SEVENTEEN
“Rock with you“, the title song of the 9th mini-album of the group SEVENTEEN (S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, The8, Mingyu, Dogyeom, Seungkwan, Vernon, Dino), has been selected as “Best K-pop Song of 2021”.
According to Top K-Pop Songs and Albums of 2021, released on the official website of the US weekly magazine TIME on December 8 (local time), SEVENTEEN’s ninth mini album “ATTACCA” was released on October 22, “Rock with you” was named “Best K-Pop Songs of 2021”.
TIME said, “SEVENTEEN is a band that always do their best to improve the comprehensiveness of their concepts. The concept this time is ‘Rock.’ Of flames and bikes, and is complemented by an intense guitar sound, a racing pace and explosive energy.”
In addition, he provided favorable reviews, stating:
“The second half of the chorus, which adds a delicate low and heavy voice of rappers singing “Baby hold on”, makes listeners’ hearts beat faster.”.
Previously, SEVENTEEN topped several domestic and foreign music and album charts at the same time as its comeback, leading the worldwide craze for “ATTACCA”, and achieved initial sales of 1,335,862 copies with its 9th mini album “ATTACCA”, becoming the only artist to record 5 million consecutive sales this year.
In addition, “ATTACCA” received platinum gold record certification in Japan, surpassing the 250,000 cumulative shipments in October 2021. On Japan’s Oricon chart, it has proven its worldwide popularity by dominating the daily album charts and the weekly ranking of albums, the complete ranking of Billboard Japan albums …
In particular, it entered Billboard’s “Billboard 200” major album chart, No. 13, managed to rank for two consecutive weeks, and topped the “Best Selling Albums”, “Best Selling Albums”, “charts current albums” and “World Album”.
SEVENTEEN has shown unlimited growth since its debut in May 2015, surpassing 10.13 million cumulative domestic album sales (as of November 12) in six years and six months. Attention is focused on future SEVENTEEN movements, which have grown in popularity around the world beyond Korea and have proven the potential for a “global K-pop power”.
TIME link.
Journalist: Shawn
Translator: Shawn
Source: Pledis Entertainment
