June 18, 2026 · 8:14 AM
K-pop MV & Dance Digest — Week of June 18, 2026
This week: i-dle's "Crow" leads early MV reception, RIIZE turns "Do your dance" into the clearest challenge seed, and STAYC's "2 L0VE" delivers the cleanest dance-practice reference. The issue also covers USPEER, ONF, and the late-June comeback calendar.
RIIZE supplied the cleanest dance-pop entry of the week, STAYC turned a tennis score into a bright hook, and i-dle quietly stole the view-count race with a darker pre-release. The release window for this issue is June 11-17, with YouTube view counts captured during this run.
Quick watch order
| Priority | Release | Why it is here | Watch / source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | i-dle, "Crow" | The highest early YouTube signal in this batch: 9,298,593 views for the official MV, plus a separate performance video that gives the choreography its own lane. | MV, KPOP Official album page |
| 2 | RIIZE, "Do your dance" | The most direct dance thesis of the week, with 5,315,197 MV views and a six-track mini album built around movement, confidence, and RIIZE's "emotional pop" lane. | MV, KPOP Official album page |
| 3 | STAYC, "2 L0VE" | A crisp summer pop-dance comeback with an official dance practice already out. The tennis-score concept gives fans an easy visual hook. | MV, dance practice, Soompi |
| 4 | USPEER, "WICKED GAME" | Rookie momentum: the group followed last year's debut with its first mini album, and the official MV is already past 1.4M views. | MV, KPOP Official album page |
| 5 | ONF, "Open The Door" | The full-album entry of the week, stronger as a comeback-album listen than as a verified MV trend so far. | KPOP Official album page |
Spotlight: i-dle turns "Crow" into the week's darkest choreography lane
Soompi tracked "Crow" as i-dle's pre-release single for the upcoming ninth mini album We made: the MV arrived on June 14, while the single landed online on June 15. KPOP Official lists the same split, with the full album scheduled for July 6. 1 2
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The MV is the clear early-reception winner in this issue: YouTube metadata showed 9,298,593 views, 220,131 likes, and 14,427 comments at capture. The video description credits the song to Mortal and Jumal of SMGS, with lyrics by Soyeon and arrangement by Mortal and Jumal of SMGS. 3
Choreographically, the useful reference is the official performance video released June 17. It had 159,606 views at capture, which is modest next to the MV but important for dancers: it separates the movement vocabulary from the video's occult styling and lets the formations read cleanly. 4
MV director credit was not listed in the checked Soompi article, KPOP Official album page, or YouTube metadata. That is a small gap for a dance-and-MV-focused digest, but not enough to downgrade the release: the performance video gives this track the best choreography documentation of the week.
RIIZE makes the brief explicit: just dance
RIIZE released its second mini album II and the title track "Do your dance" on June 15. Soompi describes the song as an uptempo dance track with hip-hop beats and electronic pop sounds, built to show the group's free-spirited confidence. 5
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KPOP Official lists II as a six-track mini album: "SOAR," "Do your dance," "D-D-Done," "Overdrive," "Like a Bomb," and "In a Loop." It also lists the title-track credits as Korean lyrics by Haru Lee, composition by David Wilson, Gino Borri, and Cyrus Villanueva, and arrangement by dwilly and Virtual Riot. 6
The commercial signal is also strong. Soompi reported 916,373 first-day Hanteo sales for II, beating RIIZE's previous first-day record of 805,985 for ODYSSEY. The same report said II topped iTunes Top Albums charts in at least five regions and entered the top 10 in at least 11. 7
For challenge potential, this is the easiest title to read. The hook phrase gives fans a built-in caption, the MV has 5,315,197 views at capture, and the group's official YouTube description routes viewers to RIIZE's TikTok and Instagram handles. 8
STAYC packages "2 L0VE" as a tennis-match crush song
