Ive, IZ*ON, aespa & STAYC Set To Heat Up Korean Music Market In 2022
Solely lower than two weeks have handed because the begin of the New Yr, however the Ok-pop scene is already busy with information of rookie woman teams getting world consideration or getting ready for his or her official debuts.
One of many hottest is Ive, which made its debut on December 1 with the one ‘Eleven’, stories Yonhap Information Company. The group consists of six members, together with Yujin and Wonyoung from IZ*ONE, the now-disbanded widespread mission group fashioned by means of the native cable TV channel Mnet’s audition present ‘Produce 48’.
‘Eleven’ by Ok-pop woman teams Ive has since racked up wins on home weekly TV music reveals and made it onto charts internationally, together with Billboard, Spotify and China’s QQ Music.
After setting a report for probably the most first-week debut album gross sales by all Ok-pop woman teams, Ive’s first single album of the identical title had bought greater than 260,000 copies as of the tip of December, in keeping with information from native music tracker Gaon.
Carefully following within the footsteps of Ive is Kep1er, a woman group composed of the 9 finalists of Mnet’s audition present ‘Ladies Planet 999’, which aired from August to October final 12 months.
The multinational group with South Korean, Chinese language and Japanese members made its debut on January 3 with its first EP, ‘First Affect’, and broke the first-week debut album gross sales report set by Ive.
The album has bought greater than 200,000 copies within the first week of its launch with barely greater than 150,000 copies promoting on the day of launch, in keeping with native album gross sales tracker Hanteo Chart.
The tune additionally topped iTunes charts of 11 nations world wide, together with Japan, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Chile, Mexico and Brazil.
Additionally gaining immense world consideration are SM Leisure’s newest woman group aespa and Excessive Up Leisure’s STAYC, each of which debuted in November 2020.
aespa immediately rose to stardom, due to its distinctive idea involving a metaverse-based universe and the members experiencing the brand new world together with their avatars.
The quartet, in somewhat over a 12 months, has taken the Ok-pop trade by storm with three successive hits — singles ‘Black Mamba’, ‘Subsequent Stage’ and its first EP ‘Savage’, and grabbed a grand prize and a greatest rookie award at home year-end music awards ceremonies.
STAYC was the one Ok-pop act chosen as a part of 5 notable artistes for 2022 by the worldwide music platform Apple Music and music discovery app Shazam earlier this month.
The six-piece group established itself as a number one fourth-generation idol group final 12 months with its hit single ‘ASAP’, adopted by one other widespread launch, ‘Stereotype’. It shared the rookie award with aespa on the annual Golden Disc Awards held in Seoul final week.
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