OG 2nd-Gen K-pop Boy Group Fails To Reach 500 Album Sales In 1st Day — But Fans' Reactions Are Unexpected

Second-generation icon U-KISS became a hot topic online for their sales.

Earlier on June 25, U-KISS finally released their 13th mini album "Let's Get Started," alongside its title track "Stay With Me." Apart from the main song, the album also contains B-sides such as "Love is You," "Man Man Hani," "Beautiful You Are," and "Morse Code."

Seven days after its release, Hanteo Charts recorded that the album had sold a total of 922 albums in its first week, with 465 copies on its first day sales.

[HT] #UKISS (@__UKISS_) 1st Day Sales

PLAYLIST ㅡ 4,521
Always ㅡ 2,067
LET'S GET STARTED ㅡ 465 🆕️
MOMENTS ㅡ 446
COLLAGE ㅡ 110

— KOREAN SALES (@koreansales_twt) June 26, 2024

[HT] U-KISS (@__UKISS_) 13th Mini Album

DAY 1: 465
DAY 2: 055
DAY 3: ㅡ
DAY 4: 006
DAY 5: 004
DAY 6: 114
DAY 7: 278

TOTAL: 922 #UKISS #유키스 pic.twitter.com/7sQ385fkVm

— KOREAN SALES (@koreansales_twt) July 2, 2024

Since K-pop has grown drastically in its popularity and influence, fans have consistently determined an artist's growth or success based on their physical album sales.

Titles such as "Million-Seller" or "Double Million-Seller" have appeared frequently on the internet and K-Media, as K-pop groups continue to dominate the music scene.

This kind of fast-paced momentum can also lead some to think less of groups that sell below-average figures. However, that wasn't the case for U-KISS, as fans of the second-gen act had the most unexpected reactions online.

On social media platform X (Twitter), fans couldn't be prouder of the boy group and expressed how happy they were in still seeing U-KISS as an active K-pop group. They also stated that the low figure was due to the group's methods of promoting the song.

Fans mentioned that U-KISS members haven't released an official music video for "Stay With Me" aside from a performance video.

They also stated that U-KISS hasn't appeared on music shows to promote the song. Moreover, they were satisfied in knowing that the group was still doing music together wholeheartedly. Others encouraged other fans to put more support for the album.

No music show promotion, no official mv (just performance video of Stay With Me as title track), solely sales on fan-concert and fan-sign event by few websites. It's good to me as long as they love on making music instead of solely depends on capitalism https://t.co/Np30xe7IK3

— Zafira (@DreamBoumKiss) July 2, 2024

almost reached 1k i'll take it LOL https://t.co/GVvdftenh5

— mari˚* ❀ (@kebinwooo) July 2, 2024

thats my nugus https://t.co/bOYcfJ8JZ8

— ًً (@yujurosie) July 1, 2024

Kissmes, please raise up album purchase for this comeback

They really giving good stuff, like this album cb, concert at 2 countries https://t.co/qlA5H3uljV

— Zafira (@DreamBoumKiss) June 27, 2024

At least it's getting better 🥹 https://t.co/wWJeH44Msd

— ukiss social media intern (@stalkseop) July 2, 2024

Watch the performance video for "Stay With Me" here:

Here's how fans reacted:

• "U-KISS is one of the groups that got me into K-pop and it makes me so happy to see them in 2024."
• "I was not expecting a new U-KISS song when I woke up this morning, but I am so much happier for it."
• "One of my first K-pop groups from way back in the day, they deserve more attention."

U-KISS debuted on September 3, 2008, with their first mini album "New Generation" and title track "Not Young." They are also known for releasing hits such as "I Like You," "Bingeul Bangeul," "Shut Up!!," and many more.

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Written by Israel Monte