Within a month after releasing their first Japanese single album, “「かくれんぼ」” (English title: “Kakurenbo (Hide and Seek)”), PLAVE has set multiple groundbreaking records, not only as a virtual idol group but also for K-pop boy groups.
PLAVE’s Japanese debut single album topped the Oricon Daily Single Chart, Japan’s most recognized and established music chart, on July 8, 9, and 12. This is PLAVE’s second time topping the Oricon chart after their third mini album, “Caligo Pt. 1,” took the number one spot on the Oricon Daily Album Chart earlier this year in February.
“Kakurenbo (Hide and Seek)” also took first place in the Oricon Weekly Single Ranking as well as the Oricon Weekly Accumulative Single Ranking (from July 7 to July 13) by recording the highest weekly Oricon points for international artists in 2025 with 221,385 points.
Additionally, the album peaked at number one on Billboard Japan’s Top Singles Sales and Hot 100 (week of July 16) charts.
These records mark PLAVE topping Japan’s four major music charts. According to Billboard Japan’s data collected between July 7 and July 13, more than 388,200 copies of “Kakurenbo (Hide and Seek)” have been sold within the first week of its release. This is the highest number of first-week sales of a Japanese album by international artists in 2025.
PLAVE’s achievements have been revolutionary and remarkable, just like the group itself. In February 2025, PLAVE became the first virtual idol group to enter both Billboard’s Global 200 and Global Excluding US charts ever. PLAVE is also the only virtual idol group that has recorded more than two billion cumulative streams on Melon, South Korea’s largest music streaming service. In May 2025, PLAVE was nominated for Music Awards Japan’s Best Song Asia category with “WAY 4 LUV” from their second mini album, and the quintet was the only virtual group to be nominated for one of six main categories at the awards.
The group will also soon embark on an Asia tour, 2025 PLAVE Asia Tour [DASH: Quantum Leap] in six cities, including Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Bangkok, and Tokyo, from August 2025.
The pre-sale ticket link for fan club members opened on June 10 for their Seoul concert, and all three dates were instantly sold out, with more than 30,000 people in the queue. Through this tour, PLAVE made history once again as the first virtual idol group to perform at the KSPO DOME in Seoul, which can accommodate approximately 15,000 people in the audience. Proving the group’s strong international presence once again, both dates of their concert at NTSU Arena in Taipei were also sold out soon after the ticket sales opened.
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