Korean VS International fans: who has better taste?

Top 15 highest ranking 2022 kpop songs on Gaon's digital chart for the 1st half of the year VS most streamed kpop songs on Spotify for the same time period.

Which top 15 has better songs?

Korea/Gaon:

1. Gidle - Tomboy
2. Bigbang - Still Life
3. Ive - Love Dive
4. Taeyeon - INVU
5. Jay Park ft. IU - Gandara
6. Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm
7. GOT - Step Back
8. Yena - Smiley
9. Psy - That That
10. StayC - Run2u
11. Taeyeon - Can’t Control Myself
12. Gidle - My Bag
13. Jessi - Zoom
14. Lesserafim - Fearless
15. Oh My Girl - Real Love

Internationally/Spotify:

1. Jungkook - Stay Alive
2. BTS - Yet to Come
3. Enhypen - Polaroid Love
4. Ive - Love Dive
5. Kep1er - Wa Da Da
6. Treasure - Darari
7. Psy - That That
8. Stray Kids - Maniac
9. GOT - Step Back
10. Gidle - Tomboy
11. BTS - Run BTS
12. Nmixx - O.O
13. Jessi - Zoom
14. Lesserafim - Fearless
15. Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm

*bolded songs appear on both charts

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Korea bc Taeyeon

They also don't have O.O

Not having O.O and Wa Da Da is some major plus points

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From this list koreans. I thought Real Love did really bad in the charts ?

It underperformed but there's only so many kpop groups that can chart at all. It was the 100th song on the list overall

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From the list of songs, Korean but all my faves are doing better internationally so I have to vote internationally.

Nayeon is owning both internationally and in Korea

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lol true

My faves include Twice, Blackpink, Dreamcatcher, Itzy, and they're all doing better internationally I believe.
Maybe we can argue Itzy is doing better domestically? Haven't kept track of performance numbers.

Not sure... Isn't Twice, BP and Itzy kinda debatable. Dreamcatcher is defiantly doing better internationally

BP is the biggest group in Korea right now, aren't they?

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Mmm I could be wrong but if were talking recent,

TTT isn't doing great on the Korean charts but it's Spotify numbers pretty good from what I'm told. Most their recent achievements are international like Billboard achievements, World album, etc

BP it will be relatively speaking. They're topping Spotify globally and every record probably but on Korean charts, they're still battling After Like and Attention. Not saying is bad but I think most would accept that Blackpink is an international group, that's why we always say BP is the global GG and not NGG.

And yes Itzy is debatable since Sneakers is doing good right now but prior to that it was always viewed that Itzy have a much stronger international audience.

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Yeah recently Twice is probably doing better internationally.

BP is pulling more impressive achievements internationally but I feel like that has more to do with it being a bigger market. BP is arguably the most popular kpop group in Korea but since it's a much smaller music market the gap between them and the rest can't be as big. Internationally they're very much behind BTS but in Korea aren't they more popular? And BP has always been hugely popular in Korea, both individually and as a group. They're focusing on their international audience since they're trying to expand but that doesn't means they're doing better there, relatively speaking.

Hasn't Itzy always been successful in Korea and internationally. A good balance.