STAYC's sixth single album 2:LOVE arrived on June 16 with the title track "2 L0VE." Soompi explains the motif directly: the title pulls from tennis scoring, and the lyrics frame love as something worth chasing even if the game feels unwinnable. 9
KPOP Official lists four tracks on the single album: "2 L0VE," "WHERE YOU AT?," "SORRY," and "BEAT MY LOVE." It credits the title track's lyrics to Joo Hyelyn, with composition by Rado, FLYT, Z4, and Maria, and arrangement by Rado, FLYT, and Z4. 10
The MV had 899,322 views at capture. More interesting for this channel, the official dance practice went up quickly and had 37,276 views, giving dance-cover teams a clean reference almost immediately after release. 11 12
Also in the window: USPEER and ONF
USPEER's "WICKED GAME" is the rookie release to keep on the radar. KPOP Official lists BITE DISTRICT as the group's first mini album, released June 17 with four tracks: "WICKED GAME," "So Fine," "Bestie," and "LOUD." The title-track credits include lyricist Seo Jieum and composers Alessandra Gunthardt, Jason OK, Kun-H, Yoshi L.H. Breen, and RYAN JHUN. 13
The official "WICKED GAME" MV had 1,423,730 views at capture. That is a strong early number for a group still building name recognition, but there was not enough verified challenge material in this run to treat it as a dance-trend breakout yet. 14
ONF released ONF:MY SELF, the second part of its second album, on June 17 with "Open The Door" as title track. KPOP Official lists six tracks and credits HwangHyun of MonoTree and ONF's Minkyun on composition, with lyrics by HwangHyun and Wyatt. 15
Treat ONF as an album-watch item this week. The searchable YouTube result available during this run was an official-audio upload rather than a clearly verified official MV, so I am not counting it as an MV trend signal.
Dance trends to watch
- i-dle, "Crow" performance video. This is the best dance-reference asset in the window. The performance video gives the track a second entry point after the MV and makes the hand shapes, level changes, and group geometry easier to study. 4
- STAYC, "2 L0VE" dance practice. The choreography has a clean concept hook because the tennis motif is easy to mime and easy to caption. The official dance practice is already live, which should help cover teams move faster than they would from the MV alone. 12
- RIIZE, "Do your dance." Even without a separate official dance-practice video in the checked results, the title is almost designed for short-form participation. The MV's 5.3M-view start and the song's explicit dance framing make it the most likely boy-group challenge seed in this set. 8
Coming up after this window
| Date | Artist | Release | Why it matters | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 18 | Secret | Special mini album Secret Flavor, title "Ice Cream" | Immediate next-day drop after this issue's window. | KPOP Official June schedule |
| June 22 | Hearts2Hearts | 2nd mini album Lemon Tang | One of the highest-viewed upcoming entries on the June schedule page. | KPOP Official June schedule |
| June 26 | ATEEZ | GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, title "BAD" | The next major fourth-gen release on the calendar. | KPOP Official June schedule |
| July 6 | i-dle | 9th mini album We made | "Crow" is only the pre-release, so the full comeback cycle is still ahead. | KPOP Official i-dle Crow page |
This week belongs to "Crow" on pure early reception, RIIZE on dance-challenge clarity, and STAYC on concept execution. If you only have time for one full MV and one practice-room reference, watch i-dle's "Crow" MV first, then STAYC's "2 L0VE" dance practice.
References
- 1Soompi on i-dle's Crow release
- 2KPOP Official i-dle Crow album page
- 3i-dle Crow official music video metadata
- 4i-dle Crow performance video metadata
- 5Soompi on RIIZE Do your dance
- 6KPOP Official RIIZE II album page
- 7Soompi on RIIZE first-day sales and charts
- 8RIIZE Do your dance official MV metadata
- 9Soompi on STAYC 2 L0VE
- 10KPOP Official STAYC 2 LOVE album page
- 11STAYC 2 L0VE official MV metadata
- 12STAYC 2 L0VE dance practice metadata
- 13KPOP Official USPEER BITE DISTRICT album page
- 14USPEER WICKED GAME official MV metadata
- 15KPOP Official ONF MY SELF album page
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