The music video garnered close to 20 million views on YouTube in just two days after its release, and the album sold over 560,000 copies on its first day of release. On the global pop music platform Spotify, it was the first K-pop song this year to successfully enter the global ranking charts on its first day of release. Le Seraphim is back, ‘Hot’, as the song title suggests.

Le Seraphim‘s new song for their comeback is the title track of their fifth mini-album, which also has the same title, ‘Hot.’, and it has been on a roll, garnering explosive global responses immediately after its release.

Their massive promotion on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, is an example of this. According to the latest chart on the 14th, the day of their release, the new song ‘Hot’ was played 1,431,762 times, directly entering the ‘Daily Top Song Global’. This year, Le Seraphim‘s ‘Hot’ is the only new K-pop song to enter the charts right after its release.

It’s also ‘Hot’ on YouTube. The title song ‘Hot’ music video easily surpassed 18.9 million views as of 3 PM on the 16th, just two days after its release. It may be an expected result for Le Seraphim, who have many ‘Hundreds of Million Views’ mega hits, but it is drawing attention as it is showing a speed that rivals that of their previous work, ‘Crazy’, which is also a mega hit, in terms of accumulated views.


The physical album sales are also eye-catching. According to Hanteo Chart, an album sales statistics website, the new album ‘Hot’ sold 567,735 copies on the first day of its release. This is interpreted as a green light for achieving a ‘first week million seller’, with a difference of only 100,000 copies compared to the initial press (1-week sales trend) of the previous album ‘Crazy’.

Le Seraphim‘s ‘Hot’ is also a topic of conversation as the final installment of the so-called ‘Adjective Series’ that has continued since the beginning of last year, including ‘Easy’(EASY)‘Crazy’. It is also evaluated as the ‘Easy Listening’ number with the most popular melody among the trilogy.

Le Seraphim is also about to start the world tour ‘Easy Crazy Hot’, which will bring together the ‘Adjective Series’ that was completed with this ‘Hot’.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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