies on 'THIS MAN' in 2024, since surpassed by CxM (S.Coups x Mingyu) and V8 (Vernon x The8, 622,000 first-week copies). DREAMSCAPE enters that competitive internal landscape as the final piece of SEVENTEEN's subunit era, with pre-order demand that cleared the album pop-up entirely and Incheon JOURNEY INTO [DREAMING] tour dates sold out through FC membership pre-sales before general ticketing opened.

DREAMSCAPE is the centrepiece of the JOURNEY INTO [DREAMING] unit tour, which opens October 30 through November 1 at Incheon Inspire Arena and extends through February 2027 with stops in Saitama, Macau, Taipei, Busan, and Hong Kong. All Incheon dates cleared through FC membership pre-sales before general ticketing opened, establishing JXJ as a touring draw commensurate with SEVENTEEN's largest subunit pairings. The Hong Kong leg, closing in February 2027, gives DREAMSCAPE a promotional window that spans four months and six cities.