NewJeans continues to reap new achievements: Topping the Billboard chart in the US, not ashamed of being "BTS's sister"

The prestigious music site Billboard (USA) on August 9 (local time) announced the latest chart (week of August 13). Accordingly, the debut song "Attention" by rookie girl group NewJeans entered the "Billboard Global" chart (excluding the US) at number 174.

"Billboard Global" (excluding the US) is a chart based on total song plays and sales in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. NewJeans released their debut album "New Jeans" on digital music sites on August 1, but only 8 days later the group was featured on Billboard's chart, showing the fans' love. global for groups.

Recently, the new girl group HYBE - NewJeans - has officially debuted to the audience with their debut EP called the group. Right after their debut, the group sold a total of 262,815 copies of the album on the first day of sale.

This also helps NewJeans become the girl group with the highest number of debut albums sold on the first day of release. Not stopping there, the 5 girls of the HYBE family also set a record as the only girl group to surpass 200,000 album copies with only their first album on the first day.

Not only having achievements in the physical album segment, NewJeans also impressed when "sweeping" many music charts. Specifically, just a few hours after this EP was released, all 3 NewJeans songs titled Attention, Hype Boy and Cookie were on the Korean Melon chart. Notably, Attention also ranked at number 20, becoming the song with the highest debut position of a girl group in the past 3 years.

With a new, youthful and innocent style that is completely appropriate for the age group, NewJeans has become a new breath of K-Pop in recent years. In particular, member Hanni also made an impression as a Vietnamese member. Although not the first Vietnamese to join a K-Pop group, however, Hanni has a strong charm when being "joined" in a big company like HYBE.

It is predicted that with the current attention of the audience for NewJeans, this new group can completely become one of the most prominent names in K-Pop in the fourth generation, standing in the same ranks with a series of popular girl groups like aespa, IVE, LESSARAFIM...

Notably, the time when the group released "Cookie" caused mixed reactions because the lyrics in the song were said to be inappropriate for the NewJeans members' ages when evoking negative associations.

Accordingly, a post on social media has attracted great attention with the content indicating that the lyrics of the song "Cookie" contain sexual connotations.

In particular, the reason why this point of view has received a lot of sympathy from international netizens is because before that, many people questioned ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin's promotion of pedophilia. In addition, the audience also criticized HYBE for letting NewJeans members Minji or Hanni wear clothes that are not appropriate for their age.

On the contrary, the Korean audience completely rejected the above opinion and commented that "Cookie" is a cute, funny and refreshing song. In fact, in an interview, NewJeans also explained that the song was prepared to express gratitude to the fans who waited and cheered for the group's debut. It has been suggested that the translation for the original lyrics is wrong, leading to a literal interpretation by international fans.

Recently, the NewJeans girls had a live chat with fans through the Phoning app and revealed interesting facts about the group. For the first time interacting with fans, they were inevitably surprised and confused. Not only sharing their habits and hobbies, the members also revealed that NewJeans did not have a leader.

Accordingly, during the livestream, a comment raised the question of who is in charge of the leader position. The group has reconfirmed that NewJeans has no leader. Member Hyein said, "We don't have a leader. If the members have an idea, the whole group will discuss and discuss." Danielle then added, "All five of them are leaders, because they each have different charms." Accordingly, the leading position will also be rotated depending on certain situations.

Not only the leader, the other common positions of a K-pop idol group such as main vocal, main dancer, visual or rapper are also not fixed. Member Hanni said, "Because the members all want to do well in all aspects, we don't have a clear position." Accordingly, when enjoying NewJeans' music, the audience will feel 5 different voice colors, and not clearly dividing the position like this will bring a "fresh and exciting feeling" to listeners.

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