"Babe" | ||||
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Single by Hyuna | ||||
from the album Following | ||||
Released | August 29, 2017 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Genre | K-pop | |||
Length | 3:13 | |||
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Cube Entertainment LOEN Entertainment |
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"Babe" on YouTube |
"Babe" (Hangul: 베베; RR: bebe; stylized as "BABE") is a song recorded by South Korean singer and rapper Hyuna for her sixth extended play, Following (2017). It was written by Hyuna, Shinsadong Tiger and Beom X Nang, and produced by the latter two. The song was released as the EP title track on August 29, 2017. The singer performed the song in several South Korean music programs, including Music Bank and Inkigayo.
The song debuted at number 16 on the Gaon Digital Chart.
"Babe" was written by Hyuna, Shinsadong Tiger and Beom X Nang and was produced by the latter two.
The song debuted at number 16 on the Gaon Digital Chart, on the chart issue dated August 27 - September 2, 2017, with 65,334 downloads sold and 1,356,010 streams. It also debuted at number 3 on the Gaon Social Chart on the same week. On the issue between September 3 and September 9, 2017, the song peaked at number 13. The song placed at number 17 on the chart for the month of September 2017, as a hot track, with 193,586 downloads sold.
It also debuted at number 43 on Billboard Korea's Kpop Hot 100. In its second week, the song rose to number 17 and peaked at number 13 a week later.
A music video teaser was released on August 27, 2017, through Hyuna's official YouTube channel. The music video was officially released two days later and has surpassed 3 million views. The video has the singer dancing in different scenarios, one of them being outer space.
The singer started live performances on MBC Music's Show Champion on August 30 and continued on Mnet's M Countdown on August 31, KBS's Music Bank on September 1, MBC's Show! Music Core on September 2 and SBS's Inkigayo on September 3.