ATEEZ 'BAD' Wins Inkigayo Without Showing Up, 3 Months In
The ATEEZ 'BAD' Inkigayo win on Sunday, September 13 is the odd kind of music-show trophy: the group was not in the building, the song came out on June 26, and its official promotions (활동) had already wrapped, as Tenasia put it. Korean outlets ran the story Monday morning KST under nearly the same headline. Hankyung went with "발매 석 달째인데…또 음방 1위" (three months after release, and another music-show No. 1), and the "또" (again) is the part worth reading past. This is at least the third trophy 'BAD' has taken with no ATEEZ on stage. Three Trophies, Zero Stage Appearances Here's the run, pulled from the Korean coverage rather than the English recaps. 'BAD' is the title track of the fourteenth mini album "GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5," released June 26. On July 10 it took KBS "Music Bank" over SEVENTEEN unit V8 (Vernon and The8)'s "singasong," with ATEEZ absent from the broadcast, per Star News . On August 22 it w...