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Name
The groups name, ZRC stands for Zanren Collindeon. Literal meaning "Zealous Reigning Clan". It represents the groups mission "to zealously Reign through hate, critics, and fake troops as to what they call there fans. When they first deputed they also went by Zi-M, Right Eye, and Chilli which were only three members from the start.

2009-2011: Formation and early years
ZRC began its formation in 2009 after MS Entertainment CEO Locissio sen-He had met the group leader Zi-M and was impressed with his swag, rapping, and singing.

ZRC was originally did not start off as a Z-pop group. It started out as a 90's inspired group but later changed and certified as a Z-pop group. The First Member was Ziandrea Colsius better known as Zi-M and was made the leader of the group. Next was Leonardo Kanthawon known as Right Eye who was found rapping on street corners and heard about the news and letter joined. The 3rd was Zhacchaeusii Een-ssi know as Chilli, he heard about auditions after an unknown member was kicked out from bad language and talent so then he took the chance to met the CEO and was later accepted.

On February 28, 2010, ZRC released their debut single Ep. ooooohhh on the ZRC tip, the first part of the 90's era/saga with the lead single "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" which charted number 194 on Billboard 200 and quickly fell of in less than a day. But as for their Ep. peaked at number 28 on the Billboard charts and sold over 2,500,000 copies and 2,400,000 copies in 2010, it was not a big success. But as for their second song "What About Your Friends" charted quickly, the highest it went was number 11 but fell to 26 in less than a week. In "oooohhh on the ZRC tip" ZRC had an old school early 90's sound and looks. The lyrics on the Ep talks about fake friends, gaining what they want, do what you want as long as your being yourself, and being true to yourself.They talked about their gonna do what they do and nobody can tell them anything, and that was the thing most haters were angry about.

In late 2010 they released the final part of the the 90's era "90'sX" which the songs took place between 1995-1999, along with its first single "Creep" which peaked number 2 on the Billboard charts and was a big success. The Ep peaked at number 2 on the Billboard charts and sold over 5,000,000 copies to date, including 2,000,000 copies in its release year. The lyrics on the the ep talks about youth drama, love, and dont chase the bigger thing in life. In 2011 they won best hot new artist on the billboard awards, VMA, Bet awards, and song of the year for "No Scrubs" at the Billboard following best video of the year for No Scrubs.

2011: Moderate success and first concert tour
For the beginning 2011 ZRC released two of the most iconic music videos of their career, Waterfalls and No Scrubs that now lie over 1B views on Youtube and have made top 10 on the Billboard charts for over three weeks. In May, ZRC held their first tour concert Tour in East Hollywood. ZRC embarked on their first concert, to a crowd of 300 fans. In 2011 ZRC had their first concert tour live "Lovin it" from May to June, held in various halls and theaters in Five cities: Hollywood, Atlanta, L.A, Brooklyn, and Chicago, And those concert tours had up to over 6,000 fans.

2011-2014: Mainstream breakthrough and commercial success
Nine months have past since the release of 90'sX and shifting their sound from hood and 90's styled songs/era's, they became settled to a more of exotic look and a hip hop/pop bubbly kinda style. July 11 ZRC released their first single for their first upcoming album "Fifth Friday" called (Your love) which was not a big hit but it was more of a little success peaking at number 19 on the Billboard top 20. September 1, 2011 ZRC announced two new members of the group, JeronimLL Orshoa known as LL and Antonio Estradin known as Wavy. The world was happy and awaiting their new album with to fresh new members. Two days later the labeled who everybody would be Zi-M as the leader and a singer, Right Eye as a rapper, Chilli as a rapper and singer, and LL and Wavy also as singers. September 9, (2011) "Fifth Friday" was released as ZRC's first studio album. The lyrics consisted about gaining fam, struggles for young people, and having fun while young. The album its self consist music genres of Pop, Hip Hop, R&B, and Z-pop. It peaked at number one everywhere with ruling songs like Poker Face, Halo, Fly, Moment 4 life, diva, and their breakthrough song Super Bass. The album sold 11,000,000 copies and 8,000,000 copies within its release year. From this they became the top artist to have the fastest sales and the first group to have sold over 1,000,000 in less than three weeks. Even though some songs did really well on the charts Super Bass was the top of them all, being number one for more than 3 months on all charts and platforms, and also being the most streamed artist on spotify and for the video now ever 5B views on youtube, plus the first video to pass 3,4 and 5 Billion Views on Youtube. They sold out Their first world tour in under a day and recapping the 2012 with $98,000,000. Winning best hip hop, pop, and Zpop group more than twice 3 Bet Awards, 10 Vma awards, 11 Billboard awards and more. Being the first artist and group to do so in one year. Having their ZRC Friday world tour going from Europe, U.S, Canada, Asia, and more, selling out 10 stadiums in less than two hours making $19,000,000.

