CORTIS REDRED Extends Inkigayo Run With Ninth Music-Show Win

CORTIS REDRED added another confirmed milestone on May 24, 2026, when CORTIS took first place on SBS’s Inkigayo for the second straight week. The result lifted REDRED to nine total music-show wins, with the latest victory coming against NMIXX’s Heavy Serenade and ILLIT’s It’s Me.¹

The May 24 broadcast gave the group a narrow but significant result in a three-way race. CORTIS finished first with 5,904 points, ahead of NMIXX on 5,865 and ILLIT on 4,794.² The outcome followed CORTIS’s previous Inkigayo win on May 17 and extended the song’s trophy run across major Korean music programs.¹

CORTIS REDRED Secures Ninth Trophy on Inkigayo

The latest Inkigayo result marks the ninth music-show trophy for REDRED, a count reported by multiple entertainment outlets covering the May 24 episode. Soompi also confirmed the same nominee lineup and said CORTIS won the episode with 5,904 points.³ The margin between first and second place was 39 points, making the May 24 result one of the more closely decided wins in the song’s ongoing promotion cycle.

CORTIS’s acceptance remarks remained brief and fan-directed. Martin said, “We love and thank our COER fans,” in a message translated from the Korean broadcast comment.¹ allkpop separately carried the group’s English-translated message as, “We love and thank our COER fans so much.”² The comments were tied to the Inkigayo win and did not include additional announcements in the provided source material.

The May 24 win also confirmed REDRED’s second consecutive No. 1 finish on Inkigayo, following the group’s May 17 victory on the same program.¹ Beyond SBS, the title has recorded wins on Mnet’s M! Countdown, MBC M’s Show! Champion, KBS2’s Music Bank, and MBC’s Show! Music Core, among other weekly music-broadcast results cited in Korean coverage.¹

Scoreline Shows a Close Three-Way Race

The final Inkigayo score underlined how close the May 24 contest was. CORTIS’s 5,904 points placed REDRED just above NMIXX’s Heavy Serenade, which recorded 5,865 points, while ILLIT’s It’s Me finished third with 4,794 points.² The available sources do not break down the score categories, so the confirmed comparison is limited to the final totals reported after the broadcast.

The episode also included performances by a broad lineup of artists. Soompi listed I.O.I, ITZY, LE SSERAFIM, NMIXX, ZEROBASEONE and others among the performers on the May 24 broadcast.³ That context places CORTIS’s win within a crowded weekly show rather than a standalone announcement, while the core result remains the No. 1 finish for REDRED.

The nine-win mark followed an earlier stage of the campaign in which REDRED had already reached seven music-show wins by May 17. EToday reported on May 18 that the song had taken consecutive first-place results on major music programs from May 13 through May 17, bringing its total to seven at that point.⁴ The May 24 Inkigayo result therefore reflects the continued accumulation of trophies after that earlier reported count.

allkpop reported that REDRED’s trophy run began with an April 30 win on Mnet’s M! Countdown.² With the latest Inkigayo result, the song’s music-show campaign has stretched from late April into the final full week of May, based on the dates available in the cited reports.

Release and Promotion Background

REDRED was released with a music video at 6 p.m. on April 20 through HYBE Labels’ YouTube channel, TenBizt reported.⁵ The video was described as following the members through everyday Korean settings, including a pork-belly restaurant, an arcade and a vintage thrift shop.⁵ The same report said CORTIS was again credited as co-director, with self-shot footage incorporated into the final concept.⁵

Additional production-related material was released after the music video. USEN encore reported that CORTIS uploaded the first making-of video, Cooking REDRED 1, to the group’s official YouTube channel at 9 p.m. on April 29.⁶ The roughly 48-minute video was described as covering the filming of the original-version music video and the choreography creation process for REDRED.⁶

The REDRED campaign has also been connected in coverage to broader chart activity for CORTIS. EToday reported that the group’s second mini album GREENGREEN ranked No. 3 on the Billboard 200 dated May 23, 2026.⁴ The same article discussed domestic and global music-platform performance, though the latest Inkigayo result is the central confirmed development in the current reporting.

CORTIS now has a documented two-week Inkigayo streak and nine total music-show trophies for REDRED as of the May 24, 2026 broadcast. The final points show a close win, but the confirmed result adds another measurable entry to the song’s promotion cycle and extends its run across major Korean weekly music programs.

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