isn't the forum is for giving opinions?
also arent we the consumers of kpop? don't we know what we want more than the companies assume what we want?
i would if i could, but not many have the opportunity to do what they want because of life circumstances
Lol, no. You know what you want... maybe. But to know what the majority of Kpop community wants is a completely different level.
Lol, no. You know what you want... maybe. But to know what the majority of Kpop community wants is a completely different level.
so majority of the kpop community wanted O.O 
I don't think boy groups need "to fight back."
Girl groups have always dominated the charts, so I'm not sure why people feel like this is such a dire situation now. Yes, there are less bgs now charting higher but there honestly weren't a lot to start with.
Ain't nobody talking about bgs with 9 #1 songs, after all.
Of the 8 artists with most number 1s on the Melon charts, there is one bg (Big Bang).
Fundamentally, the companies are interested in making money - and particularly making long-term money - and frankly, I don't think give a shit about whether a bg song is successful on the charts. That matters more for the longevity of gg. It's nice to have and a flex but they'd rather sell millions of albums, lots of merch (hence the different photo cards for everything from skin care to jammies), fan meets, travel packages, online and off-line concerts. Ideally, a market they can continue to sell shit to for years and years: there's a reason SM is still churning out merch for everyone's birthday year after year. (Chen is 30 and many EXO fans are mid to late 20s and older yet Merchbot is still out there peddling those dopey birthday initial rings, so someone must be buying them into their adulthood.) TVXQ is a 20 year old group still drawing hundreds of thousands of fans to concerts and I'm pretty sure that groups hasn't touched the charts since I was in kindergarten.
People say it's about the music but groups like Astro and Seventeen have been rolling out soft and fuzzy feel-good GP-friendly jams for years with zero shits given by the gp, so I wish people would stop crying about "oh, it's the type of song."
What will be interesting to me is to see if we continue to see more gg that truly move like bg: large album sales, high merch sales, high touring, passionate sustained fanbase, no chart "hits." That will be the true paradigm shift, just as we're starting to see more groups that are more successful outside of Korea than in it.
Why do they need to though? It’s not like as if GGs are having concerts (where the actual money is at) so much higher than BGs.
GGs are probably still making less on their concert revenue and will continue to do so. Only BGs that can’t do concerts need to be worried but other wise BGs are fine lol. The audience that likes them and the one that’s able to put the money where the their mouth is helping them along just fine.
I don’t think any of Ive LSFM Aespa or NJ is ever gonna tour bigger than SKZ for example. The biggest GGs have cons equal or more often lesser to BGs that have only a fraction of their digital success.
why would they need to fight back?
instead of worrying about "charting" the only metric worth a damn to the idols and the companies are the numbers next to their back accounts...
if they are making money then success if they aren't well time to disband no?
I think it's more of a mindset change for their fans that instead of worrying about charting they should focus on the metrics that actually mean something to their bg favs like touring where most of the money comes from
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