Rookie Group Red Velvet's 'Happiness' Ranks In 'Top 10' For 5 Countries iTunes Charts

Rookie girl group Red Velvet is already on the road to becoming K-pop stars.

The new idol group's debut song, "Happiness," is already topping charts across Asia.

The group's upbeat track was seen ranking at No. 3 in Singapore and Taiwan, No. 4 in Malaysia, No. 5 in Thailand and No. 9 in Hong Kong.

Red Velvet is being featured on international publications as well. U.S. music publication Pop Dust described "Happiness" as "an experimental mish-mash of different sounds and styles that you wouldn't expect to work, but somehow does. On minute it's trap, the next it's like Avicii's folk-EDM, until it all just sounds like one big bouncy piece of addictive bubblegum."

Writer Jacques Peterson also anticipated that Red Velvet is set to have almost as big a future as Girls' Generation or f(x), girl groups also signed under SM Entertainment.

"SM has now launched its first new girl group in five years, Red Velvet, and if their insanely catchy first single, 'Happiness,' is anything to go by, then they're going to be just as big as their predecessors," wrote the K-pop columnist.

Despite the success of "Happiness," the music video has also been wrapped in controversy due to certain images that have now been edited out of the music video. They were also reportedly involved in conflict with Korean indie group Red Velvet due to their name.

Red Velvet continues to stand strong through all the drama, with their accompanying music video for "Happiness" hitting the 2 million-view mark in its first 24 hours. Going off of the interview that the members of Red Velvet gave on the radio program, "Kim Chang Ryul's Old School" on August 6, the success of their debut is well deserved.

"It has been one and a half years since the group was created with our current members. We practiced for our debut song 'Happiness' for six months," explained Red Velvet, according to Allkpop. 

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