Awesome / EXO

• Tao, during EXO-M's "Do Your Best" recording
• EXO receiving multiple daesangs, or top awards, at the end-of-the-year music award shows for multiple broadcast stations in 2013, in addition to selling a combined total of more than 1 million albums that year.
  • Adding onto that, being the first group to sell more than 1 million physical albums since 2001.
  • Earlier in the year, they also won first place in weekly music award shows 27 times for their songs Wolf, Growl, and Miracles in December.
• Lu Han landing in the Guinness Book for most comments on a Weibo post for August 2014.
• EXO held a fansign event and their fans weren't behaving properly and one fan even fell over and EXO tried to calm the crowd so that they could try to help the girl and D.O., who is arguably the member who is the most scared of EXO fans, said that if they didn't conduct themselves properly then the group would leave. Needless to say, EXO ended up leaving to let the fans cool off.
  • Fans and netizens find this amazing due to the fact that EXO finally stood up for themselves against a small but well-known part of the fandom that really doesn't respect their privacy or safety.

• The lyrics to "El Dorado" from the EXODUS album are about persisting on a journey despite many obstacles, and proving themselves to those that believed in them and those that didn't.
  ''No pain, no gain, this is a yet unknown world
  Put our ten fingers together in a circle, we are one."
  • "Been Through" from Universe reflect a similar sentiment despite being quieter and less bombastic.
• Lay getting his chance to shine during "Call Me Baby". Various blogs were impressed with his performance and noted that he clearly had to pick up where Lu Han and Kris were missing. He even got his own studio.
• Lay's limited addition autobiography Standing Firm at 24 selling 68,573 copies. The pre-order was said to have sold an average of 50 copies per second, breaking online book order records.
• Their song "Call Me Baby" received 18 awards, which broke their own record of 14 awards with "Growl"
  • That also makes it the second most awarded song ever, only losing to Gangnam Style's 20 music show wins.
• EXO setting a Guinness World Record for most daesangs won at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (five), tying with Big Bang.
• EXO winning Album of the Year at the Mnet Asian Music Awards for a record-breaking five consecutive years.
• Tao's flips in MAMA and Overdose