RIIZE: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shoot

When RIIZE goes out to dinner, it’s a 20-person affair.

On this specific Sunday night, the pioneering South Korean mega-label SM Leisure has reserved a personal room at a sizzling spot in Los Angeles’ Koreatown widespread with music artists for its new boy band. The six members file in round an extended desk — together with an SM-associated translator (who’s sometimes assisted by two different group members), a publicist from RCA Data (an SM associate for RIIZE), a veteran supervisor from Seoul and eight further crew members who sit in a close-by sales space.

The Korean group is on the town for its RIIZING DAY Fan-Con Tour tomorrow — a “fan-concert” the place the group intersperses choreographed performances of its personal Ok-pop hits with informal video games, casual onstage chats amongst themselves and particular covers of each Ok-pop classics and international boy band hits, like One Course’s “One Factor.” It’s RIIZE’s first time headlining a present in the USA, however its third group go to to L.A. Earlier than the Could 20 live performance, the group flew right here in August to attend town’s annual KCON Ok-pop mega-fest and likewise filmed two music movies on the town: the jovial “Reminiscences” (a pre-debut single that generated buzz for the group that month) and its official debut single, “Get a Guitar,” a slick, bubblegum earworm launched in each Korean and English that’s now RIIZE’s most streamed track globally, with 219.6 million official on-demand streams since its September launch, based on Luminate.

Learn full Billboard cowl story about RIIZE and what they’re as much as right here.