{"id":175562,"date":"2026-09-13T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=175562"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:26:14","slug":"ateezs-san-confesses-he-never-expected-bad-to-become-a-major-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ateezs-san-confesses-he-never-expected-bad-to-become-a-major-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"ATEEZ\u2019s San confesses he never expected \u201cBAD\u201d to become a major hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATEEZ<\/strong> has received a great reception in the international market with their latest single, <strong><em>\u201cBAD.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> The idols became a notorious being on diverse platforms, including TikTok, for their iconic dance challenge, which quickly became one of the most popular trends in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the idols not seeing the success coming in their career, the song became a summer hit within days. Surprisingly<strong>, ATEEZ\u2019s San didn\u2019t expect the popularity that <em>\u201cBAD<\/em>\u201d would bring to the boyband.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ATEEZ San Dances to &amp;apos;BAD&amp;apos; on Running Man - Sneak Peek!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uEX6bAavRAU?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>On September 13, a new episode of SBS\u2019s &#8216;Running Man&#8217; was broadcast with the special participation of SAN returning to the show after five years. The idol received a<strong> warm reception<\/strong> before performing the choreography that helped turn \u201cBAD\u201d into a major hit worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cI thought our fans would really like it, but <strong>I didn\u2019t expect the general public to enjoy it as well<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATEEZ has received a great reception in the international market with their latest single, \u201cBAD.\u201d The idols became a notorious being on diverse platforms, including TikTok, for their iconic dance challenge, which quickly became one of the most popular trends in 2026. Despite the idols not seeing the success coming in their career, the song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":175563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[924],"class_list":["post-175562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-ateez"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175562","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=175562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175566,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175562\/revisions\/175566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}