The group Close Your Eyes (CLOSE YOUR EYES, 클유아) concluded promotions for their third mini album.
Close Your Eyes (Jeon Min-wook, Ma Jingxiang, Jang Yeo-jun, Kim Seong-min, Song Seung-ho, Kenshin, Seo Kyung-bae) successfully wrapped up activities for their third mini album blackout with their performance on MBC M's Show! Champion on the 3rd, concluding roughly three weeks of promotions.
'Blackout' is an album that contains Close Your Eyes' growth narrative of breaking limits and racing forward endlessly. With two title tracks — "X," which conveys the will to move forward, and "SOB," which boldly expresses unstoppable confidence — they launched their bid in the music scene, shaking K-pop fans worldwide with a raw charm 180 degrees different from the playful boyishness of their previous work.
In particular, 'Blackout' recorded first-week sales of 570,000 copies, achieving both a career high and a half-million seller (single album sales of more than 500,000). With this, cumulative sales across their mini albums 1, 2 and 3 exceeded 1 million to reach 1.2 million, proving their unrivaled popularity.
In addition, 'Blackout' made its presence felt on various global charts, including domestic music sites, the worldwide iTunes album chart, the worldwide Apple Music album chart and the Spotify daily viral songs chart. Notably, it rose to No. 2 in the album category of the United World Chart for week 48 of 2025, marking the highest ranking among boy groups that debuted in 2025 and drawing attention.
In addition, Close Your Eyes won five rookie awards at ceremonies held this year: K World Dream New Vision Award at the 2025 K World Dream Awards (2025 KWDA), male idol of the year (rookie) category at the 2025 Brand of the Year Awards, hottest category at the 2025 The Fact Music Awards (TMA), new wave artist at the TikTok Awards 2025, and IS Rookie Award at the 2025 Korea Grand Music Awards with iM Bank (2025 KGMA), reaffirming their status as 2025's top trend group.
After wrapping up 'Blackout' activities amid passionate support from global fans, Close Your Eyes said through their agency Uncore, "The promotions for our third mini album, which were a new challenge breaking limits, have ended. We were able to grow further through this promotion, and we were happy to show Closers (official fandom name) many new sides of us. We will come back with an even cooler image."
Meanwhile, Close Your Eyes will hold their first solo concert in Korea in January 2026 and a Japan tour in February visiting Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka to meet global fans. Detailed information about the domestic concert will be announced later.<
[Photo] Uncore
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