ATEEZ have been filling arenas and topping US album charts for years, but until July 2026 one item was missing from the group's record: a KBS Music Bank trophy.
Who Won on Music Bank July 3, 2026, and Why It's a First for ATEEZ
ATEEZ won their first-ever Music Bank trophy on the July 3, 2026 broadcast with "BAD," beating Hearts2Hearts's "Lemon Tang" with a total of 9,688 points . The two tracks were the only first-place candidates that week, and ATEEZ performed "BAD" immediately after the announcement (source: Soompi, 2026-07). The win came a week after the release of the parent album, making it the first trophy of the group's GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 promotion cycle.
Quick Answer: ATEEZ took their first KBS Music Bank win on July 3, 2026, with "BAD," scoring 9,688 points against Hearts2Hearts's "Lemon Tang." The track leads GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, the mini album that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228,000 equivalent units.
The episode carried a crowded performer slate beyond the two contenders. Alongside ATEEZ and Hearts2Hearts, the broadcast featured SEVENTEEN's V8 unit, EVAN (Heeseung), RIIZE, MEOVV, izna, IDID, CLASSy, Choi Yoojung, Keyveatz, USPEER, AtHeart, UDTT, Baek A Yeon, HAENA, Kim Hee Jae and U Sung Eun .
ATEEZ are an eight-member group under KQ Entertainment — Hongjoong (leader), Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho — who debuted on October 24, 2018 . Music show wins are not new territory for them: during the GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 era the group collected five wins, including first-ever trophies on Show! Music Core and Inkigayo (source: Wikipedia, 2026-07). Music Bank, however, had stayed out of reach across nearly eight years of promotions until "BAD" — which is why this particular trophy drew outsized reaction from fans and outlets covering the July 3 broadcast .
Why the Timing Matters: BAD's Win Followed a Record Billboard Debut
The Music Bank trophy arrived while ATEEZ was holding the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200. GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 debuted at the top of that chart with 228,000 equivalent album units , making it the group's third Billboard 200 chart-topper after THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL (2023) and GOLDEN HOUR : Part.2 (2024) . A domestic music show win and a US chart record landing in the same two-week window is what gave the July 3 broadcast its weight beyond a single trophy.
The composition of that debut is unusual. Nearly all of the 228,000 units came from pure album sales — just under 223,000 copies sold in the US during the first tracking week across CD, vinyl and digital downloads . Forbes reported that the EP outsold Olivia Rodrigo's "YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE," which moved 26,000 copies, by more than 8.5 times, and outperformed the next 30 highest-ranking projects on the Top Album Sales chart combined . Part of that base came from a wide physical variant strategy — roughly 30 CD versions and five vinyl pressings bundled with photocards, posters and stickers — a common driver of first-week spikes for K-POP releases.
The album charted across four Billboard lists at once in that opening week:
| Billboard chart | Debut position | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Billboard 200 | No. 1 | 228,000 equivalent album units; third career No. 1 |
| Top Album Sales | No. 1 | ATEEZ's seventh No. 1 on this chart |
| World Albums | No. 1 | — |
| Vinyl Albums | No. 3 | Five vinyl variants released |
Chart positions per Forbes . Billboard's own chart-beat report sits behind a paywall gateway, but the No. 1 debut and the 228,000-unit figure are corroborated independently by Forbes and Wikipedia.
Wikipedia also records the release as making ATEEZ the group with the most Billboard 200 top 10 entries in the 2020s . Read together, the two results describe a group whose overseas sales base had been running well ahead of its domestic music show record — until the July 3 Music Bank broadcast closed the gap.
BAD Wins Again: The July 10 Music Bank Follow-Up
ATEEZ won a second consecutive Music Bank trophy for "BAD" on the July 10, 2026 broadcast, taking first place with 7,271 points over SEVENTEEN's V8 unit and their single "singasong" . The result placed back-to-back domestic wins on the same track exactly one week after the group's first trophy for the song, according to Soompi.
The winning score was lower than the previous week's tally, which is typical as a title track moves past its release-week digital and broadcast peaks. The competition also changed: instead of the rookie group Hearts2Hearts, the rival candidate was V8, a SEVENTEEN unit whose own promotional cycle was running in parallel .
That episode ran 16 performances, with a lineup that spanned established acts and debut-year groups:
- Established acts: i-dle, MONSTA X's Kihyun, TXT's Yeonjun, EVAN (Heeseung), Choi Yoojung, Juniel
- Newer and rookie acts: AHOF, RESCENE, VAYONN, IDID, Keyveatz, ASCENDER, UDTT, USPEER
- Soloists: Jang Haneum, Lee Yeji
One further point needs a caveat. A secondary outlet, Music Mundial, references an additional win for "BAD" on Mnet's M Countdown by late July 2026 . No primary broadcaster announcement or first-tier report confirming that trophy was available at the time of writing, so it is noted here as unverified rather than counted in the group's win total. Similarly, fan-circulated totals describing the July 3 trophy as a specific career-number win do not appear in any verifiable source.
What's Behind BAD: Inside GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5
"BAD" is the title track of GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, ATEEZ's 14th mini album, released on June 26, 2026 at 1 p.m. KST . The five-track EP pairs "BAD" with "MAMACITA," "TOXIN," "Fallin" and "Body" . It is the fifth chapter of the GOLDEN HOUR series, which began with Part.1 and ran through Part.4 before this installment .
