RIIZE Confirms Its Next Comeback Date
RIIZE (라이즈) will release a prologue single on October 26, 2026. A second full-length album will follow in spring 2027. SM Entertainment confirmed both dates but has not announced the single’s title, its tracklist, or an exact release time.
The roadmap gives fans a two-stage comeback structure: a prologue single first, then a full album months later. No further details on either release have been shared yet.
The Announcement Came After Two Sold-Out Nights
SM revealed the roadmap through a special video shown at the end of RIIZE’s third-anniversary fan meeting. The event ran for two nights, September 12 and 13, at Inspire Arena in Incheon. Both nights sold out.
The venue used a 360-degree stage configuration. Combined attendance across the two nights reached approximately 23,000 people, according to K-POPIT’s September 13 report.
Songs and Covers Performed in Incheon
RIIZE performed “Do your dance,” “Fly Up” and “Get A Guitar” during the fan meeting. The group also covered two songs from other artists: EXO’s “The Eve” and T-ARA’s “Bo Peep Bo Peep.”
The reported September 12 setlist closed with three songs treated as the night’s encore: “SOAR,” “In a Loop” and “One Kiss.”
RIIZE Members’ Solo Stages
Each member performed an individual stage themed around trainee evaluations. Shotaro performed “Text Me.” Eunseok performed “Love Like Oxygen.” Sungchan performed “BOSS.”
Wonbin performed “Moon of Seoul.” Sohee performed “And July.” Anton performed “Lost Stars.”
How RIIZE Entered This New Era
RIIZE’s second EP, II, sold 1,018,651 copies in June 2026. That total placed the release at No. 1 on the Circle monthly album chart for that month, according to ZAPZEE’s July 9 report.
The EP’s title track, “Do your dance,” also performed well on weekly music shows. The song scored 15,059 points on Music Bank’s K-Chart for the June 15–21 tracking period. That result gave RIIZE its second music-show win for the track, Soompi reported on June 26.
RIIZE debuted on September 4, 2023, with the single album Get a Guitar. The anniversary fan meeting and the new comeback roadmap arrived roughly three years after that debut.
What Global Fans Still Need to Know
SM’s September 14 announcement did not include an exact release time for the October 26 single. Fans in Southeast Asia, Latin America and North America cannot yet confirm local drop times.
The roadmap also did not include any tour or promotional dates outside Korea. No stops in Southeast Asia, Latin America or North America have been announced for the prologue single or the spring 2027 album.
Latin American fans who want to see RIIZE perform live can watch the group’s official full-stage video from Lollapalooza Chile 2026. That set includes “Get A Guitar,” “Love 119,” “Boom Boom Bass” and “Fly Up.”
Editor’s Take
SM has fixed the dates but little else: the October 26 prologue single has no announced title, tracklist or release time. Splitting the comeback into a single and a spring album gives RIIZE two release windows, which is our reading of the roadmap rather than SM’s stated plan. The recent numbers above, including 1,018,651 copies for II in June and about 23,000 attendees across the two fan-meeting nights, show the demand the group is returning with. No overseas dates are attached to either release yet.
Sources
- Yonhap News Agency · 2026-09-14
- ChosunBiz · 2026-09-14
- K-POPIT · 2026-09-13
- Aju Press · 2026-09-14
- StarNews · 2026-09-14
- Mainichi K-Pop · 2026-09-13
- ZAPZEE · 2026-07-09
- Soompi · 2026-06-26
- Yonhap News Agency · 2023-09-04
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