CORTIS Scores First No. 1 With REDRED on M Countdown

CORTIS earned the first music-show No. 1 of its career with “REDRED” on the April 30 episode of Mnet’s “M Countdown.” The result put CORTIS REDRED at the center of the week’s K-pop music-show results, with the pre-released title track winning before the group’s second EP “GREENGREEN” is released on May 4.¹

The April 30 broadcast placed CORTIS’s “REDRED” against NCT WISH’s “Ode to Love” as the first-place candidates. CORTIS won with 8,902 points, securing its first trophy on a music program.²

CORTIS First No. 1 Arrives Before GREENGREEN Release

The timing of the win was notable because it came before the official release of “GREENGREEN.” Starnews reported that the result was achieved without album-sales points, with the score supported by digital performance, global social activity, fan voting and broadcast scores.¹ Sports Donga also emphasized that the first-place finish came before the album’s formal release and without physical album points.³

Mnet Plus listed CORTIS on the official “M COUNTDOWN” performance page for “REDRED” from episode 926, dated April 30, 2026, corroborating the broadcast-stage context for the week of the win.⁴

After the trophy was announced, the members said on the broadcast, “It doesn’t feel real.” In a later Weverse live, they said, “This is an award we have always wanted to receive since preparing our debut album.”¹

Chart Activity Behind REDRED’s Momentum

The music-show result followed several chart indicators reported before and after the broadcast. Starnews reported that “REDRED” had entered Spotify’s global daily chart and had held No. 1 on Korean Apple Music and Spotify daily song charts for multiple days.¹

Sports Kyunghyang reported that “REDRED” held No. 1 on Apple Music’s “Top 100 Today: South Korea” for the April 28 chart, after first reaching the top on April 26. The same report said the track topped YouTube Korea’s Trending Music section at 8 a.m. on April 29 and posted additional gains on Melon, Bugs, VIBE, Apple Music Global and Spotify’s global daily songs chart.⁵

By May 2, additional chart and preorder figures had been reported for the broader “GREENGREEN” release cycle. Starnews said pre-orders for CORTIS’s second EP “GREENGREEN” reached 2,397,188 copies as of April 30, citing distributors YG Plus and Universal Records. The same report said orders rose by 347,133 copies in the ten days after “REDRED” was released on April 20.⁶

The May 2 Starnews report also said “REDRED” entered Spotify’s weekly global chart at No. 103 and reached No. 1 on Spotify Korea’s weekly songs chart.⁶ Those figures place the music-show result within a larger sequence of reported digital activity, preorder growth and platform rankings connected to the pre-release track.

Broadcast Context and Episode Lineup

Soompi reported that the April 30 “M Countdown” episode included performances by ILLIT, KATSEYE, TWS, NCT WISH and LE SSERAFIM, among others.² In that setting, CORTIS’s first win came from a head-to-head result against NCT WISH’s “Ode to Love,” rather than from an album-sales-driven score.

Sports Donga also reported that CORTIS’s April 23 “M Countdown” stage video surpassed 1.6 million views in one week and was selected as an “M Countdown PICK Stage” for the fourth week of April.³ That earlier broadcast exposure preceded the April 30 trophy and added another documented point in the song’s music-show activity.

CORTIS’s first No. 1 with “REDRED” is now tied to a specific set of confirmed results: an April 30 “M Countdown” win, 8,902 points, a victory over NCT WISH’s “Ode to Love,” and continued reported activity ahead of the May 4 release of “GREENGREEN.” The available reports show a first music-show trophy built on digital performance, fan voting, broadcast scoring and chart movement before the related EP’s official release.

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Cloi Lee

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