All Six Members of NCT Dream Just Re-Signed With SM. It's the Label's Second Full-Group Renewal This Summer.

NCT Dream's six members have all renewed their contracts with SM Entertainment, the agency confirmed Thursday. Renjun, Jeno, Jaemin, Chenle, and Jisung completed their renewals following Haechan, who signed his own extension last month. SM cited "deep trust in one another and unwavering affection for the team" as the basis for the decision, without disclosing contract lengths.

The announcement makes NCT Dream the second full NCT subunit to lock in a complete lineup renewal this summer. NCT 127's seven members - Johnny, Taeyong, Yuta, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Jungwoo, and Haechan - all re-signed with SM in July, even including Doyoung and Jungwoo, who are currently serving mandatory military service and won't resume full activities until their 2027 discharge. That group's seventh studio album drops August 24.

Both renewals follow a stretch of departures that had fans openly speculating about NCT's stability. Mark left NCT and SM entirely in April, and Winwin's exit followed shortly after - a sequence that pushed a viral list of NCT members' contract expiration dates back into circulation, with fans predicting further exits before year's end. NCT Dream itself shrank from seven members to six when Mark departed, since he held membership in both NCT Dream and NCT 127 simultaneously under the group's rotating-unit structure. Renjun, Jeno, Jaemin, Chenle, and Jisung's expiration window fell in August, per that same circulating list - meaning this renewal lands exactly when fans had been watching most closely.

NCT Dream debuted in August 2016 and has built one of SM's most commercially consistent catalogs: its sixth EP, "Beat It Up," released in November, became the group's tenth consecutive release to sell over a million copies, and each of its first three full-length albums moved more than 3 million copies in a single opening week. The group marks its tenth anniversary with a livestream celebration on August 24 - the same day NCT 127's new album arrives, giving SM two decade-milestone moments landing on a single date.

With NCT Dream and NCT 127 both locked in, attention now shifts to NCT's other active units and to whether SM extends the same full-group renewal pattern across the rest of the 23-member collective before its own anniversary campaign, "NCT 2026: Everything, All at Once," runs its course.