SEVENTEEN Unit V8 Announces Debut EP Release, Features Pharrell Production

SEVENTEEN members The 8 and VERNON are gearing up to launch the first mini-album from their new side unit, V8. The self-titled mini-album, due out on June 29, finds the K-pop duo teaming up with a long list of big-name producers, including former collaborator Pharrell Williams.

According to a release announcing the project, it is a deep dive into the theme of “wasted youth,” with the songs focused on “raw moments of wandering and confusion experienced through time, along with the resilience and growth found within those struggles. Rather than defining the youth spent as mere lost time, the album sublimates the unstable and fragile nature of youth into an explosive sense of freedom, channeling that energy into a driving force to continuously forge ahead.”

In addition to Pharrell — who produced the song “ Bad Influence ” from the group’s fifth studio album, 2025’s Happy Burstday — the mini-album will feature the pair working with longtime collaborator BUMZU, as well as a number of other producers, whose names were revealed in a clever video clip featuring the list burning in reverse to reveal the roster.

Among the names on the paper are German electro house producer/DJ Mechatok, 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady, Korean Music Awards winner KIRARA, as well as a number of other pop, electronic and hip-hop producers, including: Alice Longyu Gao, BADTREE, HAKASEEE, Han Jung In, Jake Torrey, kimj, Lodge Boy, Lucian, MILLENNIUM, Numbernine, Ramzoid, Rhode, Robb Roy, Rudolph, Sophie Cates, Stella Smyth, UHD, and Will Not Fear.

The duo teased their upcoming debut with a grainy 30-second video that included them lounging in an apartment, throwing food at each other and dancing through a shower of fireworks in front of a billboard featuring their group name, soundtracked by a snippet of their hyperpop sound.

V8 will kick off the 2026 VERNON THE 8 [V8] LIVE tour in Goyang, South Korea on July 11-12, followed by a three-night fun of shows in Hong Kong from July 17-19.

Watch the V8 teaser below.

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/seventeen-sub-group-v8-release-date-debut-ep-producer-pharrell-1236268380/)._