SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) — Girl group Twice is set to take home an award at this year’s Billboard Women in Music Awards.
The group will receive the award for Best Breakthrough Artist at the annual ceremony to be held on March 1 in Los Angeles, in the United States, according to Billboard.
Twice will become the first K-pop artist to win the award at the festival, which was first organized by the American magazine in 2007 for female artists influential in the music industry.
The 8-member band was one of the 10 most streamed K-pop artists of 2022 on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform alongside BTS, Blackpink, Stray Kids and Seventeen. “.
On the other hand, the band’s second English-language single “Moonlight Sunrise” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, ranking at number 84.
The new song is the band’s first English song in about a year and 3 months since the release of “The Feels” in English, which reached the Billboard Hot 100 songs list in 2021.
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