According to Japan's Fuji TV announcement today (26th), Eilit (Yoona, Minju, Mocha, Wonhee, and Iroha) has been listed in the lineup of the "2024 FNS Song Festival" to be broadcast on December 4. Even before their official debut in Japan, they appeared in a series of popular year-end music special programs there.
Earlier, the title song "Magnetic," the mini-first album "SUPER REAL ME" released in Korea in March, exceeded 100 million cumulative plays with the Japan Record Association in the shortest period of time among the single songs of all female groups. The song ranked fifth on TikTok's "Summer Song of the Year 2024" Japanese list. Eilet also showed off her presence by decorating the cover of a local famous magazine.
Thanks to this performance, Irish recently became the 66th most prestigious music award show in Japan. He won the Rookie of the Year award at the Japan Record Awards. It has been about 13 years since Girls' Generation and 2NE1 that a K-pop girl group won the Rookie Award at the ceremony. In particular, Eilit is the first artist to win the Rookie of the Year award for an artist who has not yet debuted in Japan.
In addition, Eyelet swept various charts, including No. 1 in the New Artist category in the "Tower Record Music Streaming Ranking in the First Half of 2024" and No. 1 in the "Trend Grand Prize 2024" artist category announced by Shibuya 109 lab.
Irish was listed as the "Top Global K-Pop Song" among the list of nominees announced by the "2024 Billboard Music Awards (2024 BBMAs) in the United States on the 25th (local time). Prior to the 2024 BBMAs, they were nominated at the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards (2024 MTV EMA), the largest music awards in Europe, proving their global influence.
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