
Lee Soo Man's new nine-member girl group swept Korea's major charts less than two weeks after its October 13 debut.

A2O LITE's debut single "NEON" has topped every major Korean music chart for a perfect all-kill, less than two weeks after the nine-member girl group debuted.
Instiz's iChart confirmed the sweep at 8:30 a.m. KST on October 26, which was 7:30 p.m. ET on October 25, Soompi reports. "NEON" is only the fourth song this year to reach that mark.
The bar is high. A certified all-kill requires No. 1 on Melon's daily and Top 100 charts, on both the daily and realtime rankings at Genie and Bugs, on YouTube Music's Top Songs chart, on VIBE's daily chart, and on the realtime charts at FLO and iChart. To make it a perfect all-kill, the song also has to top iChart's weekly chart.
The list of songs that have done it this year is short. Besides "NEON," it includes IVE's "BANG BANG," AKMU's "Paradise of Rumors" and i-dle's Soyeon's "I'm gonna TOESA."
That means a rookie group's first single now sits on the same list as releases from IVE, AKMU and Soyeon.
A2O LITE made their official debut on October 13 under A2O Entertainment, the new agency recently launched by SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo Man. For the young company, the chart sweep is a very public early result.
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