On October 24, the song "APT." by Rose (Blackpink) and Bruno Mars surpassed Seventeen's "Love, Money, Fame" to win on Mnet's music show M Countdown.
This is the first weekly music show trophy that "APT." has achieved in Korea since its debut.
In the Kpop industry, winning a weekly music show on Korean television stations is one of the proofs of a music product's success and the popularity of an artist or group.
Korea has many weekly music shows such as M Countdown, Inkigayo, Show Champion, Music Bank, The Show and Music Core.
These programs determine the winning artist through many criteria such as digital music scores (on domestic charts), album scores, audience voting scores, and television broadcast scores...
When she got her first win with “APT.”, Rose posted a photo on Instagram, tagging Bruno Mars' account and sending her congratulations: "You did it."
In response, the American pop star re-shared Rose's post and thanked the Korean audience: "Thank you so much to all my Korean fans! I cried all morning because of my first music show win.
Thank you so much Rose for helping me win first place, and thank you for loving our "APT." so much. Love you, Bruno oppa.”
Bruno Mars' reaction delighted the public. He is a talented artist who has won 15 prestigious Grammy awards, but cried because he won for the first time on a weekly music show in Korea.
On social media, Korean audiences humorously commented that Bruno Mars is "the singer who won first place on a music show for the first time after 14 years of debut (5427 days)".
Notably, looking at the M Countdown scoreboard, it can be seen that “APT.” beat Seventeen’s song despite receiving two zeros in the album category (Circle Album) and broadcast category (Broadcast).
In addition, M Countdown allows for scoring within 1 week (from October 14 to October 20), but “APT.” was only released on October 18. After 2 days, the song achieved an absolute score in the digital music category (on Circle), with 5,000 points.
With the "APT." fever, not only did Rose set new Kpop records, but Bruno Mars also achieved some of his career's highest achievements.
"APT." had his biggest streaming day ever, with 14,596,132 streams on Spotify globally on October 22.
