Fifty Fifty’s breakout hit ‘Cupid’ makes Billboard Hot 100 debut

Fifty fifty members (from left) Keena, Aran, Saena and Sio. Image: Twitter/@we_fiftyfifty

Just four months after its debut, K-pop girl group Fifty Fifty made its Billboard Hot 100 debut with its breakout hit song “Cupid.”

Billboard announced on its official Twitter account on Tuesday, March 28, that the rookie quartet debuted at the tail-end of its Hot 100 chart. “It’s their first career entry on the chart,” the US-based music magazine said.

Following the announcement, Fifty Fifty overtakes girl group NewJeans as the fastest K-pop act to enter the Hot 100, according to a report from Korean entertainment platform Soompi.

The South Korean girl group is the sixth overall K-pop group to be included in the chart, apart from Wonder Girls, Blackpink, Twice, NewJeans and BTS.

“Cupid,” which was released in February 2023, is the title track of Fifty Fifty’s first single album “The Beginning: Cupid.” The song is noted for its easy-to-listen melody, as well as the catchy lyric “Now, I’m crying in my room.”

Earlier this month, a fan-made, sped-up version of the song went viral on Tiktok as it garnered over five million views, as of this writing.

Formed under the ATTRAKT label, the girl group is composed of Aran, Keena, Saena and Sio.

The rookie quartet spoke about feeling a “great responsibility” over their debut in 2022 in an interview with British music magazine NME, which is considered to be a competitive year for K-pop girl groups.

“It would be a lie if I said that we weren’t pressured at all to join this long list of groups debuting in 2022. We felt a great responsibility, because we wanted to show ourselves and stand out amongst them. But we tried to put down that pressure and anxiety, and focused as much as possible to be ourselves, to dance, and sing on stage,” Saena was quoted as saying.  /ra

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