{"id":26371,"date":"2022-05-06T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=26371"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:46:30","slug":"le-sserafims-debut-is-a-success-despite-the-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/le-sserafims-debut-is-a-success-despite-the-controversies\/","title":{"rendered":"LE SSERAFIM&#8217;s debut is a success despite the controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LE SSERAFIM<\/strong>&#8216;s first MV reached 20 million and topped the girl groups with the highest sales on Day 1 for a debut album with the title song, &#8220;<strong>FEARLESS<\/strong>&#8221; from their <strong>debut<\/strong> album released last Monday, May 2.<\/p>\n<p>The girl group is one of the rookie idol groups generating more buzz these days for being under entertainment giant <strong>HYBE<\/strong>, having two former members of <strong>IZ*ONE<\/strong>, <strong>Sakura<\/strong> and <strong>Chaewon<\/strong>, and for being embroiled in various controversies before their debut.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that after the release there were mixed opinions about the song.<\/p>\n<p> On Korean music streaming platform <strong>Bugs<\/strong>, all of the album&#8217;s tracks entered the chart in real time immediately after its release, and &#8220;FEARLESS,&#8221; which entered the chart only an hour after its release, shows popularity by remaining at No. 6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartLESSERAFIM\/status\/1522607789243310082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartLESSERAFIM\/status\/1522607789243310082<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartLESSERAFIM\/status\/1522608088666320897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartLESSERAFIM\/status\/1522608088666320897<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>However, the ranking of &#8220;FEARLESS&#8221; on other Korean streaming <strong>charts<\/strong> is not so positive. The album ranked No. 1 on the <strong>iTunes<\/strong> Top Albums chart in 13 countries\/regions including Japan, Brazil, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Chile on May 4.<\/p>\n<p>The MV of &#8220;FEARLESS&#8221; surpassed 10 million <strong>views<\/strong> on <strong>YouTube<\/strong> about 19 hours after its release, setting a new record by reaching 10 million views in the shortest time among MVs of a girl group that debuted this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartLESSERAFIM\/status\/1521414937117171717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartLESSERAFIM\/status\/1521414937117171717<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regarding physical album sales, LE SSERAFIM also set the <strong>record<\/strong> for the best first-day sales of a debut album of a female K-pop group in history with 176,861 copies sold on <strong>Hanteo<\/strong> in less than 24 hours after the release.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vbDFu0PUew\" title=\"LE SSERAFIM FEARLESS OFFICIAL M\/V\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vbDFu0PUew?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>LE SSERAFIM&#8216;s first MV reached 20 million and topped the girl groups with the highest sales on Day 1 for a debut album with the title song, &#8220;FEARLESS&#8221; from their debut album released last Monday, May 2. The girl group is one of the rookie idol groups generating more buzz these days for being under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":26378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1672],"class_list":{"0":"post-26371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-le-sserafim"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}