The specially-abled young boy band transcended its virtual world, ‘Caelum,’ into the appealing universe, ‘Asterum,’ to live out its dreams, get in touch with, and spread joy to those on ‘Terra’ (Earth) through its music
PLAVE: They are captivating webtoon-like characters called “Plave,” blending the words “Play” and “Rêve” (“Dream” in French), mentioning how they long for creating an area to live out their dreams and spread joy through their music. Image thanks to VLAST
PLAVE is now on Weverse as the very first virtual K-pop group on the South Korean network that helps with interaction amongst its artists and fans.
PLAVE offers another outstanding circumstances of how South Korea profits from its growing K-pop market to check out the metaverse. Not to discuss popular K-pop metaverse websites like ZEPETO and Stan World– however likewise huge names in business, consisting of HYBE, SM Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment– are taking a fracture at leveraging it to enliven their offerings by means of virtual idols.
Lady band Aespa‘s members each have a virtual avatar; the kid band Superkind has 4 human idols– Daemon, Eugene, Geon, and SiO– and one virtual idol, Sae Jin; and the virtual lady group MAVE‘s hyper-realistic, AI-generated members– are precedents for virtual idols preceding PLAVE. Movement capture innovation provides life to PLAVE’s expressions and gestures. As its very first virtual group excited to engage with its fandom, PLLI, Weverse extended a warm welcome to them.
Yejun, Noah, Bamby, Eunho, and Hamin make the lineup for the quintet. They shared enjoyment in their inaugural Weverse video, thanks to a topstarnews post. “Through Weverse, we can now interact with PLLI all over the world,” Noah stated. While Bamby acknowledged he is too thrilled to be satisfying PLLI on Weverse, Ha-min included that he anticipates communicating with fans on the platform.
PLAVE, specially-abled, transcended their virtual world, “Caelum,” into the remarkable universe, “Asterum,” so they might link and spread out joy to everybody on “Terra” (Earth)– the story of their genesis. They are captivating webtoon-like characters called “Plave,” blending the words “Play” and “Rêve” (“Dream” in French), mentioning how they long for creating an area to live out their dreams. They pen, produce, and choreograph their music– their musicality is superior– and they are extraordinary in their performances.
The band launched their launching single album, Asterumin 2015, marking their main launching. Their 2nd extended play, Asterum: The Shape of Things to Comewas inducted into the Melon Hall of Fame and immediately struck one million streams, with reports showing that it had 1.7 million streams in a single day of release. On top of a host of other acts, PLAVE got an election for Rookie of the Year at the 2023 Melon Music Awards. Winning more nods, PLAVE bagged the Best Rookie Award (3rd Quarter) for the KM Chart’s Season’s Best, together with My Idol My Award: “Best Alien Award” at the Melon Music Awards and the New Wave Star Award at the Seoul Music Awards, 2023.