ZerobaseOne ‘Target Group’Downward Steps ‘5 Consecutive Million’ Great Record
The majesty of the target group! Group ZEROBASEONE held a showcase for the release of their 5th mini album ‘Blue Paradise’ (BLUE PARADISE) at Blue Square in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the 24th and made a splendid comeback. Reporter Kim Jong-won won@donga.com
They have become the protagonists of an unprecedented new record. Isn‘t this an action worthy of the ‘Grand Prize Group’? The group Zero Base One.
ZERO BASE One ‘self-renewed’ a new K-pop record as soon as they released their new album. Starting with their debut album, they have ‘surpassed 1 million sellers (1 million copies) on the day of release’, and have now succeeded in increasing their consecutive records to ‘Number 5’. ‘BLUE PARADISE’, released on the 24th, is Zero Base One’s 5th mini-album.
According to their agency Wake One, their new album ‘BLUE PARADISE’ sold 1,013,825 copies on the day of its release on the 24th. Following their official debut in July 2023 with ‘Youth in the Shade’, they have increased the number of ‘Singles on the day of release’ to 5.
The so-called ‘line-building’ on various music charts, which can be used to gauge the ‘firepower’ of their thick fandom, also took place. ‘All the songs’ from the new album entered the Top 100 and Hot 100 of Melon, Korea‘s leading music platform, and as a result, they achieved 1 million streams in just 9 hours and 30 minutes since their release.
The response from overseas was also hot. Following its 3rd place on the iTunes Worldwide Album Chart, the group also showed off its global power by topping the iTunes ‘Top Albums’ charts in 12 regions, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.
Not only that, it ranked 3rd on Japan’s largest music site Line Music‘s album chart, and 8th on the TOP 100 with the title song ‘Blue’, and also ranked 1st on the Daily Album Chart of China’s largest music site QQ Music.
Photo courtesy of Wake One
The global fandom‘s response to ZeroBaseOne’s comeback was also hot. X‘s (former Twitter) real-time trends included the group name ‘ZeroBaseOne’, along with the album’s track ‘Doctor!
Zerobaseone, who have established themselves as K-pop‘s ‘leading hitter’, appeared at the 1st DAwards on the 22nd, two days before their comeback, and won the ‘Record Of The Year’, which is awarded to an album that further raises the status of K-pop as popular art with outstanding planning and creativity.
Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com
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