Weeekly recently returned with a new mini-album titled "We Play," featuring the title track "After School." On Spotify, the song gained millions of streams, along with an increase in monthly listeners, which is 93 times more than with their previous work.
Weeekly Gains Spotify Listeners 93 Times More with "After School"
On May 4, Weeekly's new song "After School" exceeded 20 million global streams on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming site. To be precise, the title track has reached 21,156,480 million streams. The song is now the most-streamed song of the rookie group on the platform to date.
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Following its release, Weeekly's "After School" has received explosive attention from fans around the world. The septet's Spotify listeners increased by 93 times compared to the initial number with their previous works. To date, the new K-pop girl group has more than 2.8 million monthly listeners on the platform, making Weeekly the only 2020-21 rookie group to reach this mark.
In early April, Play M Entertainment's new girl group only has 1.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify. At the end of that month, the "Zig Zag" singers hit a new peak of 2.4 million monthly listeners, becoming the first K-pop rookies to attain the milestone.
Weeekly's popularity is greater in Indonesia, where most listeners of the rookie group come from. In particular, "After School" has been generating hundreds of thousands of streams across 11 cities in the country including Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, and Sraman. Other listeners of the septet come from the United States, Malaysia, the Philippines, Canada, and Brazil.
Because of the thousands of listeners from Indonesia, Weeekly surpassed well-known artists on the Spotify Indonesia Top 200 charts with "After School," and eventually ranked third with 250,610 total streams as of May 5.
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The title track also reached the top of the Spotify Indonesia Viral 50 chart for several days. As of May 5, the song climbed down to No. 3. What's more, Weeekly's "After School" peaked at No. 30 on Spotify's Global Top 200 on May 3. On May 5, Play M Entertainment's new K-pop girl group ranked fifth on the Global Viral 50.
Weeekly Sees Increase in YouTube Views and TikTok Followers
Aside from Spotify listeners, Weeekly also gained more views on YouTube. The music video for "After School" surpassed 45 million views with one million likes as of May 5. Considering that the septet has ended their activities for their new album, "We Play," the constant rise in views is significantly meaningful for a rookie group.
Meanwhile, the official TikTok channel of the band has reached 750,000 followers as of May 5. What makes this more impressive is that it is almost triple of their initial followers just less than two months ago when they dropped their "We Play" album on March 17.
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Weeekly's management agency, Play M Entertainment, commented on the group's recent milestones. They stated that they are experiencing a "hot" reaction from the global MZ generation, especially on TikTok where 250,000 short-form videos featuring the septet's "After School" were made.
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Written by Mhaliya Scott
