Kickflip Wins 2 Awards at Music Awards Ceremony in Just 33 Days Since Debut “It‘s Like a Dream”

JYP Entertainment’s next-generation boy group Kickflip has won 2 awards at music awards ceremonies in just 33 days since their debut.

Kickflip won the ‘D Awards Discovery - Discovery of the Year’ and ‘D Awards Remark’ categories at the 1st D Awards held at Korea University‘s Hwajeong Gymnasium in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul at 6 PM on the 22nd. Hereby, after debuting on January 20 with their first mini-album ‘Flip it, Kick it!’, they have achieved their first awards ceremony appearance and two awards in just about a month, showing off their clear performance as ‘K-pop super rookies.

The members said, “We dreamed of standing on an awards ceremony stage while preparing for our debut, and we are so happy that we have achieved this. It is such an honor to receive such a great award. We will work even harder in the future and show you a more energetic performance. We also sincerely thank everyone who supports Kickflip.”.

In particular, they presented an opening performance with the theme of ‘Tape Cutting Ceremony’ to announce and celebrate Kickflip’s first awards ceremony appearance. Gye-hoon, Amaru, Dong-hwa, Joo-wang, Min-je, K-ju, and Dong-hyun broke the frame of the solemn ‘Tape Cutting Ceremony’ and raised the excitement with their free-spirited energy as they stirred up the stage. Starting with a funky arrangement of the intro of their debut album‘s track ‘WARRIORS’, they then performed a rich stage with the pre-released track ‘Yeah Yeah’, and the title track ‘Mama Said (What Are You Trying to Be?)’, demonstrating their image as ‘next-generation stage craftsmen’. Minje also showed off his photogenic poses at the special corner ‘D-Tail Awards’ after being selected for the ‘King of K-Pop Award’.

Having gotten their first awards ceremony off to a good start and having achieved meaningful results, they plan to continue to drive their popularity with their active activities. On the 20th, Mnet’s ‘M Countdown’, KBS 2TV‘s ‘Music Bank’, and MBC’s ‘Show! Following ‘Music Core’, they will continue their promotions for the follow-up song ‘Knock Knock’ until SBS ‘Inkigayo’ on the 23rd.

Meanwhile, Kickflip‘s first mini album ‘Flip it, Kick it!’ recorded 322,000 copies shipped by Circle Chart, taking first place on the Weekly Album Chart and Weekly Retail Album Chart (2025.01. 19~2025.01. 25). Based on Hanteo Chart, it ranked first on the Weekly Album Chart (2025.01. 20~2025.01. 26) and achieved 276,881 copies in the initial week (album sales for a week based on the release date), receiving an official initial week certification.

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com Reporter shine2562@donga.com

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