WJSN’s 'As You Wish' tops local charts on New Year’s day for fourth straight year

K-pop

Published: 02 Jan. 2023, 11:15

WJSN’s 'As You Wish' tops local charts on New Year’s day for fourth straight year

Girl group WJSN [NEWS1]

Girl group WJSN’s “As You Wish” (2019) topped local music charts on New Year’s day for the fourth year running.

The song track topped the Now Popular charts on domestic music charts including Melon, Genie and Bugs! on Sunday, due to K-pop listeners’ superstition that the first song they listen to on the first day of the New Year will determine how the rest of the year unfolds for them.

The song’s hopeful, wish-you-luck lyrics read, “Only good things will happen like this, just the way you want it to, the way you feel it” and “Everything will come true, I will find the light in the dark night.”

“It almost feels like a dream to have ‘As You Wish’ become No.1 on every New Year’s Day,” said WJSN in a press release. “We feel like the listeners are making our wish come true, which is to be loved by everyone, by listening to our song. But mostly, we are just glad that ‘As You Wish’ delivers a hopeful and cheerful message for people in the New Year.”

WJSN debuted in 2016 with “MoMoMo” under Starship Entertainment and in collaboration with Chinese agency Yue Hua Entertainment.

The band has been popular with lively dance tracks with hopeful messages, such as “As You Wish” and a self-validating track titled “Butterfly” (2020).

The band will hold two concerts at the Blue Square Mastercard Hall on Jan. 7 and 8.

BY YOON SO-YEON [yoon.soyeon@joongang.co.kr]