On September 14, 2024 (KST), band DAY6 took home first place on MBC‘s Show! Music Core with their latest release, “Melt Down.”
While all wins are special, this particular win is more meaningful for DAY6 fans and K-Pop fans alike as it breaks a record that was thought to be “unbreakable.”
In addition to DAY6 taking their first-ever music show win from one of the three main public and terrestrial broadcasting channels (MBC, SBS, KBS)…
…the band now holds the record for “an idol group whose first public broadcasting channel music show win took the longest after its debut.”
Before DAY6, NU’EST held the record for winning first place on KBS‘s Music Bank with “BET BET” on May 10, 2019—about seven years, one month, and four weeks (2,613 days exact) after their debut on March 15, 2012.
DAY6’s Show! Music Core win comes nine years, one week, and three days (3,295 days exact) after their debut on September 7, 2015. DAY6 and K-Pop fans, who did not expect NU’EST’s record to be broken, congratulated the band wholeheartedly!
- “Wow. I thought NU’EST’s record was unbreakable.”
- “Congrats, DAY6!”
- “I remember how DAY6 and NU’EST finally became friends last year after promoting album after album together. Finally taking a win! Congratulations!”
- “Congrats!”
- “Wow, congratulations to DAY6! I’m a NU’EST fan and I remember how happy and proud I was when the group took that KBS win. I’m sure DAY6 fans feel the same way. Huge congrats!”
- “I wonder how it feels to take home the first MBC win home after 9 years. A huge congratulations to the group!”
- “For the first time since debut, really? To me, DAY6 is pretty popular, so I would have guessed they would have won at least once. Congrats regardless!”
- “You just never know what life has in store… Huge congratulations!”
- “Congrats, DAY6!”
The band, too, celebrated the record-breaking win with a special message to the fans.
🍀My Day에게 전하는 감사 편지 💌
첫 공중파 1위..✫ 하고
'DAY6가 웃었다' ˘◡˘
My Day 덕분이에요 ☺#DAY6 #데이식스#Band_Aid#녹아내려요 pic.twitter.com/wzkQ9Xqn2J— DAY6 (@day6official) September 14, 2024
We heard we won first place on Show! Music Core and we wanted to show our gratitude with this video. This is the first time we’ve won on a public broadcasting channel music show and, I don’t know, we’re all so grateful for it. We were hosting our fansign event when we first heard the news. So, we’re still trying to wrap our heads around it. But thank you so much, as always, for helping us win. We promise to never change and work even harder. Thank you!
— DAY6
