‘Music power’ Fifty Fifty Espa New Jeans selected as ‘Artist Top Ten K-Pop Girl Brand’ in May

Groups Fifty Fifty, Aespa, New Jeans, Ive, IU, Blackpink, (G)I-DLE, Kim Sejeong, StayC, Mamamoo TENASIA ARTIST TOP TEN May 'K-Pop Girl Brand (K-POP) GIRL BRAND)' was selected as the main character.

Last May, through the Ten Asia voting service, global voting was divided into Artist Top Ten K-POP BOY BRAND, K-POP GIRL BRAND, and HOT GENRE BRAND categories. has been carried out

As a result of the voting, Fifty Fifty (Saena, Aran, Kina, Shio) took first place in the K-pop girl brand category. According to the US Billboard announcement (July 15), Fifty Fifty's 'Cupid' ranked 24th on the latest Hot 100 chart. With this, Fifty Fifty successfully entered the chart for 16 weeks, breaking the record for the longest time by a K-pop girl group. It ranked 7th on the 'Global 200' chart and 4th on the 'Global' (excluding the US). "Cupid" is the title track of Fifty Fifty's second single, "The Beginning: Cupid," released last February. It is based on minimalistic disco beats and funky basslines.

Espa (Carina, Winter, Giselle, Ning Ning) took second place. Espa was the first K-pop group to attend 'The Governor's Ball Music Festival 2023' held at Corona Park, Flushing Meadows, New York, USA on June 10 (local time) and performed on the main stage. In addition, on June 24 (local time), 'aespa LIVE TOUR 2023 'SYNK: HYPER LINE' in JAKARTA' was held at the Indonesia Convention and Exhibition Center in Jakarta, Indonesia, and all seats were sold out. recorded Espa will continue its global tour at Thunder Dome in Bangkok, Thailand on July 29-30.

The New Jeans (Minji, Hani, Daniel, Haerin, Hyein) were ranked 3rd. 'Super Shy', one of the triple title songs of New Jeans' 2nd mini album 'Get Up', was ranked No. ranked 11th. After entering the chart at number 37 on the first day of release (7th), the song recorded a steep rise. In Korea, it topped major music charts such as Melon, Genie, Bugs, and Flo. New Jeans also won first place on Mnet's 'M Countdown', which aired on the 13th, without appearing on the show. New Jeans' 2nd mini album with 'Super Shy' will be released on the 21st at 1pm.

It was followed by Ive, IU, Black Pink, (G)I-DLE, Kim Se-jeong, Stay C, and Mamamoo.

Fifty Fifty, Aespa, New Jeans, Ive, IU, Blackpink, (G)I-DLE, Kim Sejeong, StayC, and Mamamoo rank 30% in the media index using the online music site Melon index, 10% in the Google trend index, and Ten. 60% of the global popularity vote, which was done by fans through the Asian voting service, was applied.

Candidate criteria are K-pop boy brands, K-pop girl brands are top 30 male and female idol groups and solos on the current month’s Melon chart, hot genre brands are domestic groups with a history of entering the current month’s Melon chart and Idol Champ monthly chart and the top 30 of the month among solo artists.

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Reporter Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia bella@tenasia.co.kr