I wonder if Kingdom 1 participants have the same upward trend as Queendom 1?

I wrote about it on anons a few months ago

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Big essay alert, I adviced. I only know how to talk about SKZ writing essays loool

To be really honest, as someone who follows Stray Kids' stats closely, I was very disappointed on the impact Kingdom had on their back-catalogue stats in both physicals and international streaming plataforms.

Kingdom started April 1st and they came back in August 23th. From january to march, they sold 201,000 copies of back-catalogue, this was more back-catalogue sales than any other group apart from BTS, NCT and NCT Dream. From april to august, they sold 228,000. As you can see, similar to before Kingdom and counting more 1 month.

In the spotify, they did 65M streams in January, 59M streams in February, 67M in March (Going Dumb release), 68M in april, 70M in may (Wolfgang release), 64M in june (Oh release), 65M in july. As you could you, very stable since the beginning of the year, there was any massive interest due to Kingdom.

Their monthly listeners peak in mid April (in the veeery start of Kingdom) with 4M, because of Going Dumb release, they shared some new monthly listeners with Alesso. Then, It didn't have any interesting growth until Noeasy's release. I don't even need to mention God's Menu and Back Door were some of the korean male videos with the biggest amount of views of the year even before Kingdom and competing wity actual 2021 releases. The daily views didn't increase after it, it actually decreased in the second half of the year, what is normal since the video is getting older. Both surpassed 100M views in 2021 alone tho. So It's actually easy to see where's the hype coming from.

Of course I'm talking about their international stats. Their stats in korean plataforms I'm really thankful to Kingdom, because they won some korean fans and now they chart higher. They were able to win more music shows because of charting and I'm really glad and I give the credits where is due, It made the boys very happy.

If I could choose one thing that happened in 2021 and might massively push SKZ again (like God's Menu and Back Door did) was Christmas EveL viral on tiktok. This made THE DIFFERENCE and Its breaking some streaming and monthly listeners personal records they won with Noeasy, a whole full album.

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TL;DR: Their back-catalog and streaming (on demand and youtube) were growing massively since before Kingdom and I didn't see any improvement during and after the show. It would follow the same pace regardless. The hype for noeasy era was coming from Gods Menu and Back Door internationally. Domestically, they really won some korean fans that have been helping them to chart better.