It’s sport on for ENHYPEN, which enters the Pokémon universe with the collaborative new single “One and Solely.”
Accompanying the brand new quantity is a shiny music video, which sees every member of the Okay-pop boyband crew up with a Pokémon buddy, via a partnership with the so-called Pokémon Music Collective.
All of the faves are there, together with Pikachu, Charizard, Charmander and Snorlax.
It’s as upbeat a track and clip as you’ll discover. Channeling Al Jarreau’s “Mornin,’” the lads get about their day by day routine with their animated associates in tow, and revel in a tenting getaway with an surprising caravan flight.
Introduced late June, the collab is “impressed by the sounds of the Pokémon collection online game universe by artists throughout a number of genres,” per a press launch.
“We’re so delighted to take part on this challenge, given our love for Pokémon. ‘One and Solely’ is a vibrant pop-genre monitor that completely enhances the dynamic vitality of each Pokémon and ENHYPEN,” the septet says in an announcement.
Earlier this month, ENHYPEN introduced the dates and venues for its FATE World Tour, which is able to embody stops throughout cities in Asia and the US.
The Asian swing of the jaunt— the group’s second world tour — will kick off with two dates at Seoul’s KSPO Dome July 29-30. Japan follows in early September, the primary being a go to to Osaka’s Kyocera Dome Osaka Sept. 2-3. Lower than two weeks later in Tokyo, Okay-pop stars will play a pair of dates on the Tokyo Dome on Sept. 13-14.
As beforehand reported, ENHYPEN will then head to the US beginning with an Oct. 6 cease on the Dignity Well being Sports activities Park in Los Angeles. The group can even play exhibits in Glendale, Ariz.; Houston; Dallas; and Newark, N.J., earlier than concluding the U.S. leg on Oct. 22 at Chicago’s United Heart.
Comprising Jungwon, Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo, and Ni-Ki, ENHYPEN is a creation of BELIFT LAB, making their debut in November 2020.
Since then, they’ve landed two high 10s on the Billboard 200, with 2022’s Manifesto : Day 1 (peaking at No. 6), and 2023’s Darkish Blood (No. 4). Three extra titles have landed within the high 40.
With “Utau,” J-pop producer imase final 12 months kick-started the Pokémon Music Collective, an initiative of Common Music Japan and The Pokémon Firm.
Watch Pokémon X ENHYPEN’s “One and Solely” under.