Certainly one of has received legions of followers and had sell-out success — and it is solely digital.
PLAVE is a five-member group and the brainchild of VLAST, the self-described “pioneering digital leisure firm” that makes use of real-time graphics and sport engines to create extremely high-definition digital renderings.
The group has skilled skyrocketing success since their debut in March 2023, with their preliminary two-song album Asterum promoting greater than 138,000 copies worldwide.
An EP in February titled Asterum: 134-1 bought greater than 530,000 copies worldwide and secured the group a high 10 spot on the South Korean charts.
A music video for his or her single Manner 4 Luv has greater than 8.8 million views on YouTube regardless of solely being launched a month in the past.
And not too long ago, PLAVE held its first two “in-person” live shows at Olympic Corridor in Seoul. Each bought out throughout pre-sale.
Social media was flooded with followers importing snippets from the live performance and stay streams, which allowed worldwide followers to work together with the group in actual time.
How does PLAVE work?
There are actual performers behind the digital avatars of PLAVE, who’ve their dancing, singing, and even facial expressions captured and displayed through the use of movement seize fits. Nonetheless, the performers’ true identities are a thriller.
This can be a marked departure from the norm in Okay-pop, the place bodily attributes and adherence to so-called “magnificence requirements” generally is a benchmark of a bunch’s recognition.
Each member of PLAVE is represented in a extremely stylised artwork fashion that mimics Korean webtoons referred to as ‘Manhwa’.
Yejun is the group’s chief, Noah is a vocalist, and Bamby acts as a dancer and choreographer. Eunho is a rapper, as is Hamin.
The members are additionally credited as producers and vocalists in various capacities on their album, in addition to instrumentalists.
Their fan group or fandom title is PLLI.
Whereas PLAVE will not be the primary digital Okay-pop idol group, their success and superior technological manufacturing have put them on the forefront of a motion within the business.