SEVENTEEN’s participation! Blue, not blue? K-pop May ‘Breathtaking Series’ complete
‘God of Records’ Seventeen is also joining the fray! May for K -pop is going to be so blue that it might as well be blue with the match-up of all time.Photo courtesy of Pledis Entertainment
K is going to be a month filled with matchups so great that it might just turn you blue.
SEVENTEEN has been added to the K-pop May comeback schedule, which has already been dubbed ‘MAY KING’ in reference to the word ‘May Queen’.
The self-proclaimed ‘Kings of Records’ SEVENTEEN are back.Their return date is May 26th.It’s already their 10th anniversary, and it’s also their ‘debut anniversary’.
SEVENTEEN’s new album hinted at an imminent comeback when some clues were revealed at a fan meeting held in March.At the fan meeting, SEVENTEEN revealed their debut anniversary on May 26th as the stage background, and later continued the conversation on SNS by posting a mysterious invitation image, further increasing curiosity.
SEVENTEEN’s full-length album release is their first in three years since “Face the Sun” in 2022.With the unprecedented record of “selling over 10 million copies” for two consecutive years in 2023 and last year, many inside and outside of K-pop are taking it as a “fait accompli” that this full-length album release will further extend that number of years.
On the 22nd, Seventeen announced through their agency Pledis Entertainment, “We will be officially releasing our 5th full-length album ‘HAPPY BURSTDAY’ on our 10th debut anniversary.” Photo courtesy of Pledis Entertainment
As the ‘God of Records’ with astronomical sales, SEVENTEEN’s numbers are being newly engraved every year.Last year alone, SEVENTEEN’s best album ‘SEVENTEEN IS RIGHT HERE’ sold over 3 million copies in just ten days, boasting the highest initial sales(sales trend for the first week after release)for a K-pop best album.
In the case of the previous regular album, the regular 4th album ‘Face the Sun’, it set a record for ‘highest sales of K-pop album in 2022’ by exceeding 3.51 million copies according to the Circle Chart in March 2023.
Meanwhile, with the official return of Seventeen, May’s K-pop is drawing attention as it features a fierce battle between the top male idol groups.
The K-pop ‘Making Series’ begins with group Tomorrow X Together, who announced a single release on May 2nd, followed by Boy Next Door, Rise, who will be releasing their first full-length album, and BTS ‘Jin’s solo album.
Reporter Heo Min- mignon@donga.com
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