[2][A] This is the first album to not feature Kris and Luhan, as they both filed lawsuits against SM Entertainment and left the group back in of May and October 2014 respectively.

This is also the last album to feature Tao, as he suspended his activity a month later, and on August of that same year, filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment, thereby departing the group.

Before the album's release, SM Entertainment held a press conference, in which all the members were present except Lay, who was in China focusing on his then-upcoming film.

[4] Suho also stated that he had never thought about the sales numbers after the release of the album, and just wanted to bring new music to fans of the band.

The first letter of the Exo members' location in the Pathcode teaser videos would spell out the album's lead single "Call Me Baby".

), Arizona (Chanyeol), London (Kai), Lyon (Baekhyun), Marseille (Suho), Edinburgh (Sehun), Barcelona (Tao), Almaty (Chen), Berlin (Xiumin), and Yunnan (Lay).

According to SM Entertainment, pre-orders for Exodus reached 502,440 copies (321,200 in Korean and 181,240 in Chinese), already passing the half million mark.

[17] The combined version of the album sold over 6,000 copies in the United States and charted at number 95 on the Billboard 200 in its initial week of release.

According to the members, it was a present for the fans after waiting patiently and bearing with the problems and struggles faced by the band, while still supporting them with their activities.

[citation needed] The lead single for the album, "Call Me Baby", was released online on March 28, 2015, while the accompanying music videos of two versions (both in Korean and Chinese, respectively) came out three days later through a number of media.

[C] The songs "El Dorado" and "Beautiful" from the album, were previously used three years prior, when SM Entertainment released the teasers for the band members.