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Los Angeles, California (June 13, 2025)- Seven months after sweeping charts with their Billboard‑topping Golden Hour: Part 2, ATEEZ have reset the season’s thermostat with Golden Hour: Part 3—a five‑track mini‑album crowned by the title song “Lemon Drop.” At a Seoul press conference on June 12, leader Hongjoong described the single as “an R&B‑hip‑hop track with a sweet‑and‑tangy confession,” promising a breeze of relief for what meteorologists—and ATINY—expect to be a record‑hot summer. “I’ve heard this summer is going to be hotter,” he said. “It’s a song that can fill those days with ATEEZ’s excitement.”
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The group’s appetite for reinvention sits at the heart of the new release. From the shimmering synth of “Castle” to the soulful melancholy of “Now This House Ain’t a Home,” each track widens the spectrum first hinted at in Part 2. Yet it is “Lemon Drop” that signals the boldest pivot. San called the single “more refreshing than anything we’ve shown so far,” while Wooyoung hoped fans would start saying, “Summer is ATEEZ.” Hongjoong pre‑empted questions about abandoning the band’s trademark intensity: “It’s not that our pursuit has changed; this genre simply fit the message we wanted to convey in this chapter.”
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The music video—already trending worldwide on YouTube within hours of release—pairs neon‑lit escapism with flashes of sultry realism. Yunho singled out Hongjoong’s sweat‑soaked car‑rap sequence as his favorite moment, laughing that it was filmed after the rest of the members had wrapped for the night. “We didn’t think of it as filming,” he recalled. “It felt more like going on a drive.”
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Released at 1 p.m. KST on June 13, Golden Hour: Part 3 shot straight to the top of South Korea’s Hanteo and Circle real‑time album charts and entered Apple Music’s Top Albums lists in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Japan, underscoring ATEEZ’s growing global heft. Within two hours of release “Lemon Drop” climbed to No. 1 on Bugs’ real‑time chart, with the remaining four tracks filling out the top five—a clean sweep that fans quickly dubbed another “ATEEZ chart‑lineup.”
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The comeback also continues the group’s cinematic “Golden Hour” narrative, a loose chronicle of youth, ambition, and self‑discovery launched in 2024. Lyric credits once again feature rap‑line duo Hongjoong and Mingi, whose pen continues to thread the series’ themes of luminosity and growth. As Yeosang noted, the project is less about pressure from previous successes than about “creating more great memories with ATINY.”
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ATEEZ will premiere “Lemon Drop” on MBC’s Show! Music Core today, the first in a packed promotion run that leads straight into their In Your Fantasy world tour next month. Whether it’s raucous arena anthems or breezy summer grooves, the eight‑member powerhouse have made their mission clear: keep fans guessing, keep critics recalibrating, and, above all, keep raising the bar for what a K‑pop group can dare to sound like when the sun is at its brightest.
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