September's M COUNTDOWN PICK is BESTie's 'Love Options'; first stages for TIOT and Woody & BORA: October 2 news brief

Last night, M Countdown returned after two weeks and named September's 'M COUNTDOWN PICK'. At the same hour, TIOT and Woody and BORA released new songs and went straight onto that stage. This evening, a rock festival kicks off in Busan. Here are eight stories from overnight.

Last night's M Countdown, episode 947

1. September's 'M COUNTDOWN PICK': the song is BESTie's 'Love Options', the stage is EVAN's 'Death of Me'

The September results of the 'Monthly M COUNTDOWN PICK', which Mnet chooses once a month, were revealed on yesterday's broadcast. The song category went to BESTie's 'Love Options (연애의 조건)', released on October 17, 2013. Mnet explained that a video setting this song to Hearts2Hearts' dance went viral this summer and spread into a challenge, bringing the song back onto the music charts after 13 years. It was also at No. 94 on the Bugs weekly chart for the last full week of September. The stage category went to EVAN's 'Death of Me', the weekly M COUNTDOWN PICK stage for the second week of September. Each month's chosen stage gets a chance to compete for a trophy at the '2026 MAMA AWARDS' at the end of the year.
Sources: Mnet K-POP 'Monthly M COUNTDOWN PICK' · Bugs weekly chart

2. First-reveal stages and comeback stages

As announced, ALLDAY PROJECT's 'CRASH' and CLOSE YOUR EYES' 'Drop That!' went up as 'first reveal' stages. ONEUS, who released an EP on September 23, had their comeback stage with 'Say Yes! (눈을 돌리지마)', and Parc Jae Jung, who released the EP '기록 (上)' on September 29, had a comeback stage with '계절의 끝' ('Epilogue'). There was also a special stage of 'The Island Song' from the Chiikawa movie. Videos of each stage are being posted one by one on the Mnet K-POP channel.
Sources: Mnet K-POP ALLDAY PROJECT 'CRASH' · Mnet K-POP ONEUS · Mnet K-POP Parc Jae Jung

New songs out last night

3. TIOT's fifth mini album 'Time for Us' (October 1, 6 p.m. KST)

Four songs: the title track 'Five Hours in Pieces' plus '말해줘', '지내볼게' and 'Fool'. According to the album notes, Shin Ye-chan wrote the lyrics for '말해줘', and Kum Jun-hyeon wrote the lyrics for '지내볼게' and 'Fool'. In the music video, five child actors playing the members' younger selves appear alongside them. Right after the release, the group performed the song on M Countdown.
Sources: Bugs 'Time for us' album notes · TIOT official music video

4. Woody and BORA 'Period (마침표)' (October 1, 6 p.m. KST)

A duet single by Woody and SISTAR's BORA. According to the credits, Woody took part in composing it, both wrote the lyrics, and both names appear in the producer line too. BORA appears as an actor in the music video. That same evening, the two gave their first duet performance of the song on M Countdown.
Sources: Bugs 'Period' album notes · Topstar News

Newly set dates

5. YESUNG 'Pedazos': music video teaser tonight at 6 p.m.

'Pedazos', the title track of the solo second full album 'Where We Are' out October 6 at 6 p.m. KST, is a modern rock song whose title means 'broken pieces'. Teaser images went up on the official account yesterday, and the music video teaser comes out today at 6 p.m. KST on the SMTOWN YouTube channel. The 10th-anniversary solo tour added shows in Macau, Kaohsiung and Taipei after they sold out, following Seoul.
Sources: Newsen · Topstar News

6. EVNNE: sixth mini album 'on: our noise' on October 19

Jellyfish Entertainment announced the date with a coming-soon video on the official social accounts at midnight yesterday. It comes about six months after the group's first single '뱉어 (Backtalk)' in April. On November 21–22 they'll hold a fan concert at YES24 LIVE HALL in Seoul, continuing to Japan in December and Taipei in January next year.
Sources: Topstar News

Today in numbers

7. BOYNEXTDOOR's first world tour ranks No. 26 on Billboard's 'Top Tours'

On the Boxscore 'Top Tours' chart Billboard released on September 30 (US time), BOYNEXTDOOR's 'KNOCK ON Vol.2' ranked No. 26. The tour, which began in July at KSPO DOME in Seoul, logged about 5.8 million dollars in ticket sales and 69,300 attendees across six shows in the tracking period. According to the agency, BOYNEXTDOOR is the only K-pop group that debuted within the last five years to make this chart this year. The tour continues in Chiba, Japan, on October 10–11.
Source: Topstar News

Today

8. Day one of the Busan International Rock Festival

It runs from today through the 4th at Samnak Ecological Park. The last act on the main stage on day one is Avenged Sevenfold at 8:40 p.m., and among K-pop bands, Xdinary Heroes play the GREEN stage at 4 p.m. and N.Flying play the RIVER stage at 6:40 p.m. Stages by day and the shuttle are laid out in our NONOL guide. KBS2's 'Music Bank' is off again today because of Asian Games coverage. At 6 p.m. KST, ticketing opens on NOL for the '2026 KGMA', held November 7–8 at Gocheok Sky Dome.
Sources: Busan International Rock Festival · Topstar News (KGMA tickets)