Months before the Release of their second studio album ZRC faced a lot of problems, with Chilli taken to a mental hospital for almost killing his step father and Right arrested for hood violence. Through all the backlash and problems they faced ZRC released their first single for their second album called "Starships" and was a huge success for them and blinding most of the hate they gotten. Starships quickly flew up to number one everywhere and became the fastest first single to stay the number one everywhere and the first artist to do so(August 2012). Later they released two singles with music videos and they quickly blew up on the charts as well with "Pound The Alarm" in 4th, Starships in 5th, and "Right By My Side" at number one on the Billboard top 5 and 10 for over 3 weeks. "Fifth Friday: Roman Reloaded" was released October 12, 2012 and peaked number 1 everywhere, with selling over 9,000,000 copies worldwide and 6,000,000 copies within its year release. ZRC became the first group to have 10 song on the Billboard top 20. The albums lyrics talks about getting and earning your respect. "Roman Reloaded" is a hip hop/pop/Z-pop album making this the most selling Z-pop album ever and the most successful, and from right there ZRC became a official Z-pop boy group and won many awards for their album. Winning 9 Zanian Music Awards, 6 Zanian Video Awards, 12 Zanian Billboard Charts, 4 Billboard awards, 4 Bet awards, 9 VMA awards, 2 AMA awards, and more, which gives them a total of 63 awards and 51 awards in 2013 Alone. Till this day they still reign the most awarded artist, with every thing they have done up till the end of 2013 with 106 Billboard hot 100 entries and 102 award nominations. And while on their (2013-2014) The Re-Up world tour making $38,000,000 in all.

2015-2016: International expansion and worldwide recognition
In January 2015, ZRC released their third studio album "Reflection", which peaked number 1 everywhere for over two weeks and sold over 14,000,000 copies and 12,000,000 copies within its year release. Their First single and video for the album released the same day which was a surprising change for fans and non-fans. Breaking the record of most sold albums in a month. Its lead single, "Run The World" was and made a huge success for the group (2015). The album was a new chapter for ZRC coming from bubble pop and bubble hip hop. They even changed up their style of dressing to a more hip hop look, the album was made of R&B and Hip Hop. It topped the top 5 best Zanian albums since the 1996 (LThrob) Z-pop group. The second sing worth it reached the Billboard top ten songs on number one for over a month being the longest running song in Billboard history to stay in number one for over a month. The song quickly got awarded song of the year for the Billboard Music Awards, The VMA's, Zanian Music Awards, and the BET Awards. They became the first Zpop artist and group to have three number one albums in less than 4 Years, and "Worth it" became the Most Viewed Video on Youtube from early (2015) till early (2017). ZRC announced their 3rd world tour, (2015) "See Yourself: Reflection World Tour", From March 2015 to December 2016. The tour visited 20 countries including Brazil, Japan, Zania, Canada, and the United States and gathered 500,000 fans. ZRC began to get in larger venues, and moving into big arenas and domes.Tickets for the North American leg sold out within minutes and two additional shows were added due to high demand, making ZRC the first Z-pop act to sell out arenas in the United States.

