LSG & shut down are proof blackpink needs their hiatus' to thrive

if we compare how LSG vs HYLT & Shut down vs PV performed/is performing, it's clear there is a big discrepancy.

immense difference in views for both teaser and MV, charting, relevance,...

there's only one conclusion, blackpink can't replicate the same numbers if there's not a year or more between releases.

Blinks are focusing on spotify this time. Just wait and see their spotify numbers, it’ll be huge.

It's doing better than any other gg release this year so don't worry about bp worry about the flops you stan

Blinks keep dragging other groups for the same reason but they only see it when it happens to them. Hype helps their numbers A LOT and now it's not as big as last month. Simply as that.

we can't focus on everything most of us don't care about youtube views

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Blinks are focusing on spotify this time. Just wait and see their spotify numbers, it’ll be huge.

with the numbers the MV is pulling, i'm expecting astronomical spotify numbers...

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with the numbers the MV is pulling, i'm expecting astronomical spotify numbers...

what?

it currently has 35M in 12 hours, pulling a consistent 2M per hour. at this rate, it will get 55-60M in 24 hours. asian blinks will be up in some hours, so I think it can go even higher. regardless they will still end up higher than any other kpop release this year besides themselves

it's been less than a month since blinks did 90M for PV. they now have 6 more songs to stream so obviously they will not be putting all in yt views. blinks have also been moving to spotify, HYLT did <5m filtered first day while PV did nearly 8m

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Blinks keep dragging other groups for the same reason but they only see it when it happens to them. Hype helps their numbers A LOT and now it's not as big as last month. Simply as that.

Hype helps every KPop groups numbers a lot. This is the only genre of music fandom where fans set streaming goals and voluntarily throw their money at strangers to win more achievements for rich popstars, and we cheer at bored billionaire's kid fans in China buying 300k albums. Even the most nugu groups have fans desperately zombie streaming 24/7 and buying as many albums as they can afford. Everyone uses the same tools.

The main difference with Blackpink is that more casual fans have heard of them and will check them out. And maybe casuals aren't liking the music video that much because they just don't care about callbacks to their past songs.

Non delulus already knew that

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Hype helps every KPop groups numbers a lot. This is the only genre of music fandom where fans set streaming goals and voluntarily throw their money at strangers to win more achievements for rich popstars, and we cheer at bored billionaire's kid fans in China buying 300k albums. Even the most nugu groups have fans desperately zombie streaming 24/7 and buying as many albums as they can afford. Everyone uses the same tools.

The main difference with Blackpink is that more casual fans have heard of them and will check them out. And maybe casuals aren't liking the music video that much because they just don't care about callbacks to their past songs.

No. Blinks used to drag other groups with more often comebacks and the single being part of an album for not doing great for their standards. But they suddenly realize that when you have an album and the hype isn't that high, you can't bring the same numbers.

Tank harder than LSG this time.. What went wrong?

Also.. Hanteo sales not even match with their 1.5m pre-orders, Blink keep claiming they reach 1.5m pre-orders before digipack, why Hanteo stuck at 1m?

Pre-releases always get more views than title tracks

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what?

it currently has 35M in 12 hours, pulling a consistent 2M per hour. at this rate, it will get 55-60M in 24 hours. asian blinks will be up in some hours, so I think it can go even higher. regardless they will still end up higher than any other kpop release this year besides themselves

it's been less than a month since blinks did 90M for PV. they now have 6 more songs to stream so obviously they will not be putting all in yt views. blinks have also been moving to spotify, HYLT did <5m filtered first day while PV did nearly 8m

that's a lot of excuses to say shut down is doing bad on yt

hope y'all reach your goals because your fandom has been way too loud to not get the same energy back if you don't

It is stupid to expect the same numbers when shut down is competing against 7 other songs in the album. Same thing happened with lsg

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No. Blinks used to drag other groups with more often comebacks and the single being part of an album for not doing great for their standards. But they suddenly realize that when you have an album and the hype isn't that high, you can't bring the same numbers.

How cute of you to think the numbers aren't high when other groups struggle in that area.

LSG outcharted HYLT eventually though. Same could happen with PV and SD.

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that's a lot of excuses to say shut down is doing bad on yt

hope y'all reach your goals because your fandom has been way too loud to not get the same energy back if you don't

blinks have been loud about...bts? twice? those fourth gen groups y'all pit against them daily ?

bp are not in danger of not outdoing any of those aforementioned groups' 2022 comebacks on yt so we are good 💜

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How cute of you to think the numbers aren't high when other groups struggle in that area.

This is why I said for a group's standards. Blinks made it look like BP is the number one kpop group and they dragged even BTS for the same thing.

So now it's not excuses when they say the same thing all the others fans have been saying only fit Blinks to make fun of them.

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Pre-releases always get more views than title tracks

Everyone knows that, but blinks have been ignoring it for the longest time... Now we have to keep that fact in account? Pretty hypocrite

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blinks have been loud about...bts? twice? those fourth gen groups y'all pit against them daily ?

bp are not in danger of not outdoing any of those aforementioned groups' 2022 comebacks on yt so we are good 💜

Best thing is, your faves will always have to add ssomething to their achievements because they won't ever be #1.

At first it was "first female group" & now it's "in 2022". Don't you ever wish you could leave those things out? It's cute y'all are so excited about the little things tho!