Debut album YOU IN THE SHADE records 1.28 million

copies in first week.

K-pop's first 'million seller' record

Source: Reporter Lee Dong-ryul

[The FactㅣReporter Jo Seong-eun] 'Global Mega Rookie' 9-member multinational boy group ZEROBASEOE (Tae-rae Kim, Han-bin Seong, Ji-woong Kim, Hao Jang, Matthew Seok, Ricky, Gyu-bin Kim, Gun-wook Park, Yu-jin Han) is the 'Next leader'.

Zero Base One won the 'Next Leader' award at the '2023 The Fact Music Awards (2023 TMA)' held at Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon on the afternoon of the 10th. Zero Base One's debut album 'YOUTH IN THE SHADE', which debuted last July, became the first K-pop group to become a 'million seller', selling 1,822,028 copies in the first week of release.

Zero Base One, who was on the award stage, said, "First of all, I was able to receive the Next Leader Award thanks to Zeros (Zero Base One's fan club), so I am grateful and love you very much." He added, "All nine members of us will run forward without stopping, so Zeros will join us. “It’s different. Thank you again,” he said in his acceptance speech.

The 'Next Leader' Award is given to the new artist who showed the best performance this year. It was selected by adding 60% of the album and sound recording scores (based on Circle Chart) and 40% of the judges' scores (The Fact Editor-in-Chief Park Soon-gyu, composer Cho Young-soo and Park Geun-tae, and producer Ryan Jeon). The singers' activity performance and standards were based on their active music and album performance from September 25th of last year to September 23rd of this year.

Zero Base One was born through Mnet's 'Boys Planet', which ended in April, and debuted with the release of their first debut album 'YOUTH IN THE SHADE' in July, and promoted with the title song 'In Bloom'. Zero Base One held a fan concert at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 15th of last month and plans to release their 2nd mini album 'MELTINGPOINT' on the 6th of next month.

'2023 TMA', hosted by <The Fact> and organized by FAN N STAR, was co-hosted by Jeon Hyun-moo and Seohyun, and the red carpet began at 4:30 pm and the awards ceremony began at 6:30 pm. Attending the awards ceremony on this day were Zero Base One, Lim Young-woong, New Jeans, Ivee, Aespa, Stray Kids, ITZY, Nmix, Seventeen, Ateez, Treasure, Cycus, Boy Next Door, Kwon Eun-bi, Jannabi, and Lee Chan-won. .

'2023 TMA' is a music awards ceremony and festival venue created by K-POP artists and global fans. The best teams representing K-pop decorated a special and spectacular stage that can only be seen at '2023 TMA'.

‘2023 TMA’ was broadcast live around the world on this day. It was broadcast through the Idol Plus app and web in Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, and in Japan, everything from the red carpet to the awards ceremony was broadcast live through Lemino. On TV, the awards ceremony is broadcast on the music channel MUSIC ON! It was broadcast live on TV (M On!).