The two hottest new K-pop groups aren't real — but they aren't AI either
The new Netflix film from Sony Pictures Animation follows a trio of friends who serve as a world-renowned K-Pop girl group called HUNTR/X by day, but secret demon hunters by night. Their biggest foe yet is Saja Boys, a group of demons who have incarnated as a K-pop boy band determined to steal all of HUNTR/X's fans.
Songs from the movie have taken over the music charts. The soundtrack is currently number three on the Billboard 200 album chart, and four songs are in the top 20 on the Billboard Global 200 chart. What's more, Saja Boys' track Your Idol has become the highest-charting track by a K-pop boy group in U.S. Spotify history, beating a record previously held by BTS.
Today on Commotion, professor Michelle Cho chats with host Elamin Abdelmahmoud about why the film has been such a big hit, and not just with K-pop fans.
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