2016-2017: The struggles of fame and group problems
On July 28, 2016 ZRC faced their biggest problem, Right-Eye was arrested and was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for burning a restaurant, and a mansion, and almost stabbed 3 people leaving 2 injured from the cause of house burning. At that Right-Eye was taken to a mental hospital then strait to juvie then to jail for the cause of extra violent behavior. ZRC was devastated and at loss being now four members of the group, but they finished their world tour and after that Wavy was taken to the emergency room due to misuse of depression pills and could not continue being in the group. Even more so Zi-M's Mother than seen all the drama and removed him from the group leaving only two members left, Chilli and LL. Zania than shunned to not make a return to the country quoting that ZRC is a disgrace Z-pop group. Locissio then found to new members but they were never showcased during that time (2016). ZRC continued as just two members up until April 15, 2017 when Chilli joined the hot new show "Bad Guy: Puerto Rico" which was originally a sports show but changed by the cast member due to their act of violence. Chilli fought on the show and showed a crazy side of himself that we dont usually get to see of him, the things he did on the show was not a good look for ZRC or his fame. After the show aired he later was banned from fame and was forced to stay home for a month my his mother besides her letting him preform at the 2017 VMA Awards Show. At hearing all the Chilli uproar and the commotion all over the internet Chilli was then kicked out of ZRC leaving LL the only member. Locissio then began searching for new boys to make a new group, feeling bad for LL he told him that he can still be apart of MS Ent. but as a solo artist to give the new group a fresh start, LL later accepted the invitation and started his solo career. LL was really successful wining song of the year for his first solo song "Roses" at the VMA's and AMA's. LL Became the first Zanian artist to release a successful solo song within less than a month of being a solo artist. Zania even letting him perform at the Zanian Music Awards and winning (October 2017). Locissio than disabled all ZRC social media accounts, and not only fans but the world was shocked, speculating that this was the end of ZRC. Chilli and LL than came off of social media since the ZRC accounts been deleted. Most Troops which what ZRC call their fans posted on their social media accounts #Bring Back ZRC while haters will post #ZRC Over. Many fans never gave up hope and hoped that ZRC will return.

2018-2019: Musics biggest comeback and biggest touring
While the world were still looking for ZRC, the everybody had finally got what they wanted, for the 2018 Super Bowl half time Mindless behavior was set to perform their major hit song "Up Town Funk" with a surprising team performance, ZRC was set to preform with Mindless Behavior and they begin to preform a new song and with all the members being there. Both groups finished off the performance with the iconic dance off, and the performance became the most iconic Super Bowl Performance in history (February 4, 2018). February 19, 2018 ZRC released their first single in more than 3 whole years "Formation" which was a major hit and topped the Billboard top 5 for over two weeks standing in number one, the song its self sold over 1.9 million copies, Troops around the world and called it "Musics Hugest Comeback". The Video of the song was awarded video of the year at the 2018 Billboard Awards. April 17, 2018 ZRC opened up the Billboard Awards Show with an iconic performance, with new songs like "Light My Body Up", "Formation" and their old hot song "Worth It". On May 26, 2018 ZRC released their fourth studio album "5/25", the album topped all charts in number one from May 26 to August 19 and ZRC became the first and only artist to have a number one album on all charts for more than two months. Its sold over 22,000,000 copies and 18,000,000 in its release year and became the highest selling album ever. 5/25 sold 3.4 million copies within the first two weeks of release. The album was a tropical house/ Hip hop album, but the song that stood out the most was "Work From Home" which peaked at number one for more than six months on all charts and became the only artist to have a number one song for more than 2 months. LL also made a chap stick line called LLstick and was a huge marketing success, Chilli came out with a show line called Embronas and made over $25,000,000 in its release year (2018). Their music videos were a big success as well but, what the Troops wanted was a music video for their song Work From Home, so the Troops got what they wanted. October 19, 2018 ZRC released the most iconic music video of their career and music video in general. The Video is now over 7B Views which is the most viewed video on youtube, Winning video of the year and song of the year at the 2018 EMA's, PCA's and AMA's Awards and video of the year for the 2019 Billboard Awards. At that Zania let ZRC back in their county They than began their 5/25 world tour in October 2018 to November 2019, the first was the Roonba Olympic Stadium, the largest stadium in Zania and sold 50,000 tickets in under 15 minutes. Averaging $5.8 million and 48,814 tickets per show, the tour extension's total gross revenue reached $147,959,586 with total attendance topping out at 1,585,096 tickets. 5/25 certified diamond in less than 8 months, making ZRC the first Z-pop group and Group to have three albums certified diamond in less than a decade (2019).

