Mark, centre, was nervous about making his SuperM debut (Picture: Getty)

NCT 127 star Mark has revealed his fears about making yet another debut as part of SuperM.

Earlier this year we were introduced to the ‘Avengers of K-Pop’ SuperM, made up of Mark and Taeyong from NCT 127, Kai and Baekhyun from EXO, Ten and Lucas from WayV and SHINee star Taemin.

Since dropping their single Jopping this month, the boy group, who are under SM Entertainment, became the first K-Pop act to get to number one on the Billboard charts with their debut album.

But Mark confesses he was understandably nervous about the project.


In a new BBC documentary that goes behind-the-scenes of their music video shoot, the rapper says: ‘If I said I wasn’t scared at all that would be a lie, but it’s more like good scared.



‘It’s a feeling of excitement but also like nervous, because I am kind of worried about how people would react and how this would come out. It’s all so new for even us but let’s do it.’

Given how well their first album did, he needn’t have worried.

Mark was worried about people would receive SuperM (Picture: Getty)

A new documentary goes behind the scenes of SuperM’s trailer shoot (Picture: BBC)

Taemin also opens up about his hopes for the group.

He explains: ‘Super M is a new experience. I believe it will be a great opportunity for me to take on a new challenge. The door is opening.

‘This is a chance for us to reach fans in new places as the K-Pop market grows larger and larger.’

SuperM’s seven-track record fetched a total of 168,000 equivalent units in its first week of release.

According to Billboard, 164,000 of those were from album sales and 4,000 came from streaming. Breaking down the math, as 1,500 song streams are the equivalent to one sale, that means the album was streamed around 4.9 million times in just one week.

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Bundle sales – becoming increasingly popular in the music industry, may have also played a part, as Digital copies of the album were included with every sale of merchandise on the SM Entertainment online store, including signed posters and picture disc vinyl.

They were also included with the purchase of tickets to SuperM’s US arena tour, which went on sale the day after the album release.

K-Pop Idols: Inside the Hit Factory airs Friday 25 October at 9.30pm on BBC Four.

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