Why are Japan and South Korea the oposite?

People claim that boygroups would do lesser good in Korea nowadays and girlgroups would do better than before.

Meanwhile Japan is totally on the oposite, many girlgroups can't even sell out large concert-halls anymore. It's said that the Japanese girgroup Perfume held a concert recently where only 30% of the hall was filled with people and that in total their sales have droped low. People say the same about other top girlgroups like AKB48, Nogizaka46 and so on... on the other hand Japanese boygroups start to slowly do better as seen as by groups from Johnny's Entertainment (who allways did well in Japan but are doing more well then ever before now) and artists like JO1 and INI who sold over 500K with their lastest releases wich makes INI a million seller in just the first year of existence since INI debuted in November of 2021. Also another kind of well doing boygroup in Japan is BE:FIRST with 200-300K sales on their releases.

In conclusion Korean boygroups are doing less well acording to people than the Korean girlgroups and in Japan it is the oposite, despite that there are 6 times more girlgroups in Japan than boygroups.

What do you guys think?

Twice decline impact

Typical girlgroups in japan have always relied heavily on male wotas, and most of them have been loosing their public relevance slowly in the last decade ever since AKB48 peaked in 2012-13.

Im guessing corono might have slowed it down even more combined with increased competition from other areas (anime/virtual youtubers etc)

Even so, japanese wotas in general are willing to part with much more money than other types of fandoms

Because every country has a difference in the music they like.

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People claim that boygroups would do lesser good in Korea nowadays and girlgroups would do better than before.

Meanwhile Japan is totally on the oposite, many girlgroups can't even sell out large concert-halls anymore. It's said that the Japanese girgroup Perfume held a concert recently where only 30% of the hall was filled with people and that in total their sales have droped low. People say the same about other top girlgroups like AKB48, Nogizaka46 and so on... on the other hand Japanese boygroups start to slowly do better as seen as by groups from Johnny's Entertainment (who allways did well in Japan but are doing more well then ever before now) and artists like JO1 and INI who sold over 500K with their lastest releases wich makes INI a million seller in just the first year of existence since INI debuted in November of 2021. Also another kind of well doing boygroup in Japan is BE:FIRST with 200-300K sales on their releases.

In conclusion Korean boygroups are doing less well acording to people than the Korean girlgroups and in Japan it is the oposite, despite that there are 6 times more girlgroups in Japan than boygroups.

What do you guys think?

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Japan removed the Covid restrictions very recently. In most countries people ran to the movies and concerts when it happened, Japanese people did not (Well I would have to check how the Japanese movie industry is doing to make sure).

The ripple effect of BTS. Their popularity as a boy group reached the Japanese general public with Dynamite. Japanese music companies are changing their approach after seeing the success of BTS globally. Male groups are becoming the focus now for a chance at having BTS' global fame and the public is being pulled along

INI, JO1 and BE:FIRST using so much gimmick tho...