WOODZ’s “Drowning” Enters the Top 10 for a Record 70 Straight Weeks…Beats NewJeans and BTS

On the 15th, the agency Edam Entertainment said that WOODZ’s reverse-hit track “Drowning” has set a record for the longest-ever run to enter the “Top 10” on Melon, one of Korea’s leading digital music platforms.

Longest-ever record for entering the Top 10 on Melon “Drowning” has remained within the top 10 on this chart for 70 consecutive weeks. This surpasses NewJeans’ “Hype Boy” (49 weeks) and BTS’s “Dynamite” (36 weeks). Released in April 2023 as a track from WOODZ’s fifth mini album “OO-LI,” the song powerfully captures the emotions after he says goodbye to the person he loves—something he was directly involved in writing and composing.

Reverse-hit craze and sweeping the year-end charts The song began its full-fledged reverse chart run after WOODZ delivered an energetic performance during the Armed Forces Day special broadcast of KBS 2TV’s “Immortal Songs” in October 2024, while he was serving in the military. After that, it rapidly climbed the rankings and took first place on major digital music charts. It also demonstrated its strength by claiming No. 1 across all 2025 year-end closing charts released by Melon, Genie, and Circle Chart. In addition, it recorded first place twice on SBS’s “Inkigayo,” a terrestrial music program, proving its mainstream popularity and box-office-like success.

Video content success and full-album activities Not only the audio track, but the video content has also been loved for a long time. The stage video of “Immortal Songs,” which served as the starting point for the reverse-hit phenomenon, surpassed 30 million YouTube views as of the end of last month. The live clip video released in 2023 has also been maintaining its position in the upper ranks by entering the Korea weekly popular music video chart for 81 consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, WOODZ released his first full-length album “Archive. 1” last March and continues active music activities.