Crossing over to film, ZRC released The Fans In Front Of Us: The Movie in theaters worldwide in October 2018 to commercial success. In the United States it accumulated $2.8 million on opening day for a total of $6.18 million over the three day weekend, breaking the record for the highest grossing event cinema musical production ever. They ended the year with a total of $72,000,000, MS's 2018 net income was 60.1 billion ZY ($72.22 million), June 15, 2019 ZRC released a new single "Voicemail" and was a huge success peaking number one everywhere being their 10th song to be number one on the Billboard top 5 in less than two years being the first artist ever to do so, winning song and video of the year at the VMA's 2019.

November 24, 2019 ZRC performed Voicemail and became one of the best AMA's performances in history, as for the Decade Music Awards they won best song of the decade for Super Bass and performed that song, they were the first Z-pop act and only group to win this award. In as of 2019 they sold every 91,000,000 copies in all. January 29, 2020 ZRC performed at the Grammy's 2020.

2019: The 6th Era
March 1, 2019 ZRC released their third Ep. called "The 6th Era" which was their 6th era in their career. The Ep consist of 5 songs and where all pop/Z-pop. It peaked at number everywhere and became their 4th project to do so and they became the first group to have three number 1 projects in less than 5 years. It sold over 14,000,000 copies in all and they also broke the record for the fastest selling artist selling over 30,000,000 albums in less than 3 years. While still hosting their world tour they managed to drop some videos for their songs. The first was released the day of the ep, the song was voicemail and reached millions of streams on all platforms, now over 1,000,000,000 views on youtube, and number 1 on billboard and ZRC being the first and only artist to have over 10 songs on the billboard charts in under two years. They are the first and only artist/ youtubers to have 10 videos with over 1,000,000,000 views. Their Music video "Icy" reached 71,800,000 in 24 hours which falls in second place under BTS - (Baby) Official MV as the most viewed video on youtube in 24 hours.

2020: The way of: Persona, and "Ddu Du-Ddu Du".
On February 28, 2020 ZRC released a surprising new single called "DNA" for their upcoming fifth studio album "The way of: Persona". It quickly blew up and peaked at number 9 being on Billboard top 10 for almost two weeks. The song was more of a Z-pop song and made a lot of fans think what the era will be like. DNA became the one of the best selling Zpop songs since "Atomic" in the early 2000's. DNA selling over 300,000 copies in its first week and 800,000 in total. A few months later on May 15 they released their next single "Heart" which debuted at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 48 on the UK Official Singles Chart. According to album distributor Dreamus, the stock pre-orders of the album reached a record-breaking 5.68 million, surpassing their previous record of 3.89 million with "The 6th Era".

The way of: Persona was released on June 5 to universal acclaim. The album was supported by the lead single and smash hit "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" which flew to number 1 on the Billboard hot 100 and 10 in just one week of its release breaking Youtube records as the MV set 84.96 million views in 24 hours breaking their previous record for "As if it's your last" at 70.78 million views.The music video became the most viewed online video in the first 24 hours by a Zanian act and third most watched music video of all time with 84.96 million views behind the two biggest kpop groups Blackpink and BTS, Blackpink "How You Like That" with 86.3 million views and BTS "Dynamite" with 101.1 Million views. Also becoming the fastest video on the Youtube platform with over 10 million likes in under 20 hours. In just 5 days of the albums release, The way of: Persona sold more than 13.6 million copies surpassing their previous album 5/25 to become the best selling album in the history of Zania and best selling album bye a group in general. The album debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200 with a first-week tally of 822,000 album-equivalent units, making ZRC the fastest group to earn four number one albums since the Beatles in 1968. The album marked the biggest Billboard 200 debut in 2020.The lead single "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 5570,000 downloads, becoming ZRC' tenth top five and their biggest sales week for a song. It became the group's tenth top ten and highest charting single on the chart, making them the Zanian act with most top 10 hits on Hot 100.

