BREAKING NEWS ●—– SB19 Secures 5 Awards at the WISH Music Awards including Collab of the Year for ‘Umaaligid’ with Sarah G!—–SB19 Performs at BGC NYE at the 5th with a Record Breaking 166,000 in Attendance!—– SB19’s ‘Wakas At Simula’ Trilogy Finale Concert to be held at 50K+ Capacity SMDC Festival Grounds!—– ‘DAM’ Re-enters the BILLBOARD World Digital Song Sales Chart at #9 ten months after its release!—– SB19 Breaks Records with 18 SOLD OUT Tour Stops!!!!—– SB19 Sets a Record in the PH with 5 Songs that have charted on Billboard’s World Digital Sales Chart, and 4 are in 2025 alone, including the recently released HOK KIC25 Anthem ‘Burn The Flame’ Charting at #9! A first for any Filipino Artist —–●
Want to be a be trained by the Best? SB19’s Self Managed Company 1Z Entertainment is accepting auditions!
WHO IS SB19?
“The Kings of P-POP” (Filipino Pop Music), SB19, are a Filipino boy group that debuted in 2018. Its members are Pablo, Josh, Stell, Ken (Felip), and Justin.
SB19 is known for their emotional ballads, 100% LIVE vocals while dancing at max power, and their global hit songs like ‘Gento,’ ‘Dungka!’, and ‘DAM.’ SB19 has crossed cultural bounds and created a movement, resulting in P-POP becoming known around the world.
They are the sole owners of their self-managed entertainment company, 1Z Entertainment, and they also produce, write, design, and direct much of their content. They are also 5 successful solo artists known as PABLO, JC Cullen (Josh), STELL, FELIP (Ken), and justin.
SB19 are the Official Philippine Ambassadors for XIAOMI’s Latest: The REDMI Note 15 Series!
2018 – SB19 Debut
SB19 comprised of Pablo, Josh, Stell, Ken (Felip), and Justin, debuted under ShowBT Philippines on October 26, 2018 with their single, Tilaluha. A ballad song that, “…relays an emotional message about unrequited love”.
Before debut, most of the members were part of dance teams and k-pop cover groups. Some being on the same teams and others on rival teams where they often competed against each other before coming together as trainees under ShowBT.
Their debut was small and challenging and many people questioned their validity as artists in a time when P-pop was fairly unknown. They even questioned themselves and considered disbanding but decided to continue.
Going Viral in 2019
In 2019, SB19 released their second single, “Go Up” which went viral when an anonymous user shared the dance practice video for the song, due to being impressed by their in-sync dance skills. The video currently has over 6 million views.
SB19 Fandom – A’TIN
SB19’s loyal fandom is called A’TIN (pronounced eighteen) and derived from the Filipino word for atin which means Ours. The members stated that the meaning is “…if there is no A’TIN there will be no SB19”. The members were affectionately named by A’TIN as Mahalima. Mahalima is made up of the two words, mahal, meaning love, and lima, meaning five. It means that A’TIN loves and supports all five of the SB19 members. A’TIN’s support is the driving force behind SB19’s success.
Starting their own Management company – 1Z Entertainment
In October of 2023, almost five years after their debut, SB19 launched their own management company, 1Z Entertainment.
As stated on their official X account, “1Z is a play of the word – zone. ‘THE ZONE’ is our dojo where we work on ourselves and our talents and ‘IN THE ZONE’ is our state of being where we put our 100% in everything we do”. SB19 leader Pablo serves as the CEO.
Going viral – GENTO and MAPA
On May 19th, 2023 SB19 released their song “GENTO“. The word Gento is derived from two filipino words, ganito, which means, “like this”, and ginto, which means, “gold”. Representing SB19’s distinctive style, sound, work ethic and determination.
The song resonated with not only lovers of P-pop music, but listeners all over the world and has spawned a worldwide dance cover phenomenon.
On the rise are vocal covers of the song as well as recreations of its’ famous filipino lyrics into other languages! A Chinese language cover was made as SB19 and Gento have reached explosive popularity worldwide!
Their song about the love returned to parents for their efforts towards their children, ‘MAPA‘ (short for Mother and Father, and the Filipino word for map) became the first filipino MV to reach 100 million views.
It has also become a standard song dedicated to parents at graduations and other ceremonies when children, young and old show appreciation to their parents. It has been translated from Tagalog into multiple languages as well.
SB19’s Award Winning ‘PAGTATAG’ The Documentary
SB19’s award winning documentary about their legal battle against their former company to maintain their name, identity and brand rights was documented during their PAGTATAG World Tour in 2023.
It shows how they handled the pressures of uncertainty amid world tour stop cancellations due to the legal battle. At the same time, they showed their silent strength in front of thier beloved fan base A’tin, who, unaware of the legal proceedings, showed unwavering support. It’s an emotional story of facing the odds all while operating their self-managed company 1Z Entertainment.
It received a glowing reception and is the highest grossing documentary in Filipino history. It is now available for streaming on NETFLIX.
In celebration of SB19’s 7th Year Anniversary and in collaboration with world-acclaimed Filipino Fashion Designer Francis Libiran, FAST ZONE was a high-octane fashion & music experience that amplified a premiere collection of couture, emerging as a new sonic of style in motion.
Sir Francis Libiran is a celebrated Filipino fashion designer who created the opening ceremony costume, the “Sinag” barong for the Philippine Olympic candidates in Paris 2024! These costumes were praised by the world for their beauty and cultural significance as Olympic stars like Carlos Yulo dominated, winning a first ever gold Olympic medal in Gymnastics for the Philippines.
Along with Sir. Francis’ collection of 315 ethereal looks worn by 100 multicultural models, SB19 graced the stage like true cultural icons with solo stages and group songs that celebrated their past, present and future to a sold out Araneta Coliseum crowd as well as online viewers from around the world.
Renowned Filipino ‘Popstar Royalty’ Sarah Geronimo was a featured guest who performed ‘Umaaligid’ with SB19. Their 2025 collab that landed on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart at #4! It was a dynamic and unforgettable performance! Along with Coach Jay Joseph (SB19’s celebrated choreographer and a artist in his own right) and his dance crew W3 who are also SB19’s official dancers! As well as MARI Dance complementing the excitement with their dance performances.
This was a groundbreaking event that celebrated Filipino creativity and SB19’s furrow into global fashion world.
SB19 showed through ‘FAST ZONE’ a true “Simula at Wakas” (the title of SB19’s 7th year EP) which means a beginning and an end. A beginning of SB19 reinventing how the world views Filipino as well as South East Asian artists and creatives and bringing and end to the perceived idea that they don’t belong on the world’s stage. History is being made and their 7th year is just a start!
SB19 ad jingle for Philippines payment service GCash, “Make it Merry, I-GCash Mo” has broken the record for the fastest Filipino MV to reach 100 million views!
SB19 concluded an epic ‘Simula At Wakas’ World Tour run in Perth, Australia, on December 14th and teased a big announcement ‘for A’tin’ that’ll happen in 2026!
Asia Artist Awards 10th Anniversary Concert (ACON 2025) – Dance Rehearsal
Dubbed by international media as the “Philippine National Idol” and the “God Tier” group, SB19 gave an explosive performance at the Asia Artist Awards – ACON 2025 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan!! Here is their behind the scenes rehearsal for the show!
