Artists Le Seraphim (Source Music) and New Jeans (Adore) under Hive Labels were selected as 'Forbes 30 under 30 ASIA 2023' by Forbes, a leading US economic magazine.
Every year, Forbes selects 30 young people from each region who have made remarkable achievements in 10 fields, including art, marketing, technology, finance, distribution, and healthcare. Le Seraphim and New Jeans were listed side by side in the Asia Entertainment & Sports category on the list announced on the 18th (local time).
Forbes noted the rapidly expanding global influence of Le Seraphim and New Jeans by retracing their music video YouTube views and major achievements. Through the popularity index of Le Seraphim and New Jeans, which were achieved in a short period of time right after their debut, their unlimited growth potential was highly evaluated.
In fact, Le Seraphim is breaking records with their 1st regular album 'UNFORGIVEN' released on the 1st. They entered the Billboard main album chart 'Billboard 200' at No. 6 and entered the chart's top 10 for the shortest period in the history of a K-pop girl group. Based on the domestic Hanteo Chart, the Initial Chodong album also achieved an unrivaled achievement of recording 1.25 million copies. Forbes described Le Seraphim as "one of the hottest K-pop girl groups right now."
New Jeans is also continuing its syndrome-like popularity. In the shortest period among K-pop singers, he achieved a cumulative cumulative 1 billion stream on Spotify and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. 'OMG' and 'Ditto' entered Billboard's main music chart 'Hot 100' at the same time and stayed for 6 weeks and 5 weeks, respectively. In Korea, with three songs, 'OMG', 'Ditto', and 'Hype boy', they set a record by sweeping the top three spots on Melon for three consecutive months (January to March). Forbes predicted that "New Jeans will become another K-pop sensation."
Reporter Yoon Jun-ho, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr