Rookie K-pop boy band CORTIS hasn’t even hit the two-month mark, and they’re already five weeks deep on Billboard.
Billboard’s Oct. 18?dated charts, published Oct. 14, show the group landing at No. 2 on World Albums with their debut release, “COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES.”
Stateside momentum is building, too: on Top Album Sales and Top Current Album Sales, the set rebounded to No. 16, jumping 11 and 8 spots from last week, respectively. Cracking back into the Top 20 after the official promo cycle wrapped underscores how quickly CORTIS is planting roots with U.S. fans.
On Spotify, the album crossed 100 million streams as of Oct. 12 ― a global traction milestone for a brand-new act.
Back home, their intro track “GO!” keeps climbing. It just hit a new peak at No. 89 on the latest Melon weekly chart (Oct. 6-12). During its promo run, it became the first song by a debut-year boy group this year to break into that chart and even earned the members return invites on Korean music shows.
Even after wrapping their debut era, CORTIS has stayed busy stateside amid rising interest. On Oct. 5, they became the first Korean artists to serve as Los Angeles Football Club’s Honorary Falconer. They attended the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final on Oct. 11, and on Oct. 12 in Los Angeles, the members hosted a “GO!” dance workshop, personally teaching the choreography for about an hour.
(SBS Entertainment News | Kang Kyung-youn)