On July 26, 2021, EXO's D.O. released his first solo album 'Empathy.' Although his album was released by the company without any promotion, it was very successful and created many new breakthroughs for him, and all of them was because of his talent and his extraordinary ability in singing. Even now, seven months after the album's release, he continues to set records.

Empathy by D.O. Reached 100,000,000 million streams on Spotify in just 221 days. This is the fastest SM solo album to reach this milestone. Additionally, Empathy also holds the record for the quickest SM solo album to reach 10 to 90 million streams on Spotify.