Saying that it was a tight race and citing Melon streams among all is freaking dumb af. Lets not play stupid, impact wise Tomboy cleared. Every freaking festival wanted to have Gidle this year.
It was an explosive hit which took Korea by storm, had higher peak UL and topped charts for longer.
And it is not like it doesn't have a good longevity either, it is stll top20 ffs after 8 months, it is a song with one of the best longevities out there in history. It is just not as good as Love Dive's longevity, for variety of reasons. For example, It wasn't promoted for as long, and doesn't have the same demography of listeners, like we know for a fact that LD was more popular with kids and teenagers, who I'd assume are more dedicated listeners.
So one song clears all the metrics, the other song does better in longevity and we have to pretend that's the core metric. Get outta here with that bs.
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