Back in September, a music video
from a Filipino boy band went and exceeded a million views on YouTube. That
might be pretty generic as entertainment news goes, but that singing group has
something definitively different going for them: the band, called SB19, was
formed, trained and packaged by a South Korean talent agency, ShowBT. With
their singature of blending English and Filipino lyrics in a K-Pop-sounding package,
the quintet of Sejun, Justin, Josh, Ken and Stell seem set to go towards bigger
things. As indicative of this latest news from Billboard, the SB19 star is only
shining brighter still.
Inquirer.net has it that Korean-produced Filipino boy band SB19 have
made their debut on the Billboard Next Big Sound chart. This particular weekly updated
list is described by Billboard as tracking “accelerating artists” who look set
to achieve greater successes moving forward in their careers. And it looks like
ShowBT’s Pinoy experiment has got an especially bright future ahead of them. On
Wednesday, November 20, SB19 first appeared on the Next Big Sound list at an
impressive rank of sixth place. Only two K-Pop groups are ahead of them: Beat
Interactive’s A.C.E., (formerly Top 1, now 5th) and Cube Entertainment’s
(G)I-dle (5 weeks at 3rd).
That’s certainly a giant leap
forward for SB19, the brainchild of ShowBT who recruited the members via their
Philippine branch office. They have the uncommon and special distinction of
being allowed certain creative freedoms like the use of Filipino as song lyrics
and writing their own material. Their official debut was in October last year
with the single “Tilaluha,” and more follow-up “Go Up” which did go past a
million YouTube views two months ago.
A’TINs! No words can describe how thankful we are for this great news. Thank you so much for supporting our dreams and believing in us. Everything seems possible with you. We promise to work harder! #SB19onBillboardNBS pic.twitter.com/eNlhqeBURB— SB19 Official (@SB19Official) November 20, 2019
It did not take very long for
SB19 to give a shout-out of gratitude and appreciation to their fandom on
social media. In a Twitter post, dated Wednesday, the band expressed how
speechless they are at having earned this honor from Billboard. “Thank you so
much for supporting our dreams and believing in us,” went the tweet’s caption. “Everything
seems possible with you. We promise to work harder!” SB19 also went on to thank
their followers, nicknamed A’TINs, for sharing their stories over the group’s
fan mail. They have noticed common threads on these letters about how their
songs have given listeners comfort, happiness and motivation, and thus wanted
the fans to know their appreciation.
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