On November 17, last year, Espa, who appeared in the music industry with 'Black Mamba', celebrated the 1st anniversary of their debut. Looking back on the past 365 days, from a rookie who received global attention with a unique metaverse worldview to being reborn as a half-million seller, aespa is becoming hot topic. 

◆ 3 consecutive mega hits with Black Mamba → Next Level → Savage
From their debut song 'Black Mamba' to 'Next Level' and 'Savage', aepa recorded a huge hit with every song they released, continuing their extraordinary achievements and dazzling steps as a rookie. 
In fact, it is a representative 4th generation girl group in name and reality and has been established as itself as the symbolic girl group in the metaverse world. 
The debut song 'Black Mamba' entered 4 Billboard charts with just three days' worth of counting, and the music video also set a new record of achieving 100 million views in the shortest time in the history of K-pop group debut music videos. Next, 'Next Level' also ranked first among girl group songs released after the reorganization of Melon's 24Hits chart, and broke its own shortest record by surpassing 100 million views on YouTube about 19 days earlier than 'Black Mamba'.
In particular, the title song 'Savage', the title song of the first mini-album released on October 5, has been at the top of the major music charts at home and abroad since its release right now, and ranked 20th on the Billboard main chart 'Billboard 200', the highest ranking in the history of the first K-pop girl group album. 
It dominated 'Artist 100', 'World Album', 'Independent Album', 'Top Album Sales', 'Top Current Album Sales', 'TasteMaker Album', 'World Digital Song Sales', 'Billboard Global (excluding the US)' )', 'Billboard Global 200', etc., entering a total of 10 charts, confirming the global power of Espa once again. The music video for 'Savage' also surpassed 100 million views within 17 days of its release, breaking its own shortest record again, proving remarkable topic and popularity.
Written by Kim Soo JinTranslated by Lee So Yun