With their best-selling new record, TWICE breaks records around the globe including on Spotify and album sales charts; meanwhile the international Kpop4Planet platform continues to shine the spotlight on the activism within the K-Pop fan community.

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TWICE Breaks Records

Hit international K-Pop group TWICE have officially entered Spotify’s “Global – Top Artists Daily Chart Top 50” chart. With their brand new record “Formula of Love: O+T=<3,” the group has entered the chart at No.32.

Another brilliant achievement for the members of TWICE; as a result, TWICE are the first K-Pop girl group and female act to enter the chart.

Thanks to fans ordering over 700k pre-orders, this album has become one of TWICE’s best-selling albums.

• With 238k first-day sales on Hanteo, “Formula of Love: O+T=<3” has officially had the highest first-day sales for a 2021 K-op girl group release.
• TWICE’s first full-length album of 2021, the much-anticipated release, has broken records for the group, dominated charts, and proved the global power of TWICE’s talent and incredible music.

TWICE upcoming Japanese comeback

Furthermore, the members of TWICE announce their upcoming December Japanese single, “Doughnut.” To be released on the 15th of December, “Doughnut” is a winter ballad track and will be the group’s 9th Japanese single track.

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Kpop4Planet

Launched in March of 2021, Kpop4Planet has grown into a global platform passionate about improving the state of the planet for the next generation. 

“Kpop4Planet is a platform that we created for those who enjoy K-pop music (or other aspects of Korean culture) and also have a desire to fight for climate justice together”

Nurul Sarifah (Kpop4Planet organizer; Jakarta, Indonesia)

Throughout K-Pop fan culture, fans have united to address serious social issues.

• For example, in 2021, ARMY matched the BTS members’ contributions by donating $1 million for the Black Lives Matter Movement.

With a strong sense of community, unity, and hope, the K-Pop genre has long encouraged activism and taking action for a better world.

The Kpop4Planet platform is currently serving to spotlight the social work that K-Pop fans are doing and centralize that force on particular projects for an enhanced effect and impact. 

“Our generation is the one that is facing the climate crisis and solidarity beyond all borders is very important because this kind of collective action is desperately needed for the climate crisis”

Sarifah

Kpop4Planet Projects include:

• A campaign for increased climate awareness within the K-Pop entertainment industry- through the No K-POP on a Dead Planet campaign.
• A petition to halt the development of a coal plant near the beach in BTS’ “Butter” album cover. 
• The project has sent an official appeal for Tokopedia (one of the top eco-commerce platforms in Indonesia) to transition to renewable energy by 2030.

Fandoms included in the effort include Carat, EXO-L, ARMY, STAY, Fantasy, MOA, BLINK, NCTzen, Monbebe, Shawol, among others. 

“With the global fan’s force, ultimately, we want to campaign asking the government, business, and ourselves as global citizens to take more advanced action, not limiting us to talk about the entertainment industry”

Surifah

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