Whereas the previous weekend’s KCON competition supplied Ok-pop followers the uncommon alternative to see their favourite artists in individual by way of three days of conference and concert events, ZEROBASEONE took full benefit of the Los Angeles viewers unexpectedly asserting a brand new album on the fest’s closing day on Sunday (July 28).
After the nine-member boy band carried out the singles “Really feel the POP” and “In Bloom” on the Crypto.com Enviornment, a mysterious video appeared throughout the KCON marquee with the phrases “Cinema Paradise” and “August 2024” beneath it. The fellows shortly confirmed that the tease was a “comeback spoiler” to the viewers.
Cinema Paradise can be ZB1’s fourth Ok-pop launch since debuting simply over a 12 months in the past on July 10, 2023, with their Youth within the Shade EP. See the comeback spoiler “movie” beneath:
ZEROBASEONE wasn’t the one artist to make the most of KCON LA to tease new music.
Not lengthy after ZB1 made the shock album announcement, subsequent KCON performer Jeon Somi revealed on the finish of her set that she can be returning to the Ok-pop scene with “a “enjoyable summer time track.” The soloist shared the melody and lyrics from the upcoming observe, telling the viewers to sing together with the call-and-response traces: “Come and get your ice cream… / Too chilly!”
Somi’s company, THEBLACKLABEL, shortly confirmed that the singer’s new single “Ice Cream” would drop on Aug. 2 and shared the next photographs.
Elsewhere throughout KCON, Billboard 200–charting boy band P1Harmony overestimated followers when chief Keeho shared the group’s “comeback is coming sooner than you assume” through the “pink carpet” ceremony on Saturday, July 27.
Plus, the Japanese woman group ME:I (created on Produce 101 Japan The Ladies, a neighborhood model of a Ok-pop singing competitors developed by KCON organizer CJ E&M) shared a stay efficiency of their new single “Hello-5” forward of its official launch on Aug. 28. Beforehand, the 11-member outfit peaked at No. 2 on the Japan Scorching 100 to this point with their debut single “Click on” in April.
The music video to “Hello-5” dropped a number of hours after making its stay debut to KCON-ers in attendance.
KCON stories {that a} mixed 5.9 million followers confirmed up in individual and on-line from greater than 170 international locations throughout the three days of this 12 months’s festivities, which is in keeping with the 5.9 million viewers from 176 areas from final 12 months’s fest. With the bonus of shock bulletins and new track reveals this 12 months, the upcoming KCON Germany 2024 in September must also boast thousands and thousands of followers tuning in.
