Rookie girl group aespa showed great firepower even before their comeback. KBIZoom launched on Thursday (9/6/2022), on the first day of June, aespa via their official SNS account announced their upcoming comeback with the mini album titled "Girls."
'SM Entertainment' then started pre-orders for aespa's 2nd mini album on June 2, 2022. On June 9, 2022, about a week later, SM Ent announced that this album had surpassed 1 million pre-orders.
Thus, aespa is the second K-Pop girl group in history (after BLACKPINK) to achieve this achievement, after only 10 days of opening for sales.
Top 5 pre-orders for K-Pop girl groups as of June 9, 2022:
- BLACKPINK <THE ALBUM> 1,028,888 copies
- aespa <Girls>1,000,000 copies
- TWICE <Formula Love: O+T=<3> 700,000 copies
- TWICE <Taste of Love> 530,000 copies
- Red Velvet <The ReVe Festival 2022 – Feel My Rhythm> 516,866 copies
Aespa, who debuted in November 2020, has been heralded as a "rookie monster" with three consecutive hits, from "Black Mamba" to the single "Next Level." and the first mini-album. Because they have established themselves as representatives of a girl group from the 4th generation, expectations for this album are also very high.
Here are some comments from Korean netizens on theqoo quoted from pannchoa on aespa's 2nd mini album titled "Girls" which surpassed 1 million pre-orders:
"Jjang-spa, fight on this comeback too".
"Seeing how the trolls boil over here is so cute".
"Aren't they the first female idols to surpass 1 million sales in a week?"
"Daebak (amazing)".
"Wow the fans in digital sales are too bad right now".
"I wonder how much they will sell in the end"."Well, it seems aespa has become the top among girl groups. As expected of the 4th generation".
"The current female idol is no joke".
"There's still plenty of time for their orders, but they've already reached 1 million in pre-orders". "Please take care of the ae-aespa too~!".
"Jjangspa, let's go".
"Interesting, I didn't know they were this popular."
In particular, aespa recently forged a global partnership with Warner Records. Previously, the group became the first K-pop girl group to perform on the main stage of the world's largest outdoor music festival Coachella and was chosen as the artist for Apple Music's global "Next" campaign in June, enhancing its international reputation.
Meanwhile, aespa's second mini-album "Girls" will be released simultaneously in Korea and the US on July 8, 2022, and the English single "Life's Too Short" will be released on June 24, 2022. /suara.com
