Atin Ito First Filipino Community Newspaper in Ontario
New K-pop girl group ILLIT scored their first Billboard Hot 100 entry just 22 days after they made their debut.
ILLIT debuted on March 25 with the album “Super Real Me” fronted by the main track “Magnetic.”
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ILLIT’s “Magnetic” debuted at No. 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (Billboard)
According to Billboard, “Magnetic” debuted at No. 91 on the April 20-dated Hot 100 chart “with 6.2 million official U.S. streams (up 1%) and 428,000 radio audience impressions (up 43%) April 5-11, according to Luminate.”
Last week, ILLIT set a record as the fastest K-pop girl group to debut on Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 with “Magnetic” soaring to No. 2 in just 14 days since its release on March 25. The track also secured the No. 8 spot on the Billboard Global 200 chart (dated April 13), making it the highest-charting debut single by a K-pop group in the history of the Billboard Global 200.
They have amassed acclaim with “Magnetic” on multiple charts, landing at No. 11 on the Spotify Global Weekly Top Song chart, and No. 47 on the Spotify USA Weekly Top Song chart.
“Super Real Me” achieved the milestone of becoming the best-selling debut album among female K-pop artists by first-week sales, boasting sales of over 380,000 copies in one week.
Also proving their remarkable presence on social media, the hashtag ‘#ILLIT’ has amassed over 2.9 billion views (in English and Korean) on TikTok since the account first launched, while the track “Magnetic” has been used in over 370,000 videos on TikTok (as of April 16).
ILLIT released a brand new music video for “Lucky Girl Syndrome” on HYBE LABELS’ official YouTube channel on April 16.
— Jonathan Hicap
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