In late July, "Diamond entertainment" confirmed that their with be another remix/mashup, as they took the news to their platforms Troops just seem to get even more ZRC content. As fans tried to guess who the artist were ZRC were still clueless about who the artist was which was the funny part cause it was more of their song being mashed with another artist. On August 7 the remix/mashup of Ddu-Du Ddu-Du was released and fans all around the world went crazy over this mashup. The mashup artist on the song were the kpop boy group Stray Kids. As song was another hit for ZRC and even the Stray Kids, as the song debuted at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 which was a huge lift for the Stray Kids gaining more recognition, it sold over 720,000 copies within the first week of its release, and 2,100,000 million copies. Troops and Stays/ both groups fandom names call it the first collaboration bye Kpop and Zpop ever, but Chilli quickly denied the claims as he said its just a mashup not a real song, he goes on to say that it was made by a fan and how the company the Stray Kids are under found it and liked the little mashup and took it and showed it to Diamond Entertainment, as they did they agreed to fix up patches and release the song. The mashup became big for ZRC but huge for the Stray Kids as they are still a upcoming kpop group having debuted January 2018.The group got their first top 5 song along with a top 10 and 50 on the Billboard Charts peaking at number 6 behind a fellow kpop boy band BTS with their song On earlier this year that debuted at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Being at number 6 it made them the second korean act ever to peak on the Billboard Hot 100 on the top 10.

Members

 * Treey - Rapper, 19


 * Wavy - Vocalist, 20


 * Chilli - Vocalist, Rapper, 19


 * Zi-M - Leader, Vocalist, 19


 * Right-Eye - Rapper, 18


 * LL - Vocalist, 17

Fifth Friday
Released: September 9, 2011

Sold: 13 Million Copies

Roman Reloaded
Released: October 12, 2012

Sold: 9 Million Copies

The Re-Up
Released: December 19, 2012

Sold: 6 Million Copies

Reflect
Released: January 3, 2015

Sold: 16 Million Copies

Reflection
Released: January 13, 2016

Sold: 12 Million Copies

5/25
Released: May 26, 2018

Sold: 32 Million Copies

The Way Of: Persona
Released: June 5, 2020

Sold: 13 Million Copies

OOOOHH On The ZRC Tip
Released: February 28, 2010

Sold: 1 Million Copies

90 X
Released: December 30, 2010

Sold: 10 Million Copies

Sledge
Released: March 7, 2014

Sold: 8 Million Copies

One on One
Released: February 10, 2017

Sold: 7 Million Copies

The 6th Era
Released: April 5, 2019

Sold: 14 Million Copies

Tours and concerts
Concert tours

90's Party Tour (2010-2011)

Fifth Friday World Tour (2011-2012)

Roman Reloaded World Tour (2013-2014)

Reflection World Tour (2015-2017)

2/25 World Tour (2018-2019)

The Way of: Part 1 World Tour (2020)

Top 10 most viewed videos
Work From Home - 4,000,000,000 views

Super Bass - 3,600,000,000 views

Worth It - 2,900,000,000 views

Starships - 2,800,000,000 views

Fefe - 2,400,000,000 views

I Lied - 2,300,000,000 views

No Scrubs - 2,100,000,000 views

Hey Mama - 2,000,000,000 views

Waterfalls - 1,100,000,000 views

DDU-DU DDU-DU - 1,000,000,000 Views in 71 days august 16

2011 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Hot 100 Song - No Scrubs

Top R&B Song - No Scrubs

2012 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top New Artist

Top Billboard 200 Album - Fifth Friday

Top Pop Song - Super Bass

Top Rap Song - Super Bass

2013 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Hot 100 Song - Starships

Top Pop Artist

Top Pop Album - Roman Reloaded

Top Rap Song - Beez in the Trap

2014 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Hot 100 Artist

2015 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Hot 100 Song - Worth It

