Rookie Okay-Pop Group TNX Unexpectedly Changes Their Name On Their One-Year Anniversary

On May 17, 2022, P Nation, the label run by PSY, debuted its first Okay-Pop boy group, TNX, with six of the highest rivals on the survival present Loud. The members encompass Taehun, Kyungjun, Hyunsoo, Junhyeok, Hwi, and Sungjun, and their debut album was WAY UP with the title observe “Move”.

For a rookie boy group, TNX has achieved comparatively properly when it comes to album gross sales. Their first album offered about 74k copies, whereas their second and most up-to-date, Love Never Dies, offered practically 90k. However, with the quantity of publicity that the members obtained competing on Loud and being beneath a reasonably well-known firm like P Nation, one would possibly count on them to be doing higher.

It’s attainable that their identify, TNX, has been detrimental to their growth. They’re not the primary Okay-Pop group to have a three-letter acronym for his or her identify, and there are a selection of teams — reminiscent of NTX, TXT, TAN, NCT, and others — which might be straightforward to get confused with one another.

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TNX has all the time been brief for “The New Six” (representing the six members of the group), however now, on the primary anniversary of the group’s debut, plainly they is perhaps making that their official identify primarily based on some sudden adjustments to their social media accounts.

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On their Twitter and Naver accounts, they’re now going by The New Six, with TNX included afterwards.

While the change got here out of the blue and was sudden by followers, many approve of the obvious identify change and hope that it’s going to assist them get extra acknowledged in a sea of fourth era boy teams with three-letter names.

“Hmm? They simply modified it with out saying something?”
“I assume it was a shortened phrase like ZB1?”
“But I personally assume The New Six is best than TNX..”
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“I just like the change. There’s too many comparable teams”
“It’s good that they modified it. TNX sounds just like lots of different idols”
“The group identify was complicated although. Alphabet ㅠ”
“But The New Six is fairly”

International netizens additionally appear to usually approve of the identify change, although some fear that together with the quantity “six” within the identify to symbolize their members will inevitably result in a member leaving the group as has occurred to so many different teams that reference their member quantity of their identify.