KQ Entertainment framed the record around impulse rather than restraint, describing the mini album as portraying ATEEZ "joyfully indulging in moments where instinct and sensation take the lead."
"Joyfully indulging in moments where instinct and sensation take the lead," — KQ Entertainment, describing GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 (source: STARNEWS, 2026-06).
That framing is a shift in emphasis rather than a reset. The GOLDEN HOUR series has served as the group's connective release arc since Part.1, and Part.5 keeps the naming, the serialized structure and the compact mini-album format that ATEEZ has used across the run . Five tracks is a deliberately tight package, and "BAD" carries the promotional load on music shows on behalf of the whole EP.
The chapter that preceded it explains why a broadcast trophy for "BAD" was not a given but also not a surprise. During the GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 era, ATEEZ secured five music show wins, including the group's first-ever first-place finishes on MBC's Show! Music Core and SBS's Inkigayo . Those were milestones on two of the three major weekend shows, which left KBS's Music Bank as an outstanding entry on the list until "BAD" closed it.
Physical packaging also shaped how the EP performed at retail. Reporting at search-result level describes roughly 30 CD variants and five vinyl variants carrying photocards, posters and stickers — a wide configuration strategy that helps explain why nearly all of the album's opening-week volume came from pure sales rather than streaming . The "BAD" music video reportedly features actress Chase Infiniti, though that credit appears only in search-level listings and was not confirmed on a readable source page.
How Fans Can Watch ATEEZ's Music Bank Wins and What Comes Next
Both "BAD" win stages are already available to watch online. KBS's "Music Bank" airs weekly, and performance clips plus the first-place announcement segments are posted to KBS Kpop's official channels shortly after each broadcast. For the July 3, 2026 episode, Soompi's recap collects the win announcement and ATEEZ's encore performance of "BAD" alongside stages from EVAN (Heeseung), SEVENTEEN's V8 and Hearts2Hearts . The July 10 follow-up recap does the same for the second trophy, with 16 performances that episode including TXT's Yeonjun, MONSTA X's Kihyun, i-dle and RESCENE .
What to track next falls into three concrete buckets:
- More music show candidacies. "BAD" won with 9,688 points on July 3 and 7,271 points on July 10 . One secondary outlet references a further win on M Countdown by late July, but that report is not corroborated by a primary source and should be treated as unconfirmed .
- Chart persistence. GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228,000 equivalent album units, so post-debut movement on Top Album Sales and World Albums is the clearest read on how long the era holds .
- Tour and fan-meeting announcements. KQ Entertainment has not published dates tied to this promotional cycle as of publication; watch the label's official channels rather than aggregator listings.
The takeaway is narrow but firm: within two weeks of the June 26, 2026 release of their 14th mini album, ATEEZ converted a No. 1 Billboard 200 debut into their first two "Music Bank" trophies for "BAD" . Fans tracking the streak can rewatch both stages through KBS Kpop's uploads and the Soompi recaps above, and should treat any win count circulating in fan posts as unverified until a broadcaster or label source confirms it.
Last updated: 2026-08-18. Figures reflect sources readable at the time of writing; the M Countdown win and the "BAD" music video cast credit remain unconfirmed.
Frequently asked questions
Did ATEEZ win Music Bank for "BAD"?
Yes. ATEEZ won first place on KBS's "Music Bank" with "BAD" on the July 3, 2026 broadcast, taking 9,688 points against Hearts2Hearts's "Lemon Tang" . The track won again on the July 10, 2026 episode with 7,271 points, this time over SEVENTEEN's V8 unit and "singasong" . Both stages were broadcast on KBS and recapped by Soompi.
Was this ATEEZ's first-ever Music Bank win?
Yes. The July 3, 2026 trophy for "BAD" was ATEEZ's first win on "Music Bank" specifically . That is separate from the group's earlier music show milestones: during the GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 era, ATEEZ took five music show wins, including their first-ever wins on "Show! Music Core" and "Inkigayo" . In other words, the eight-member KQ Entertainment group had won on other programs before, but "Music Bank" was the remaining gap until "BAD."
What album is "BAD" from and when did it release?
"BAD" is the title track of GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, ATEEZ's 14th mini album, released June 26, 2026 at 1 p.m. KST . The EP holds five tracks — "BAD," "MAMACITA," "TOXIN," "Fallin" and "Body" — and is the fifth installment in the GOLDEN HOUR series that began with Part.1 . KQ Entertainment described the record as portraying ATEEZ "joyfully indulging in moments where instinct and sensation take the lead," per STARNEWS.
How did GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 perform on the Billboard 200?
GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228,000 equivalent album units . Nearly all of that came from pure sales — just under 223,000 US copies in week one across CD, vinyl and digital downloads — and Forbes calculated that the EP outsold Olivia Rodrigo's "YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE" (26,000 copies) by more than 8.5 times . It was ATEEZ's third Billboard 200 No. 1, after THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL and GOLDEN HOUR : Part.2 .
Did "BAD" win more than two music show trophies?
Two wins are confirmed: July 3 and July 10, 2026, both on "Music Bank," each documented by Soompi . One secondary outlet references an additional "M Countdown" win by July 24, 2026 , but that has not been corroborated by a broadcaster or label source and should be treated as unverified. Career totals circulating in fan posts — including a "31st win" figure — likewise lack a primary source.
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