Which company from the big 3 that might end up like DSP?

YG after Blackpink leaves

Blackpink is really the only thing that is powering YG so maybe them if bp leaves or if babymon doesn't get big.

JYP

they get kicked out from the BIG 4 in 5-10 years by Kakao

I dont know much about the business side of k-pop, but if you just ask me, an average citizen, to vote which one I have the lowest impression of, I'd say YG

YG?

YG is the only one without an established 4th gen group. jype has itzy and sm has aespa. i think their next gg will struggle.

Both JYP and YG are heavily influenced by their owners, but at least JYP has taken the middle of road approach - he is not going for a jackpot, just steady income. So it will last a long time.

YG has nothing after BlackPink.

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YG is the only one without an established 4th gen group. jype has itzy and sm has aespa. i think their next gg will struggle.

really? I don’t think so like at all. I think their debut is gonna smash just like every other big 4 rookie gg sans nmixx. Yg may have fumbled the bag with their bgs but i have no doubt they’ll continue their spotless ggs streak.

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really? I don’t think so like at all. I think their debut is gonna smash just like every other big 4 rookie gg sans nmixx. Yg may have fumbled the bag with their bgs but i have no doubt they’ll continue their spotless ggs streak.

i mean, obviously anything is possible, but this is just my opinion. 4th gen has been very top heavy with established girl groups in a way 3rd gen was not. ive lesserafim new jeans gidle aespa and itzy have already zoomed passed their recent predecessors, only lacking the legacy of twice and black pink. yg has fallen behind and a rehash of the girl crush concept that made 2ne1 and black pink stand out is not likely to work as well anymore with the changing trends.

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but their usual approach of "exclusivity" and long hiatuses won't work in this/future generation

nowadays kids in Korea drop those groups faster than they kill mosquitos during summer

But you’re talking long term about whether yg’s ngg can retain the fans they’d accumulated after awhile. Whereas my point was about them smashing hard the moment they debut lol, like nj, and bp, and 2ne1. I personally don’t have any doubt yg will be able to achieve this again. Too many curious eyes are gonna be on them for them to flop, and i think people are vastly underestimating the yg brand when it comes to ggs. Say what you will about their music, but the image and branding that yg puts forth is undeniably attractive to the general audience. Their mainstream market appeal is just insane, and i say this as someone who’s not a fan lol

IMO JYP. For reasons beyond the music. SM and YG have a bigger brands and connections. I think they have the greater longevity. A lot less has to go wrong for JYP.

None of these companies will end up bankrupt like DSP, but out of these tree, JYP is the one losing relevancy with the korean gp while making more money than ever.

Financially JYPe is the strongest of these companies.

It's not because of they make the most money as they really make the least but because they have better operational performance. (operational performance means they get more money in sales for money they spend). The overhead from SME and YGE are huge compared to JYP and one problem is once you start down that path it is hard to pull back from that path. How do you think all those sports people that make 10s of millions of dollars a year go bankrupt all the time. It's because they spend big and can't control themselves. Same happens with companies.

The biggest diversity in business is probably SM. (Might by YGE) as both groups have modeling businesses and many other sources of income (and expenses) than JYPE does.

For biggest diversity of their core business SM or JYP is the most diverse. And the OP did forget two units of JYP one being China (Boy Story), and one being Japan (NiziU). NiziU in particular is making a LOT of money in Japan right now. So if your starting to salivate that those companies you HATE. Sorry ain't happening.

That being said none of these companies are on even close to being another DSP. At least nothing will happen in 2023 or even 2024. All companies are doing very good. The closest analogy is more like Cube, WM, or Woolim. But none of those three were as big (relatively for the market at that time) as DSP was.

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JYP one being China (Boy Story)

but I never see anyone on akp talking about them (I even know them just because I watched his jyp 2.0 presentation)

JYP maybe?