Espa has performed brilliantly during 2024 through their own personality. After solidifying its original music color with "Supernova" and "Armeddon," it showed a new challenge with "Whiplash," marking the first and second half of the year.
In May this year, Espa completed their own creative world with the release of their first full-length album, Armageddon. Based on a narrative that extends beyond the real world and the digital world to the multiverse, the album imprinted Espa's own color through a unique concept of "soe taste." The success of the pre-release song "Supernova" and the title song "Armeddon" proved a high degree of completion in which music, visuals, and world view stories are organically connected.
The album drew great attention at home and abroad, achieving a perfect all-kill on the music charts shortly after its release and being selected as the background music for the Dubai "Imagine Show" for the first time in a K-pop girl group. In addition, it achieved commercial and critical success at the same time, causing the album to be sold out along with the longest-ever No. 1 record on the Melon chart.
Five months later, Aespa sought change through its fifth mini-album, Whiplash. Whiplash, which tries an EDM-based techno genre and adds a new electronic sensibility to the existing "soe taste," showed a deeper musical spectrum than before with understated performance and visuals.
Whiplash was a million seller upon its release and was loved by global fans, achieving 100 million cumulative streams of Spotify. Through this, Espa proved to be a group that continues to challenge and grow.
Espa, who had the best year with three consecutive hits of "Supernova," "Armeddon" and "Whiplash," achieved a career high by sweeping various year-end awards ceremonies. While being listed on the "2024 Best K-Pop Song" list by major foreign media, including Billboard and Grammy.COM, he also stood out in the global music market by winning the Group of the Year Award at the Wang Yiyun Music Annual Music Awards in China.
Espa's performance is expected to continue in 2025. It will continue to meet with fans through the "SMTOWN LIVE 2025" concert at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul in January and a tour of North and South America and Europe.
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