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K-pop group PLAVE has made history by becoming the first artist to enter Melon’s ‘Hall of Fame’ with a Japanese-language single, the platform announced on June 17.

Their debut Japanese digital single Kakurenbo reached 2.7 million streams within 24 hours of its release on June 16, surpassing the one-million-stream threshold required for Melon’s Hall of Fame recognition. This marks the first time a Japanese-language song has achieved such a feat on the Korean streaming platform.

The single album includes three tracks, with the title track Kakurenbo serving as PLAVE’s first original song in Japanese. The track reinterprets the group’s signature band sound with Japanese lyrical sentiment. Members Yejun, Noah, and Eunho contributed to the composition, while choreography was directed by Bambi and Hamin, showcasing the group’s identity as self-produced idols.

The music video, released the same day, offers a cinematic depiction of youth, evoking nostalgia and emotional resonance through a high-teen aesthetic set against the backdrop of a Japanese summer.

PLAVE is set to launch their first Asia tour, DASH: Quantum Leap, starting with a concert in Seoul this August.