2015–2016: Odd, DxDxD and 1 of 1

On February 17, Shinee were invited as the only Korean artist(s) to China’s Lunar New Year Program, Chun Jie Wan Hui, which is hosted by Liaoning TV and has been the highest viewed show for 12 years amongst other shows that air during the same time.[118]

Shinee held a three-day long concert, Shinee World IV, at Seoul’s Olympic Park Gymnastics Gymnasium between May 15 and 17, where the group premiered the new songs off their upcoming album.[119] Their fourth studio album, Odd, was released on May 18 and the following day the music video to the title song, "View", was released, the track written and produced by LDN Noise and Jonghyun.[119] The music video for "View" was the most watched K-Pop music video in the world for the month of May.[120] Odd debuted at No. 9 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart as well as number one on Billboard's World Albums chart and sold over 2,000 copies in the US.[121] The repackaged album, Married To the Music, was released on August 3, 2015, with 4 additional songs.[122] Gaon Charts released year end 2015 sales which revealed that Shinee was one of only five male groups to make it into the digital chart, at 41st place, and one of only four male groups to make it into the top 100 of the download charts and streaming charts, 78th and 65th place respectively—beating their placings in previous years.[123]

They released their 11th and 12th Japanese singles, "Sing Your Song" and "DxDxD", on October 25, 2015, and December 13, 2015, respectively, the latter being the lead single for their fourth Japanese album of the same name.[124] On January 1, 2016, Shinee released their fourth full-length Japanese album, D×D×D, which included the group's previously released singles and the Japanese version of "View".[125] The album topped the Oricon charts for 2 consecutive weeks.[126] To promote the album, they launched their fourth nationwide Japanese stadium tour, Shinee World 2016, starting in Fukuoka's Marine Messe on January 30, 2016, and ending at the Tokyo Dome on May 19, 2016, with a total of 20 concerts in 9 cities, and their agency, S.M. Entertainment, estimated that the concert could have gathered up to 350,000 people, which would bring the cumulative total of visitors to all of Shinee's Japanese tours to 1.12 million.[127] The tour was their second time headlining in Tokyo Dome, which they did on May 18 and 19, and first time in Kyocera Dome, on May 14 and 15.[124][128] They released their 13th Japanese single, "Kimi no Sei de", on May 18,[129] which sold over 69,000 album copies in Japan.[130]

In February 2016 Forbes's released their top forty of Forbes's Korea Power Celebrity, Shinee being included once again.[131] In March, Shinee won the Asia's "Best Group Award" at the 23rd DongFang Music Awards in Shanghai, one of the biggest annual award ceremonies in China. The group was the only K-Pop act invited to attend and perform at the ceremony.[132] Also for the first half of 2016 Shinee ranked third in Japan for their concert audience numbers with approximately 364,000 people from 20 concerts.[133]

On September 4, 2016, Shinee held their fifth solo concert titled Shinee World V in Seoul. Four of the 34 songs performed were songs from the groups new album,[134][135] which was released on October 5, 2016, under the title 1 of 1. The album spins a hyper-modernized twist on the retro genre, and stretches back to the 1980-1990 period.[136][137] The repackaged version titled 1 and 1 was released on November 15, 2016, with 5 new songs.[138] On December 21, 2016, Shinee released their 14th Japanese single, "Winter Wonderland",[139] which debuted on number two on the Oricon Charts and sold over 80,000 album copies in one week.[140]

2017-present: "Five"[edit]