On January 8, 2022, Aespa became the inaugural winner of the Artist of the Year award at the 36th Golden Disc Awards. On March 1, they won the Song of the Year award for “Next Level” at the 19th Korean Music Awards. On April 19, it was announced that Aespa would be performing at Coachella on April 23, becoming the third K-pop girl group to perform at the festival. They performed as part of 88rising‘s Head in the Clouds Forever set for the second week. Their setlist included “Savage”, “Next Level”, “Black Mamba”, and an English version of a then-unreleased song titled “Life’s Too Short“, which was revealed to be from their then-upcoming EP. On May 12, the group was included in Time magazine’s Next Generation Leaders list. The magazine noted Aespa as an “experimental but essential player in the music industry, acting as a bridge between the reality and virtual”. On May 27, the group was included on Forbes‘ 30 Under 30 Asia list.
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