K-pop Comebacks October 2026: Full Release Schedule by Date (IVE, NMIXX, ILLIT, LISA)

October 2026 is one of the busiest months of the year for K-pop releases.

 

IVE, NMIXX, ILLIT, BABYMONSTER, LISA, and a Seventeen sub-unit all drop new music in the second half of the month.

 

Here is every comeback and debut from mid to late October, date by date, with the album title and release time where it has been announced.
All times are Korea Standard Time (KST).
English titles in quotation marks after Korean song names are my rough translations.

 

I only list releases confirmed by the agency or Korean news reports.
Dates that appear only on fan calendars are in a separate "unconfirmed" list at the bottom.

NMIXX "Strange Muse" trailer. (Source: JYP Entertainment on YouTube)

This week and next at a glance

• Oct 15: Teen Top, Hyojung (OH MY GIRL)
• Oct 16: tripleS
• Oct 19: NMIXX, Jeonghan X Joshua, IVE (pre-release), Max Changmin, EVNNE
• Oct 20: Onew
• Oct 23: LISA, BABYMONSTER
• Oct 26: IVE, ILLIT, RIIZE
• Oct 27: AND2BLE

October 12

• NCT WISH: 4th mini album I SPY
• PLAVE: mini album HYPERDRIVE
• Sung Han-bin: first EP DEAD:ALIVE
• Xdinary Heroes: 9th mini album IMPULSE

October 13

• A2O LITE: debut digital single NEON, 6 p.m.
• A2O SOUL: debut digital single SUPERSTAR, 6 p.m.

 

Both are new groups from Lee Soo-man's A2O Entertainment.
A2O LITE hit No. 1 on Melon's TOP100 about 29 hours after release, the fastest ever for a rookie group's debut song under Melon's current chart system.

October 15

• Teen Top: 11th mini album DON'T STOP, 6 p.m.
• Hyojung (OH MY GIRL): first solo mini album Lost&Found, title track "미완성일지도" ("Maybe Unfinished"), 6 p.m.

 

Hyojung wrote and composed every song on the album.

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October 16

• tripleS: Andless, 1 p.m., continuing the ASSEMBLE26 LOVE&POP series

October 19

The biggest day of the month.

 

• NMIXX: 6th mini album Strange Muse, title track "긴 소원 (Birthday Wish)", 6 p.m.
• Jeonghan X Joshua (SEVENTEEN): 1st mini album DREAMSCAPE, 6 p.m.
• IVE: title track Looks Can Kill released ahead of the album
• Max Changmin (TVXQ!): 3rd mini album All of My Life, his first in 4 years and 9 months
• EVNNE: 6th mini album on: our noise, 6 p.m.

October 20

• Onew (SHINee): first single album 착각 ("Illusion"), 6 p.m., with three title tracks

 

Two songs, "Mind Games" and "Tic Tac Toe," were released ahead of it.

October 23

• LISA: six-track EP PRESS PLAY (RCA / LLOUD), with a Japanese CD edition the same day
• BABYMONSTER: digital single DESERVE, 1 p.m., four months after "SUGAR HONEY ICE TEA"

October 26

• IVE: mini album Looks Can Kill
• ILLIT: 5th mini album BREAK EVEN, title track "체포하겠어" ("I'll Arrest You")
• RIIZE: new release

 

IVE's title track comes out a week earlier, on October 19, so the album day is when the full tracklist lands.

ILLIT "BREAK EVEN" teasing video. (Source: HYBE LABELS on YouTube)

October 27

• AND2BLE: 2nd mini album Sequence 02: Attraction

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Unconfirmed (fan calendars only)

These appear on comeback calendars, but I could not confirm them in agency notices or news reports yet.
Treat them as "expected."

 

• Oct 12: MEOVV single album GO HARD
• Oct 14: Nam Woo-hyun 2nd full album 2X8; Yuju 4th mini album file. 07
• Oct 16: Hearts2Hearts Next Chapter
• Oct 19: Jeonghan X Joshua title track "12 o'clock"
• Oct 20: WOODZ digital single
• Oct 26: Xiaojun (WayV) mini album
• Oct 27: JAY B single
• Oct 28: XLOV 3rd mini album i=!
• Oct 29: Kim Feel full album JOURNEY

Why late October is so crowded

Year-end award voting is happening right now.

 

MAMA voting runs until early November, MMA's TOP10 voting runs October 15–29, and AAA's final round ends November 4.
A comeback in late October lands right in the middle of all three.

 

If you are voting, these guides have the deadlines in your time zone:

 

• MAMA Awards 2026 voting guide
• MMA 2026 voting guide
• AAA 2026 voting guide

Jeonghan X Joshua "DREAMSCAPE" highlight medley. (Source: HYBE LABELS on YouTube)

Quick summary

• Oct 19 is the big day: NMIXX, Jeonghan X Joshua, IVE's pre-release, Max Changmin, EVNNE
• Oct 23: LISA's PRESS PLAY and BABYMONSTER's DESERVE
• Oct 26: IVE's Looks Can Kill album, ILLIT's BREAK EVEN, and RIIZE
• New rookies A2O LITE and A2O SOUL debuted Oct 13
• Release times are mostly 6 p.m. KST (1 p.m. for tripleS and BABYMONSTER)

 

I will update this list as more dates are confirmed.

 

Images are from official agency videos on YouTube, credited above.