New indie rock band, Mate, who only debuted last month, have exploded in popularity and they're becoming big hits in both the pop and rock worlds. Mate experienced a great reaction from their album "Be Mate" and especially their song "Longing". It was researched and found that Mate became the number one search topic on various sites and stayed number one on some music portals for days. Famous radio stations such as "Yoo Hee Yul's Radio Heaven", "Bae Chul Soo's Music Camp" and "Sweet Solo's 10 10 Club" have featured Mate as live performing guests. The performance on KBS2 TV's "Yoo Hee Yul's Sketch Book" especially caught the eyes and ears of the viewers and immediately after the show a great increase in download sales was shown. Mate -"Fly To The Sky" Video Credits To: playmakinate Showing off their new found popularity, it was also found on a weekly aggregate chart that you would have to combine Lee Seung Chul's and V.O.S's new album sales to amount to the sales of Mate's album. Mate is scheduled to have a string of concerts in July, all of which had sold out in only 4 hours upon releasing tickets. Maybe I'm too quick to judge but it seems like their career as an "indie band" is about to come to an end. With this much popularity the big entertainment labels are bound to be all over their nuts. This means that they're most likely going to be continuing the promotions of sad and mellow ballad songs rather than playing their faster rock songs which is a shame in my book, but hey, we all got to eat.