How RESCENE's 'LOVE ATTACK' Hit No. 1 Two Years After Release

What happened

‘LOVE ATTACK’ is the title track of SCENEDROME, RESCENE’s first mini album, released in August 2024. It was not a hit on arrival: Melon’s data lab records it entering the daily chart at 904th in September 2024.

On 9 July 2026, Munhwa Ilbo and Money Today reported the song at number one on the Melon TOP100, about two years after release, while the group’s new single ‘Pretty Girl’ entered the top five on the same day. Melon’s own first-half report, published that morning, had already named RESCENE the representative reverse run artist of the period.

Why is it trending?

The chain starts in February 2026, when leader Woni opened a personal web-variety channel on YouTube. On 20 March the channel published a gyaru-culture lesson in which Japanese member Minami greeted viewers with ‘거제, 야호~!’ (“Geoje, yahoo!” — Geoje is Woni’s hometown); Woni’s reply that Geoje citizens would scold her made the clip travel, and the line turned into a meme. Melon dates the spread of interest to May and the chart results to June; a 22 May follow-up, ‘갸루와 거제에 왔습니다’, in which the two visit Geoje, passed six million views.

The numbers Melon published are unusually precise. Compared with the moment the channel opened, RESCENE’s streaming had risen by as much as 2,019% and their listeners by 977% by the end of June, and the number of users searching for the group inside Melon had grown 6,550% since the meme began. ‘LOVE ATTACK’ stood at 5th on the TOP100 on 30 June and reached the top nine days later.

The channel itself grew just as fast: Harper’s Bazaar Korea reported more than 700,000 subscribers by 10 June — more than RESCENE’s official channel — and ‘LOVE ATTACK’ re-entering the Melon TOP100 after 338 days; MyDaily reported one million subscribers by 20 June, and Star News put it at 1.2 million in early July with videos averaging four to five million views. Munhwa Ilbo’s summary of the mechanism is that a gyaru-and-dialect concept on the channel spread on social media and revived the song’s streams without any new promotion cycle.

What you need to know

• ‘LOVE ATTACK’ was released in August 2024 on RESCENE’s first mini album SCENEDROME.
• It entered Melon’s daily chart at 904th in September 2024, was 5th on the TOP100 on 30 June 2026 and number one on 9 July 2026.
• Woni’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/@helloiamwoninicetomeetyou) opened in February 2026 and passed one million subscribers by 20 June.
• The meme is Minami’s ‘거제, 야호~!’ greeting in the 20 March 2026 video ‘갸루의 자세에 대해서 배워보았습니다’ on Woni’s channel; the 22 May Geoje visit video passed six million views.
• Melon measured streaming up as much as 2,019%, listeners up 977% and in-app searches up 6,550% since the channel opened and the ‘거제 야호’ meme began.
• Woni told Star News the group had not expected anything of this scale and were now recognised by fans from elementary school age to their fifties.
• The official music video and a performance version are on RESCENE’s YouTube channel.