[Epoch Times June 21, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Zeng Weixin compiled a report) The US billboard (Billboard) announced on the official website on the 20th local time that the popular Korean girl group TWICE was launched on June 9th. The mini album “Taste of Love”, ranked 6th on the “Billboard 200” chart. This is the highest score ever achieved by a mini album of a K-POP girl group in the past.
TWICE entered the “Billboard 200” chart for the first time with the ninth mini album “MORE & MORE” released in June last year, and won the 200th place. The second regular album “Eyes wide open” released in December of the same year was again on the chart. At 72nd place, this new work “Taste of Love” jumped up to the 6th place.
Regarding the “Taste of Love” ranking 6th on the “Billboard 200” list, TWICE’s official SNS announced the news this morning and said in Korean: “This is all thanks to ONCE. Thank you very much for being with us. Together’!” also wrote in English: “All because of ONCE, ONCE comes before TWICE, So Thankful for being’Always Together’.” (Click to see）
The title song of “Taste of Love” “Alcohol-Free” was previously airborne at number 12 in the “World Digital Song Sales” list of the billboard, and ranked 65 in Spotify’s global TOP 200 list.
In addition, for the music program “M Countdown” on the 17th, TWICE won the title of the title song “Alcohol-Free” with a total score of 10,123 points. Yesterday (20th) it scored 7,002 points. Won the championship in “Inkigayo”, Tzuyu thanked the fans, staff and TWICE members for their hard work in her acceptance speech.
TWICE member Sana (Minozaki Saxia) released her personal photo through the official IG after winning the championship (Click to see), wrote “ONCE (official fan name)!!! Thank you for letting us win the championship, and congratulations to everyone, love you”, Mina (名井南) also released photos of different styles of this song in the evening (Click to see), write “ONCE, thank you for your efforts to cheer for us”.
At noon today, Dahyun released a group photo of TWICE members during the MV shooting of the title song “Alcohol-Free” on Jeju Island (Click to see), as well as personal photos and photos of the sky and the sea (Click to see), with a short text “Thank you ONCE for your efforts to cheer for our album. Although the “Alcohol-Free” event is over, we will see you later^-^”
In addition, the official MV of the title song “Alcohol-Free” of TWICE’s new album also exceeded 100 million views yesterday (20th) at around 7:37 pm Korean time (Click to see the announcement). This MV was only released for about 11 days and 1 hour and reached hundreds of millions of views, which is 10 hours shorter than the official MV of TWICE’s previous work “I CAN’T STOP ME”. It is TWICE’s own best record.
Including Japanese MVs such as “Breakthrough”, which reached 100 million views on May 15 this year, TWICE has 17 MVs with more than 100 million views. It is the world‘s largest female group with more than 100 million MVs. .
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