Short video platform TikTok announced on Friday, August 25, that “Super Shy” of rookie girl group NewJeans is the hottest summer song in South Korea for 2023. 

In a press release, TikTok explained that their list of “Song of the Summer” is based on the total number of videos of audio sources from the collected data in the platform between June to August of this year. The list is also divided into a global list and national list. 

 

For the Top 10 in South Korea, it was NewJeans’s “Super Shy” that emerged to have generated the most music-based content. 

“Super Shy,” which was released on July 7, is one of the title tracks from the group’s sophomore EP Get Up. 

Additionally, Get Up, which featured a total of six songs, saw NewJeans topping the Billboard 200 chart for the first time. Moreover, they’re the only second female K-pop act to land on the top spot of the Billboard 200, following BLACKPINK. Also, NewJeans’ Get Up and BLACKPINK’s Born Pink album are the only two albums by an all-female act to hit the No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the past 15 years. 

It’s not a surprise then that a single from NewJeans topped the list of TikTok Korea. 

Aside from “Super Shy,” only four other songs from Korean acts made it to the list. 

Song of the Summer in TikTok Korea 

Placing third in the list is “Queencard” by girl group (G)I-DLE. The song was the title track for their sixth mini-album I FEEL, which was released in May. 

 

Next is the speed up version of the hit “Cupid” by FIFTY FIFTY. Released on February 24, the song went viral and eventually became the highest charting hit by a South Korean girl group in the history of the Billboard Pop Airplay chart.

Although it placed fifth in TikTok Korea’s list, it was fourth in the global list. Additionally, “Cupid” was the only song by a K-pop act that made it in the list. 

 

In ninth place is “Seven” by BTS member Jungkook. Also an expected addition given that the explicit version of the digital single has earned a Guinness World Record. 

“Seven (Explicit Ver.)” logged at least 11.6 million streams each day for its first tracking week. With this, it has set the record for fastest time for a music track by a male artist to reach 100 million streams on Spotify. 

 

Rounding up the list was “AEAO” by Korean hip-hop duo Dynamic Duo. The song went viral on TikTok nine years after its release. 

As for the international releases that made it to the list, Mae Stephens’ “If We Ever Broke Up” landed at the second place. 

Other songs in the rankings also include “What It Is (Solo Version)” by American rapper Doechii and “girls like me don’t cry” by Vietnamese-American singer Thuy. 

Japanese group Yoasabi’s “Idol” and singer imase’s “Night Dancer” also made it to the list. 

Featured image: NewJeans shares photo from ‘Get Up’ promotions. Credit: Facebook/NewJeans