Three Girl Groups Team Up on 'ICONIC BY MISTAKE' — No. 38 on the Hot 100

In three lines.

• 'ICONIC BY MISTAKE', the three girl groups' first joint single released on June 12, entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 38 on the chart dated June 27.
• For both LE SSERAFIM and ILLIT, this is their first time in the Hot 100's Top 40.
• The same week, it also landed at No. 25 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 22 on the UK's Official Singles Chart.

Three Teams on One Song

KATSEYE, LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT. Three teams from different companies, with different concepts. It's not often that groups this distinct in color end up sharing the credits on a single song. A collaboration can easily get talked about for the meeting itself and then fade, but 'ICONIC BY MISTAKE' picked up the numbers along with the buzz. What stands out is that it didn't drift by as a one-off event — it stayed as a record.

Counting Hot 100 entries alone, this is KATSEYE's fifth, LE SSERAFIM's fourth, and ILLIT's second. Each has been building for a different length of time, but this time they stood in the same line with the same song. One thing to add to that No. 38: for LE SSERAFIM and ILLIT, the Top 40 itself is a career first. The stage each of them was standing on grew a little wider through this meeting.

And the record didn't stop at the Hot 100. That same week it debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 22 on the UK's Official Singles Chart. It wasn't just a flash inside the US — the global tally and the UK chart moved together in the same week. It's fair to read it as three fandoms pushing one song side by side.

That's the last of the numbers. Now, the music.

On Becoming Iconic 'By Mistake'

The title itself lets the tension go. 'Becoming iconic by mistake' isn't a vow to calculate your way into being an icon — it's closer to confidence that simply slipped out. The song doesn't make a heavy point of that attitude, the one that says you're already fine without dressing it up.

Every place where the three teams' voices overlap has a slightly different grain. The tone differs, the texture of how the syllables meet differs, and the spot where each team leans in differs too. Leaving those differences intact instead of sanding them into one smooth surface is what gives the song its dimension. There are moments all over it that feel less like a stage one team perfected on its own, and more like different colors set inside the same frame almost by accident.

So instead of hearing it once and moving on, you find yourself listening again, tracing who picks up whose voice and where. The fun of a team-up lives in that overlap, after all. That the three teams' first meeting left behind more than numbers — you'll hear it the moment you press play again.