{"id":137620,"date":"2025-02-10T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=137620"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:01:13","slug":"plave-reaches-a-new-status-as-a-virtual-idol-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/plave-reaches-a-new-status-as-a-virtual-idol-group\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAVE reaches a new status as a virtual idol group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PLAVE<\/strong> is a virtual idol group that debuted with their album, <em>\u201cAsterum: The Shape of Things to Come\u201d<\/em> in 2023. Despite the K-Netizens weren\u2019t fully convinced of having a virtual boy band, the boys have thrived against all odds.<\/p>\n<p>On February 3, PLAVE made their comeback with their new mini-album,<em> \u201cCaligo Pt. 1\u201d<\/em> and its title track, \u201cDash.\u201d Fortunately, the boys met commercial success after <strong>Hanteo Chart revealed their latest music project sold an impressive total of 1,038,308 copies within the first week of its release<\/strong> (February 3 to 9).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-137621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PLAVE-Sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The boys nearly doubled PLAVE\u2019s previous first-week sales record of 569,289 set by their 2024 mini album <em>\u201cASTERUM : 134-1.\u201d<\/em> PLAVE has officially joined the<strong><em> \u201cmillion seller\u201d<\/em><\/strong> club and became the first virtual idol group to reach this milestone!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b3GoZMfHJT4&amp;t=1s&amp;ab_channel=PLAVE%ED%94%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%EB%B8%8C\" title=\"PLAVE &#039;Dash&#039; M\/V\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b3GoZMfHJT4?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAVE is a virtual idol group that debuted with their album, \u201cAsterum: The Shape of Things to Come\u201d in 2023. 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On February 3, PLAVE made their comeback with their new mini-album, \u201cCaligo Pt. 1\u201d and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":137622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1353,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charts","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}