Cha Eunwoo (ASTRO) x Peder Elias release their collaborative song "Hey Hello"! The music video has also been released.

■ The music video released at the same time is the performance video of the first performance of “Hey Hello” in front of fans.

The gorgeous collaboration single “Hey Hello” by Peder Elias, an award-winning singer-songwriter from Norway, and Cha Eunwoo, a member of ASTRO who has been praised as a “face genius” and “national treasure” with 46 million followers on Instagram, will be released on August 30th. The music video was also released at the same time.

The light-hearted, tropical-flavored “Hey Hello” was written and composed by Pedder and produced by Grammy-nominated music producer William Vik Larsen (who has worked with Camila Cabello, Jennifer Lopez, Alan Walker, Kygo, etc.). The lyrics of the song make a reference to Tokyo, with lyrics such as “Hey! Hello! Have you been to Rio, Jamaica, Tokyo? Have you ever had a drink in Malibu? We can see the Mona Lisa, or fly to Rome and eat pizza. Anywhere is great with you,” and it’s a refreshing love song that sings, “With that special someone I can travel anywhere in the world, anywhere is great with you.”

Looking back at how the two met and collaborated, Cha Eunwoo, who liked Peder Elias’ song “Bonfire,” sent a DM to Peder himself. Peder overlooked it, but by chance found out through each other’s managers that Cha Eunwoo was a fan of Peder. When Peder visited Seoul, Korea in 2022, an opportunity to meet was arranged by relevant parties, and the two, both born in 1997 and with similar interests, hit it off and performed a duet of “Bonfire.” Due to the wonderful experience there, Peder had been dreaming of releasing a collaborative song with Cha Eunwoo someday, and Peder proposed a collaboration on this work “Hey Hello” to Cha Eunwoo, which finally led to the release of their first official collaboration song.

The music video, which was also released at the same time, is a performance video of Pedder joining as a surprise guest on stage at Cha Eunwoo’s fan event “Mystery Elevator” held in Seoul in July, where he performed “Hey Hello” for the first time in front of fans.