Music video for MAVE:’s debut song surpasses 10 million views

Virtual girl group MAVE:’s debut music video ″Pandora,″ reached 10 million views on YouTube on Tuesday [METAVERSE ENTERATINMENT]

 
The music video for virtual girl group MAVE:’s debut song “Pandora” surpassed 10 million views on YouTube. 
 
The group’s agency Metaverse Entertainment said Wednesday that the video achieved the feat just two weeks after its release. 
 
The video of the group’s debut performance on MBC’s music program “Show! Music Core” is also garnering views. It currently has almost two million views.
 
The “Pandora” dance challenge, based on the song’s choreography, has also gained popularity on TikTok and YouTube. Girl group members from CSR, Weeekly and boy band members from WEi participated in the challenge, with some of their videos surpassing 2 million views. 
 

Virtual girl group MAVE: uploaded a photo of themselves on its official Twitter page, ″recording″ their song at a music studio [SCREEN CAPTURE]

 
The girl group — consisting of four virtual members, MARTY:, TYRA:, ZENA: and SIU:, debuted on Jan. 25.
 
The group has an eccentric fictional storyline that centers around the members coming from the future and crash landing on Earth.
 
Metaverse Entertainment is a subsidiary of game publisher Netmarble, owned 50 percent by Netmarble F&C and 40 percent by Kakao Entertainment. Founded in August 2021, Metaverse Entertainment specializes in metaverse-related businesses.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]