Yeah, hit songs and projects are indeed had a values.
But a million sales is a million sales tho?
It's still a money that coming through. It's still valuable.
But those sales are indeed irrelevant for non-fans as it was none of their business at all.
And creating a hits is not as easy as you flip your hand. Even a song that didn't intended to be a hit, could somehow gain a viral moment.
Also not all dramas or movies that were stared by an kpop idol was guaranteed to become a hit.
And sometimes, you need more than one hit to build that value up.
And all those public recognition or popularity still didn't even translate into money if you didn't get any CFs.
So yeah, both sales and project is a good thing to have, but sales would be more sustainable.
But in real life, no one is talking about "oh these idols with 999k+ album sales". These dick measuring contests have no real value.
Hit songs and hit drama series are what people associate idols and success with.
SNSD's songs are still being played on shows 10 years later, so are T-ara's Roly Poly and Bo Peep Bo Peep etc. (just to throw out examples).
Suzy's still being called Nation's First Love, given…