On the afternoon of October 5, aespa returned to the Kpop race with the album " Savage" consisting of 6 songs, in which the title track was named after the album. The MV Savage released on the same day has currently attracted 41 million views on YouTube.
This is aespa's MV with the most views after 24 hours, aespa also became the artist with the second highest MV views for all SM artists.
Not only the catchy chorus, the MV " Savage" was praised for its investment in a magical, unique image, the beauty of the 4 aespa girls did not disappoint fans.
Notably, management company SM Entertainment announced that aespa has collected 401,088 pre-orders for the album " Savage", an impressive number for a rookie group founded less than a year ago.
After that, Savage continued to sell 147,195 albums on the first day of release on Hanteo. This number helped Savage become the best-selling debut album of the girl group on the first day. aespa surpassed IZ*ONEs COLOR *IZ with 34,295 copies and Square Up - BLACKPINK with 19,094 copies to set a new record.
Up to now, aespa continues to achieve a series of impressive new achievements on Korean digital music platforms. Savage is No. 1 on all four major music charts, Genie, Bugs, FLO, and Melon.
In particular, the group beat Justin Bieber's song "Stay" - The Kid LAROI and the song "My Universe" by the duo Coldplay - BTS to take the top spot on the Melon Top 100. This makes aespa the first female artist to reach No. 1 on the Melon Top 100 since the chart was reformed.
In addition to the Korean market, Savage also reached No. 1 on the iTunes Top Albums in 17 countries and territories, including Vietnam. On the Chinese MV - QQ Music and Real-time charts on AWA Japan, Savage took the top spot. aespa is currently considered the most successful Gen 4 Kpop group.
