5th Generation K-Pop Boy Group, ZEROBASEONE Sets Record With Over 1.08 Million Pre-Orders For Their Debut Album, Naming The Group As The First ‘Million Seller’ With A Debut Album
‘5th Generation K-Pop Boy Group’ ZEROBASEONE (ZB1) has set a new milestone in the K-Pop industry.
On July 4th, according to the album distributor, Genie Music, ZEROBASEONE’s (SUNG HANBIN, KIM JI WOONG, ZHANG HAO, SEOK MATTHEW, KIM TAE RAE, RICKY, KIM GYU VIN, PARK GUN WOOK, HAN YU JIN) debut album ‘YOUTH IN THE SHADE’ has surpassed 1.08 million pre-orders in just 13 days since the pre-order began.
Within the first five days of the pre-order, ZEROBASEONE has set a record amount of pre-orders for a K-Pop group’s debut album with 780,000 pre-orders. The group is the first debut group to be a million seller by having more than 1 million pre-orders, approximately one week before the official release.
Their tracklist includes six songs; The title track ‘In Bloom’ along with ‘Back to ZEROBASE’, ‘New Kidz on the Block’, ‘and I’, ‘Our Season’, and ‘Always.’
The title track ‘In Bloom’ defines the identity of the group’s debut album, as this track teases ZEROBASEONE’s first steps that are incomplete and immature yet going to bloom beautifully and brightly.
ZEROBASEONE, gathering much anticipation from K-Pop fans around the world even before its debut, is continually releasing teasers and content that reveal the debut album’s concepts and moods. As the nine members announce their ‘splendid beginning’ that births as ‘1’ from ‘0’, fans are sending their enthusiastic support, making every promotion-related keyword to be trending on Twitter whenever new content is revealed.
About ZB1
ZEROBASEONE (often abbreviated as ZB1) was created by MNet’s popular K-Pop Survival program, BOYS PLANET, which began airing in February 2023. The show reached #1 TV ratings for 10 consecutive weeks in South Korea, and it reached 50 million cumulative online viewers globally. The program received votes throughout the airing for the elimination of artists in the show as well as for the final members of ZEROBASEONE from over 184 countries and regions as well as accumulated 15 billion votes from 6.8 million Star Creators (the name for the fans who participated in the voting).
The nine final members, SUNG HAN BIN, KIM JI WOONG, ZHANG HAO, SEOK MATTHEW, KIM TAE RAE, RICKY, KIM GYU VIN, PARK GUN WOOK, and HAN YU JIN, emerged victorious from MNet’s program, and made their official debut on July 10th, 2023, with their mini-album, Youth in the Shade. The group name “ZEROBASEONE” symbolizes the “glorious beginning” of the nine members born from zero to one. It also encapsulates their vow to embark on a free journey from incomplete zero to the unity of one, alongside their fan club, ZEROSE.
ZEROBASEONE is managed by WAKEONE Entertainment, under CJ ENM.