Top R&B Song - Suga Mama

Billboard Chart Achievement

2016 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Song Sales Artist

Top R&B Album - Big Bad Wolf

2017 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Hot 100 Artist

Top Hot 100 Song - Black Jardies

2018 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

2019 Billboard
Top Duo/Group

Top Billboard 200 Album - 5/25

Top Hot 100 Song - Work From Home

Top Song Sales Artist

Top Collaboration - Work From Home ZRC feat Ty Dolla $ign

Top Radio Song - Fefe

Top Selling Song - Work From Home

Top Rap Song - Fefe

2020 Billboard

Top Duo/Group

Top Hot 100 Artist

Top Streaming Song

Total: 36 Billboard Music Awards

VMA 2011
Video of the Year - No Scrubs

Best New Artist

VMA 2012
Video of the Year - Super Bass

Best Pop Video - Super Bass

VMA 2013
Video of the Year - The Night Is Still Young

Best Video with a Social Message - The Night Is Still Young

VMA 2015
Video of the Year - Worth It

Best Collaboration - Worth it

Best Choreography - BO$$

Song of Summer - Worth It

VMA 2016
Video of the Year - Going Nowhere

Best Pop Video - Going Nowhere

VMA 2017
Best Pop - Swish Swish

VMA 2018
Video of the Year - Fefe

Song of the Year - Work From Home

Best Collaboration - Work From Home

Best Art Direction - Apesh*t

VMA 2019
Video of the Year - As If It's Your Last

Best Pop - As If It's Your Last

Best Z-Pop - As If Its Your Last

Best Choreography - Wannabe

VMA 2020

Video of the Year - Ddu Du Ddu Du

Best Group

Total: 23

Zi-M
Born: October 9, 2001 (age 19 years), Atlanta, Georgia

Hight: 5' 8"

Full Name: Ziandrea Vaghan

Right Eye
Born: April 24, 2002 (age 18 years), Suthep, Thailand

Hight: 5' 5"

Full Name: Leonardo Ayutthaya

Chilli
Born: August 18, 2001 (age 19 years), Denshi, Zania

Hight: 5' 6"

Full Name: Zhacchaeusii Santos

LL
Born: March 1, 2003 (age 17 years), Medellin, Colombia

Hight: 5' 4"

Full Name: Llejandro Londoño

Wavy
Born: November 14, 1999 (age 20 years), East Harlem, New York

Hight: 5' 6"

Full Name: Venicio Velez

Number 1's
No Scrubs - (4 weeks)

Poker Face - (2 weeks)

Super Bass - (12 weeks)

Starships - (8 weeks)

Voicemail - (3 weeks)

Worth It - (11 weeks)

Black Jardies - (2 weeks)

Hey Mama - (2 weeks)

Unforgettable - (1 week)

Fefe - (1 week)

Work From Home - (19 weeks)

Ddu-Du Ddu-Du - (7 weeks)

Rap Line:
Right Eye + Chilli + Treey

Vocal Line:
LL + Zi-M + Wavy + Chilli

Dancer Line:
Right Eye + Chilli + LL

Visual Line:
Wavy + Zi-M + Chilli

Maknae Line:
Zi-M + Right Eye + LL

Hyung Line:
Treey + Wavy + Chilli

Billion View

 * 1) Work From Home - 4,100,000,000 views

2. Super Bass - 3,700,000,000 views

3. Worth It - 2,900,000,000 views

4. Starships - 2,800,000,000 views

5. Fefe - 2,400,000,000 views

6. I Lied - 2,300,000,000 views

7. No Scrubs - 2,100,000,000 views

8. Hey Mama - 2,000,000,000 views

9. DDU-DU DDU-DU - 1,150,000,000 views

10. Waterfalls - 1,100,500,000 views

11. Black Jardies - 1,100,000,000 views

12. Roses - 1,080,000,000 views

13. Voicemail - 1,070,000,000 views

14. Unforgettable - 1,020,000,000 views

15. As If It's Your Last - 1,005,000,000 views

16. My Girl - 1,000,000,000