They have also participated in singing ten soundtracks for various Korean dramas and have been a part of SM Town's winter vacation album 2011 Winter SMTown – The Warmest Gift and summer vacation album 2009 Summer SMTown – We Are Shining with other SM artists.

They later released their first studio album, The Shinee World, which peaked at number three on the MIAK (Music Industry Association of Korea) chart[1] and was re-released as Amigo (2008).

Shinee was one of the biggest-selling K-pop acts in America in 2013, becoming one of the first Korean musicians to rank on Billboard's year-end World Albums chart.

[4] In 2015, Shinee released their fourth studio album, Odd, with the lead single "View", both of which claimed the top of the charts.

In the first week of sales, it sold over 91,000 copies, setting a new record for the debut single of a Korean idol group in Japan.