{"id":168477,"date":"2026-06-05T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=168477"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:47:24","slug":"aespa-earns-first-win-with-wda-on-music-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/aespa-earns-first-win-with-wda-on-music-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"aespa earns first win with \u201cWDA\u201d on Music Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>aespa<\/strong> is currently making big waves in the South Korean entertainment industry with the release of their album, \u201cL<em>EMONADE.\u201d<\/em> The idols who previously released the track <strong><em>\u201cWDA<\/em><\/strong>\u201d are gaining a major moment on the musical program circuit, even earning a crown for this astonishing music project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 5 KST, the idols secured their first music show win with <em>\u201cWDA\u201d<\/em> on <strong>Music Bank<\/strong>, marking a <strong>strong milestone<\/strong> in their latest comeback promotions. The show was hyped up by MAMAMOO, Tiple S, IDID, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, aespa, FIFTY FIFTY, CORTIS, MEOVV, XLOV, CUTIE STREET, XODIAC, and AND2BLE, among other amazing Kpop acts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[4K] \uc5d0\uc2a4\ud30c  &amp;apos;WDA (Whole Different Animal)&amp;apos; \ubba4\uc9c1\ubc45\ud06c 1\uc704 \uc575\ucf5c\uc9c1\ucea0(aespa Encore Facecam) @\ubba4\uc9c1\ubc45\ud06c(Music Bank) 260605\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWC_WX2K1rU?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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As usual, the show announced that the top two contenders for first place were aespa with<em> \u201cWDA (Whole Different Animal)\u201d<\/em> and AND2BLE with <em>\u201cCurious.<\/em>\u201d <strong>Ultimately, Aepsa emerged victorious with 6,934 points<\/strong>, while AND2BLE followed in second place with 5,676 points. The idols took over the stage to give a heartwarming winning speech:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThank you for giving us such a <strong>meaningful award<\/strong>. We will continue working hard during our full album promotions. Thank you to everyone who worked on&#8221;WDA,&#8221; and thank you to our fans, MY.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aespa is currently making big waves in the South Korean entertainment industry with the release of their album, \u201cLEMONADE.\u201d The idols who previously released the track \u201cWDA\u201d are gaining a major moment on the musical program circuit, even earning a crown for this astonishing music project.\u00a0 On June 5 KST, the idols secured their first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":168478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1631,16],"tags":[1019],"class_list":["post-168477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-awards","category-kpop","tag-aespa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168477","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=168477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168481,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168477\/revisions\/168481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}