TXT Music Core favorite

Tomorrow X Together, or TXT, entered the April 26 race for MBC’s “Show! Music Core” as the fan favorite, with prediction posts on X putting the group far ahead of AKMU and PLAVE. (x.com) One widely shared prediction post for the Saturday, April 26 broadcast drew about 4,500 likes and framed TXT as a near-lock for No. 1. The same post named AKMU and PLAVE as the other contenders for the trophy. (x.com) “Show! Music Core” is MBC’s weekly Saturday music program, and its winner is decided by a 10,000-point formula that includes digital performance, album sales, video metrics, broadcast points, viewer committee votes, and Mubeat voting. Fan guides tracking the show’s rules list digitals at 50% of the score and albums at 10%, with the remaining points spread across broadcast, video, viewer, pre-vote, live-vote, and text-vote categories. (reorbit.xyz) (music-core-bsl.carrd.co) That scoring system helps explain why TXT fans are treating this week as a real opportunity rather than a routine comeback stage. TXT released their eighth mini album, “7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns,” on April 13, and Korean press reports said it sold 1,357,029 copies on its first day alone. (mk.co.kr) (biz.chosun.com) The album’s title track is “Stick With You,” the song fans expect to carry the group in this week’s chart. Multiple music outlets and fan databases identified “Stick With You” as the lead single tied to the April 13 release. (biz.chosun.com) (kprofiles.com) AKMU remains a serious rival because its latest release has been dominating Korea’s Circle Chart. Circle Chart coverage published this week said AKMU led Week 16 with five category wins, while TXT and PLAVE each collected two wins. (msn.com) (zapzee.net) PLAVE is in the mix for the same reason fan forecasters keep flagging this episode: the group has been active enough on charts and music shows to stay in the top-three conversation. Soompi’s roundup of the April 19 “Music Core” episode listed both TXT and PLAVE among that day’s performers, showing both acts are already in the show’s immediate orbit. (soompi.com) The April 26 broadcast is also the kind of episode where fandom organization can matter at the margins. Mubeat, the app used for “Music Core” pre-voting and live voting, remains central to those last-minute pushes that prediction accounts try to model before airtime. (mubeat.tv) (reorbit.xyz) The result will be settled on Saturday’s live show, not on social media forecasts. But with TXT coming off a million-selling release week and fans already treating the episode like a trophy watch, April 26 has turned into one of the more closely watched “Music Core” races of the month. (mk.co.kr) (x.com)